Please note this is a Member's Only event (to buy a ticket, use your Meetup User ID number as your access code which you can find in your Meetup.com profile setting).

For this, the first event in our 2020 series, we're thrilled to bring you an inspiring and entertaining talk from Australia's Women In STEM Ambassador, Lisa Harvey-Smith, followed by an intimate panel Q&A where Lisa will be joined by two accomplished leaders in technology from our local ecosystem.

A charismatic and prolific keynote speaker, Lisa is joining us to share her journey from the ignition of her passion for astronomy as a child, to being the Project Scientist for the $188M Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder telescope at CSIRO and her advisory role to the Australian Space Agency. Lisa's been described as energetic, entertaining, exciting and inspiring when she speaks. Her optimism is infectious and when added to her accomplishments, she is a wonderful role model.

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Our guests are accomplished leaders, women who have carved out impactful careers and they're coming to help fuel your journeys and to reinforce why being a woman in tech is an amazing opportunity to shape and influence our world and seed future generations of ambitious women leading the charge.

As well as hearing from our very special guests, enjoy an uplifting evening of networking over drinks and delicious food with other women working in technology careers in Sydney, from newbies to C-level, from software engineering to product management - find your tribe or even form a cabal! And if you haven't already, maybe join The F Factor's extremely popular mentoring program too.

MEET OUR SPECIAL GUESTS

PROF. LISA HARVEY-SMITH
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Astronomer, Australian Government Women in STEM Ambassador, Professor and advisor to the Australian Space Agency. Author of ‘When Galaxies Collide’, keynote speaker and presenter of ABC television's ‘Stargazing Live’. Lisa uses the world's largest radio telescopes to study the life cycle of stars and develop new world-leading telescopes towards the Square Kilometre Array. Ph.D. in radio astronomy and Masters in Physics with Honours in Astronomy & Astrophysics.
Eureka Prize and CSIRO Chairman's Medal Winner.

KRIS HOWARD
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Kris Howard has over twenty years of experience helping companies build amazing things online - as a software engineer, business analyst and team director. She has worked with and for companies including Channel Nine, CommBank, Optus, Subaru, Canva, YOW! Conferences and Workshops and is currently Solutions Architect Manager at AWS. Kris is a self-professed geek, as well as a speaker, crafter, social media addict and "all-around Hermione".

KATE ANDREWS
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Kate is the consummate leader of leaders - her passion lies in building and developing high-performing, anti-fragile engineering teams with empathy and a growth mindset. She's currently Engineering Lead at Tyro where she is accountable for delivery, people, architecture, and operations for their core payments business.

She has a successful career as a technologist, marketer, entrepreneur, educator and blogger and when not leading teams, can be found as either singer, photographer, sculptor or marriage celebrant!

HOST & MC

Emma Jones
Founder & CEO of Project F, The F Factor and Men Championing Change
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Emma founded social impact business Project F to improve gender balance in technology. Her career in people & talent spans over 25 years across global markets. Originally from London, Emma’s career has seen her live and work in the UK, US and for the last nine years, Australia. Emma’s career has centred on the IT&T sector and since arriving in Sydney in 2011, digital technology.

Emma is driven by purpose and she is an unapologetic, albeit accidental, feminist. She's on a mission to change the world of tech with Project F's gender balance accreditation program. Project F helps companies achieve gender-balanced technology teams.

Emma is also the founder of not-for-profit tech community "Men Championing Change".

100% of profits from ticket sales are donated to Robogals ($15 per ticket. The remaining $1.50 is Humanitix fee which is also donated)

The F Factor will be hosted by the wonderful folks at Zip (https://zip.co/) think Zip Pay and Zip Money! They have a great space, located centrally in Spring St and they'll be laying on drinks and delicious food for the evening.