18:30 Weds 3 Mar 2021: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion - The Practical Bits

[Immo Hüneke]

BCS Software Practice Advancement specialist group

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You are invited to register your interest in three forthcoming events:

SPA-352: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion - The Practical Bits

Speaker: Gen Ashley

When: Wednesday 3rd March 2021, 18:30 - 20:00 GMT

Where: Zoom

Price: Free

Booking Link: https://3march2021spasg.eventbrite.co.uk/

Your confirmation email will provide the next step to enable you to access the meeting. 48 hours and 1 hour prior to the event reminder emails will be sent to those registered, with the non-transferable URL needed to gain access. The session will be recorded. If you do not wish to feature in the recording, please keep your microphone muted and your camera off.

AGENDA

from 6:00pm: log in, wait for webinar to begin

6:30pm: presentation

8:00pm approximately: questions and discussion

8:15pm approximately: end

Synopsis

Practical advice and learnings about Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

About the presenter

Gen is the Founder of TECH(K)NOW Day - a conference focused on Women in Technology.

She is a very active leader in the Tech community in London and is an Ambassador for Google Women Techmakers.

She is also a lead for NASA Space Apps Challenge London, Twitter Developer Community London and Google Developer Groups London.

She is also part of the leadership committee for Ada's List (a network for women in technology).

She is co-organiser of COED:CODE, OpenTechSchool London and London Game Developers. She was the Head of Developer Outreach at Skills Matter and a former VP / Business Development Manager / Project Manager at Citigroup.

Gen helped lead Anita Borg Institute London and was actively instrumental in delivering the very first 1-Day Grace Hopper Conference in Europe (GHC/1 which is now called HopperX1) which was held in London.

She was recently awarded an MVP (Most Valuable Professional) by Microsoft and as Director of Women Who Code London built up a community of around 6000 women in tech.

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Bookings are open for the SPA Showcase conference - four two-hour sessions packed with some of the most popular presenters of SPA conferences past and planned. Places are limited, so register at https://minispaconference2021.eventbrite.co.uk/ as soon as possible. You can register for each session independently.

The annual SPA conference - Software in Practice - takes place from 12-17 July 2021. We are looking for a small production team to integrate the various platforms involved and work out the practical details of running the conference online, including the provision of virtual machines for the practical exercises.

Please contact the organisers <organ...@spaconference.org> by 7th April 2021 if you can help.

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BCS SPA Home Page - http://bcs-spa.org/

Meetings Schedules

London - http://bcs-spa.org/index.php?page=london-meeting-programme

Cambridge - see http://http://softwareast.ning.com/events

Presentation materials from previous talks are available from the BCS

SPA resources site: http://bcs-spa.org/resources.html

Also see YouTube playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKBhokJ0qd3_wlvr0j85YhmNfNj8ZJ8M-

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SPA London Meetings Programme Organiser -

Immo Huneke, Zuhlke Engineering Ltd. [mailto:Im...@Huneke.Co.UK]

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Forthcoming meetings: We're looking for volunteers to present or lead workshops on topics of interest to software practitioners. Please come forward with suggestions!

24-25 Mar 2021: - MiniSPA conference (4 x 2 hour sessions)

7 April 2021: SPA-353 - Akmal Chaudhri on Data Analysis with Pandas (interactive workshop)