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Bay Area Girl Geek Dinners » Girl Geek Dinners http://www.bayareagirlgeekdinners.com Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:31:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Girl Geek Dinner #2: Sponsored by Facebook http://www.bayareagirlgeekdinners.com/baggd2-facebook/ http://www.bayareagirlgeekdinners.com/baggd2-facebook/#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:06:43 +0000 admin http://www.bayareagirlgeekdinners.com/?p=12 June 26, 20086:00 pmto9:00 pm

The next Girl Geek Dinner and Dev Garage will be hosted by Facebook on Thursday, June 26th from 6pm to 9pm at Etiquette Lounge in San Francisco. There will be free drinks, appetizers, schwag, dancing, with fun & silly geek-themed photo shoots by professional Zivity photographers! Guests will be treated to a presentation about Facebook Platform, followed by a Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner Panel featuring top female geeks, including a few from Facebook. This event is FULL. See you at a future Girl Geek Dinner!
Facebook Platform Presenters: Julie Tung, Software Engineer, Facebook Julie Zhuo, Product Designer, Platform, Facebook

Featured Panelists: Ruchi Sanghvi, Principal Product Manager, Facebook Julie Zhuo, Product Designer, Platform, Facebook Alina Libova, Founder and Developer, Easter Eggs Holly Liu, User Experience and Co-Founder, Watercooler Annie Chang, Co-Founder, LOLapps Moderator: Sandra Liu Huang, Program Manager, Facebook Introduction: Cyan Banister, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Zivity		Thursday, June 26, 2008 Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm Etiquette Lounge 108 Market Street, San Francisco, CA
Speaker Bios:
Julie Tung is a software engineer on the Platform team at Facebook, where she currently works on the new profile design, including some of the new Platform integration points. In addition, she has worked on the Platform open source efforts along with other backend projects to improve performance for applications and the site. Prior to joining Facebook in 2007, she worked as an engineer on the backend ads targeting systems at Google. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from Stanford University.
Julie Zhuo is a Product Designer at Facebook, where she focuses on Platform integration and user profiles. She has worked on the two main Facebook site redesigns as well as building application integration and developer tools. Julie is also the main artist for the Facebook application (fluff)Friends. She holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in computer science from Stanford University.
Ruchi Sanghvi is the Principal Product Manager at Facebook, where she oversees Facebook Platform and News Feed. She is responsible for the company’s Platform product strategy and new product initiatives. Ruchi was an early engineer at Facebook and is one of the primary developers for News Feed. Prior to Facebook, she was a software engineer in the Real Time Communication Group at Oracle. Ruchi holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in electrical computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
Alina Libova developed a Facebook application called Easter Eggs using Ruby on Rails and sold the application in March 2008 with over 300,000 users. Alina is currently a second year computer science major at UC Berkeley. She enjoys programming, graphic design, hiking, and ice skating in her free time.
Holly Liu is in charge of product design and founding member of Watercooler, a creator of sports and television entertainment applications within Facebook and other social networks for millions of fans. Prior to Watercooler, she was a Lead Designer at AOL in the Community Product Line. Holly holds a Masters from UC Berkeley in Information Management and a B.A. from UCLA in Communications.
Annie Chang is Co-Founder of LOLapps, provider of custom applications spanning pop culture, entertainment, and a variety of special interests for Facebook and other social networking platforms. Prior to LOLapps, Annie was a product manager at BitTorrent and an engineer at Adobe. Annie has a B.S. in EECS from UC Berkeley.
Sandra Liu Huang is a Platform Program Manager at Facebook, where she focuses on new strategic initiatives and programs for developers on Facebook Platform. Prior to Facebook, Sandra worked in product management and product marketing at Google for business products including Google Checkout, AdWords and AdSense. She holds a master’s degree in management science and engineering and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Stanford University.
Cyan Banister is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Zivity, a subscription-based social network and royalty distribution platform that nurtures artistic freedom. Cyan is bringing sexy back to the Silicon Valley, and was the 2000 winner of the Sexiest Geek Alive award. She recently launched a blog with other amazing writers (http://sexiestgeeksalive.com) that celebrates sexy geeks everywhere. The Sexiest Geeks Alive team also produced a Nrrrd Grrrl music video that received nearly 1M views on YouTube and was the 5th most popular music video on Youtube for over a week. Cyan has succeeded in a dizzying array of leadership roles throughout her career, from leading technical operations teams to being the CTO of a non-profit helping women master technology.

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Girl Geek Dinners are kicking off Thursday, January 31st at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA. Join us as our panel and the audience discuss ways to build credibility and reputation in technology and business, from leveraging a personal blog to managing social networks effectively, both online and offline. Event is FREE for all girl geeks, and each girl geek can bring one guy geek. RSVP required.
Featured Speakers: Irene Au, Director of User Experience, Google Rashmi Sinha, CEO, SlideShare Leah Culver, Lead Developer & Co-Founder, Pownce Sumaya Kazi, Entrepreneur & Social Media Manager, Sun Microsystems Katherine Barr (moderator), Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures Opening Speaker from Google: Ellen Spertus, Research Scientist, Google Event Curator: Angie Chang, Co-Founder, Women 2.0		Thursday, January 31, 2008 Time: 6:00pm - 9:30pm Google, Charlie’s Cafe, Building 40 1600 Amphitheatre Pwky, Mountain View, CA
Speaker Bios:
Irene Au is dedicated to raising the strategic value of design and user research within software companies through better methods and practices, processes, leadership, and quality. She is Director of User Experience at Google, where her team is responsible for design and user research for Google’s products worldwide. Prior to Google, she spent eight years at Yahoo! where she was Vice President of User Experience and Design. At Yahoo!, Irene established the interaction design and user research practice, and led product and platform design efforts worldwide. Irene also headed up the Product Practices team which coached teams on Agile development practices and developed product operations programs to help business units deliver on corporate strategy. Irene holds an M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction through the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, birthplace of the first popular graphical Web browser, NCSA Mosaic.
Rashmi Sinha is a Designer and Entrepreneur. She is Co-founder and CEO of SlideShare, a website for document sharing for work and play. Rashmi was doing research in Human Computer Interaction at UC Berkeley, when she decided she preferred working on “real” projects. She started a user experience consultancy called Uzanto, helping companies like eBay, AAA and Blue Shield with the usability of their software. Rashmi blogs about social web at www.rashmisinha.com. For her next career, she wants to write a book about strange things people do on social websites. Rashmi has a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Brown University.
Leah Culver is Co-founder and Lead Developer of Pownce, a social messaging application. Leah created the site and works on all aspects of the website development, including database design, user experience, scaling, and APIs. As a contributor to OAuth and supporter of various social network portability tools, she is considered a leader in open web practices. Leah writes a popular blog about web programming and her experiences in the Bay Area at www.leahculver.com. Leah received her Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota in 2006 and enjoys crossword puzzles and spending time with friends.
Sumaya Kazi is a Social Media Manager in Sun Microsystem’s Global Communications Group. She joined Sun in July of 2005 and has had positions in Executive Communications, Worldwide Operations and International Public Relations. In addition to her full-time position at Sun Microsystems, Sumaya serves as the Executive Director and Founder of www.TheCulturalConnect.com, a media publishing company that distributes weekly e-magazines for young, driven and forward-thinking professionals in over 100 countries. Her entrepreneurial work has won her numerous accolades including recognition by BusinessWeek Magazine as one of America’s Top 10 Entrepreneurs Under 25, CNN as a ‘Young Person Who Rocks’, and by ColorLines Magazine as an ‘Innovator to Watch in 2008′. Sumaya graduated from the University of California-Berkeley in Marketing and Strategic Planning.
Katherine Barr is a member of the investment team at Mohr Davidow Ventures focused on Internet-enabled companies. Prior to MDV, she was a Senior Consultant at Vantage Partners (spin-off of the Harvard Negotiation Project) helping high tech clients such as IBM, Cisco and HP to better negotiate and manage their critical business relationships. Before Vantage, she worked as a Product Development Manager at HSA, an education technology startup in Boston. Katherine teaches a yearly Professional Education Negotiation program for the School of Engineering at Stanford. During her graduate studies at Stanford, she was a research and teaching assistant for the US-Asia Technology Management Center in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering. Katherine received her B.A. from McGill University, and completed M.A. and M.S. core curriculum in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University.
Ellen Spertus is an associate professor of computer science at Mills College and a research scientist at Google. She received her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in computer science from MIT and has worked at Microsoft Research and The University of Washington. Since 1990, she has investigated and advocated around girls’ and women’s underrepresentation in computer science. She has done research in computer architecture, information retrieval, and online communities. In 2001, she was named Sexiest Geek Alive. She and her work have been written about in The New York Times, Wired, and The Weekly World News.

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