Women Techmakers: Progress Not Perfection

Name: Women Techmakers: Progress Not Perfection
Start: 2022-04-28T20:00:00+12:00
End: 2022-04-28T22:00:00+12:00

Victoria University of Wellington
Thu, Apr 28, 2022, 8:00 PM (NZST)

Please register on the GDSC SOKENDAI event page: https://gdsc.community.dev/j/8rnattffa9vhe/

About this event

#ProgressNotPerfection

Women Techmakers is Google's global program and brand for women in technology. Every year, in celebration of International Women's Day, WomenTechmakers chapters across the globe host talks, conferences, and workshops to raise awareness of innovative female leaders in technology and inspire others to join the field.

This year our theme celebrates all kinds of progress - big or small - and the strength we demonstrate when we don’t let fear hold us back from following our dreams.

We invited 4 amazing speakers, women from research, software engineering and community development to celebrate #ProgressNotPerfection! Our speakers will share their paths, which aren’t always linear, and the challenges they've come across. We hope it will inspire you to follow your dreams and don't let fear hold you from growth and discovery, enjoying the journey, wherever it takes! Join the celebration by registering here. (WMT International Women's Day @SOKENDAI)

Organizers:

This year, Women Techmakers Ambassadors in collaboration with GDSC Japan, Australia and New Zealand have come together to host a virtual International Women’s Day summit on April 28th. We are planning a day full of inspirational talks and practical workshops.

We are excited to announce 4 speakers from research, industry and community development:

HASEGAWA, Mariko, Ph.D., President of SOKENDAI, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies
SATO, Shoko, Founder of Google Developer Group Tokyo and Women Techmakers Tokyo, LINE DevRel
YASUDA, Kuniko, Ph.D., Senior Staff Software Engineer & Engineering Manager at Google Germany
MOCHIZUKI, Mochico, Android Engineer at Mercari, Inc.

Please sign up for this event from the event page of GDSC SOKENDAI https://gdsc.community.dev/j/8rnattffa9vhe/

Speakers

Mariko HASEGAWA, Ph.D.

SOKENDAI, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies

President

See Bio
Shoko SATO

LINE DevRel

GDG Tokyo / WTM Tokyo

See Bio
Mochico MOCHIZUKI

Mercari, Inc.

Android Engineer

See Bio
Kinuko YASUDA, Ph.D.

Google Germany

Senior Staff Software Engineer & Engineering Manager

See Bio

Mariko HASEGAWA, Ph.D.

SOKENDAI, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies

She specialized in Behavioral Ecology and Physical Anthropology, conducted research on wild chimpanzee, fallow deer and wild sheep in Great Britain, peafowl in Sri Lanka. Recently she is conducting research on human evolution and adaptation. In 2008, she became President of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society of Japan and received the Hidaka Award from the Japan Ethological Society in 2012.

Shoko SATO

LINE DevRel

My name is Shoko, I’m an organizer of GDG Tokyo and WTM Tokyo. Then I host various types of meetups, hands-on workshops, codelabs, and tech conferences.

My main job is as a DevRel in an IT company, supporting engineering organizations and technical public relations.

Mochico MOCHIZUKI

Mercari, Inc.

Addicted to Android in a company that joined as a new graduate, and after that, joined Mercari as an Android Engineer. Recently been involved in the development of an app with Jetpack Compose and also presented about the Compose Preview at DroidKaigi2021.

Kinuko YASUDA, Ph.D.

Google Germany

Kinuko is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google. She started using computers when she joined university, where she instantly got addicted to programming. She majored in computer science and received her Ph.D from Keio University, worked both in academia and industry, and then joined Google Japan as a Software Engineer. She moved to Munich recently and now works for Google Germany, where she leads projects in programming languages and software development foundations. She drinks a lot of coffee, occasionally plays the piano, and enjoys the chaotic life with her two boys.