Kick Off

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Welcome by SheSharp and Microsoft

Amanda Marochko

Co-Founder SheSharp

Amanda Marochko is currently the Head of Strategic Partnerships at Buffer. Prior to joining Buffer, she was an International Growth Lead at Shopify, working with hundreds of entrepreneurs throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Before her time at Shopify, she was working at a joint venture between Google for Entrepreneurs and The Next Web, helping Dutch startups scale internationally, and international startups coming to The Netherlands. Aside from this, she's the Co-Founder of SheSharp, a foundation aimed at creating more diverse spaces within the Dutch tech industry. She's also the owner of MADE IN AMS, an ecommerce agency specialized in growing brands started by female entrepreneurs.

Emily Loh

Co-Founder SheSharp

Emily is a data scientist at Coinbase by day but moonlights as Director of Partnerships at SheSharp.

HerStory: Stacy Cashmore

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She embraced agile methods before she knew of the agile movement when handed a chance to lead a project and wanted quick feedback asked the customer for a fortnightly meeting to show what had been done, and to make any course corrections. That project was such a success that since then it’s how she has wanted to work! And she’s been practicing ever since.

2 years ago, she started giving talks at conferences. This happened after a panic attack at Techorama NL 2018 lead to a suggestion of submitting for Swetugg in Sweden. And then totally unexpectedly getting selected! Time to put those agile skills to the test to get the talk planned, written and practiced.

Terrified of flying, people and the spotlight she was even more surprised after arriving in Stockholm and giving the talk to get so much energy from it!

Join this session and listen to HerStory!

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

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

Programme

Sessions

Kick Off

Amanda Marochko

Emily Loh

DevCorp: An interactive adventure

Pauline Vos

TheirStory: Rain Leander

Rain Leander

Developer Velocity: Tooling to enabling innovation

April Edwards

HerStory: Stacy Cashmore

Stacy Cashmore

Would you trust an AI to … ?

Amy Boyd

HerStory: Rayta van Rijswijk

Rayta van Rijswijk

Code/Art Show & Tell

Saskia Freeke

Practical Advice for (Self-)Advocacy

Emily Loh

Imma Valls

Daliya Spasova

Anna Ossowski

Stacy Cashmore

Virtual Happy Hour