Pathways to Tech by Headstarter 🎉
👋 Welcome to Pathways to Tech
Welcome to the NEW installment of Pathways to Tech, brought to you by Headstarter! This week, we have another amazing slate of speakers!
💻 Meet the Speakers
🔥 Waleed Asif
He took building standout projects to solve problems to the next level through healthcare innovation as a cofounder of NexHealth where he now leads as CTO. Waleed left his CompSci degree from CUNY City College to build and grow a billion dollar company. He was Forbes 30 under 30, 2017.
🔥 Larissa Ngyuen
Larissa is an extraordinary example of how to use code to make a social impact. Larissa is an Ex-Capital One Product Manager. She did Computer Science at Yale, 2021. At Yale, Larissa’s research determined hidden biases in governors’ decisions using Python.
🔥 Hana Frluckaj
Hana is doing her PhD research in open source ML software at UT Austin. She previously interned in Deutsche Bank. Hana did Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon, 2020. Hana will share her motivations for research instead of wall street. BTHS ’16
🚀 Faizan Ahmed
Faizan is the Co-Founder and Head of ML of Headstarter! He worked at Bloomberg and Amazon, and cited by 25 people globally for his ML Research!
🚀 Yasin Ehsan
Yasin is the CEO and Co-Founder of Headstarter! He previously worked at Capital One in the Chatbot Team and won 13 hackathons!
⌛️ Timeline
👉 OPENING CEREMONY 6:00 PM - 6:10 PM
👉 SPEAKERS 6:10 PM - 7:25 PM
Larissa, Former PM Capital One, Yale 6:10 PM - 6:35 PM
Jack, Ex-Google SWE, Stonks CTO($19M) 6:35 PM - 7:00 PM
Hana, PhD in Open Source, CMU UG 7:00 PM - 7:25 PM
👉 GROUP PIC + BREAK 7:25 PM - 7:30 PM
👉 BYOD (Bring your own Demo) 7:30 PM - 7:55 PM
👉 KEYNOTE: Waleed - How I built a Billion Dollar Company 7:55 PM - 8:30 PM
👉 Q&A with Headstarter! 8:30 PM - 8:45 PM
👉 CLOSING CEREMONY 8:45 PM - 9:00 PM
💻 BYOD (Bring your own Demo)
Have a cool project that you you're working on and looking for fellow collaborators? Maybe you have a cool idea and have a basic demo? In the BYOD portion, you'll get to directly show us a demo of your project and have many people see what you're working on! Submit your project in this google form to demo to 100 people live.
A GitHub link to your project
A video or gif of a small demo!
Once sent, we'll message you with further details so we can have you present during BYOD!
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