Events 2009
Women in Engineering: Personal Experiences & Working Opportunities in Google Company
Lecture by Petra Popluhárová, Slovak software engineer
When: Wednesday, November 25, from 5:30 PM
Where: American Center, Tržiště 13, Praha 1 – Malá Strana
Slovak software engineer Petra Popluhárová will provide personal insights into the leading-edge U.S. high-tech industry in her lecture "A Woman in Engineering: Personal Experiences & Work Opportunities at Google". Petra will explain Google's programs supporting women and diversity in the industry, as well as a general overview of the opportunities for women in the information technology sectors.
Petra Popluhárová will held the lectures in Ostrava and Brno:
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Monday, November 23, 2:30 PM, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of Technical University Ostrava, Nová Aula, Konferenční sál NA 2, 17. listopadu 15, Ostrava-Poruba
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Tuesday, November 24, 7:00 PM, Brno University of Technology - Faculty of Information Technology, Aula D105, Božetěchova 2, Brno – Královo Pole
In Brno and Prague, another software developer, Lara Aharkava, who studied at the Prague Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, will share stories about her internship at Google’s office in Zurich, Switzerland.
Petra Popluharova has worked as a software engineer at Google’s headquarters in Silicon Valley, California, since 2005. She was hired as the first engineer from “Czecho-Slovakia”. She is member of the G-Mail Front-end Engineering Team and volunteers to promote the computer science field among girls and women – she guides high school students through Googleplex and helps promote the Anita Borg Scholarship for talented female students in the Czech and Slovak Republics.
Another software developer, Lara Aharkava, who studied at the Prague Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, will share stories about her internship at Google’s office in Zurich, Switzerland.
An open discussion will follow the lecture.
The event will be held in Slovak and Czech.
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