🖤 This week kicks off Black History Month, and we are excited to be hosting diverse women speakers at our annual FREE virtual ELEVATE Conference & Career Fair on March 8–9, 2023! Here are 7 leading Black women in tech speaking that you should know: #1 — Cassandra Terry — IBM Chief Risk Officer of Security Development #2 — Cynthia C. Harbor — CACI-Federal Senior Technical Program Manager

#WorldHijabDay 🙌👩🏾‍💻📄📈 We added a virtual CAREER FAIR to the ELEVATE Virtual Conference in March! Please share with your job-seeking networks that it’s FREE to RSVP @ ELEVATE.GIRLGEEK.IO (all genders, ages, industries & experience levels welcome!) Join thousands online for a full day of inspiring talks on leadership, engineering, career paths, technical resume building, neurodiversity, future of tech, & more!

Over 60 high school seniors and educators took BART from Coliseum Station in East Oakland to visit AWS offices in downtown San Francisco as part of Girl Geek X’s adopt-an-Oakland-school partnership with nonprofit Oakland Public Education Fund. — CCPA Computer Science teacher Shrotriyee Jacque teaches classes on Java, Javascript, and data science. Educators welcome increased collaboration between industry and academia to inspire students to envision future careers in tech, taking opportunities for field trips to inspire the students’ future careers (and choice of college majors / minors).

In 2017, I compiled a popular list of 12 Female Architects in Software and Data! This is an updated list of even more talented architecture experts in engineering, data, systems, cloud, and more — bigger and better than before! Here are 20 inspiring women architects to watch in 2022: #1 — Aida El-Toumi Murphy — Cloud Architect — AT&T Aida…

We’ve compiled the best of ELEVATE 2022 Tech Talks, from NEW TECHNOLOGY (and the latest startups), to brass tacks for ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP (for individual contributors and managers alike). #1 — Michelle Yi, Senior Director of Applied AI at RelationalAI, talks about why knowledge is the future of data.

Here’s how some of #IWD2022 speakers successfully addressed the theme “Break the Bias” — you can watch their videos below too. #1 — Camille Tate, Head of Talent at Strava, breaks the bias of traditional tech hiring, challenging recruiting to step outside normal comfort zones and personal referral networks. “Building a diverse team is everybody’s job, specifically, not even recruiter’s jobs — it’s the whole company’s job. …

🎁 In 2021, we hosted 3 virtual Girl Geek Dinners and a virtual conference Elevate celebrating International Women’s Day. Stay tuned for more events (both IRL & virtual) in 2022! As the pace of events dramatically slowed due to the ongoing pandemic, we sought to create new, meaningful opportunities to…

Did you know that climate change is correlated with mental disorders and lowering sperm count? The need to combat climate change is crucial— and transformational. “The world’s first trillionaire will be a green-tech entrepreneur,” predicted Kara Swisher in the New York Times. Yes, that’s trillionaire, with a T. Here are…

Education equity is an important issue for many San Francisco Bay Area residents during the pandemic. Girl Geek X’s new partnership with Oakland Public Education Fund means we have adopted CCPA (a secondary school serving 600+ students grades 6–12 in East Oakland) for the pandemic school year, providing valuable experiences…