Dinukaa's Blog

Hello everyone... here I am going to tell you a bit about my experience at Women Techmakers leads mini-summit APAC which was held at Google Singapore, Google APAC HQ on 10th and 11th March 2017. (From the left to right:  Erica ,  Malypoeur ,  Winni , Nhi , Hannah , Soma ,  Rakhshanda ,  Josan , Naz ,  Rara , me,  Syoko ,  Ngan ) It was one of the best experiences I've ever had in my life. I met these awesome ladies in above picture from different Women Techmakers and Google Developer Group chapters in APAC region.   It was wonderful listening to their stories at which I was inspired at the end  of the day.  First day had a good start with the breakfast where our host of the day, Erica Hanson , Program Manager, Developer Relations at Google took us to the breakfast area from guests lobby. I was late to wake up in the morning hence I missed the shuttle service from Hotel to Google office. When I arrived there, initial info...

Hello everyone.. Here I am going to write about my experience as an organizer, speaker, and a panel moderator at International Women's Day Celebration, Let's Celebrate International Women's Day 2017, by Women Techmakers(WTM) Sri Lanka. You can find more about Women Techmakers from here . Google's Women Techmakers program is to provide visibility, community, and resources for women in technology. There is a global event series at Women Techmakers to Celebrate International Women's Day. This year's theme is 'Telling Our Story'.  Celebrations for non-google venues are hosted by Google Developer Groups/ Women Techmakers Chapters and you can find out more about that from here . We started our event registrations at 8.30 AM on Sunday the March 5th 2017 and we had a set of volunteers to help us throughout the day with event day tasks. The number of total attendees was around 130 and 120 among them were women, the men on the floor were Google Developer Group(G...

Women Techmakers Sri Lanka organized ‘WTM Mapping the World’ on 10th July 2016 from 9.00 am - 1.00 pm for 4 hours with 56 women participants at 99X Technology . This was the third event I involved in organizing as a Women Techmakers lead with other co-leads. The registrations for the event started at 8.30 AM and event was started at 9.00 AM by welcoming the audience and giving a brief introduction on event agenda. ‘Google Mapmaker Community Sri Lanka’ conducted a hands-on mapmaker training session for two hours and there were a considerable amount of contributions to mapmaking when the mapmaking session ended. Some swags were distributed among participants according to the number of contributions they made to mapmaking throughout the session. The  Chief Operating Officer of 99X Technology (Ms.Shehani Senevirathne) did a one-hour session on ‘Women in Information Technology’ and also almost all the girls were inspired by the speech and there were many q...