June 9, 2022 — Pride Kick-off with Olive A.I.

Friends! This past Thursday, we (Zettabytes.Today) co-hosted with Olive AI and pulled off our most Epic networking event yet, held at Club Diversity Columbus!!

Olive AI, a tech company creating the "Internet of Healthcare" through automation using Artificial Intelligence. Event participants got to learn about Olive, current job opportunities, and to meet the "RainbOlivians", Olive's LGBTQ Employee group.

Registration !

photo credit ~ Dhruva Vyas

Our own Vinny Sanfillipo and Lisa Kagy later presented on ways to optimize networking skills. 

We also had an interactive exercise where 3 lucky winners won Zetta Star Memberships!

Such a great time !

March 30, 2022 — “Why is Your P.O. Crying??”

On March 30th, Zettabytes hosted a fabulous virtual event where we got the lowdown on Tech Product Ownership and on our Community Partner organization Equality Ohio!

Delaney Barr, Esq. of Equality Ohio

The evening began with Delaney Barr, Esq. of Equality Ohio laying out for us the history of her organization and the way it advocates for the legal rights of LGBTQ Ohioans in terms of:  

~ non-discrimination protections in employment and housing

~ same-sex legal recognition and LGBTQ family law

~ hate crimes protection

Equality Ohio is also working to defeat the *unprecedented* wave of hateful legislation being introduced that would adversely affect our communities (Anti-gay/Anti-Trans Youth laws, censoring teachers so they can't talk about race and/or LGBTQ issues, etc.)

Later, our own Rachael Henderschott led a presentation on “Why Product Owner are like Toddlers”. 

Rachael Henderschott, Zettabytes.Today

Being a Product Owner herself, she discussed the responsibilities of her role; the day-to-day challenges of managing stakeholder interests and expectations, feature development and ROI, and understanding why product increments may or may NOT move forward (leaving P.O.s crying like toddlers who don’t get their way).

February 23, 2022 — Virtual Panel Discussion: "Leading Through Change

We were very proud to host the Virtual Panel Discussion "Leading through Change”, with panelists Karan Froom, a Transformation Change Management Leader at Clorox and Ann Beard, a Continuous Improvement and Organizational Expert at Alliance Data.

They discussed with our own Dhruva Vyas, the Importance of Change Management; facilitating and effectively implementing major Business Transformation projects; and fostering Enterprise Readiness.

Beforehand, we started the evening as usual with a Vinny Sanfillipo drink demo during our "cocktail/mocktail" hour. 

Our Community Partner Kimberly Sue Griffiths, Executive Director of OCTOPUS (Organizing Communities Transgender Outreach Promoting United Support) then discussed their organization’s advocacy for trans well-being, and being an active member of Central Ohio’s LGBTQ Round Table. 🌈🌈

#lgbtq #pride #lgbtqcommunity

December 2021, Zettabytes.Today attends Extraordinary Tech Summit hosted by Lesbians Who Tech

Zettabytes Today  members Rini Das, Dhruva Vyas and Robbin Bowman attended the phenomenal “Debug Summit 2021”,  a 4-day virtual tech summit held by Lesbians Who Tech & Allies.

The tech summit is one of the largest LGBTQ events worldwide ! 💥

~ credit: https://lesbianswhotech.org/debugsummit2021/

The summit provided the opportunity to learn from experts in engineering, UX design, product management, A.I. and cyber security; to network with other LGBTQ+ folks in tech; and to attend daily career fairs with tech-giant sponsors including Google, Amazon and Microsoft.

Conference sessions included a range of important topics, like Diversity in AI:, ethical practices in software creation, bias within AI and ML.

We had a GREAT time! 

You will NOT want to miss our next event, featuring Jyllian Spikes of Black out and Proud and Scott Kirkendall, “Go Be You” coach.

Register here:

https://zettabytes.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/zettabytes/event.jsp?event=118&

September 29, 2021 The Ultimate Agile versus Lean Showdown with Dhruva Vyas of Nationwide and Rini Das of RD Management Consulting Inc.

The Invitation: Here is the invite

The Agenda: 

Community Partner: Jaron Terry, President of PFLAG Columbus discussed the history of PFLAG and announce any upcoming events to celebrate National Coming Out Day on October 13, 2021.

Headline: The Ultimate Showdown! Agile versus Lean. Dhruva Vyas of Nationwide representing AGILE versus Rini Das of RD Management Consulting Inc. representing LEAN.

Key Bartender: Connor Pilbeam demonstrated a mocktail/cocktail to celebrate Autumn. 

PFLAG -- Jaron Terry

Headliner: Dhruva Vyas and Rini Das

Showdown: Facilitated by Robbin Bowman