2019 WiTWA Events & News

We organise events to facilitate communication, networking and conversation about women in technology, STEM and innovation.
Our events are open to everyone (all genders).

Data Science Week #dsw2019

Are you a Diversity Champion?

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Hosted by BankWest we will once again be celebrating Data Science Week through presentations and a panel discussion focusing on the STEM skills gap and the effect this has on data science applications in WA.

Further details will be announced shortly, but we can tell you that our lineup will include:

  • Professor Lyn Beazley AO and Patron of WITWA

  • Luke Edwards, Data Specialist @ Pawsey Centre

  • Liz Dallimore, Director @ WA Data Science Innovation Hub

  • Bruce Wright, Manager Data Science @ Bankwest

  • Rimma Shafikova, Data Scientist @ Virtual Gaming Worlds

  • Plus more….

On International Women’s Day 2019 we launched our Diversity Champion Program.

Be listed on our Diversity Champions page as a supporter of diversity and equality to lighthouse your role in enabling positive change. You will also receive our Diversity Champion badge for use on your website and social media.

Our Diversity Champion Program is intended as another easy mechanism through which to enable our supporters and champions to demonstrate their commitment to the WITWA 2019 theme “If you can see her, you can be her”.

Click here to read more for further information about this initiative and to express your interest in submitting an application. Happy International Women’s Day 2019 #betterforbalance #strongertogether #witwa20in20

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WiTWA is on a mission to encourage our future generations into STEM and help women in stem feel supported and represented. This is not just for the benefit of under-represented genders in STEM, as this article from IT Wire highlights - "It’s not just an equality perspective that’s important here, it’s a business imperative.." "...closing the gender gap in economic participation by 25% by 2025 could add as much as US$5.3 trillion to global gross domestic product in the same timeframe" https://itwire.com/strategy/86563-women-under-represented-in-stem,-poses-a-threat-to-australian-prosperity-report.html
Hear Elsa speak at our 7th May, Data Science Event. Get your tickets here - https://bit.ly/2P78558 Elsa is the founder and director of Deployed Analytics which was established at the end of 2018. She helps her customers to “hear the music in the data” by deploying fit-for-purpose data science models and assisting in the adoption of these models in decision-making processes. She has spent over 20 years in data science searching for the music in the data as a data scientist, leading data science teams and projects, publishing papers and writing articles on data science best practice. She has an extensive background applying her expertise in a variety of industrial applications at Hatch Engineering, Woodside Energy, Dow Chemical Company, Commonwealth Bank, Insurance Australia Group (IAG) and EY. More recently, she was the principal data scientist at Woodside and instrumental in establishing a world-class data science capability. Elsa holds a B.Sc. Hons. degree in Applied Mathematics from North-West University in South Africa, a Professional Doctorate in Engineering (PDEng) in Industrial Mathematics from Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands and a PhD in Machine Learning, also from Eindhoven University of Technology. #dsw2019 #witwa #ifyoucanseeheryoucanbeher #datascience #analytics #machinelearning
@grystene is an award-winning thought leader in digital transformation and agile product management. She leads businesses through significant change and transformation by translating between ‘geek speak’ and business. Through her 30 remarkable and passionate years in the industry, Gry has pioneered technological innovation for social change. One of very few female software engineers, Gry actively creates diverse teams, collaborating closely with recruiters and HR to change processes to encourage women and other underrepresented groups in technical roles. She is on a mission to bring Arts into the STEM landscape to create 'STEAM powered' roles and organisations, where technical skills, creativity and compassion coexist to create better products. Gry’s passion for diversity, inclusion and social change as a fundamental component of technological innovation is evident in her keynote speaking, as well as in her mentoring roles with The Smith Family, Rare Birds, Just Start IT and WIMWA (Women in Mining Western Australia). She strives to be actively involved with groups and organisations that encourage diversity and inclusion and is stoked to be to be part of the WiTWA Communications committee. Gry can be found mentoring and generally helping out at coding and entrepreneur events such as Startup Weekend, and was excited to share her vision for the future of tech at TEDxUWA in 2018.
#WiTWA love to give inspirational women in tech [+] fields, both past and present, a voice. Follow us on https://www.facebook.com/WITWA/ for our #tbt series honouring historical women in #stem who have helped pave the way for us all, and where we highlight women from our role models page who were all nominees for last years #witwa20in20 awards! Full page of roles models page can be found here - https://bit.ly/2UrX18Q #womenempoweringwomen #femalerolemodels #rolemodels #womeninstem #womenempowerment #stemgirls #womeninengineering #girlsintech #women #womeninscience #womenintech https://edition.cnn.com/…/woman-inventors-patent…/index.html
Have you got your tickets to our Data Science Week event @bankwest? Luke Edwards will be sharing the history and background of data science week. Luke currently works as a Data Specialist at Pawsey Supercomputing Centre assisting and advising researchers on the use of Pawsey’s resources. He undertakes various outreach, engagement, support and training activities to help researchers. He also works as the Data Manager for WAMSI (Western Australian Marine Science Institution). This year he combined his role at WAMSI to assist in the development of data science resources for students. This will form part of Data Science Week https://lnkd.in/finhx3g which starts on 6th May and highlights Data Science occurring around Perth and now this year Canberra. Get your tickets here https://lnkd.in/fuffFtP #perth #tech #witwa #ifyoucanseeheryoucanbeher #witwaplus2019 #datascience #data #dsw2019
***TICKET RELEASE*** Tickets to our next #WiTWA event have officially been released and, with limited availability, we'd advise you get in quick! 👏🏼 Get your tickets here ➡ https://bit.ly/2GjhIeg We will be celebrating Data Science week with host Bankwest to explore the topic of "Addressing the STEM Skills Gap to Drive the Application of Data Science in WA" We are lucky enough to have our WiTWA Patron, neuroscientist and educator Professor Lyn Beazley running our welcome address, followed by Luke Edwards talking through the history and background of data science week. Rounded out by our panel of experts Bruce Wright, Elsa Jordaan and Rimma Shafikova covering topics around the future of data science, the importance of data science to the future of Western Australia and how to address the shortage of STEM skills. We will also be running our mini-mentor and mentee initiative again. If you are interested in volunteering as a mentor for the evening or being assigned a mentor for the event, please purchase your tickets through the usual link below and then register your interest here ➡https://bit.ly/2uWweCi #ifyoucanseeheryoucanbeher #perth #tech #witwaplus2019 #scienceandtechnology #datascience #DSW19 #womenintech #womeninstem #maths #machinelearning #artificialintelligence #perth #event #perthisok
Showing our appreciation of past sponsors of 2018's #witwa20in20 on #tbt... @edithcowanuni was a Platinum sponsor and thanks to their sponsorship we were able to put together an incredible event recognising many talented women in the Perth Tech [+] community. ECU offers innovative and practical courses across a variety of disciplines and we have a vibrant research culture. ECU is a leader in developing alternative entry pathways to higher education. Thank you so much for your support Paul Haskell-Dowland, Dr Michelle Ellis, Cobie Rudd and the ECU team! 👏🏼😊 #equality #technology #conferences #awards #diversity #perth #ecu #education #stem #womeninstem
With over 210 attendees and 45 mini-mentors & mentees, our Cyber Security event turned out to be one to remember! Thank you to Woodside for hosting, to Cairo Malet for her talk on Social Engineering and our panel Laura Davis, Lauren Junior, Rachel Brennan, CSM & Bex Hirdman for their key insights in the world of Cyber Security! Looking for some follow-up material? Here are some books 📚, talks 🎤 , podcasts 🎧 and films 🎬 recommended by our panel and speakers: 📚 The Hacker Playbook 2: Practical Guide to Penetration Testing 📚Gray Hat Hacking: The Ethical Hacker's Handbook 📚 Penetration Testing: A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking 📚Practical Malware Analysis: A Hands-On Guide to Dissecting Malicious Software 📚A New Earth - Create a Better Life by Eckhard Tolle 📚The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick 📚Less by Andrew Sean Greer 📚"Kingpin: The True Story of Max Butler, the Master Hacker who Ran a Billion Dollar Cyber Crime Network" by Kevin Poulsen 🎧Mind of a Mentor by Marla Isackson 🎧Highest Self by Sahara Rose 🎧Getting Curious by Jonathan Van Ness 🎤Defcon/Blackhat talks 🎤DerbyCon talks 🎤TROOPERScon talks 🎬Hackers 🎬Double Jeopardy 🎬Imitation Game Ticket release for our next event coming soon! 👀 #witwa #ifyoucanseeheryoucanbeher #cybersecurity #perth #womenintech #womeninsecurity #womeninstem #stem #tech
Tina has 15 years’ experience in the technology industry, connecting a range of talent with great organisations across the UK and Australia. She is passionate about improving the Tech [+] landscape through building diverse and inclusive teams for her clients; as well as providing support and advice to candidates through their various career progression stages. As a regular attendee of WiTWA events since she arrived in Perth in 2016, Tina has always championed the organisation to her network. In January this year, Tina officially joined the WiTWA sub-committee to help enhance their social media presence and support their mission to encourage business change to accommodate diversity and provide a network of support for women in technology, science and innovation - Tech [+]. A mission which she truly aligns to. #technology #perth #witwaplus2019 #witwa #womenintech #ifyoucanseeheryoucanbeher #recruitment #diversity #equality #inclusion @valrose
We are thrilled to welcome Appbot as a Sponsor for the WiTWA[+] one-day seminar. WiTWA[+] brings to life to the statement: #ifyoucanseeheryoucanbeher Held on Thursday 24 October at the Hyatt Regency Perth, the day will be filled with stories of ingenuity, adversity and triumph from some extraordinary local, national and international role models in the tech[+] space. A bit about Appbot: Aggregating and analyzing all your Voice of the Customer data in Appbot gives you a new perspective on your customer experience. Appbot makes it easy to track how the changes you are making are being received, by analyzing customer feedback you already have. Thank you, Appbot co-founders, Claire McGregor and Stuart Hall for sponsoring the networking drinks session! If your organisation is interested in being a sponsor, please download our sponsorship brochure here https://www.witwa.org.au/s/WiTWA-Sponsor-Offer-190310.pdf

Pssst: are you a potential WiTWA[+] sponsor? Check out our prospectus to become a partner in our inaugural one day conference on Thursday 24 October 2019 where we’ll bring to life our catch-cry: if you can see her, you can be her. It’s going to be even bigger and better than our ‘20 in 20’ Awards night!

Here are some of our past event sponsors.