BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//Calagator//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Calagator METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20170312T020000 RDATE:20170312T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170601T052833Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170612T203000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170612T173000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170601T052833Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170601T052833Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250472002 DESCRIPTION:Please RSVP on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/women -who-code-portland-3rd-anniversary-celebration-tickets-34896464264 We a re so thrilled to announce that on June 12th\, we will be celebrating ou r 3rd Anniversary at New Relic! We are so thrilled to announce that on M onday\, June 12th\, we will be celebrating our 3rd Anniversary at New Re lic! This is going to be a great event\, as we are celebrating 3 years i n Portland\, 2000+ members\, 200+ events\, 10+ leaders\, and so many won derful memories! Thank you to New Relic\, InVision\, Nike\, and Hackbrig ht Academy for sponsoring. The theme for the night is "\;Rising Up i n Engineering Leadership"\; and we have four distinguished speakers speaking about their careers and how to succeed and thrive in the tech i ndustry as a woman.  Our Panelists:  • April Leonard - Engineering Manag er\, New Relic • Dana Lawson - VP of Engineering at InVisionApp Inc • Me ena Arunachalam - Principal Engineer\, Intel • Sue Hayes - Sr. Director\ , Commerce Core Platform Engineering at Nike • Moderator: Vaidehi Joshi  - Staff Engineer at Tilde\, Inc Giveaways + Food As a thank you to our w onderful members\, we will have awesome giveaways for the first 100 peop le\, so be sure to arrive on time! InVision and Nike have sponsored Wome n Who Code Portland coffee mugs and t-shirts and we will be serving food \, drinks\, and cupcakes\, courtesy of New Relic and Hackbright Academy. Program  5:30-6:00 - Doors open &\; Networking6:00-6:30 - Introducti on from Women Who Code Portland + Sponsor Intros6:30-7:30 - Panel: “Risi ng Up in Engineering Leadership”7:30-8:30 - Networking Speaker Bios:  Da na Lawson is the Vice President of Engineering at InVision\, where she i s responsible for leading the platform engineering group\, covering DevO ps\, site reliability\, and data services. She has nearly 20 years of ex perience as a systems engineer and has technical skills spanning multipl e disciplines. Throughout her career\, Dana has led many different teams and worn many hats\, from an individual contributor creating mobile app lications to leading multiple teams that managed large scale backend big data and infrastructure. With a background in fine arts\, she brings he r creative vision to the engineering team at InVision\, where technology meets design. April Leonard is a Portland native and longtime Java engi neer\, who recently dabbled in Ruby\, JavaScript\, and Kotlin. She has e xperience building many enterprise applications including an adaptive te st engine and a custom shopping cart servicing millions of customers. Sh e delights in solving problems\, finding efficiencies\, and learning new things and is enjoying her new role as a Software Engineering Manager. Her favorites things are laughing\, outdoor activities\, gardening\, and spending time with her family. Meena Arunachalam is a Principal Enginee r in Systems Technologies and Optimizations in Software Services Group a t Intel Corporation and she leads system-level performance and power ana lyses in Machine Learning/Deep Learning and High Performance Computing s egments for Xeon\, Xeon Phi and FPGA products and architectures. Her are as of expertise are workload optimization\, cache and memory hierarchies \, and characterization\, architectures and projections modeling and ene rgy efficiency benchmarking. Meena joined Intel as a college graduate 18 years ago. She holds a Ph.D in Computer Science. She is a passionate ad vocate and mentor for women and underrepresented minorities in the areas of Science and Engineering both in industry and academia. She was the W IN (Women in Intel) Conference Chair in 2015 and is the Mentorship Commi ttee Chair of the Women in Big Data West Coast Region. Sue Hayes is curr ently a Senior Director in the Nike Digital Engineering organization\, r esponsible for the development of the Commerce Core capabilities that po wer Nike’s eCommerce stack and the brick-and-mortar stores. She has been with Nike for 20 years and she has managed software development teams a cross Nike’s enterprise. Sue graduated from Carroll University with Bach elor of Science degrees in Mathematics and Psychology and she earned an MBA from the University of Colorado. As a person with a lifelong passion for running\, the offer to become a technology leader at Nike was a per fect fit! Our moderator\, Vaidehi Joshi\,  is a Staff Engineer at Tilde\ , where she works on Skylight. She enjoys building and breaking code\, b ut loves creating empathetic engineering teams a whole lot more. In her spare time\, she runs basecs\, a weekly writing series that explores the fundamentals of computer science. Sponsors + Sponsor Tables New Relic - New Relic's digital intelligence platform lets developers\, ops\, and t ech teams measure and monitor the performance of their applications and infrastructure. InVision - The world's best companies use InVision to de sign the products you love. Nike - Experience sports\, training\, shoppi ng and everything else that's new at Nike from any country in the world. Hackbright Academy - Hackbright Academy is the leading software enginee ring school for women founded in San Francisco in 2012. Our sponsors wil l have a booth during the events\, where you can speak to representative s from those companies.  {short} Code of Conduct Women Who Code (WWCode) is dedicated to providing an empowering experience for everyone who par ticipates in or supports our community\, regardless of gender\, gender i dentity and expression\, sexual orientation\, ability\, physical appeara nce\, body size\, race\, ethnicity\, age\, religion\, socioeconomic stat us\, caste\, or creed. Our events are intended to inspire women to excel in technology careers\, and anyone who is there for this purpose is wel come. Because we value the safety and security of our members and strive to have an inclusive community\, we do not tolerate harassment of membe rs or event participants in any form. Our Code of Conduct applies to all events run by Women Who Code\, Inc. If you would like to report an inci dent or contact our leadership team\, please submit an incident report f orm. About Women Who Code Portland Women Who Code is a global nonprofit dedicated to inspire women to excel in technology careers. We connect am azing women with other like-minded individuals around the globe who unit e under one simple notion--the world of technology is better with women in it. In Portland\, we organize monthly study nights\, workshops\, and networking nights\, as well as hackathons and social events.\n\nTags: me etup:event=236510149\, meetup:group=Women-Who-Code-Portland\, open sourc e\, python\, javascript\, web development\, ruby on rails\, mobile devel opment\, startup businesses\, venture capital\, ux design\, html5\, node js\, ios\, technology startups\, women who code\, wwc\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250472002 URL:https://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-Portland/events/236510149/ SUMMARY:Women Who Code Portland - 3rd Anniversary Celebration @ New Relic SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR