Girls in Tech D+D Day

On 26^th May, Saturday, four girls from DFS, Verbena, Kiki, Xiu Mei and Crystal, went for Google’s D+D Day. It is in collaboration with Girls in Tech and Thought Works. It started from 9am with the opening speech by Girls in Tech Singapore. The speaker talked about 4 Es, engage, empower, educate and energize. To engage, empower, educate and energize like-minded, professional, intelligent and influential women in technology. That was in the context of Girls in Tech. In the context of DFS, it is to engage people in IT security and forensic to empower them with the skills in it by educating them with the required knowledge and skills. Hence it will energize like-minded, professional, intelligent and influential people in Digital Forensics.

The second speaker is by Thought Works Design Department. The most impressionable thing I remember from the second speaker is the democratization of design. How everyone should be a part of designing something so to meet the needs of the consumer better.

Then the third speaker is from Google. He talked about 6 things of Google. Google App Engine, Monetarism, Android, Google Maps, Google + and Google Chrome. It was the first time we felt that we know so much about Google. He also showed us an interesting video of Project Glass which they have already been starting to test it.

Last but not least, the last speaker of the day is from Thought Works Development Department. From him, we learnt a lot of important people in the history of IT such as Ada Lovelace, the first programmer in history and etc.

Then it was Tai Chi Session which was quite fun stretching after sitting for a few hours listening to the speeches. Then it was lunch and after lunch we get to choose which workshop we want to attend. There were 1 design and 3 development workshops. We chose to go for the design workshop and one thing we learnt in the design workshop is design can be done by just simple shapes.

Finally, it was Q&A session with the panel of speakers. From those questions, we learnt a lot about things that we would learn in school so overall it was a great experience there.

Girls in tech in Singapore