On the 12th of December seven empowering speakers spoke to an audience of more than 200 motivated attendees.
The founder and president of Women in Tech Ayumi Moore Aoki came to Saint Petersburg to open the Russian chapter and gave an inspiring speech about the WiT global movement.
Our #WomeninTech Ambassador Elina Valeeva shared with the audience her networking tools that in particular helped to bring WiT to Russia and to organize the event.
It was a pleasure to host such outstanding speakers:
• Anna Kulashova, who shared her personal story about female leadership in IT,
• Alena Suvorova, who talked about the opportunities and challenges of Data Science,
• Polina Vasilenko, who gave valuable pieces of advice on startup building,
• Olga Telezhnaya, who shared about her journey from linguistics to programming,
• Leysen Shayakhmetova, who gave a speech about ways to have a successful job interviewing process.
We would also like to say an enormous thank you to our partners – the HSE University, Jet Brains and Microsoft Russia that made this all possible.
See the pictures of the event and join the Women in Tech community!
The event took place at the University of Saint Petersburg. The program included keynotes from a number of international experts:
Ayumi Moore Aoki
Founder and president of international non-profit organization Women in Tech. CEO of award-winning digital agency Social Brain. TEDx Speaker.
Elina Valeeva
Enjoyed 9 years in consulting. Now in pursuit of bringing cognitive science to people’s life as CEO of Meditivity. Young Transatlantic Innovation Leaders Initiative Fellow 2019. WIT Ambassador.
Anna Kulashova
Enterprise Commercial Lead at Microsoft. Anna has 20 years of experience in sales, marketing, and cooperation with major customers and partners. She holds an MBA degree from the Open University, UK.
Alena Suvorova
Ph.D. Associate Professor at Department of Informatics, HSE University. Academic Supervisor of the “Information Systems and Human-Computer Interaction” Programme. Head of Women Data Leaders.
Polina Vasilenko
After a 14-year career in the oil and gas industry, she moved into renewable energy and founded HelioRec. Winner of the Women in Green Tech International Awards.
Olga Telezhnaya
Developer at JetBrains. Olga moved from a philology faculty to the technical field. Helps other people learn programming by organizing PyLadies and DjangoGirls meetups.
Leysen Shayakhmetova
Headhunter & сareer coach. 7 years of executive search at Ward Howell. Founder of Career Booster, author of online program “Hunting for your job”.
