Young Women In Leadership: Reflection and Practice
To celebrate the theme for International Women's Day 2021: Women Leadership, Women in IoT is honored to have Irene Hwang, Product Director at Migo, share her leadership journey at Migo over the last 6 years.
She will share her experience of how she leads a cross-border team of 23 people across design, research, data, and engineering and reflections of often being the youngest person at the table.
Migo is an IoT startup with the mission to bridge the digital divide in emerging markets. Migo is currently hiring Senior Data Analyst and Manufacturing Program Manager, come to the event meeting Migo HR and their team members to know more about the positions!
**Please note: The ticket price for this event is NT$300
Online registration reserves a ticket for you to purchase at the door of the event.
Register here: https://www.accupass.com/event/2103150253501559299300
Agenda:
18:30 - 19:00 Registration/ Networking
19:00 - 19:20 Intro: Women in IoT & Migo
19:20 - 19:50 Keynote Speech (Irene)
19:50 - 20:20 Panel Discussion: Women Leadership
20:20 - 20:30 Q&A
20:30 - 21:30 Networking
Speaker Bio:
Irene Hwang - Product Director
Irene is the Product Director at Migo who leads the design, research, engineering, and data functions to deliver entertainment and education to mass-market consumers. She is a mechanical engineer by training from Olin College of Engineering in the U.S., which is a pioneering, experimental school focused on interdisciplinary, hands-on education, but found her passion in UX and service design for the underserved. She has been a part of several social ventures, including the R&D team for a social venture in Ghana focused on improving the lives of female, small-scale agricultural businesses and BioLite, a company that develops off-grid energy products for both the outdoor recreational industry and emerging markets.
Panelist Bio:
Peso Cheng - Supply Chain Manager
Peso possesses 9+ years of experience managing supply chain strategies, manufacturing processes and operations for top-tier MNC clients and brand companies with a passion for technology. Currently, she takes the ownership to provide strategic direction for the global supply chain in Migo, engaging with multiple stakeholders and regional teams to satisfy the demanding needs of a high-growth industry impacting emerging markets.
Sponsored by：Migo
At Migo, we are creating a movement to change the status quo to enable our consumers in emerging markets to watch entertainment and education videos offline – anytime, anywhere without buffering. Our content distribution network (CDN) is 100x cheaper to deploy than existing telco infrastructure resulting in ultra-low-cost for data. This allows us to build an innovative digital gateway through a smartphone to transform the digital lives of 3 billion rising consumers for the modern internet experiences and consumption of data at an affordable price.