The most common response we hear to the complaint that “All the Speakers at the Conference are men!” or “All the Award Nominees are male.” is that there were “No known female candidates”.

It is our mission to solve that problem by highlighting all of the marvellous talent the Tech Industry has outside of the default.

It is our mission to solve that problem by highlighting all of the marvellous talent the Tech Industry has outside of the default.

Amy Kapernick

Front End Dev, Tech Evangelist, Dog Lover

Perth, Western Australia

Bio

Amy wears many hats as a freelance developer, business owner and conference addict. She regularly shares her knowledge with her peers and the next generation of developers by mentoring, coaching, teaching and feeding into the tech community in many ways.

Amy can be found volunteering her time with Fenders, ACS, SheCodes (formerly Perth Web Girls) and MusesJS (formerly NodeGirls). She also works as an evangelist for YOW! Conferences, is a Twilio Champion, Microsoft MVP and has been nominated for the WiTWA awards for the last 2 years.

In her spare time Amy shares her knowledge and experience on her blogs and speaking at conferences. She has previously given keynotes at multiple events as well as speaking at several international conferences in the US and Europe.

Mentoring

Amy believes in giving back to the community and helps out as a mentor at a variety of different events including Perth Web Girls and Node Girls Perth. She's also spoken at multiple JuniorDev meetups and enjoys spending time encouraging new and junior developers.

Speaker Experience

08 Jun 2020

conference roomWorkshop

Front End Web Fundamentals

NDC Oslo

26 Mar 2020

showConference

How to Build a Quokkabot

WFH Conf

28 Dec 2019

showConference

How to Manage Your Ducks

DDD Brisbane

03 Aug 2019

presentationMeetup

So You Think You Know HTML?

PubConf Perth

29 Jun 2019

conference roomWorkshop

Intro to HTML

code_systers

20 Jun 2019

showConference

Pokémon or Programming

NDC Oslo

02 Apr 2019

presentationMeetup

How to Start Speaking at Conferences

ACS WA Diversity and Inclusion

01 Feb 2019

presentationMeetup

The Need for PageSpeed

PubConf London

27 Oct 2018

info pointKeynote

The Art of Failure

Google DevFest Melbourne

10 Oct 2018

presentationMeetup

The Art of Failure

Fenders Mental Health Week Presentations

28 Aug 2018

presentationMeetup

Fender Lightning Round

Fenders Birthday - Lightning Talks

07 Aug 2018

presentationMeetup

The Art of Failure

ACS Women - Ignite Talks

20 Jun 2018

presentationMeetup

So you think you know HTML?

Fenders

30 Nov 2017

presentationMeetup

The Art of Failure

JuniorDev Perth

09 Jul 2017

Panel

ACS Ethipot Panel

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