WIT PT Archives - Women in Tech® Global https://women-in-tech.org/category/wit-pt/ World’s leading organization dedicated to Empowering Women in Tech Mon, 21 Jun 2021 14:13:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://women-in-tech.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/cropped-wit-carre-32x32.png WIT PT Archives - Women in Tech® Global https://women-in-tech.org/category/wit-pt/ 32 32 Take Part In The Huawei Hms App Innovation Contest! https://women-in-tech.org/take-part-in-the-huawei-hms-app-innovation-contest/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=take-part-in-the-huawei-hms-app-innovation-contest https://women-in-tech.org/take-part-in-the-huawei-hms-app-innovation-contest/#respond Mon, 21 Jun 2021 14:12:59 +0000 https://women-in-tech.org/?p=10175 L’article Take Part In The Huawei Hms App Innovation Contest! est apparu en premier sur Women in Tech® Global.

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Could your app shape our future for the better? 🌍​
Here’s your chance! 🤩​

Join the HUAWEI HMS APP INNOVATION CONTEST! 🙌​ 💵 US$1 million prize fund​ Entries are now OPEN!️

Claudia Mendes Silva, Women in Tech Chapter Ambassador to Portugal, will be a member of the jury.

Register now

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 The Women in Tech Global Awards was held on November 6th at the beautiful Foz Palace in Lisbon. Our international jury rewarded 6 outstanding women in 6 different categories. Congratulations to the winners!

We were honoured by the presence of distinguished guests and 4 female Ambassadors to Portugal: H.E. Florence Mangin, French Ambassador, H.E. Claire Rochecouste Australian Ambassador, H.E. Celia Anna Feria, Philippines Ambassador and H.E.Lisa​ Rice Madan, Canadian Ambassador. Thank you for your support!

Women in Tech Lifetime Achievement Award

Corinne Vigreux
Co-Founder at TomTom – Founder at CODAM Coding College
France/The Netherlands
Corinne  is a Co-Founder of TomTom, the navigation technologies company that continues to create cutting edge innovations that solve mobility problems and address the challenges of autonomous driving and smart cities. She launched the new tuition-free Coding College in Amsterdam, CODAM. She is a member of the supervisory board of takeaway.com NV, Groupe ILIAD, and Dutch National Opera & Ballet and advisor to the Amsterdam Economic Board.

Women in Tech Global Leadership Award

Bedy Yang
Managing Partner at 500 Startups
Brazil/USA
Bedy Yang is a managing partner at 500 Startups. She oversees 500’s ecosystem development programs including investor education courses, corporate and government around the world. 500 Startups invested in over 2000 startups in 75 countries. She also founded Brazil Innovators, an organisation that became the epicentre and resource for Brazilian tech founders.

Most Disruptive Women in Tech Award

Julia Salasky
CEO at Legl
UK
Julia is a lawyer and entrepreneur. She is the CEO of Legl, whose flagship product, CrowdJustice, has enabled thousands of people to access the law, generated millions of dollars for legal matters to go ahead, and has seen ordinary people change the law. She’s been awarded the Financial Times Legal Innovator of the Year, Legal Week’s Innovator of the Year, The Legal 500 Outstanding Achievement Award, and a «Future Shaper» by Marie Claire

Women in Tech Start Up Award

Narisa Chauvidul-Aw
CEO and Founder@ KogoPay
Thailand
Narisa found KogoPAY in the mobile payment industry that is dominated by most men founders. KogoPay has created a regulatory compliant mobile application to facilitate instant payment both locally and cross-border. The KogoPay wallet app enables instantaneous payments mobile-to-mobile, mobile-to-bank, and QR payments.

Women in Tech Allie Award

Jeanette Cheah
CEO & Co-Founder, The Hacker Exchange
Australia
Jeanette Cheah is the co-founder and CEO of The Hacker Exchange, a tertiary-accredited​ organisation connecting the next generation of leaders to Silicon Valley, Tel Aviv, Singapore and beyond. Through their immersive programs, The Hacker Exchange encourages students to develop global citizenship, entrepreneurship and innovation skills, and to embrace lifelong learning. A firm believer in encouraging women in tech, Jeanette mentors early-stage startups and leads tech diversity programs at Monash University.

Aspiring Teen Award

Brianna Gopaul
Intern @Sanctuary AI
Canada
Brianna is a 16-year-old girl aiming to become a future quantum computing engineer. She is looking towards solving the world’s most difficult problems using uprising technologies like Quantum Computing and AI. She’s a speaker in different panels and enjoys sharing her opinions on being a part of the next generation of females who will be shaping technological development.

Find out more about the event

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Women in Tech in partnership with Le Wagon Coding Bootcamp is happy to organize Building Bridges | Feminine Connection At Work is a safe space where women meet to unite. Where professional women experience pure sisterhood. Where women get introduced to new empowerment tools. Where women speak up to let their voices be heard. Feminine Connection At Work is an event that brings together women from all over Lisbon to set the tone for the next generation of empowered and strong female leaders.

See you on the 4th of July, 2019 in Lisbon at 6:30 pm!

Address: Le Wagon Lisbon Coding Bootcamp
91B Rua do Conde de Redondo
1150-103 Lisboa

AGENDA:

18:30 – 19:00: Welcome

19:00 – 19:20: 1:1 Intimacy Journey to connect on a deeper level and share from a vulnerable place – listening with empathy and speaking from our hearts.

19:20 – 19:40: Opening Circle

19:40-20:20: Sharing Circle around vulnerability & boundary settings at work

Hands on experience around boundary settings at work (building bridges)

20:20 – 20:45: Storytelling by Shannon, Le Wagon Portugal co-founder and director – Coding as one tool for women empowerment.

20:45 – 21:00: Closing Circle

21:00 – 22:00: Networking

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Women in Tech® is happy to announce the opening of the Portugal Chapter. 

Claudia Mendes Silva will be leading this chapter as our Ambassador. This event will bring together women and men who wish to foster diversity in the tech industry around Portugal.

If you wish to make a change, we would love to hear your voice so please join us for our roundtables followed by a cocktail networking session.

We will be very happy to welcome you all for our event in the evening on Friday 8th March 2019 at:
Centro de Informação Urbana de Lisboa – Câmara Municipal de Lisboa
Picoas Plaza
Rua Viriato, 13
Núcleo 6-E,1º
1050-233 Lisbon

Programme

6:00pm : WELCOME

Welcoming speech by AYUMI MOORE AOKI, Founder and CEO Women in Tech.
CLAUDIA MENDES SILVA, Ambassador Women in Tech Portugal Chapter

6:30 – 7:20 pm: DEBATE

How can Social and Technological innovations contribute to achieving Gender equality?

Moderator:
MARTA LEITE CASTRO
Founder & CEO Project N360

Panel of guests:

JOÃO VASCONCELOS
Founder & CEO CONSELHO, Former Secretary of State for Industry

FILIPA LARANGEIRA
Founder & CEO at Newmanity

MARCO COSTA
General Manager EMEA at Talkdesk

RITA HERÉDIA CORDOVIL
Business Development Director at Bizdirect

TIAGO ALVES
Science For You, Vice President, Global Head of Marketing and Digital Business, Country Manager Spain

AYUMI MOORE AOKI
Founder & CEO Women in Tech, Founder & CEO Social Brain

7:20 – 8:15 pm: ROUND TABLES

You may choose to participate in 2 round tables. 20 minutes per round table.

8:15 – 8:25 pm: CLOSING

MARGARIDA MANO
Former Minister of Education and Science,Member of the Portuguese Parliament

8:30 – 9:00 pm: NETWORKING

 

MARIA PEDRO SILVA
Education Program Manager na Beta-i | Building the Innovation Ecosystem
Topic: Education: Preparing for tomorrow.

VANESSA PIRES DE MIRANDA
Co-Founder Pires de Miranda Lawyers
Topic: Technology: The challenge of Law and Lawyers

NIM HAAS
Head of Marketing, Global Processing Services, London.Holmes Report Top 25 Innovator in EMEA 2018
Topic: Build your personal brand to help you grow

Anas Husaria
Product Owner, Siemens
Topic: Jobs of the Future

OZIOMA EGWUONWU
Strategic Planning Expert, Keynote Speaker & Businesses Consultant
Topics: Leading to Transform

RITA OLIVEIRA PELICA
LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® & BUSINESS MODEL YOU certified facilitator.
Topic: Soft Skills in Digital Era

JUNE BOLNEO
Founder WorkRemote, Chapter Lead for Grow Remote
Topic: Women and Remote work.

ALVARO GONZALEZ/ MUNIQUE MARTINS
General Manager / Admission Associate Ironhack
Topic: Bootcamps: unbundling traditional education

RITA GOUVEIA
Account Manager at Landing Jobs
Topic: HR Tech – Challenges in Portugal

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We are thrilled to invite you to a special event designed to challenge you to dive deep into the world of code and spice up your skills!

This event will take place in Lisbon, Portugal on March, 7th, and is open to all young girls in tech or STEM and women who are curious about tech and coding. Men are welcomed as well!” #womenintech

We will be delighted to welcome you all early in the evening on Thursday 7th March 2019 at:
Volkswagen Digital Solutions
Rua do Sol ao Rato, 11
1250 – 261 Lisboa
Portugal

 

 

The ‘Hour of Code™’ is a nationwide initiative by Computer Science Education Week [csedweek.org] and Code.org [code.org] to introduce millions of students to one hour of computer science and computer programming.

Programme

6:30pm : WELCOME

Welcoming speech by AYUMI MOORE AOKI, Founder and CEO Women in Tech

7:00 pm : WELCOME DEBATE

7:30 – 8:30 pm : “Build your App in one hour”

Learn to build an app with Sónia Ferreira

8:30 – 9:15 pm: NETWORKING

 

VERA TIAGO
Developer Advocate and Community Manager at OutSystems
Vera’s mission is about building relationships with the community of OutSystems developers, advocating in dual parts for the product and the developers. As a former Developer and geek by heart when she is not moderating forums, curating content or talking to Dev

FILIPA RODRIGUES
Data Scientist at OutSystems
Filipa is a Data Scientist at OutSystems and the scientific coordinator of the Data Science Programme at Rumos. At OutSystems her goal is to help the company becoming more data-driven, providing insights using data and predictive models. Fillipa has a Master Degree’s in Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering and started her career as a data scientist in 2015.
Besides data, she loves dogs, metal music and chocolate.

ANA SANCHES
People Experience Manager at OutSystems
Ana Sanches is currently leading People Experience at OutSystems, within People Team. She and her team are focused in delivering an awesome employee experience by triggering change and driving people’s engagement to achieve the best business results. She considers herself an early adopter, loving everything that’s tech related and picks Behavioral Design, Happiness at Work and Diversity and Inclusion as three exciting topics of her current practice. She started her career in 2007, after finishing her Management degree at Nova SBE. Her spare time is divided between her baby boy and discovering new restaurants, exploring new countries or just going to a music or street art festival.

SÓNIA FERREIRA
Senior Consultant at OutSystems
Sónia being the sci-fi, gadget-loving girl, She knew that Computer Engineering was the way she wanted to go when it came time to choose a degree. Her degree was done at the Polytechnic of Leiria and there, after attending a chance workshop on OutSystems, she knew that Agile and OutSystems was what she wanted to do in the years to come. Since getting her degree, she has worked mostly in OutSystems development, having dabbled also in Quality Assurance (~2years). In the last 2 years, she has been a part of the Demo Team whose main goal is to develop Proofs of Concept.

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Our Women in Tech international Awards took place in Lisbon, the 7th November 2018.
We rewarded incredible figures in a range of 13 categories:

  • Woman in ArtTech Award: Ksenia Ashrafullina, Invisible City, Portugal
  • Woman in Communications Award: Katrina German, Katrina.German, Canada
  • Woman in EdTech Award: Aisha Bowe, STEMBoard, USA
  • Woman in FashionTech Award: Joanna Hir, 4D, Poland/UK
  • Woman in FinTech Award: Jalak Jobanputra, FuturePerfect Ventures, USA
  • Woman in GreenTech Award: Polina Vasilenko, HelioRec, Russia
  • Woman in HealthTech Award: Tetiana Botsva, Devali, Ukraine
  • Woman in HR Tech: Pip Jamieson, The DotsGlobal, UK
  • Woman in LegalTech Award: Alexandra Isenegger, LinkiLaw, UK
  • Woman in Science Award: Sue Black, Comic Relief, UK
  • Woman in SmartCity Award: Sandra Costa, Bosch, Portugal
  • Best Inclusive Tech Company: Katerina Trajchevska, Adeva, Macedonia
  • Most promising Junior Award: Joana Baptista, Zest, UK

You may discover more about the winners here: THE WINNERS

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