This talk is for you if:
- Youre an engineering leader looking for new ideas on motivating your team
- Youve just been promoted to manage a team
- You want to meet other badass women in tech in NY
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For many years, Lauren has been known as Bridgewater's expert in investment algorithms. She has given many talks & led workshops on writing efficient, scalable, & readable algorithmic software. But as she grew from an individual contributor to an engineering manager, she realized the need to gain expertise beyond programming. She has now been able to transform & grow an exceptional & diverse engineering team & shell be sharing what she learned along the way. Its a creative & actionable talk with strategic & tactical advice on increasing the productivity of your team in small, fun ways. Youll learn new ways to:
(1) Optimize your people's creative potential
(2) Influence your environment to promote inclusion & diversity
(3) Be heard as a woman in a male-dominated workplace
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Schedule:
8:30-9am - Networking with coffee & breakfast
9-9:45am - Speaker session with Q&A
9:45-10am - Networking
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About Lauren Cipicchio:
Lauren is one of the leading Investment Engineers at Bridgewater, the largest hedge fund in the world. Currently, she is Head of Portfolio Engineering, both building & managing the 60-person engineering team. Her team develops the algorithms that systematize investment logic for the company's portfolio & trade generation processes. Combining her passion for mathematics, technology, & finance, Lauren helped develop some of the most complex investment algorithms in the department, in addition to teaching business users how to maintain & grow some of these tools themselves. Her passions have grown to design & implement an engineering organization that can handle the ever-changing landscapes of finance & technology.
Lauren graduated from MIT with a degree in Mathematics with Computer Science in 2010, along with several minors in Finance, Statistics, & Gender Studies. Lauren was also a member of MIT's Varsity diving team. Alongside her full-time job, she is currently pursuing a Master's degree at NYU in Computer Science & Gender Studies. Laurens thesis work involves looking at the dynamics of women in the workplace through the lens of intersectional feminism. Lauren is also an avid trampoline artist & yoga instructor for a variety of NYC studios.
