Women in Tech: A Story Slam will be held on October 27, 7-9PM at the Microsoft NERD Center (1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge).  In this live story slam “shining the spotlight on positive role models,” several prominent women in STEM careers (engineers, product managers, researchers, investors, company leaders) will give 10-minute talks about the the people, places, and events that led them to a career in STEM.  Read a compelling account of its rehearsals at BetaBoston.  Students can attend free, and others are asked to make a donation of $10 or more to Science Club for Girls.  Register online.  Speakers include:

• Mary Finlay, former CIO of Partners Healthcare and Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Board Member of Mass TLC, and professor at Simmons School of Management
• Jessica Iandiorio, VP of product marketing at Acquia, one of the fastest-growing software companies in the U.S.
• Rudina Seseri, Partner at Fairhaven Capital
• Laura Major, Analytics and Human Systems business area lead at Draper Laboratories
• Jillian Kando, CTO of educational field trip company EdTrips and member of the 2014 TechStars Boston class
• Donna Tremonte, co-chair of Harvard’s Women in Tech Group and developer at Harvard University

Erica Orthmann, the VP at LaunchPad who created this event, tells her story at WBUR’s Conoscenti.