Facebook and Girls In Tech Hackathon Promotes Female Hackers, Open Graph API

Facebook’s Girls In Tech Dev Garage Hackathon aimed to stimulate third-party developers to use the Open Graph API and promote women’s place in engineering. A panel of female influencers from the tech space moderated by journalist Kara Swisher set the stage for a day of frenzied app development.

After opening remarks, Swisher led panelists Jocelyn Goldfein (Director of Engineering at Facebook), Sandy Jen (Meebo Co-Founder), Jennifer Pahlke (Code for America Founder) and Herdlick Catherine (Game Producer at Electronic Arts) in a talk that discussed how diverse teams that include women create better apps for a globalized user base.

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