Rupa Dachere, Founder & CEO of Thrive-WiSE, is the first keynote speaker for Synopsys at International Women’s Day 2021. She talks about her high-risk decision to quit her job to focus on her non-profit side project.
She is introduced by Solomon Wilkins, Head of Diversity and Inclusion, Synopsys.
About Synopsys: Synopsys technology is at the heart of innovations that are changing the way people work and play. Self-driving cars. Machines that learn. Lightning-fast communication across billions of devices in the datasphere. These breakthroughs are ushering in the era of Smart Everything―where devices are getting smarter and connected, and security is an important consideration.
Powering this new era of digital innovation are high-performance silicon chips and exponentially growing amounts of software content. Synopsys is at the forefront of Smart Everything with the world’s most advanced technologies for chip design, verification, IP integration, and software security and quality testing. We help our customers innovate from silicon to software so they can bring Smart Everything to life. Learn More: https://www.synopsys.com/
About Thrive-WiSE:
Thrive-WiSE / CodeChix is a 501©(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the Education, Advocacy and Mentoring, of women engineers in industry and academia. We aim to increase the number of women technologists in industry through our technical and workplace environment programs.
We focus on face-to-face communication (VIRTUAL in 2020 due to the COVID pandemic) and build a community of technical women supporting each other with their professional development. To do this, we conduct events, participate in competitions as a team, develop open-source projects on our Github repository and actively network to create a foundation for women engineers on the technical ladder in software and hardware. Apart from these, we offer innovative services to tech companies such as Ally Training, Anti-Racism Training and Safe=Space programs to address the workplace environment which is critical to retention of technical women beyond recruiting. Learn more: https://www.codechix.org/
