A monthly speakers series focused on having women speak about technology, give our member the chance to make new connections, and help our organization build a community of technical women in Portland.
- provide an opportunity for technical women to speak about technology
- learn about new technologies
- make new connections
- create a community of women who code and women learning to code in Portland
- Lightning Talks (shorter tech talks, 8-10 minutes each)
- Panel (45 minute panel)
- Workshop (45-90 minute workshop)
- Around the World (split attendees in three to four different rooms for presentations, 10-15 minutes in each room, then the groups switch rooms)
2015
- Mar. 5 - Jaguar Land Rover - "Open Software Technology Center Tech Talks"
- Apr. 30 - Elemental Technologies - "A Discussion on Tech Careers"
- May 14 - CrowdCompass - "Building Products"
- Jun. 8 - New Relic - "Future Talks"
- Jul. 28 - AppNexus - "Around the Stack"
- Aug. 4 - Jama Software - "Lessons Learned in the Tech Industry"
- Sep. 8 - Urban Airship - "Never Stop Learning"
- Oct. 6 - Quick Left - "Women and Negotiation: Professional Happiness, One Conversation at a Time"
- Oct. 22 - eBay - "Testing Your Metal in the Portland Tech Scene"
- Nov. 3 - Nike - "Creative Thinking in a Technical World"
- Dec. 10 - Puppet Labs / Women+Tech Holiday Party - "Raise Your Voice"
2016
- Jan. 14 - Airbnb - "Airbnb Engineering Comes to Portland"
- Feb. 18 - Metal Toad - "Building the Future of Women in Tech"
- Mar. 8 - Intel - "How Women Power Intel Open Source"
- Apr. 18 - New Tech PDX - "Women Who Code"
- May 24 - Mozilla - "Lightning Talks"
- Jun. 10 - Instrument + New Relic / 2nd Anniversary Party
- Jul. 14 - WeWork + Salesforce / Women+Tech Summer Soiree - "How Oregon Funds Innovation"
- Aug. 10 - Code Fellows PDX - "A Journey of a Female Coder"
- Aug. 16 - R/West - "Women in Leadership"
- Sep. 7 - Treehouse - "Getting Started With Programming Languages"
- Oct. 3 - New Relic - "Resolution Fest"
- Dec. 15 - Women+Tech Holiday Party - "Virtual Reality in Reality!"
2017
- Jan. 28 - WSU Vancouver - "AR + VR Project Showcases"
- Feb. 7 - +Citizen - "Scrum IRL"
- Mar. 8 - Simple - "International Women's Day"
- Apr. 4 - Vacasa - "Transitioning the Stack: the Role of Women in a High-Growth Tech Organization"
- May 11 - Second Story - "Make It Happen: Improvising, Collaborating, Prototyping"
- Jun. 12 - New Relic + InVision + Nike + Hackbright Academy - "3rd Anniversary Celebration - Women in Engineering Leadership"
- Jul. 13 - Wieden+Kennedy - "Intro to VR & Wearable Tech"
- Aug. 10 - Vernier - "What Does It Mean to 'Do What You Love?'"
- Sep. 26 - AWS Elemental - "Customer Obsession - The Art of Working Backwards"
- Oct. 18 - AKQA - "Creative Panel"
- Nov. 16 - CDK Global with ChickTech - "Growing Technically and Professionally"
- Dec. 19 - Women+Tech Holiday Party - "Celebrating our 2017 Accomplishments"
2018
- Jan. 24 - Metal Toad - Lightning Talks
- Mar. 8 - Nike - "International Women's Day"
- Jun. 18 - New Relic + Google - "4th Anniversary Celebration - Building a Career in Tech"
- Aug. 16 - Mozilla - "Women in Infosec"
- Sep. 20 - Intel - "Women Who Open Source"
- Nov. 14 - HealthSparq - "Healthsparq: Test Automation and Behavior Driven Development"
- Dec. 14 - Women + Tech Holiday Party
See a full list of past speakers.
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