Career Nav: The role of public speaking in career growth is discussed by a panel of Women Who Code Leadership Fellows including Sierra OBryan, Senior Software Engineer at Twitter, Zarreen Reza, AI Research Scientist at Volta Charging, Jiaqi Liu, Senior Engineering Manager at GitHub, and Anjali Menon, Solutions Consultant at AsiaPac. Talks Tech: Object Oriented Programming: An Introduction. OOP concepts allow breaking the program into bite-sized problems that are easy to solve. The approach promises greater programmer productivity! You can achieve a better quality of software and lesser maintenance cost! Systems designed by these concepts are straightforward to upgrade from small to large scale. Given by Jamica Ortiz, Engineering Manager at Thought Machine. Conversations: Grecia Castaldi, Program Manager, Digital Community at Women Who Code interviews Kathryn Ross, Partner, Managing Director, and Black Founders Development Program Lead at Accenture. They discuss the company culture at Accenture, what drives Kathryn’s passions, and the positive impact that her work with the Black Founders Development Program has had on the community it serves.