Did you ever wonder whether women have a different approach to tech? And did you know that the number of female tech founders in Europe is still below 15% with female-only start-ups receiving less than 3% of available venture capital? This is why the Las Tecnologistas #Co-Create Hackday was born.

WHAT?

The #Co-Create Hackday provides a space for women+ to come together to ideate, concept, and hands-on design, analyze and code.

WHO?

This is for you if:

> You are a creative problem-solver with hands-on design, data, or programming skills or a product person with a techy mindset.

> You love to get out of your usual day-to-day work, and enjoy taking a meaningful idea or problem to the next level.

> You’d like to tap into the collective mind of a diverse group of women+ and potentially see the magic happen.

I am a man, can I join?

Absolutely! Las Tecnologistas promotes diversity and inclusion and supporters of this are always welcome.

PROJECTS & IDEAS

For this Co-create Hackday, we will focus on the following:

1. Regime by Lucy-Jane Walsh

A Pinterest-like website for skincare enthusiasts making it easy to group and tailor your skincare regime.

> Challenge 1: how can we move from a manual data collection process to one that is automated, scalable, and reproducible? [web scraping, cloud computing, serverless functions, data cleansing]

> Challenge 2: How can we provide a fast and reliable search of a dataset via keywords and categories? How do we calculate stats on numerical values and provide users the ability to search based on these stats? [search, indexing, querying]

2. Sustainable Clothing

Stage: new product idea, no ownership

A consumer app that allows clothing shoppers to scan an item’s barcode to reveal its composition, origin, and sustainability. [native app, UX, database …]

> This is a great one to ideate and concept on together

3. ImHungry

Stage: new product idea, no ownership

A simple app that geolocates left-over food from restaurants and shops for those in need.

> This is a great one to ideate and concept on together [native app, UX, geo-locator, data optimization…]

WHEN?

9:30 – 10:00 Registration

10:00 – 10:30 Welcome & Energizer

10:30 – 11:00 Projects Intro

11:00 – 13:30 Ideation / Concepting / Programming time

13:30 – 14:45 Lunch Break

14:45 – 15:00 Check-in

15:00 – 17:30 Ideation / Concepting / Programming time

17:30 – 18:00 Presentation & Wrap-up

ORGANIZATION

> Water and ‘brain food’ are offered for free!

> Regarding lunch, you are welcome to use The Social Hub restaurant or explore nearby locations.

> Please bring your own laptop (Wi-Fi access provided).

> Organizer: Manuela Kytir, creative problem-solver, and agile coach, passionate about bringing a diverse group of people together to collaborate and co-create.

CONTACT

You can send an email to lastecnologistas@gmail.com with any further questions. Manuela will give you an answer!