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).

Full House for Data Science Week

Are you a Diversity Champion?

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We had a full house for WiTWA's Data Science event last night! Thank you to Bankwest for hosting, and both Bankwest and Water Corporation for their sponsorship of this event.

Our inspirational Patron Professor Lyn Beazley kicked off proceedings with a welcome address. Pieter Vorster set the tone for an evening of data and diversity and Luke Edwards on the inception of Data Science Week hashtag#dsw19 - www.datascienceweek.org. Read more here.

Keep an eye out for news of our next event and save the evening of 11 June for our next WITWA event.

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.

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Aparna's career has seen her in many a varied role, from working in prisons to the minister’s office and now RSM Australia. Numbers give Aparna a tummy ache so the irony of working at an accounting firm has not been lost on her – words are her game. Aparna is in communications, a role that also incorporates BD and events and she sits on the WiTWA communications sub-committee. Relationships, whether it be colleagues, clients or networks are central to Aparna’s approach as she values collaboration and connection. Aside from the old chestnut of “wanting to give something back”, Aparna volunteers for WiTWA due to her huge appreciation for the work being done to create opportunities for girls and women towards exciting and future focused career paths. While Aparna can look back fondly on (some of) the roles in her career, she knows she could have benefited significantly from a tribe of strong women and men role modelling and providing mentorship opportunities at various times along the way. #ifyoucanseeheryoucanbeher Aparna loves being part of WiTWA’s commitment to provide support, networks and education to propel their members forward. @joeandthewookiee #empowerment #womenempowerment #women #inspiration #motivation #empoweringwomen #girlpower #positivity #success #perth #rsm #mentorship #rolemodel #strongwomen #witwa
"Australia is on track to boost girls' participation in STEM, but we need to move much faster, it's a matter of both equity and pragmatism." Wise words by our Patron Prof Lyn Beazley, our wonderful champion, supporter and advocate. #stem #witwaplus2019 #ifyoucanseeheryoucanbeher #diversity #womeninstem #education #girlswhocode #girlsinstem #girlengineer #engineeringgirls #womenwhocode #tech #techie
We had a full house for WiTWA's Data Science event last night! Thank you to @bankwest for hosting and both Bankwest and @watercorporation for their sponsorship of this event. Our inspirational Patron Professor Lyn Beazley kicked off proceedings with a welcome address. Pieter Vorster set the tone for an evening of data and diversity and Luke Edwards on the inception of Data Science Week #dsw19 - www.datascienceweek.org. Dr Liz Dallimore expertly facilitated an informative panel discussion with Elsa Jordaan, Rimma Shafikova and Bruce Wright, all sharing their different journeys into data science and their views on addressing the STEM skills shortage. If you are looking to get into Data Science, our panel have recommended the following: 👩🏽‍💻Source a Data Scientist Map and tackle each area of learning - https://bit.ly/2LJHERh 👩🏽‍💻Online courses at https://www.fast.ai/ https://www.datacamp.com https://www.udemy.com https://www.coursera.org/ 👩🏽‍💻Kaggle competitions - https://bit.ly/1MBnW15 👩🏽‍💻KDNuggets - https://bit.ly/2E4KxKw 👩🏽‍💻Data Science Central - https://bit.ly/2WqZBZC 🤝29th June- Women in ML Workshop- https://bit.ly/2H7GXkg Also, keep an eye out for courses to be released by the WA Data Science Innovation Hub -https://bit.ly/2Y8Hh7K #diversity #perth #womenintech #womeninstem #stemskills #stem #technology #inclusion #witwa #ifyoucanseeheryoucanbeher
Huge thank you to @watercorporation for sponsoring Women in Technology WA and their support of Data Science week.... Driving WA's growth and vitality; Water Corporation's purpose is to provide sustainable management of water services to make WA a great place to live and invest. We really appreciate your support of the Women in Tech WA community! #womenintechnology #tech #perth #diversity #inclusion #ifyoucanseeheryoucanbeher #datascience #womenintech
WiTWA were fortunate enough to attend Pawsey Supercomputing Centre's Data Science Week launch event yesterday! Happy birthday to Aditi Subramanya, who opened proceedings & shared her journey into Data Science. Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith then stressed how STEM creates solutions to global problems & it requires a culturally diverse background of people in the field if AI & Machine Learning for it to work without bias. If you have not already you must download Women in STEM Decadal Plan - https://bitly.com/ - to see how you/your organisation can take specific action to build the strongest STEM workforce possible to support Australia's prosperity. We were then linked to Dr Karen Lee-Waddell in Canberra, who took us through the unique journey of galaxies & how each has an individual story, much like ourselves! Followed by a panel discussion with Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith, Sarah A James, Kathryn Napier and Helen Ensikat, all shared their different pathways into Data Science, their inspiration into the world of STEM and the barriers and opportunities they've faced along with way. Thank you to Luke Edwards for the invite and Dr Liz Dallimore for facilitating the panel. We are looking forward to seeing you both at tonight's WiTWA Data Science Week event at Bankwest #DSW19 #datascienceweek #datascience #datascientist #machinelearning #stem #perth #australia #tech #technology #womenintech #womeninstem #ifyoucanseeheryoucanbeher
Tickets to our Data Science Week event on 7th May at Bankwest are not SOLD OUT! If you were fortunate enough to secure your ticket, you will be hearing the wonderful Rimma Shafikova provide her insight as one of our panel members. Rimma joined the IT workforce after graduating with a Computer Science degree from Bauman Technical University in Russia. She has since tried a variety of jobs, starting from an internship in data cleaning and preparation for a large scale machine learning project, to a research assistant and PhD fellow in 3D printing technology and finally, after working as a research analyst for a few years in Perth, Rimma retrained herself and landed a dream job of Data Scientist at one of Perth’s fastest growing companies. #perth #development #tech #technology #datascientist #datascience #dsw19 #witwa #ifyoucanseeheryoucanbeher #machinelearning
Meet Tracey! An IT Project Management professional with a wealth of local and international experience. She makes a valuable positive difference in this world by leading highly skilled teams to deliver digital improvements and innovation. In the past, Tracey has been fortunate enough to work on projects that were on technology’s bleeding edge and participating in the process of creating systems that were industry disruptors. She has helped establish and run a busy Project Office and continues to be energised by project delivery due to its constantly evolving nature, endless opportunities for new learnings and overall unpredictability. At the heart of all her project work, Tracey believes that her team are her best asset. The successfulness of a project is often judged by criteria such as quality, time, scope and budget. For Tracey, the 5th component is of a happy team is just as important. Tracey hails from South Africa and upon arriving in Perth, she found that none of her South African professional contacts were of any use to her in this new environment.…she had no career networks, no family to fall back on and not a lot of friends either. After struggling on her own to establish these connections, she discovered WiTWA and the opportunities it provided for networking and expanding her skillset. She found that the informative events helped her improve her knowledge base as well as meet prospective mentors, employers and like-minded peers. Tracey now volunteers on the WiTWA events sub-committee so that she can help create events where other people, who may be in the same situation as she was, can come and find the connections that they are looking for. She loves the warm and welcoming WiTWA culture, its empowering nature and simply getting to work with other professionals that are changing the world. Tracey is also a mum, self-appointed foodie, volunteer, world traveller, green consumer and is very very beagle crazy. #ifyouseecanseeheryoucanbeher #witwa #projectmanager #projectmanagement #womenempowerment #womenintech #womeninstem #tech #perth #perthisok
Who has been an inspiration/mentor to you throughout your career? Tag them in the comment section, let's celebrate each other! 🥳👏🏽👩🏼‍💻 Applications will open on the 11th June for this year's Tech [+] 20 Awards at our one-day inaugural event, to be hosted at the Hyatt Regency on the 24th October. Get your thinking caps on as to who you would nominate, further details can be found here https://lnkd.in/f3CSBsH Happy Friday 😊 #flashbackfriday #inspiration #motivation #perth #tech #ifyoucanseeheryoucanbeher #witwaplus2019 #flashback

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.