Women & Allies in Tech Lunch
Women & Allies in Tech Lunch
Join the Women & Allies in Tech Lunch and connect with other QCon attendees and speakers.
Monday Mar 27 / 12:40PM BST
Registration closed
Designed to support and enable women and allies to connect and network during QCon London, the meetup will be open for all attendees to join beginning at 12:40 pm and is “come and go.”
You will be able to listen to a lightning talk about Responsible Tech and have the chance to meet and connect with fellow attendees and speakers at lunch.
Lightning Talk: Responsible Tech for Software Developers
Responsible tech looks to consider the broader impact of technology on the communities and stakeholders that are not the intended audience. This talk will discuss why we as software development professionals should worry about such impacts and how we can mitigate these issues and exploit the opportunities presented.
- 12:40 pm - 1:40 pm
- Location: Queen Elizabeth II Centre, 2nd floor in the Gielgud area.
- After you pick up your lunch, enjoy it at the event.
Capacity for this session is limited, to save your seat, please register for the session.
Speaker
Rebecca Parsons
CTO @Thoughtworks
Dr. Rebecca Parsons is Thoughtworks' CTO. She has more years of experience than she’d like to admit in technology and large-scale software development. She recently co-authored the book Building Evolutionary Architectures with colleagues Neal Ford and Pat Kua.
Before ThoughtWorks she worked as an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Central Florida, after completing a Director's Post Doctoral Fellowship at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Her interests include parallel and distributed computation, programming languages, domain specific languages, evolutionary architecture, genetic algorithms, and computational science.
Rebecca received a BS in Computer Science and Economics from Bradley University, and both an MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rice University.
