WWCode Connect Asia 2019

Women Who Code - CONNECT 2019 was held on August 31,2019 at the Lifelong Learning Institute in Singapore.

This event was sponsored by some of the largest names in tech: JPMorgan, StackOverflow, Google, facebook and many more.

This was participated by  WWCode Singapore, WWCode Kuala Lumpur, WWCode Tokyo, WWCode Seoul, WWCode Manila, WWCode Taipei, WWCode Delhi, WWCode Hyderabad, WWCode Beijing, WWCode Mumbai, WWCode Bangalore, WWCode Chennai, WWCode Shanghai, and WWCode Melbourne.

The event was opened by Amanda Hill-Attkisson, the Program Innovation Director of WWCode, who shared the Global Keynote. She introduced WWCode and its vision, networks, highlights, and upcoming events.

Women Who Code is a non-profit organisation founded in Los Angeles with a special set of programs curated for engineers to build on the careers they want. 
They also have coding resources that you could look into and helps women to have a community to support them, especially in the tech world. 


The next keynote was about Community, which was presented by Chee Yim Goh, WWCode Director in Kuala Lumpur.

She asks which among all three reciprocity types will succeed.
This was from the book Give and Take by Adam Grant.
All of these 3 - Givers, takers, and matchers all can— and do— achieve success. But there’s something distinctive that happens when givers succeed: it spreads and cascades. Givers succeed in a way that creates a ripple effect, enhancing the success of people around them.

After the keynotes, we had breakfast and some personal networking. We were roaming around the booth, taking pictures and meeting new friends in the community. After breakfast, we attended some technical workshops and training for the whole day.

• Cybersecurity by Magda Lilia Chelly

Addresses the importance of secure coding practices and the overall misconceptions of developers about cyber security and crucial concepts.
People, Process and Technology  - 3 pillars of cyber defence strategies
Security is everyone’s responsibility.

• Cloud Run: From Code to Serverless with Containers presented by Thirumalai Aiyalu, a Cloud Solutions Engineer from Google Cloud.

Serverless means that you build your application with no Infrastructure Management and you only pay for your usage.
Containers are awesome but we need to make sure that we solve problems like scaling, scheduling, updates, service discovery, monitoring, health-checks, and orchestration. which can be delivered by using a platform like Kubernetes.

• Uncovering Project Amber in Java by Mala Gupta

Project Amber is transforming Java’s basic language constructs and introducing features to enhance productivity and coding experience. This session covers how these additions and modifications impact the way to read or write code.
She also discussed the new features in Java 13.
And Java 13 was released last 17 September 2019.

The conference ended with a Panel interview with Daphne Choong, CTO of Unixus Solutions, and Choy Peng Wu, CTO of GIC Pte Ltd. They were interviewed by Yue Lin Choong, Director of WWCode Singapore.

They shared about their journey from when they were first starting up to where they were now. Their advice inspired me in so many ways and I feel empowered to apply this to both my professional and personal life.


Take-aways!
I’m really happy to be able to attend this kind of event. Thank you Home Credit. And...
Reflecting on my experience and thoughts after this event, I realized that the best part about connecting with other people is the exchange of knowledge And Empowering each other.