Practical Advice for (Self-)Advocacy
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One of the most important skills you can have as a woman in tech (or any industry, really) is to learn how to advocate for both yourself and others. We'll be discussing how to practice advocacy in your daily work, some challenges that come with these practices and how to navigate some pitfalls that women often encounter in their roles.
Emily Loh
Co-Founder SheSharp
Emily is a data scientist at Coinbase by day but moonlights as Director of Partnerships at SheSharp.
Imma Valls
Sr. Support Engineer at Elastic
Imma is a Support Engineer @elastic. She enjoys helping users make the most of their Elastic Stack. In her past lives, she's been a Java developer and she loves automating stuff. Anything that helps to get from development to production. She also enjoys sharing with the community, and you'll find her co-organizing Elastic meetups in Barcelona and Madrid, while also volunteering at the annual Barcelona Software Crafters conference. One of her favorite volunteering causes is helping kids with reading difficulties. You can probably find her at the next Bruce Springsteen's concerts.
Daliya Spasova
Community Programs at Elastic
Daliya is very passionate about building tech communities and interacting with people. She currently works on the Community Team of Elastic. Her experience varies between program management for multinational companies and creating communities all around the globe. When she is not spending time with her dog in the park, in her free time Daliya loves doing volunteering work and tries to combine it with her daily job while encouraging more people to give back to the different communities around the world. What is more, she recently discovered her passion for public speaking.
Anna Ossowski
Developer Relations at Elastic
Anna loves working at the intersection of tech and people and currently is a member of Elastic’s Community Team. She is a director of the Python Software Foundation, PyCon US staff member, former DjangoCon US Diversity Chair, Django Girls organizer, and group leader of the PyLadies London user group. In her free time she loves speaking at conferences and mentoring future speakers. Anna is very passionate about diversity, community outreach, and mental health.
Stacy Cashmore
Tech Explorer DevOps at Omniplan
Stacy works as Tech Explorer DevOps at Omniplan, Amsterdam. A title that she loves because it says everything about what she does, whilst not actually saying much.
Day to day she can be found coding with her colleagues, helping the teams improve their collaboration or helping the business improve their agility.
Outside of work she has a few hobbies. Her classic car, if it ever works, is a passion – but only on sunny days!
But to really relax she builds Lego! And is busy making a modular building street, so far with a cinema, cake shop, coffee shop, barbers, speak easy, 50’s diner (with radio station) and Parisian Restaurant!
A garage (good for the classic car maybe?) and book store might well be standing by!
But not just houses, around the living room there is a VW Camper, Empire State Building, Lego House, Knight Bus and even a TARDIS!
Other rooms have a bit of a space theme with the IIS in the office, a Saturn V and Apollo lander for near Earth space, a selection of Star Wars mini vehicles and a near 90cm Millennium Falcon for those trips to a galaxy far, far away
Suzanne Daniels
Developer Engagement Lead
Suzanne recently celebrated her 20th year working in IT. This in a variety of roles ranging from developer, Linux/Open Source consultant to architect. Now knowing this, you might not be surprised that her motto is “Do what you love”. She’s very passionate about her family, technology and diversity & inclusion.
Rain Leander
Stacy Cashmore
Rayta van Rijswijk
Emily Loh
Imma Valls
Daliya Spasova
Anna Ossowski
Suzanne Daniels 
