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:20160313T020000 RDATE:20160313T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160805T170813Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160610T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160610T180000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160805T170813Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160805T171200Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250470638 DESCRIPTION:**We are trying something new this month!** \;\n \;\nRS VP ... [HERE!!](https://www.meetup.com/New-Relic-FutureTalks-PDX/events/ 231698633/) \;\n \;\nTogether\, Instrument and New Relic are exci ted to host the 2-year anniversary celebration for Women Who Code Portla nd! \;\n \;\nOur June event is both a Networking Night and a party to celebrate 2 years since we started organizing events for the Portlan d community! During the first part of the program\, six women from Instr ument and New Relic will give lightning talks. Speakers will share anecd otes\, inspiration or projects that celebrate the art of code and the fe minine experience. This will be followed by a DJ and music to end the ni ght! Don't miss this! \;\n \;\n**Program** \;\n \;\n6:00-6:3 0 - Check-in \;\n6:30-6:45 - Intros from WWCode\, Instrument\, and New Relic \;\n6:45-7:45 - Lightning Talks + Q&\;A \;\n7:45- 9:00 - DJ \;\n \;\n**Speakers** \;\n \;\n- **EMCEE - Liz Ab inante - Senior Software Engineer\, New Relic** \;\n \;\n- **Tina Snow Le - Art Director\, Instrument** - Tina Snow Le is a first generati on Vietnamese-American artist born and raised in Portland\, Oregon. As a n Art Director at Instrument\, she creates digital experiences for Nike. As an artist\, she develops projects that explore how design can impact society for the better. Her most recent endeavors include launching a m entorship program called Back to Back\, which champions diversity in the Portland creative community\, and designing wallpaper inspired by the p owerful intuition of the Wild Woman. \;\n \;\n- **Violet Peña - W eb Developer\, Instrument** - Violet is a web developer living in Portla nd\, OR. She likes forging connections\, creating new spaces\, and makin g the imaginary real. When she’s away from a screen she can be found cli mbing\, hiking\, or reading. She can’t keep succulents alive but is fine at growing normal plants. \;\n \;\n- **Alexis Johnson - IT\, Inst rument** - Alexis is a Technical Coordinator at Instrument with a backgr ound in information security and technical customer support. Compelled b y new technology and passionate about people’s interactions with their d evices\, Alexis finds joy in improving others’ relationships with their digital experience. Alexis is also passionate about gardening\, social j ustice\, scripting\, yoga\, and technical writing. \;\n \;\n- **Ap ril Leonard - Senior Software Engineer\, New Relic** - April is a Portla nd native and longtime Java engineer. She has experience building many e nterprise applications including an adaptive test engine and a custom sh opping cart servicing millions of customers. She delights in solving pro blems\, finding efficiencies\, and learning new things. Her current focu s is learning new languages with an emphasis on functional programming. She enjoys laughing\, running\, cycling\, yoga\, gardening\, and spendin g time with her family. \;\n \;\n- **Emily Bookstein - Software E ngineer\, New Relic** - Although Emily studied environmental science\, a fter building a climate-change web game she decided to pursue web develo pment instead. She studied full stack web development with Hackbright Ac ademy\, the all-women's coding bootcamp in San Francisco (Fall 2014). Be fore coming to Portland\, Emily was the resident nerd in an Oakland co-o p. \;\n \;\n- **Lindsey Austinson - Product Designer\, New Relic** - Lindsey has been making things on the internet for over ten years\, d oing everything from writing code to designing interfaces\, and much of what comes in between. She loves to work with diverse groups of people o n interesting projects which led to her current day job as a user experi ence designer. Lindsey's favorite projects involve simplifying complex s ystems\, solving curious technical problems\, and\, most importantly\, w orking with super awesome people. \;\n \;\n**Who Should Attend?** \;\n \;\nAnyone is welcome to attend\, as long as you support our mission and agree to follow our Code of Conduct. \;\n \;\n**About Instrument** \;\n \;\nInstrument is an independent digital creati ve agency in Portland\, Oregon. They build brands\, experiences and camp aigns for every screen. \;\n \;\n**About New Relic** \;\n \ ;\nNew Relic is a software analytics company that makes sense of billion s of metrics about millions of applications in real time. Their comprehe nsive SaaS-based solution provides a powerful interface for web and nati ve mobile applications and consolidates the performance monitoring data for any chosen technology in your environment.\n\nTags: New Relic Future Talks PDX future tech talk technology startup networking\n\nImported fro m: http://calagator.org/events/1250470638 URL:http://www.meetup.com/New-Relic-FutureTalks-PDX SUMMARY:FutureTalks / WWC Networking Night + 2nd Anniversary Party! LOCATION:New Relic: 111 SW 5th Avenue\, Suite 2700\, Portland Oregon 9720 4 United States SEQUENCE:5 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR