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March 31, 2020
Primer
Join Our Virtual Event with Primer's Women Tech Leaders in Machine Learning & AI
If you are a skilled tech professional and you are interested in attending this event, please email events@powertofly.com with your name and LinkedIn URL to be considered for an invite.
Want to learn about the future of data automation? Then join Primer and PowerToFly for an intimate virtual event featuring Primer's women tech leaders and allies as they discuss their latest projects, share career advice, and answer YOUR questions.
Primer's mission is to accelerate our understanding of the world. They build machines that can read and write, automating the analysis of very large datasets. Primer's technology is deployed by some of the world's largest government agencies, financial institutions, and Fortune 50 companies.
Join our special virtual event on Wednesday, April 22nd from 12:00pm PT to 1:00 PM PT (3:00 PM ET to 4:00 PM ET).
<p>Agenda (<em>Subject to Change</em>):</p><ul class="ee-ul"><li>12:00 PM PT - PowerToFly Kickoff</li><li>12:05 PM PT - Keynote & Welcome Address by Primer's Suzie Radack - SVP, People </li><li>12:10 PM PT - Technical Demo by Amy Heineike - Principal Product Architect</li><li>12:20 PM PT - Panel Discussion & Audience Q&A<ul class="ee-ul"><li>Amy Heineike - Principal Product Architect</li><li>Katy Evans - Sr. Data Scientist and Team Lead</li><li>Loi Laing - Sales Development Representative</li><li>Delenn Chin - Product Engineer</li><li>India Derrick - Software Engineer</li></ul></li><li>12:55 PM PT - Closing Remarks</li><li>1:00 PM PT - Event Concludes</li></ul><p>Primer is building machine intelligence that pushes the edge of what is currently possible; if you'd like to learn more about this technology and get your questions answered, we hope you can join us this April. </p><p><a href="https://powertofly.com/companies/primer?utm_source=Maropost&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Primer&utm_content=PrimerApril2020" target="_blank">Visit Primer's page on PowerToFly</a> to learn more about their impressive benefits including catered lunches, ongoing learning initiatives, unlimited vacation, and flexible work options. </p><p><strong>About PowerToFly: </strong>PowerToFly is a women-run startup that works with companies to identify skilled professionals they'd like to network with. Over the past two years, we've produced over two hundred virtual and in-person events across the world with brands like American Express, Microsoft, Deloitte, and Slack, which have resulted in countless hires. Visit <a href="http://powertofly.com/?utm_source=Marapost&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=PowerToFly&utm_content=PrimerApril2020" target="_blank">http://powertofly.com</a> to learn more. </p><p><strong>About PowerToFly's Events:</strong> All RSVP'd attendees are welcome, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, or age. If you require accommodation(s) to fully participate in this event, please email hi@powertofly.com, and we will contact you to discuss your specific needs.</p><p><em><strong>Unfortunately, PowerToFly and Primer cannot admit outside recruiters to this particular event. Please email hi@powertofly.com if you have any questions about this policy.</strong></em></p>
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February 26, 2020
Yelp Inc.
Yelp + PowerToFly Connected with the San Francisco Tech Community on 2/11
On February 11th, PowerToFly partnered with Yelp to present an evening of conversations and connecting, highlighting Yelp's women tech leaders.
Hosted by PowerToFly's Cristina Duke, the evening kicked off with a keynote address by Swetha Prasad before transitioning into an intimate fireside chat featuring several Yelp's impressive technologists, including:
- Alexandra Phillips, Engineering Manager
- Manasi Goel, Engineering Manager
- Susanne Lehmann, Database Engineer
- Suraksha Pai, Engineering Manager
Here's what one attendee had to say about the event: "Hearing all the women talk about career growth, and development of skills was so inspiring. I would love to work in an environment like that."
Yelp is hiring! Their five-star perks include a 401k program with company matching, an employee stock purchase plan, gym subsidies and truly impressive healthcare benefits.
<p><strong>About Yelp's Belief in Diversity and Inclusiveness: </strong>Yelp believes that diversity is an expression of all the unique characteristics that make us human: age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, and education — and that's just a few. We're committed to increasing diversity and transparency both here at Yelp and in Silicon Valley. At Yelp, inclusiveness is just as important as diversity. We cultivate a sense of belonging through company supported employee resource and affinity groups: <a href="https://www.yelp.com/engineering/awe" target="_blank">Awesome Women in Engineering</a>, Colorcoded, DiverseBurst, Health & Wellness, OUTburst, VetConnect, Women at Yelp, Yelp Parents, YelpCares and many more!</p><p><br></p></div>
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Taking in the evening's programming.
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A packed house in San Francisco!
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A look at our amazing fireside chat.
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January 13, 2020
Yelp Inc.
Come Connect with Yelp’s Women Tech Leaders and Allies on 2/11
If you are a San Francisco area based tech professional and you would like to attend this event, please email events@powertofly.com with your name and LinkedIn URL to be considered for an invite.
Yelp and PowerToFly are all about connecting people with the larger community. That's why PowerToFly is excited to announce an opportunity to connect YOU with Yelp's women tech leaders and allies at a dynamic evening of tech talks and networking on February 11th.
This unique gathering will be a great opportunity to meet and learn from the women leaders and allies at Yelp that are responsible for building and maintaining a global platform that's home to approximately 171 million cumulative reviews.
This invite-only event will take place on Tuesday, February 11th from 6pm to 8:30pm at Yelp HQ, located at 140 New Montgomery Street, 8th Floor, San Francisco. Closer to the event, PowerToFly will be supplying a Lyft code to help you get home.
<p>Agenda (<em>Subject to Change</em>)</p><ul class="ee-ul"><li>6:00pm - Check-in and networking over light bites and refreshments</li><li>6:30pm - Event kickoff by PowerToFly </li><li>6:35pm - Keynote Address by Yelp</li><li>6:45pm - Panel Discussion featuring leaders at Yelp</li><li><ul class="ee-ul"><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandra-p-a0165837/" target="_blank">Alexandra Phillips</a>, Engineering Manager </li><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/manasi-goel-ab7857a6/" target="_blank">Manasi Goel</a>, Engineering Manager</li><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/susannelehmann/" target="_blank">Susanne Lehmann</a>, Database Engineer</li><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/surakshapai/" target="_blank">Suraksha Pai</a>, Engineering Manager</li></ul></li><li>7:15pm - Audience Q&A</li><li>7:40pm - Networking continues over light bites and refreshments</li></ul><p>Our panel will be diving deeper into their current projects, their career journeys, and discussing such hot topics as work-life integration and thriving (not just surviving) as a woman in tech. Best of all, we'll be devoting a large portion of the night to answering your questions and the Yelp team is looking forward to hearing from you. </p><p>While you don't need to be looking for new opportunities in order to attend the event, <a href="https://powertofly.com/companies/yelp?utm_source=Maropost&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Yelp&utm_content=YelpFeb2020" target="_blank">Yelp is hiring</a>. Their five-star perks include a 401k program with company matching, an employee stock purchase plan, gym subsidies and truly impressive healthcare benefits. </p><p><strong>About Yelp's Belief in Diversity and Inclusiveness: </strong>Yelp believes that diversity is an expression of all the unique characteristics that make us human: age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, and education — and that's just a few. We're committed to increasing diversity and transparency both here at Yelp and in Silicon Valley. At Yelp, inclusiveness is just as important as diversity. We cultivate a sense of belonging through company supported employee resource and affinity groups: <a href="https://www.yelp.com/engineering/awe" target="_blank">Awesome Women in Engineering</a>, Colorcoded, DiverseBurst, Health & Wellness, OUTburst, VetConnect, Women at Yelp, Yelp Parents, YelpCares and many more!</p><p><strong>About PowerToFly:</strong> PowerToFly is a women-run startup that works with companies to identify skilled professionals they'd like to network with. Over the past two years, we've produced over one hundred events across the world with brands like American Express, Microsoft, Deloitte, and Slack, which have resulted in countless hires. Visit <a href="http://powertofly.com/" target="_blank">http://powertofly.com</a> to learn more. </p><p><strong>About PowerToFly's Events:</strong> All RSVP'd attendees are welcome, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, or age. If you require accommodation to fully participate in this event, please email hi@powertofly.com, and we will contact you to discuss your specific needs.</p><p><em><strong>Unfortunately, PowerToFly and Yelp cannot admit outside recruiters to this particular event. Please email hi@powertofly.com if you have any questions about this policy.</strong></em></p>
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December 18, 2019
New Relic
Check Out Pics from Our Great Lunch with New Relic's Women Leaders in Sales & Marketing
On December 11th, two of PowerToFly's own sales leaders, Cristina Duke and Amanda Bender, traveled to San Francisco to co-host a lunchtime event with New Relic, a cloud-based platform that gives developers, engineers, operations, and management a clear view of what's happening in today's complex software environments. This event highlighted New Relic's women leaders in sales, technical sales, and marketing and featured an invite-only audience of skilled professionals also in those fields. (By the way, New Relic is hiring in those fields and you can view their open roles HERE.)
The afternoon kicked off with networking over scrumptious small bites and refreshments prior to welcome remarks by Cristina, PowerToFly's Head of Sales and Customer Success. Next up, New Relic's Tracy Williams, Vice President, Global Business Partner Group delivered a brief keynotes address where she dove deeper into New Relic's culture and diversity & inclusion programs.
Next up, Tracy joined an esteemed panel of women leaders throughout New Relic for an intimate fireside chat and audience Q&A. New Relic speakers included:
- Nada DaVeiga, GVP of Solutions Consulting
- Francine Anthony, Senior Director of Global Partner Marketing
- Sara Coady, GVP, Enterprise Sales
- Tracy Kraft, VP, Marketing
- Amy Morrison, Senior Recruiter and Corporate Wellness/Fitness Leader
This special afternoon salon concluded with plenty of more networking time before our guests departed.
<a href="https://powertofly.com/companies/new-relic?utm_source=Maropost&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=NewRelic&utm_content=NewRelicDec2019" target="_blank">New Relic is hiring! </a>Their Women at New Relic employee resource group frequently hosts fireside chats, lunch & learns, and events such as International Women's Day celebrations, their "Dress for Success" clothing drive, conversations on "How to Identify and Interrupt Gender Bias" and more.
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A great crowd!
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PowerToFly's Cristina Duke kicked off our programming.
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Our inspiring panel speakers during the afternoon's fireside chat.
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New Relic leaders took questions from the audience.
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<p><br></p><p><br></p><span></span><div><br></div>What a great afternoon!
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December 02, 2019
Autodesk, Inc.
We Heard from Autodesk's Women Leaders in San Francisco
On October 16th, PowerToFly hosted our first event with Autodesk, a leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, in San Francisco.
Autodesk is a truly astounding company. From cars to skyscrapers to smartphones to even movie special effects, Autodesk's software makes it all possible. This intimate evening of networking and learning was hosted by PowerToFly's Amanda Bender and featured a diverse and impressive array of speakers from Autodesk.
The night kicked off with a warm welcome address by Queen Denchukwu, Manager, Global Diversity Partnerships and Alliances. Next up, our audience was treated to a special tech talk from Paula Berggren, Senior Exhibit Designer.
Following the evening's tech talk, Amanda moderated a panel discussion featuring several of Autodesk's women leaders including:
- Olivia Stuckman, Embedded Manufacturing Product Manager
- Tanu Chellam, Sr. Product Manager
- Mimi Hoang, Sr. Director of AutoCAD Strategy & Marketing
- Jessica Raedler, Conversational AI Lead
The evening wrapped up with some closing remarks by Andrea Robb, VP of Talent, Culture, and Diversity plus plenty of more opportunities to network over refreshments.
Here's what one attendee had to say about the event: "I'm really glad I came. I completely altered how I think of Autodesk."
<p><a href="https://powertofly.com/companies/autodesk-inc?utm_source=Maropost&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Autodesk&utm_content=AutodeskOctober2019" target="_blank">Autodesk is hiring</a>! Autodesk believes diversity fuels new ideas, creativity, and business growth and promotes this mission through thought leadership groups as the Autodesk Women's Network.</p><p>For more information about Autodesk, just visit their <a href="https://powertofly.com/companies/autodesk-inc?utm_source=Maropost&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Autodesk&utm_content=AutodeskOctober2019" target="_blank">page on PowerToFly.</a> </p>
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