WECode 2022
February 19-20, 2022
Building on our virtual experience at WECode 2021, WECode 2022 focused on creating the most engaging & empowering conference experience for attendees. WECode 2022 was hosted on the platform Hopin, allowing attendees to “hop” between more than 25 virtual events. With over 1000 attendees, WECode 2022 was one of WECode’s largest conferences ever, occurring after a highly successful high-school conference held a few months prior.
After WECode 2022, 89% of attendees said they are very excited to explore a career in tech and engineering. A major goal of WECode 2022 is to empower attendees to bring their full selves into any room that they enter. An attendee described a lesson WECode 2022 focused on teaching beautifully — “to go out there confidently and keep your opinion without hesitating.”
We are proud to share a handful of WECode 2022’s events publically and freely on our Youtube channel. Watch the highlights today at the following link: WECode 2022 Playlist.
Impact by Numbers
1000+ attendees
19+ countries represented
97% of attendees would recommend WECode to a friend
Speaker Highlight
A few of the phenomenal speakers of WECode 2022
Asha Keddy
Vice President and General Manager, Intel
A.J. Brush
Partner Group Manager, Microsoft
Tulsee Doshi
Head of Product - Responsible AI & ML Fairness, Google
Conference Schedule of Events
Saturday, February 19th
Opening Ceremony
Presented by Melody Vang & Lauren Wattendorf, WECode Board
Healthcare Tech Panel
From developing groundbreaking COVID-19 testing pipelines to leading nationwide projects aimed towards integrating artificial intelligence into traditional healthcare infrastructure, our panelists are working on new developments in the healthcare tech space. Join us in learning about their work and how they envision the future of the intersection of healthcare and technology.
Featuring Maryellen Giger, Marianie Simeon, Saee Paliwal, and Pulkit Singh
My Career's Trajectory: A Tale of Purpose, Passion and Persistence
Join Susan as she talks about her career trajectory from a small liberal arts college to a technical fellow at Microsoft and director of research labs in New England, New York City and Montreal. There have been many twists and turns along the way, but three guiding principles have been constant - being purposeful in choices and being passionate and persistent in pursuing them.
Presented by Susan Dumais, Technical Fellow and Director of the Microsoft Research Labs
Hudson River Trading Resume Review Workshop
Join resume reviewers at Hudson River Trading during these 1:1 sessions to learn tips and best practices when creating a professional resume for internship and full-time job opportunities.
IMC Women in Focus
You’ll get to hear from our talented female Engineers & traders as they share insight into our unique culture and what makes us stand apart.
Featuring Karen Chen, Anne Olmstead, Xinchun Hu
An unusual path to leveraging machine learning in medicine
Alix will go through her education and career journey to using data science and machine learning for medical applications.
Presented by Alix Lacoste, AI Research Program Director at Invitae
Transformation: Growing New Technologies and Your Own Career
Join us for a fireside chat with Asha Keddy, CVP at Intel, to hear about her career journey and the insights she has regarding the development of next-generation technologies and the importance of making this development sustainable, inclusive, and focused on broader social good.
Presented by Asha Keddy, CVP at Intel
Career Paths Panel
Come learn about how these speakers navigated the tech industries and found careers in groundbreaking areas such as crypto, SWE, and PM.
Featuring Sumayyah Ahmed, Nanxi Liu, and Fatima Taj
Mentors and Sponsors: What's the Difference?
Heard that you should have a mentor but not sure why? Unclear what the difference is between a mentor and a sponsor? A.J. will share answers to these questions and how she's benefited from both mentors and sponsors during her career, along with practical tips for building a great set of mentors and sponsors for yourself.
Presented by A.J. Brush, Partner Group Manager at Microsoft
Bloomberg Dare to Lead in Stressful Tech Situations
You broke Prod. Now what? There's a lot of advice about preventing mistakes, but not about managing failure when it inevitably happens. We curated the top advice from veteran senior managers in the tech industry. From managing up to managing down, this presentation will cover battle-proven tactics for prevention, analysis, management, and recovery from both technical and professional failures.
Presented by Cindy Juarez & Jenny Juarez
Bloomberg Coffee Chat
Drop in 5-7 minute coffee chats with Bloomberg Software Engineers in breakout rooms. Students are encouraged to drop in to ask questions about Bloomberg, our culture and career opportunities as well as general career advice.
Hudson River Trading Social: Yoga
Take a break with Hudson River Trading (HRT) and destress with a yoga session led by our friend and instructor, Brittni Genovese. All experience levels are welcome!
WiCS Board Resume Workshop
Join Vicki Xu, president of Harvard Women in Computer Science, for a resume workshop! Come for some general tips or for a review of your resume.
Venture and Startup Panel
Come learn more about how our amazing panelists are applying their computational skills and technology prowess in the start-up and venture capital spaces, and what distinguishes them.
Featuring Brittany Davis & more
From MFA to VPE: Following Your Own Path
Join us for a fireside chat with Arquay Harris, VP of Engineering at Webflow, to hear about her non-traditional journey into Tech. Learn about how her unconventional background frames her unique perspectives on inclusivity and leadership.
Presented by Arquay Harris, Vice President of Engineering at Webflow
SIG Brainteaser Battle
Work with a team to answer as many brainteasers and puzzles as you can in a timed competition to win a prize! Come with your own team of 4, or come on your own and we will assign you to a team.
Intelligent Assistive Agents and Robust Robot Learning
We would like for robots to be able to adaptively help people in their day-to-day lives, but the state-of-the-art in robot learning is typically either under-informed about the needs and abilities of actual users or is designed and tested in highly-controlled environments and interactions that fail to reflect real-world noise and complexity. In our work, we focus on identifying the real-world situations where current human-robot interaction (HRI) and robot learning algorithms fail, and developing new methods that enable robots to robustly learn to assist non-expert teachers under real-world noise and complexity. This includes using human-centered design to develop more realistic simulated teachers for early algorithm development, incorporating both teacher and environmental reward into state-of-the-art deep reinforcement learning algorithms, finding new ways to model and take advantage of rich-but-noisy human feedback, and designing novel models that enable robot-robot collaboration to improve detection of human attention. Finally, we seek to break down the artificial disciplinary divide between service robotics for non-disabled users and assistive robotics for users with disabilities, and ensure that our robots treat all users as valued partners who are integrated into the social and physical environments in which they live their lives.
Presented by Elaine Short, Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor at Tufts
Jackbox Game Patently Stupid with Tech Fellows
For the past few months, our Tech Fellow Program has been a leading force in advertising and sharing the Undergraduate Conference in your communities! We also had 8 undergraduate students who acted as Lead Fellows, leading committee events to build out the WECode Community! In this social, join our Lead Fellows as you all play Patently Stupid, a funny invention-based Jackbox game. Come have fun, meet other attendees, and show of your problem-solving and creativity through serious or not-so-serious solutions and inventions to some funny everyday problems in life! If you want to learn more about the game, you can watch the following video (we will also go through it at the beginning of the social): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiK05G-qobY.
Amplifying Unheard Voices in Product Design
Join Morgan as she walks through her transition into UX and how she builds inclusive technology through AI and beyond.
Presented by Morgan Ramsey, UX Researcher at Compass
Human/Tech Interactions Panel
From human-in-the-loop machine learning to a digital archive of low-tech prosthetics, our panelists are working on new developments in the technology industry. Join us in learning about their work and how they envision the future of human interaction with technology.
Featuring Lauren Bedal (Senior Interaction Designer & Choreographer, Google ATAP), Dariane Hunt (Design Director of Artificial Intelligence at Bank of America), Anwaya Aras (Engineering Manager at Uber), and Archie Agrawal (Product Lead, Amazon)
A Seat at the Table
Erica will discuss her winding journey in tech–from academia, to startups to emerging tech and now Google, how finding and building communities helped make her career more rewarding and details about her current work: at Google, in the community and as an investor.
Presented by Erica Stanley, VP of Engineering at Google Play
Building for Equity
What does it mean to build an inclusive product, and what does it mean to be an equitable one? Join us to hear from Tulsee, a product manager at Google that has led over two dozen critical AI-related product launches, as she explores how we can understand and improve fairness and inclusivity in algorithms…and how we build towards long-term goals of equity
Presented by Tulsee Doshi, Google Head of Product - Responsible AI & ML Fairness
WECode Closing Ceremony
Presented by Melody Vang & Lauren Wattendorf, WECode Board
Sunday, February 20th
WECode Career Fair
Join various companies including Google and Bloomberg for career opportunities! Company representatives will be at each booth linked in the spreadsheet to answer your questions!
Sponsors
A huge thank you to our wonderful sponsors for making WECode 2022 possible and accessible.
WECode 2022 Board
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Victoria Ono (Director)
Emily Qiu (Director)
Rachna Gupta
Eva Tuecke
Kaitlyn Zhou
Kelsey Chen
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Iris Yan (Director)
Katherine McPhie (Director)
Hannah Zhou
Shirley Zhu
Krisha Patel
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Nadine Lee (Director)
Alyssa Kim (Director)
Kelly Ding
Kamryn Ohly
Rhea Acharya
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Alice Chen (Director)
Helena Jiang (Director)
Sierra Frisbee
Cara Yu
Sarah Lao
