Mrs Robinson

CEO - BARKBOOK

Bay Area

Blacks in Tech 

Increasing the representation of African Americans and Blacks in the Tech Community


July 28th, 2015

Pinterest HQ 


580 7th St, San Francisco, CA 94103

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About

Clear your calendar - It's going down! Bay Area Blacks in Tech is hosting our second meetup on Tuesday July 28th, and you're invited to take part in the festivities.

 

Pinterest HQ is our meeting spot for a night of tech talks, fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

"

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan and not quite enough time.

- Leonard Bernstein

Speakers


Aston Motes

Developer of Dropbox.com website, 

Entrepreneur


 

Aston Motes was the first engineer at Dropbox, where he built the Dropbox.com website as well as the API thousands of developers use today. Since leaving

Dropbox, he’s shifted focus to the music industry and has helped build a number of music-related technology projects, most notably Merchbar, a recently-released app where you can buy amazing merch from your favorite artists any time, any place.


Nancy Douyon

UX Researcher, Google Speaker, Global Innovator, Storyteller


 Nancy Douyon is a User Experience Research Program Manager at Google. She has a special focus on remote user research methods and emerging markets. Her daily quest is to increase the usability of products, applications, complex systems and websites across different cultural ideals and cultural practices. Prior to Google, Nancy worked at IBM Interactive Research, Accenture Experience Agency, and Intel's Mobility Group.  She was instrumental in creating a User Experience Lifecycle approach to help better understand how non-US markets are using US products in their everyday lives. 

Grant Oladipo

Engineer, Entrepreneur, Mobile Leader at Medium

 

 

Grant is an MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science grad who started his career as an engineer in the early Zipcar days. He moved to D.C. to build mobile applications and infrastructure for the VA allowing doctors to provide better patient care. Grant continued applying his passion for mobile products while running a mobile consultancy and founding two startups including Together. He is now Mobile Engineering Lead at Medium helping to build a network of ideas that build off each other.

AGENDA


6:00 PM

Role call! Check-in, grab a drink and prepare for what's next

(please bring a photo I.D. for check-in)

6:30 PM

Tech Talks and Q&A

7:30 PM

Mingling and Networking Hour

9:00 PM

Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes, and I'm afraid it's time again to say, well... goodbye.

Stay Connected

Our Mission  is to develop a Bay Area community of African American and Black Engineers. Keep in touch with us by joining our Facebook Group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/bayareablacksintech

 

#Bayareablacksintech


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