Gender Equity Tech WR

Join us for the full package! Inspiring conversation, community-building, and a delicious dinner!

Dinner party

Join us for an evening of inspiring conversation and community-building. Bring your own dinner and enjoy beverages provided.

BYO dinner

Bring along your child age 1 or older for their own mini GET together! They'll spend time in a play space set up near the event space and supervised by our childminder. 

Pre-registration for childminding closes the Friday before the event.

Childminding

If the event sells out, sign up to our waitlist to get first dibs if extra tickets become available.

Waitlist

Join us for our May event! GET&nbsp;together on May 22nd for dinner and networking at the Skywatch office in downtown Kitchener.GET inspired&nbsp;by our speaker, Joan Ngatia (she/her).GET connected&nbsp;with fellow attendees through open networking following the talk.&nbsp; A Coffee with My Younger Self - Innovation, Growth &amp; Advocating for Your Evolving Self<div fr-original-style="width:100%;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit;" id="isPasted" style="width:100%;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit;">If you could sit down for coffee with your younger self, what would you say? Joan will explore the intersection of innovation, personal growth, and self-advocacy&mdash;examining how both technology and our evolving sense of self shape the way we navigate work, health, and identity. Through reflections on lessons learned and the advancements empowering women+ today, she&rsquo;ll share her experiences and insights on how we can advocate for ourselves at every stage of our journey.</div> <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1745330233/wysiwyg/csdy7n0v2qvtbofww2sg.jpg" style="width: 317px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto 5px 0px; text-align: left; position: relative; max-width: 100%; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; box-sizing: inherit;" fr-original-style="width: 317px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto 5px 0px; text-align: left;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"> Meet our Speaker!&nbsp;Joan is a Technical Team Lead at Skywatch Space Applications, with an unconventional path into the industry. Having once envisioned careers in teaching, engineering, and journalism, she studied Geospatial Science for her undergraduate degree but transitioned into software development on a whim&mdash;only to find that her current role beautifully blends all her early interests. She mentors junior developers, builds innovative solutions, and tells stories&mdash;whether in project meetings or to her child. Originally from a little&mdash;but not so little&mdash;city in Kenya, Joan is passionate about the progress women have made in owning their choices. She draws inspiration from both traditional and modern experiences of womanhood, exploring the ways they shape identity, independence, and empowerment. Agenda5:30pm:&nbsp;Doors open. Join us at the Skywatch event space on the 3rd floor. Dinner is available as you arrive. Childminding is available by request.6:00pm: Welcome messages from GET and our sponsor Skywatch.6:15pm: Speaker presentation.7:15pm: Networking time!&nbsp;8:00pm: Childminding closed. Please pick up your kids! <strong fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700;color:rgb(128, 2, 255);font-family:Roboto;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700;color:rgb(128, 2, 255);font-family:Roboto;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;">Childminding is available by advance registration for this event!Children 1 and older can have their own GET together in the play area of our event space. You must remain in the building and available to respond if the childminder contacts you. About our sponsorSkywatch is on a mission to democratize remote-sensing data through a simple user experience. We created SkyWatch to empower our customers to use geospatial data to solve their most critical business challenges. We believe that the best way to understand our planet is to look at it from space. Geospatial data provides the insights we need to solve some of the world&rsquo;s most challenging problems. But anyone who had never used satellite data before was going to struggle. We realized the real opportunity in remote sensing was making this data easily accessible and affordable to all. Our goal is to make this powerful data accessible so we can make the planet a better place.

Join us for our May event! GET together on May 22nd for dinner and networking at the Skywatch office in downtown Kitchener.GET inspired by our speaker, Joan Ngatia (she/her).GET connected with fellow attendees through open networking following the talk.  A Coffee with My Younger Self - Innovation, Growth &amp; Advocating for Your Evolving Self<div>If you could sit down for coffee with your younger self, what would you say? Joan will explore the intersection of innovation, personal growth, and self-advocacy—examining how both technology and our evolving sense of self shape the way we navigate work, health, and identity. Through reflections on lessons learned and the advancements empowering women+ today, she’ll share her experiences and insights on how we can advocate for ourselves at every stage of our journey.</div> <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1745330233/wysiwyg/csdy7n0v2qvtbofww2sg.jpg" style="width:317px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto 5px 0px;text-align:left;position:relative;cursor:pointer;padding:0px 1px;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%" /> Meet our Speaker! Joan is a Technical Team Lead at Skywatch Space Applications, with an unconventional path into the industry. Having once envisioned careers in teaching, engineering, and journalism, she studied Geospatial Science for her undergraduate degree but transitioned into software development on a whim—only to find that her current role beautifully blends all her early interests. She mentors junior developers, builds innovative solutions, and tells stories—whether in project meetings or to her child. Originally from a little—but not so little—city in Kenya, Joan is passionate about the progress women have made in owning their choices. She draws inspiration from both traditional and modern experiences of womanhood, exploring the ways they shape identity, independence, and empowerment. Agenda5:30pm: Doors open. Join us at the Skywatch event space on the 3rd floor. Dinner is available as you arrive. Childminding is available by request.6:00pm: Welcome messages from GET and our sponsor Skywatch.6:15pm: Speaker presentation.7:15pm: Networking time! 8:00pm: Childminding closed. Please pick up your kids! Childminding is available by advance registration for this event!Children 1 and older can have their own GET together in the play area of our event space. You must remain in the building and available to respond if the childminder contacts you. About our sponsorSkywatch is on a mission to democratize remote-sensing data through a simple user experience. We created SkyWatch to empower our customers to use geospatial data to solve their most critical business challenges. We believe that the best way to understand our planet is to look at it from space. Geospatial data provides the insights we need to solve some of the world’s most challenging problems. But anyone who had never used satellite data before was going to struggle. We realized the real opportunity in remote sensing was making this data easily accessible and affordable to all. Our goal is to make this powerful data accessible so we can make the planet a better place.

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GET together: A Coffee with My Younger Self - Innovation, Growth & Advocating for Your Evolving Self

8 Queen St N Unit 3

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BYO dinner

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Childminding

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