ACS Women April Event - Women Who Code Panel

<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Spend an evening with four inspiring <b>Women Who Code</b>. This Panel will explore their stories, achievements and thoughts about the software industry in Perth.<br> </span></span> <br><img alt="woman coding" src="https://acsau--c.ap1.content.force.com/servlet/servlet.ImageServer?id=0159000000EHDgO&amp;oid=00D90000000o5NE&amp;lastMod=1521449758000"></img><br><br><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><b>Audience:</b> No pre-requisite knowledge required. Questions welcome.</span></span> <br><br><b>OUR PANEL INCLUDES</b><br>  <br><b>Ivy Clark</b> has worked in client- and agency-side digital teams, in the public and private sector for over 20 years. During that time, Ivy contributed to project deliveries in various capacities, with a mix of business, creative and technical competencies.<br><br>Ivy believes that helping organisations make sense of digital, ultimately benefits everyone, because embracing digital is key to good service design.<br><br>As an active member in the IT and web community in Perth, you will find Ivy volunteering at events and co-hosting meetups from time to time. She co-sponsors the Accessibility Meetup group.<br> <br><b><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Joanne Church</span></span></b><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> is a software development team lead and system analyst for Perth-based start-up iCetana. She leads a team of analysts, developers and testers to develop intelligent video-based security systems that complement the CCTV systems used by their clients.</span></span> <br>  <br><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">For over 18 years Joanne, has been a developer and analyst in Perth. Having worked for large companies, small companies and contracted to government agencies, Joanne has seen the evolution of her field from a male-dominated individualistic environment to a gender-balanced user-centered and collaborative environment. Joanne was recently awarded a scholarship to study her MBA at Curtin University as part of their Women in MBA program. </span></span> <br>  <br><b><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Louise Capper</span></span></b><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> is a Software Verification &amp; Validation (V&amp;V) Manager at Thales Australia, with more than 25 years of experience in computer science education, software &amp; hardware development and test. She has specialised in independent V&amp;V of large and complex software systems for more than 15 years.</span></span> <br>  <br><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Louise has been involved in software development and V&amp;V in a wide variety of domains from manufacturing, finance, education, system administration, transport, fare collection, resources and defence and worked on projects in Hong Kong, Germany, Singapore and throughout Australia. </span></span> <br>  <br><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Louise also runs the highly successful TestWest conference.</span></span> <br> <br><b><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Marjan Zia </span></span></b><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">is a passionate software developer who feels lucky to work in the finance industry. Her main hobby is to build applications that bring benefits to the end users. She is a very customer focused person who puts the customers at the heart of her development cycle. Her main career goal is to become a tech-lead to aid development teams with designing software packages.</span></span> <br>  <br><b><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">MC:</span></span> <br> </b><br><b><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Rebecca Waters </span></span></b><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">is a software engineer and project manager with over 10 years of experience. She feeds off the enthusiasm of others and contributes widely to the Perth software industry. Rebecca is a mentor in and outside of her company to junior developers and other professionals, an ex-officio board member of the Australian Industry and Defence Network of WA, and committee member of the Australian Computer Society</span></span> <span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">—</span></span> <span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Women chapter.</span></span> <br>