SXSW 2020
CIS Golden Girls: Stories from 4 Black Techies
Description:
Four friends from college dish on how they navigated their 15+ years of experience as women in tech in the corporate and entrepreneurial worlds.
Background:
The “CIS Golden Girls” are four women who met at different points in college while majoring in Computer & Information Sciences. After 15+ years of working in the tech industry, they came together to share their experiences at the 2018 HUE Tech Summit powered by the Tech Women Network. Since the summit, they have taken the panel on the road to inspire women and dish on how they navigated their career paths to become corporate leaders and entrepreneurs.
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Takeaways
- Traditional ways to work in tech
- Career reinvention and breaking into tech at mid-level
- Tools and resources for thriving as technologist or manager
Speakers
- Jumoke Dada, Technologist & Entrepreneur, Tech Women Network
- Dela Acolatse, Storage and Cloud Engineer, GlaxoSmithKline
- Tosin Aje-Adegbite, Senior Manager Product Manager, Pearson
- Angel Johnson, IT Leader Directing Mobile App & Infrastructure, Marriott International
Organizer
Jumoke Dada, Technologist & Social Entrepreneur, Tech Women Network
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