9:20 am

Introduction | Virtual Welcome from Girls In Tech

Speaker(s): 

Christine Rodrigues – Strategic Alliances, Adobe APAC, 

9:30 am

Introduction | Welcome from Girls In Tech

Speaker(s): 

Jess Box – Managing Director, Girls In Tech Australia, 

Karen Katz – Board Member, Girls in tech Australia, 

9:45 am

Being in tech – What does it mean to be “in tech” in 2021 and beyond?

Theme – Business in tech

Speaker(s): 

Candi Castleberry – VP, Diversity Partnership Strategy + External Engagement at Twitter, 

10:15 am

Leading with diversity – why woke leaders know diversity is their key to long term success

Theme – Business in tech

Speaker(s): 

Sastry Durvasula – Partner & Global Chief Technology & Digital Officer at McKinsey & Company, 

Adriana Gascoigne – Founder at Girls In Tech , 

10:45 am

The future of design-led tech – building a design community

Theme – Creative in tech

Speaker(s): 

Carly Ayres – UX Community & Culture at Google Design, 

11:15 am

Morning tea break

Expo Hall and Networking

11:45 am

Emerging tech – does this concept still exist? Or is it all just “tech” now?

Theme – Data & engineering in tech

Speaker(s): 

Steve Sammartino – Futurist, Technologist, 

12:15 pm

Authenticity in data science – What does trust mean in a cloud world?

Theme – Data & engineering in tech

Speaker(s): 

Jane Crofts – Founder at Data To The People, 

Agnes Schliebitz-Ponthus – VP of Product at Fluent Commerce, 

12:45 pm

Lunch break

Expo Hall and Networking

1:45 pm

Workshop Session 1: Engineering

The ‘What’, “why” and “how” plus how quality engineering benefits all those involved.

Speaker(s): 

Patrick Tsang – Chief Technology Officer at DX Solutions, 

1:45 pm

Workshop Session 1: Creative

Connecting and influencing in a digitally distracted world.

Speaker(s): 

Jon Yeo – Curator at TEDxMelbourne, 

1:45 pm

Workshop Session 1: Data

Building a streaming data pipeline with AWS

Speaker(s): 

Rosyll Niranjana Xavier – Head of Data at Linktree, 

Stephanie McDonald – Data Engineer at Linktree, 

Clémence Lévecque – Data Scientist at Linktree, 

1:45 pm

Virtual Workshop Session 1: Engineering

“…Code is a superpower every young woman should be able to access” — Karlie Kloss

Speaker(s): 

Meggan Turner – Front End Engineer, General Assembly, 

3:15 pm

Afternoon tea break

Expo Hall and Networking

3:45 pm

Workshop Session 2: Engineering

Savour the Serverless

Speaker(s): 

Supriya Parate, Servian, 

Mickey Huang, Servian, 

3:45 pm

Workshop Session 2: DevOps

DevOps and Continuous Delivery – 49 releases, 0 defects: Step by Step guide to Infrastructure as Code

Speaker(s): 

David Mackenzie – CTO, Crystal Delta, 

3:45 pm

Workshop Session 2 – Business

Speaking to your customers the right way – the power of email communication

Speaker(s): 

Georgia Cooper, RMIT Online, 

3:45 pm

Virtual Workshop Session 2 – Marketing

Building a Marketing Game Plan

Speaker(s): 

Angelique Schierz-Crusius, General Assembly, 

5:15 pm

The Great Debate

AI + ML – there’s no such thing as going too far

Speaker(s): 

Clémence Lévecque – Data Scientist at Linktree, 

Christine Rodrigues – Strategic Partnerships at Adobe, 

Joe Widing – Sales Director at Medallia, 

5:45 pm

Closing remarks

Thank you for joining us!

Speaker(s): 

Jess Box – Managing Director, Girls In Tech Australia, 

Karen Katz – Board Member, Girls in tech Australia,