FORUMS
CTOs
The CTO forum provides a safe space for authentic discussions on the challenges and wins of founding and running a tech company. The meetups include knowledge sharing, open discussions, reflection and collaborative problem solving.
LED BY:
Yael Cohen
Haramaty
Founder & CTO
at Tailor-ED
Orian
Sharoni
Founder & ML
at Up.AI
Senior R&D Managers
Three groups of VP R&Ds, Directors and Group Managers who meet on a monthly basis to discuss the unique challenges that these positions introduce and learn from each other’s experience. Read more here.
LED BY:
Miri Curiel
Tech Management Expert
Adi Shacham-Shavit
EVP Engineering
@ Clear
Yulia Trakhtenberg
VP R&D
@ Gloat
Tech Leads and Architects Forum
A group of architects and tech leads who meet to discuss the unique challenges that these positions introduce and learn from each other’s experience. Read more here.
LED BY:
Amit Lichtenberg
Tech Lead at Stealth
Sharon Talmor Marcovici
Lead Cloud Software Architect, Senior Technical Lead at Intel
Dalia Simons
Server Architect at Wix
Technology Team Managers
A community of technology managers from Baot, that includes a facebook group and a meetup every 1-2 months. The forum's goal is to develop its members and expose them to technical management content, and also to be a space for seeking advice.
LED BY:
Amit Weil
Head Of Data Science
@ Simplex
Hilla Gardi
Software Team Lead
@ Citi innovation lab
Karni Wolf
Engineering Team Lead
@ Snyk
Karin Moscovici
Tech executive and management expert
@ Riskified
Tech Entrepreneur Forum
A group of Tech Entrepreneurs sharing knowledge, supporting and learning from each other’s experience.
LED BY:
Morit Zwang
Co Founder & CTO
@ Ellie
FINDING YOUR NEXT JOB
Mentoring
This program matches each job seeker with an experienced mentor in her field, to provide information and support throughout the entire process - perfecting her CV, choosing the right position, salary negotiating, and more. Read more here.
LED BY:
Maria Gorodetski
Data Scientist
at DayTwo
Liron Kreiss
Engineering
Team Lead
atCybereason
Ela Avrahami
Founder & CEO
at ML Dome
Rothem Rip
Senior Software
Einat Mahat
Dev group lead at Skai
Mock Interviews
Every member of our community can register to have a simulation of an interview with one of 100 interviewers that volunteer in this program.
LED BY:
Tom Leibovitz
Software Engineer
at Microsoft
Nofar Bracha
CTO at Joonko
Tal Haklay
M.Sc student in computer science
Einat Mahat
Dev group lead at Skai
Meetups
Every few months we host a meetup where speakers share knowledge about the job search process and participants can meet community members that are in the same status, form study groups together and share experiences.
LED BY:
Yuval Ran
Software Engineer
at Microsoft
Yaara Gradovich
RnD Team Leader at CyberArk
Rotem Ben Hamo
Software engineer at check point
Bootcamp
A three month program where a group of entry level developers looking for a job learn together about job searching from mentors and resources created by community members.
LED BY:
Miri Yehezkel
Software Developer
at Snyk
Galia Malasa
Software Engineer
at Elbit Systems Ltd
Mentors Development
Our team puts time and energy to support our mentors and help them be great mentors. This includes surveys, meetups, and more.
LED BY:
Nitzan Gado
Senior Data Scientist
at Intuit
PROACTIVENESS
30 Hours
Participants invest 30 hours (over 4 months) to further their knowledge in a new field, by building a personal project or a group project with a professional mentor. They then share what they learned and built at an exciting meetup. Read more here.
LED BY:
Ifat Koller
Backend Developer
at Cloudinary
Shir Matishevski
Senior Fullstack Developer
at Demoleap
Sharon Gur
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Keren Ben Tov Sher
Data Science Team Leader at Anaplan
Nofar Diamant
Software Developer at AppsFlyer
Sharon Naftaly
Software Engineer at Snyk
Writing Tech Blogs
An exclusive quarterly Friday meetup, in which a group of preselected participants write technical blog posts while receiving coaching on different aspects of writing a blog - from creating a good story to customizing platforms. Sponsored by Cloudinary. Read more here.
LED BY:
Danielle Shaul
Co-Founder & CTO at Stealth
Keren Kenzi
Senior Software Engineer at Torii
Gene Zeiniss
Backend Software Engineer, Sensitive Data Management at Intuit
Promoting Women Speakers in Tech Conferences
A program aimed to increase female representation among conference speakers. Meetings include talks from experienced tech speakers from the community and hands-on workshops.
LED BY:
Yarin Dekel
Frontend Developer at Cloudinary
Mey Maayan Beisaron
Infrastructure Engineer at Forter
Data Nights
In collaboration with Gal and the team and with DataHack, we host a series of meetings for data scientists, in which they solve together challenges from Kaggle.
LED BY:
Gal Hever
Data Scientist
@ VisionMap
Bitya Neuhof
Ph.D. student in Statistics
@JI, Data Scientist
Sharon Cooper
Data Scientist
@ VomPom
Nataly Kuritz
AI Decision Scientist
@ Anaplan
Welcome to Baot
New members of Baot are invited to join a program that provides tools and mentoring to help them become proactive members of the community in specific, and proactive tech-women in general.
LED BY:
GROUPS & CAREER MENTORING
Workplace Intelligence
Intimate groups where women in various stages of their careers discuss their workplace challenges and help each other find effective solutions. Read more here.
LED BY:
Hila Noga
Senior Software Engineer
at Google
Inbal Porat
Engineering Manager
at Akamai
Inbal Lidan
Security Researcher at Paragon
Hila Amar
Embedded SW Team Lead
at RADWIN
Dalya Gartzman
Algorithms Engineer
at SiteAware
Baot For Moms
Two groups of moms, one of engineers/DS and one of managers, who are on maternity leave or recently returned to work from a maternity leave, and discuss the challenges of advancing at work while parenting infants.
LED BY:
Netta Bondy
Senior Frontend Developer
at Tikal
Stav Barak
Front End Developer
at Tikal
Sivan (Gilon) Afek
Software Engineer
at Waze
Yael Levy
Manager at
Palo Alto Networks
Career Mentoring
This program allows any Baot member who believes she can help other community members in career aspects, to register as a mentor. The mentors publish their expertise, and other women can register as their mentees. The topics are endless - Specific technologies/languages or just about anything in the Dev/Security/AI/DevOps/etc realms, soft skills such as management, workplace relationships and a lot more.
LED BY:
Anat Rapoport
Group Manager at Panaxia Data Analytics
CONFERENCES & MEETUPS
Beer & Mingling (באות לבירה)
A social meetup, where we all have a chance to meet each other, share some experience, catch up and know better our community while having some snacks and drinking beer. Each meetup takes place at a hosting company’s office.
LED BY:
Shani Levy (Leviim)
Software Engineer
at Red Hat
Security & Low Level
A monthly event, in collaboration with Gardicore, where our community members deepen their knowledge in topics such as operating systems, computer architecture, vulnerability research, exploitation, computer networks, and more.
LED BY:
Mor Matalon
Senior Data Scientist at Nucleai
Ophir Harpaz
Senior Security
Researcher
at Guardicore
CodeFest
An annual festival of code. This event is where community members celebrate technology by participating in workshops on software development, data science, DevOps, hardware, security and many more. All speakers are community members as well. CodeFest has already taken place three times - twice in-person and once virtually, with the generous sponsorship and hospitality of Microsoft R&D Israel.