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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