Mentorship: Start of the Programme 2.0 and Panel Discussion

WWCode London is excited to invite you to the official kick-off of our Mentorship Programme 2.0. Women are less likely to have a sponsor who advocates and opens doors for them (https://leanin.org/mentor-her). One of the ways to solve this is to provide a platform for people to connect based on professional merits. Benefits of mentoring include, but are not limited to:

• path to promotion or confidence building for the mentee;
• development of leadership qualities for the mentor.
  We will present you with the background of our Mentorship Programme, what to expect and how you can register, and wrap up with a panel discussion and answering your questions.
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  Schedule
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  19:00 - 19:05 - Welcome speech and introduction from WWCode
  19:05 - 19:15 - Presentation of the Mentorship Programme 2.0
  19:15 - 20:30 - Panel discussion "Mentorship: How to start? Practical Tips from experienced mentors" and Q&A
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  Panellists
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  Vanessa Yiu (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessa-yiu-12a1375/)
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  === Bio ===
  Vanessa Yiu leads Enterprise Architecture and Engineering Risk Management at Goldman Sachs. She has 13+ years’ management experience leading teams across many technical disciplines including SRE, platform security, infrastructure, data and electronic trading platforms. Vanessa mentors colleagues across the globe, as well as through partnerships with Women in STEM and Social Mobility organisations. She is a contributor to O’Reilly’s “97 Things Every SRE Should Know”, and is the co-chair of USENIX SREcon21.
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  Andrew King (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewkingit/)
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  === Bio ===
  Andrew King is an engineer with 30 years of experience, currently working as a Site Reliability Engineer at Dojo, one of the Paymentsense brands. Building a reliable card payment system from scratch is a challenge and now scaling to meet the massive demand from the expanding customer base. When not sat at a computer, Andrew enjoys engineering with wood, building furniture for friends and family.
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  Alex Mikhailova (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexmikhailova/)
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  === Bio ===
  Experienced developer and mentor who has recently stepped up to a project lead role, leading cross-team infrastructural projects. I have spent the last 4 years at a London-based hedge fund, exploring and contributing in different areas ranging from algorithms and infrastructure engineering to research, before taking on a project lead role and falling in love with it. I also see myself as a life-long learner and am now pursuing my part-time PhD in Statistics while working full-time.
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  Dasha Tabunshchyk (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daria-tabunshchyk-73285916b/)
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  === Bio ===
  Dasha is a third-year Applied System Analysis BEng student. She graduated from the linguistic gymnasium and decided that she wanted more computer science, mathematics, and economics in her life. She's been a Technovation Girls Ukraine student ambassador for 4 years now and mentored two teams personally. Since this year she has also entered a mentorship program at her university, where older students mentor first-year students. There is a high probability that she would love to talk to you about the topics she knows and listen carefully about the topics she doesn't know much about.
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  Moderator
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  Mary Gudman (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-gudman-49282b117/)
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  === Bio ===
  I'm a software engineer with experience in backend, frontend and mobile. At the moment I'm working as a full-stack Engineer in a green energy supplier Bulb based in London. I'm interested in everything Tech, in promoting women in IT, in green and sustainable initiatives for all.