ACT-W Conference

Kickoff Party

• Kickoff Party @Jama Software sponsored by Jama + Jive
• Conference - Sold Out, 400 capacity
• Sold 400+ tickets
• Growing women engineering community around Portland & vicinity

Keynote: Applying your Strengths

• Talent + Energy = Strength
• Negativity Bias: focus on fixing risks
• Assessments: Values in Action, StrengthsFinder2.0, Realize 2
• First thing on To-Do list
• Batch tasks that drain

Onboarding is for Everyone

• LIGHTNING TALK
• Reintroduce ourself
• Secret pact
• Support each other
• Onboarding @ SureID

SELF-ADVOCACY & CONFLICT MANAGEMENT

• Feeling comfortable in self advocating e.g. software needs, materials, trainings, etc.
• Conflict resolution

Developing Easy Web Applications

• React + Redux
• Quickly becoming an optimal solution to accomplish rapid UI development.
• React: provides use of reusable components that can receive information.
• Redux: helps the application handle that information by keeping it all stored as a single state object.
• Built a Node project and watched it running

Doing the Big Work

5 ways to do big work

• Be selfish (take care of yourself etc..)
• Hire your board of directors
• Know your 4 cornerstones (Top 4 things you want)
• Embrace the struggle
• Find Accountabilibuddies

Mentoring 101

• Mentor knows your best interest
• Does not tell who what to do
• Mentee sets the rules

Mentorship Resources

• Mentorship Saturday
• Portland Tech Leadership
• Navigate IT (for Women)
• PDXWIT (for women)
• ACT-W (to mentor High School Students)

Adaptive leadership

• Adaptive challenges: Don't have a known solution Vs
• Technical challenges: Do have a known solution

Effectively Responding to Adaptive Challenges

• Practical 3-step framework:
• Oberving
• Interpreting
• Intervening
• Building a culture that's inclusive of those from diverse backgrounds

Intro to Angular

• https://prezi.com/rsz-_6vnyymj/angular-act-w/

Debugging Javascript

• Browser Developer tool (F12)
• Fiddler
• Postman

Career Fair

• 3D Printing
• Free Stuff - T-shirts, waterbottles, sweets etc.
• Busy with many startup companies
• Headshots

Julie :-)

Deepa

3D Printing

Clap PLEASE!