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...

NSBM DevOps Community is where I found my passion towards event organizing when I helped in organizing events as a volunteer and I joined to lead NSBM DevOps Community events for the year 2015 thanks to one of my colleagues ( Ravindu Pasan ).  The DevOps community was created by a group of computing students from National School of Business Management (NSBM) to sharpen the programming skills of the NSBM students to the level required by the industry’s leading software companies. You can find more about NSBM DevOps Community from here . I was a co-lead organizer for 7 events by NSBM DevOps Community and all of those events were a great experience for my life in many ways where I learnt many different things other than organizing workshops/ seminars to help students ( How to deal with people with different attitudes, How to make connections with people, How to balance volunteering with education, Email etiquettes and public speaking...etc).  The first ever session I co-...