Best of 2019: Girl Geek Dinner Videos

By Angie Chang (Girl Geek X Founder)

In 2019, we’ve hosted 27 Girl Geek Dinners — 60% were located in San Francisco and 40% were located in the Silicon Valley. These dinners were attended by over 4,000 women this year, and we are thrilled to continue to host Girl Geek Dinners for the 12th year in 2020. Missed a dinner? Don’t worry, we have posted videos of talks on YouTube.

Here are the most popular Girl Geek Dinner videos in 2019, ranked by most YouTube views:

#1 — “Scale Your Career With Open Source” Confluent Girl Geek Dinner

Neha Narkhede (Confluent Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder) speaking in video with transcript

#2 — “Thank U, Next: How “Diversity” Gets In The Way Of Gender Equity” Atlassian Girl Geek Dinner

Aubrey Blanche (Atlassian Global Head of Diversity & Belonging) speaking in video with transcript

#3 — “Security First” Palo Alto Networks Girl Geek Dinner

Citlalli Solano (Palo Alto Networks Director of Engineering) speaking in video with transcript

#4 — “Performance At Scale” Strava Girl Geek Dinner

Harini Iyer (Strava Server Engineer) speaking in video with transcript

#5 — “Offline Performance Marketing: Using Art & Science To Drive Response & Revenue” HomeLight Girl Geek Dinner —

Molly Laufer (HomeLight Director of Offline Marketing) video with transcript

#6 — “Dossiers Of Awesome: One Way To Help Folks Get The Recognition They Deserve” Stitch Fix Girl Geek Dinner

Erin Dees (Stitch Fix Principal Software Engineer) video with transcript

#7 — “Finding Your Niche By Identifying Your Strengths” Blend Girl Geek Dinner

Ashley McIntyre (Blend Sales Engineering Manager) video with transcript

#8 — “Accelerating Computation For Real-Time Machine Learning” Xilinx Girl Geek Dinner

Jennifer Wong (Xilinx Vice President of FPGA Product Development) video with transcript

#9 — “Machine Learning In Support: Infusing A Flagship Product With Innovative New Features” Zendesk Girl Geek Dinner

Eleanor Stribling (Zendesk Group Product Manager) video with transcript

#10 — “People-Powered Innovation” Poshmark Girl Geek Dinner

Tracy Sun (Poshmark Senior Vice President of New Markets & Co-Founder) video with transcript

GIRL GEEK DINNERS IN 2020

We would love to have more Girl Geek Dinners at med/health companies, biotech companies, consumer-facing companies… We are interested in partner more with the scientific and ethical-minded companies out there in addition to our slate of tech companies hosting Girl Geek Dinners.

Here’s how to partner with Girl Geek X in 2020. We are currently working with sponsors for 2020 dinner dates, and excited to continue partnering with companies to host Girl Geek Dinners!

“X” IS FOR PODCASTS AND MORE

Girl Geek Dinners, Girl Geek Elevate, Girl Geek Podcasts, and much more!

Here are the best 10 Elevate videos from 2019, and the most-downloaded 10 Girl Geek Podcasts from 2019.

We’ll be releasing the best of 2019 lists for more content soon, stay tuned!