This quick we will be focusing on how important your HR is to your business. How diversity should affect your hiring strategy and people goals and just how big the impact is on the bottom line & culture for your teams. Join Women in DevOps speaking with Nancy Nemes, Kate Kosten and Ana Gospodinova to talk all things, diversity, inclusion and HR!
Francesca Pollard is the Co-Founder of Women in DevOps and unapologetically passionate about diversity in inclusion in the technology world. Francesca has a wealth of experience hiring for software engineers across Europe over the last 3 years for world-class start-ups, FTSE 100 and everything in between! With that brings intrinsic insight to how to hire diverse teams, and why they are so important!
Kate Kosten currently works as a researcher at the ZHAW and is jointly pursuing a PhD at the University of Fribourg. The main focus of her research is natural language query processing for databases. Before moving back to research, she worked in the innovation team at ABB developing chatbots and Machine Learning solutions for data quality improvement.
Nancy Nemes is a tech trendsetter, a global connector and a hands-on leader with 20 years of global experience in high tech across Europe, USA, Canada and South America. Her passion is in pioneering, implementing and optimizing the impact of mobile, digital, and social high tech aiming at enriching people lives through digital solutions.
Ana Gospodinova has over 15 years of experience mainly focusing on tech recruiting and company performance improvements. She gained her experience in both startup and corporate environments. Ana designed and implemented global tech talent sourcing strategies, long & short term approach to building external talent pipelines of “ready now” talent (strategy, structure, systems & programs), defined goal-setting approach and program efficiency metrics. She worked with businesses on focused initiatives with a world-wide impact. In the past 4 years, Ana is passionate about bridging technology and recruitment, aiming at improving the developers’ job-seeking experience.
