STARWEST 2016 - Women Who Test Sessions
Friday, October 7
#NoExcuses
Many of us have things we’d like to do in life, but somehow we never quite get around to doing many of them. Often there are too many other things we must do before we can get to the things we want to do. Life, family obligations, we don’t have the right tools, financial reasons, there are numerous reasons that hold us back...
In this talk, Jaimee will share some tips and tricks through stories about how she learned to identify her obstacles, get inspired, work through burnout, design the life she wanted and continue knocking out all the things on her life...
A Journey to Success
Yassi Shayesteh's story is one of transformation, both cultural and professional—from a dependent and idealistic young immigrant to an independent and successful professional woman in technology. At age 19, fresh out of high school in Morocco and full of dreams for a new life, she moved to the United States to pursue higher education and a career in computer science. Far from everything and everyone familiar, those early days as an international student were riddled with challenges—emotional, cultural, and linguistic. As a computer science student and later as an...
The Power of Collective Experience
Bring your biggest challenges to this session and tap the wisdom of others. In this immersive session, you will tackle some of the most widely mentioned challenges brought to light from the group. Whether it’s a software testing conundrum, a project setback, a management blocker, a group or team dysfunction or an interpersonal hurdle, all of these can slow our progress and reduce our effectiveness. And when we hunt for options, we all have blind spots and biases that prevent us from thinking out of the box and finding new and different solutions. Typically the...
The United State of Women Summit: From Dreaming to Doing!
Axosoft evangelist, Tania Katan reports back after being invited to the White House’s United State of Women Summit as a “Changemaker”. She will share stories from leaders, activists and, ahem, the First Lady of the United States on how women are taking on challenges in technology, entrepreneurship and beyond. You will leave this talk with tools for challenging the status quo and becoming a Changemaker! In the spirit of Axosoft’s collaborative tools (GitKraken)—and work culture—this lively talk (and micro-workshop) will engage attendees in working collaboratively,...
Panel–Career Superpowers
Let’s discuss and define the most important career superpowers for women. Hear what industry professionals, leaders, and idea disruptors think the important career superpowers are for women in 2016 and going forward.
Panel: Tania Katan, the Curator of Code at AxoSoft and Melissa Benua, Senior Backend Software Engineer at PlayFab, Inc.