Screening of CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap
Event Information
Description
Join us and our partners for a special screening of CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap!
Agenda
6:00-6:45 Expo: Demos/Booths with Partners
7:00-7:50 Screening
8:00-8:45 Panel
8:45-9:00 Next Steps
Tech jobs are growing three times faster than our colleges are producing computer science graduates. By 2020, there will be one million unfilled software engineering jobs in the USA. Through compelling interviews, artistic animation and clever flashpoints in popular culture, CODE documentary examines the reasons why more girls and people of color are not seeking opportunities in computer science and explores how cultural mindsets, stereotypes, educational hurdles, and sexism all play roles in this national crisis. Expert voices from the worlds of tech, psychology, science, and education are intercut with inspiring stories of women who are engaged in the fight to challenge complacency in the tech industry and have their voices heard. CODE aims to inspire change in mindsets, in the educational system, in startup culture and in the way women see themselves in the field of coding.
View the trailer at http://www.codedoc.co/about/
Partners:
ATX Web Film Series
Austin Girl Geek Dinners
AWE: Austin Women in Engineering
Feminist Hack ATX
NumFOCUS
The Iron Yard
Women Who Code
Panel discussion featuring the following women in tech:
Lydia Guarino, Product Engineer at data.world
Edria Fleming, Founder of Geek-e-Girl Designs; Founder of Austin Girl Geek Dinners
Dee Kapila, Manager & Functional Architect at Visa
Holly Gibson, Developer at Praxent, Executive Director of Austin Women Who Code
Quynh Pham, Director of QA at Mutual Mobile
Olivia Gann, Mechanical Engineer at Mixer Designer Group, Founder of AWE: Austin Women in Engineering
Gina Helfrich, Communications Director and Program Manager for Diversity & Inclusion, NumFOCUS, Founder of FeministHackATX