Equality in Tech

When:
Wednesday, Mar 08, 2017 6:00p -
9:00p

Where:
EF Education First
Two Education Circle
Cambridge, MA 02141

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Admission:
$20

Categories:
Business, Food, Innovation, Lectures & Conferences, Social Good, Tech

Event website:
http://boston.aiga.org/event/international-womens-day-equality-in-tech/

Around the world, International Women’s Day acts as an important catalyst and vehicle for driving greater change for women and moving closer to gender parity. For IWD 2017, they are asking people to #BeBoldForChange, to help forge a better working world.


This event is one of many coordinated screenings happening nationally for International Women’s Day. The screening, a special premiere Fix My App episode featuring a female entrepreneur, will be followed by a panel discussion with local women leaders in the Tech and Design industries. Network, learn about their about their stories, and share your actions for change.


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Agenda:
Doors Open & Networking Reception:
6 - 6:30 PM


Screening:
6:30 - 7 PM


Panel Discussion:
7 PM


Speakers:


Chiranit Prateepasen


Chiranit Prateepasen, Event MC
Design & Innovation Lead at Pegasystems and President at AIGA Boston


Chiranit Prateepasen is a design & innovation lead at Pegasystems focused on exploring new business opportunities from a User-Centered Research and Design perspective. Previously, she worked as a design consultant at Continuum developing brands, services and user experience for clients such as Audi, BBVA, Philips, Sprint, and UnitedHealth Group. She has taught and given lectures on User Experience and Design Thinking at Lesley University and Bentley College, among others. Chiranit strives to give users easy access to complex information and powerful tools.


Amy Chenault


Amy Chenault, Panelist
Design Lead, Watson for Patient Safety at IBM Watson Health


Amy uses design, research, & passion to help improve the quality of everyday life. Currently, she is the Design Lead for Watson for Patient Safety at IBM Watson Health, where she and her team are working to improve the experience of pharmacovigilance to ensure patient safety. In some of her past design lives, she’s had the opportunity to collaborate with amazing teams to improve radiologist workflows; democratize financial information, and empower individuals through the power of financial literacy (Society of Grownups); give local communities a voice while maintaining a newspaper’s journalistic integrity (Neighborhood Square); find new and innovative ways to get kids moving in the classroom (Pearson); build an entirely new community platform for one of the most robust communities on the Internet (The Huffington Post/AOL). Work she has contributed to has garnered the 2011 Italian national prize for innovation, and a 2014 CODiE nomination for Best Professional Learning Solution for Education.


Astrid Chow


Astrid Chow, Panelist
Senior UX Designer & Researcher - Product Design Lead at IBM Watson Health and Co-Organizer at Action Design, Boston


Astrid Chow is a Senior UX Product Designer and Strategist who leads multidisciplinary teams with her experience in user experience design, information architecture, usability testing and research, content strategy and user-advocacy. With a background in graphic, interactive, and branding design, Astrid brings 10+ years of experience; first, in the agency world as a UX Designer and Graphic Designer for such clients as LEGO, Healthways, Adidas, PROJECT(RED) and Cadillac, to leading internal product teams developing analytic components for Blackboard and native mobile applications for Specialty Pharmacy at CVS Health. In the past year, Astrid has brought her passion for UX Product Design and Research to IBM Watson Health where she leads design teams working on complex health applications that utilize IBM's Watson's cognitive computing technology on such products as Watson for Genomics, and most recently, developing best practices around consumer health and wellness products to leverage behavior change and service design approaches.


Jamie Lee Connor


Jamie Lee Connor, Panelist
User Experience Designer at Epsilon and Leadership Committee Member & Teacher at Girl Develop It, Boston


Jamie works as a Senior UX Designer on the Product Management team at Epsilon, a global leader in data-driven marketing. She spends her time creating, testing and iterating on prototypes with the goal of building intuitive and easy to use products. Jamie has a background in front-end development and visual design, and she enjoys continuously learning and sharing her passion for design with others.


Kate Jacquet


Kate Jacquet, Panelist
User Experience Manager at The Studio at EF Tours


Kate leads the User Experience team in the Studio at EF tours, overseeing research and design initiatives. She has a background in Psychology and holds her MS in Human Factors and Information Design from Bentley University. She’s spent the past 8+ years learning about people and designing digital solutions to help make their lives a bit easier.

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