Go Behind the Scenes with Capital One Digital Engineering

October 10th, 3:30 - 7:00pm

8020 Towers Crescent Drive, 2nd Floor, Vienna VA

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What's it like to build one of 2017's most anticipated games, Destiny 2?

 

You’re invited to join us at Behind the Scenes by Capital One on Tuesday, October 10th from 3:30 - 7:00pm. Find out what it’s like to work on an iconic video game and how jewelry is being used to shift the number of girls in STEM.

 

You'll hear from Pete Kugler of Bungie. As Lead Tools Engineer, Pete has worked on Halo, Destiny and Destiny 2, released September 8 on PS4/Xbox and available Oct 24 on PC.

 

How can hardware influence girls to love STEM and engineering?

 

You'll also listen to Sara Chipps, founder of Jewelbots and national non-profit Girl Develop It! With over 15 years of experience in software development, Sara is passionate about helping people from underrepresented communities get involved in programming and is changing the conversation around diversity in tech.

 

Throughout the evening, you’ll also get an inside look at Capital One Digital with tours every hour, along with food, drinks, swag and giveaways.

 

Code of Conduct

Speakers

Pete Kugler

Pete Kugler

Lead Tools Engineer, Bungie
Peter Kugler has been working in games as a software engineer for over 10 years, with credits on Call of Duty 3, Halo ODST thru Halo 5, and Destiny 1 and 2. Prior to games, he was a Special Education teacher for over 7 years. Peter is currently an engineering lead at Bungie, on a Research and Development team focused on optimizing collaboration within the production pipeline for the Destiny franchise.

Peter lives with his wife, 9 year old son and 6 year old daughter, in Kenmore, WA. He loves spending his time trekking along the Burke Gillman trail on family bike rides, playing Settlers of Catan Jr. and reading comics at family friendly coffee shops, taking spontaneous road trips along the coast, and of course playing video games.
Sara Chipps

Sara Chipps

Cofounder, Girl Develop It & CEO, Jewelbots
Sara Chipps is a JavaScript developer based in NYC. She has been working on Software and the Open Source Community since 2001. She’s been obsessed with hardware and part of http://Nodebots.com since 2012. She is the CEO of http://Jewelbots.com, a company dedicated towards drastically changing the number of girls entering STEM fields using hardware.
Luis de la Rosa

Luis de la Rosa

Director of Android & iOS Engineering, Capital One
Luis “Louie” de la Rosa is Director of Android and iOS Engineering at Capital One and an IoT Maker. He organizes iOSDevCampDC and Modev Coders Only. He speaks at conferences like Swift Cloud Workshop. In his spare time, he likes to hack on open source and play videogames with his seven sons.

Schedule

3:30pm – Registration

4:00pm – Speaker

4:30pm – Tour of Facility

5:00pm – Speaker

5:30pm – Tour of Facility

6:00pm – Speaker
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