Have you ever considered a career at a local tech company but aren't interested in coding?

On Wednesday March 7th, we will be hosting the Spring edition of our panel discussion on “Non-Engineering Careers at Bay Area Tech Companies”.

This event will be a discussion comprised of top recruiters, diversity professionals and directors from cutting edge technology companies. The panel will be focused on non-engineering positions that need to be filled, what makes an ideal candidate for those positions, interview pitfalls to avoid, trends, as well as taking questions from the audience.

This discussion will begin promptly at 6:30pm, so please be on time.

This is the first panel of a 3 part series that is focused on increasing access and improving economics in Black and Brown Bay Area communities.

On Tuesday, August 22nd, MT Lindsey hosted a panel discussion on “Non-Engineering Careers at Bay Area Tech Companies.”

This event was a discussion comprised of top recruiters, diversity professionals and directors from cutting edge technology companies. The panel was focused on non-engineering positions that need to be filled, what makes an ideal candidate for those positions, interview pitfalls to avoid, trends, as well as questions from the audience.

Panelists included: Matthew Alexander, Senior Inside Sales Representative of Ellie Mae, Glenn Medalle, Director of Global Talent Acquisition, AppDynamics, Rochelle Nadhiri, Policy Communications Manager at Facebook, and Amit Pandya, Senior Manager in Talent Acquisition at Medallia.

A video of the event can be found below-

https://youtu.be/-anIHOFv-l0

On Tuesday, June 13th 2017, MT Lindsey hosted a panel discussion on "How to Attract and Work with Angel Investors and VC's. This event took place at the Oakland Impact Hub.

Panelists included Charles Hudson, of Precursor Ventures, Ulili Onovakpuri, of Kapor Captial, and Mark Crawford of Intel Captial.

This event was an informative panel discussion on how to best position yourself and your company to attract investors, how to improve your pitch for funding, and what to expect when working with investors. With over 300 registrants, many walked away with the key contacts and information to take their start-up’s to the next level.

On Tuesday, May 9th 2017, MT Lindsey hosted a panel discussion on “How to successfully launch your own start-up”.

This event was a panel discussion featuring start-up founders giving advice on how to turn an idea into a business, working with co-founders, raising capital, pitfalls to avoid, and best practices to ensure that your start-up dream becomes a reality. With over 440 registrants, audience members had the opportunity to ask questions of and connect with the panelists as well. 

Panelists included Michael Siebel, Co-Founder to justin.tv , twitch.tv, socialcam, Ipsheeta Furtado, Co-Founder of Fluid Financial, Prakash Janakiraman, Co-Founder and Chief Architect, Nextdoor.com, Lauren Westbrook-McIntosh, the Global Marketing Lead for Facebook Blueprint, and Mandela Schumacher-Hodge of Kapor Capital. Firms that specialize in providing services to start-ups and new businesses attended as well.

On August 25th, 2016 at the Oakland Impact Hub, the MT Lindsey hosted a panel discussion entitled "Non-Engineering Careers at Bay Area Tech Companies".

Panelists included Neal Stewart from Google, Jeunee Simon from Slack, Aisha Chiappetta from MongoDB, Rena Davis from Lyft, and Nabeela Virji from Yelp. Marco Lindsey, Chief of Staff at the Berkeley-Haas School of Business and member of the 100 Black Men of the Bay Area was the event’s moderator.

Under the 100 Black Men of the Bay Area Economic Empowerment initiative, the purpose of the event was to inform Bay Area residents and college students about the career opportunities at local tech companies that do not involve coding. This standing room only event also paired more than 250 diverse job seekers with over 30 recruiters from a variety of local tech companies. Career seekers also learned of educational opportunities at the Berkeley-Haas Center for Executive Education that would help them gain skills that would make them more marketable to employers.

Here’s what attendees had to say about the event:

“Thank you so much for organizing the event last Thursday night. It's great to meet all those recruiters in person and hear their stories with my dream companies.”

“…thank you for putting together such an informative panel and networking event. I have been eager to find ways of breaking into the tech industry and a lot of my questions have been answered.”

“Thank you guys for showing up and allowing me to learn/explore the avenues with the Tech industry. It was very enlightening to learn that the industry offers about 70% of positions to non-coding careers. Also the food provided was wonderful as well.”

“I greatly appreciated the insights from the panel discussion on "Non-Engineering Careers at Bay Area Tech Companies" and learned an incredible amount about the various career fields available to young men of color.”

Special thanks to the Berkeley-Haas School of Business, Salesforce, Lyft, MongoDB, Slack, and Yelp for sponsoring the event.