Panel Discussion “What makes a good mentor?”
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Women Who Code London invites everyone to the panel discussion “What makes a good mentor?“. The discussion will cover topics such as communication, setting clear expectations, providing guidance and support, giving feedback, promoting growth and development, etc. Moreover, the panel will examine role of mentorship, challenges and opportunities that come with mentoring. Audience will have an opportunity to ask questions and engage in the discussion! It could help first-time mentors to get started, experienced mentors to reconsider approaches.
If you have any questions to any of our panelists, you have great opportunity to leave them in the google form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSepVwEFeIhN6DXNtfYOL-nWp6nqBl3oZISXks6X_1V07_QGaA/viewform. We will pick up the most interesting ones and answer them during the panel discussion!
Schedule:
⏰ 19:00 - 19:05 - Welcome speech and Introduction from Women Who Code London
⏰ 19:05 - 19:15 - Presentation of the Mentorship Programme 4.0
⏰ 19:15 - 20:15 - Panel Discussion
⏰ 20:15 - 20:30 - Q&A Session
Please note, that this is an online event. You would need to install Zoom (https://zoom.us) and register your profile with zoom.us in advance.
📣 Panelists:
🎙️ Andrew King, Site Reliability Engineer, Dojo
LinkedIn
30+ years of being paid to hack (so an old-timer). More than 10 years of mentoring officially, plus lots more. Passionate about diversity and more recently pushing “equity” as the model to adopt to make life and work a healthy place to be.
🎙️ Ana Nogal, iOS Engineer, Novoda
LinkedIn
Ana is a mobile developer passionate about architecture and code quality. Lived in four different European cities embedding herself in different cultures, allowing her to learn to work with different team and dynamics. She enjoys traveling, and does it as much as she can. Mentoring is been a passion and she’s been dedicating more and more time to it since last year.
🎙️ Aishwarya Nair, Data Scientist, Trivago
LinkedIn
Aishwarya is a Data Scientist/ML Engineer and works with the Ranking & Recommendations team in trivago. She enjoys meeting and working with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures. She is passionate about mentoring young women in the field of STEM. When travelling around the world, she likes to try different cuisines and experience cultures through food.
🎙️ Adriana Zenck Zimmermann, Senior Software Engineer, Personio
LinkedIn
Adriana is a mother, a wife, and a Software Engineer. She graduated in Computer Science and has over 14 years of experience working in tech companies in Brazil, Germany, and Spain. As a Backend Engineer, Adriana found this to be her passion which she focused on in the last six years of her career. She is always excited to help others, and her goal is to empower women and support them with the difficulties she had as an engineer, and still has from time to time.
📣 Moderator
Eleonora Belova, QA Engineer at ReaQta, an IBM Company
LinkedIn
Eleonora is a passionate QA engineer working at ReaQta, an IBM Company. She enjoys examining ideas, loves to explore cross-cultural communication, and learning about the latest technologies. Eleonora participated in various mentorship programs and has a solid belief in the transformative power of mentorship. Eleonora is excited to bring this topic to the table and discuss it with experts!
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Panel Discussion “What makes a good mentor?”