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India Chapter Launch

admin2571 — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 14:05:04 +0000

We’re very excited to announce the opening of our Women in Tech® India chapter on April 15th 2021.

It will be an online event with different panels discussing:
Understanding India’s gender parity landscape
Imagining India’s future with emerging technologies
Indian women breaking the barriers in business

Welcome to Purva Aggarwal, our Ambassador that will be leading the New Delhi chapter.

🔴 Watch LIVE

Introduction Women in Tech India Chapter Launch

Understanding India’s gender parity landscape

Imagining India’s future with emerging technologies

Indian women breaking the barriers in business

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Women in Tech Forum in Sharjah (UAE) – 18 February 2020

admin2571 — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 16:00:31 +0000

Our very first WOMEN IN TECH – Global Movement event in the Middle East !

In collaboration with Sharjah Research, Technology and Innovation Park, the forum was attended by over 250 professionals and entrepreneurs. We were honored by the presence of many distinguished guests and speakers such as H.E. Sheikha Lubna AlQasimi, first female Minister of the UAE., H.E. Najla Almidfa, CEO of Sheraa or H.E. Dr Mariam Matar, founder and chairperson UAEGDA.

We are proud to announce the launch of a Coding programme for women and girls in partnership with SRTIP

We are also looking forward to welcoming a UAE delegation at our future Women in Tech Global Summit.

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Women in Tech Global Summit in Paris

admin2571 — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:15:50 +0000

The Women in Tech Global Summit is a 2 day event that will be held in Paris on the 5th and 6th October 2020.

The main goal of this event is to open the discussion on the challenges facing women in technology today and share the success stories that have empowered women and girls across industries around the globe. We will focus on finding tangible solutions for bridging the gender gap in STEM and propose actions for policy-makers in response to today’s challenges.

The Summit will bring together 350 people from 40 countries – representatives from industry, government, academia and the non-profit sector. Each delegation (made up of 8 to 12 people) will pitch the current situation of Women in Technology in their country, sharing their challenges as well as achievements.

The Summit will give a voice to the women and men that are taking concrete actions, having impact and making change on both a local and global level. It will take the form of panels, keynotes, workshops and round tables.

During the Summit, we will hold the 2nd edition of the Women in Tech Challenge, an international Call for Projects, launched to reward initiatives that have helped improve diversity and women empowerment in STEM at school, at work, and in society in general.

Instead of reinventing the wheel, we aim to identify the innovative projects that already exist across the globe – success stories that can be amplified, scaled-up and replicated elsewhere.

Find out more

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Women in Tech Russia Chapter launch | Saint-Petersburg, 12 December 2020

admin2571 — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 08:12:58 +0000

We are happy to announce that Women in Tech has successfully launched in Russia!

On the 12th of December seven empowering speakers spoke to an audience of more than 200 motivated attendees.

The founder and president of Women in Tech Ayumi Moore Aoki came to Saint Petersburg to open the Russian chapter and gave an inspiring speech about the WiT global movement.

Our #WomeninTech Ambassador Elina Valeeva shared with the audience her networking tools that in particular helped to bring WiT to Russia and to organize the event.

It was a pleasure to host such outstanding speakers:
• Anna Kulashova, who shared her personal story about female leadership in IT,
• Alena Suvorova, who talked about the opportunities and challenges of Data Science,
• Polina Vasilenko, who gave valuable pieces of advice on startup building,
• Olga Telezhnaya, who shared about her journey from linguistics to programming,
• Leysen Shayakhmetova, who gave a speech about ways to have a successful job interviewing process.

We would also like to say an enormous thank you to our partners – the HSE University, Jet Brains and Microsoft Russia that made this all possible.

See the pictures of the event and join the Women in Tech community!

The event took place at the University of Saint Petersburg. The program included keynotes from a number of international experts:

Ayumi Moore Aoki
Founder and president of international non-profit organization Women in Tech. CEO of award-winning digital agency Social Brain. TEDx Speaker.

Elina Valeeva
Enjoyed 9 years in consulting. Now in pursuit of bringing cognitive science to people’s life as CEO of Meditivity. Young Transatlantic Innovation Leaders Initiative Fellow 2019. WIT Ambassador.

Anna Kulashova
Enterprise Commercial Lead at Microsoft. Anna has 20 years of experience in sales, marketing, and cooperation with major customers and partners. She holds an MBA degree from the Open University, UK.

Alena Suvorova
Ph.D. Associate Professor at Department of Informatics, HSE University. Academic Supervisor of the “Information Systems and Human-Computer Interaction” Programme. Head of Women Data Leaders.

Polina Vasilenko
After a 14-year career in the oil and gas industry, she moved into renewable energy and founded HelioRec. Winner of the Women in Green Tech International Awards.

Olga Telezhnaya
Developer at JetBrains. Olga moved from a philology faculty to the technical field. Helps other people learn programming by organizing PyLadies and DjangoGirls meetups.

Leysen Shayakhmetova
Headhunter & сareer coach. 7 years of executive search at Ward Howell. Founder of Career Booster, author of online program “Hunting for your job”.

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Women in Tech Australian launch

admin2571 — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 09:39:18 +0000

Dr Christyl Johnson, deputy director for technology and research investments officially opened the Australian chapter. She compelled the women present to use this opportunity to come together through this chapter to take real action to ‘move the needle’. She wants each of us to ask ourselves “What am I individually doing to create change?”

An essential part of being able to take action is for all of us as women to overcome our fears and imposter syndrome to go after our dreams.
“Fear is false evidence appearing real, you have to bring it from the thought space into reality and not let the fear and doubts hold you back. You have to know the value that you bring to the table. As a woman you have unique positions and unique vantage points when you look at any of the challenges. In order for us to do impossible things we have to have diverse minds coming to the table. The only way that you truly innovate is to have to get people to think outside of the box and to have to have diversity to achieve that.
It’s a matter of telling yourself every day. ”I’m well equipped. I deserve to be here. I am just as good as everyone else.”
The truth is that nobody can tell you what’s possible for you. Noone can set your dreams and establish your dreams but you. And noone can stop you but you. You have to make it happen.”

We then heard from the founder of Women in Tech, Ayumi Moore Aoki, via live cross from Barcelona where she was attending at the Women in Business Forum, part of the SmartCity Expo World Congress, moderating a panel on Women in Tech and innovation in the Mediterranean.
Women in Tech started when Ayumi asked “What can I do to bridge the gender gap?” From day one she has had a global vision to create real change for women by creating a global movement of women and men committed to supporting women in tech. Within 18 months there are already thousands of members from around the world.

The Australian chapter is the first chapter to launch outside of Europe.

The panel guests included Yemi Penn, author of Did you get the memo? Gen George founder of tamme, One Shift and LMBDW and Hayley Markham co-founder of Code Camp.

Their advice for the women was varied and covered everything from how to deal with a crisis of confidence to knowing which idea is going to be the right one to pursue.

The event was attended by 130 women and a few men too and represented founders, those working in the tech industry and those wanting to support women in tech fields. The attendees really enjoyed the opportunity to come together to discuss ideas and they’re excited about what the future holds for the Australian chapter.

Applications for the Australian delegation to the Women in Tech Summit happening in Paris in May 2020 open soon.

We would like to thank Canva for hosting this event, this was such a fitting choice for this event as Melanie Perkins the founder of Canva is an incredible role model for Australian women as the first Australian female unicorn. (Canva is currently valued at $3.2 billion).

We would like to thank our incredible speakers Dr Johnson, Ayumi Moore Aoki, Yemi Penn, Hayley Markham and Gen George and all of the women who attended our launch event.

Peace Mitchell,
Australian Ambassador of Women in Tech

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Women in Tech Global Awards winners

admin2571 — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 15:04:38 +0000

The Women in Tech Global Awards was held on November 6th at the beautiful Foz Palace in Lisbon. Our international jury rewarded 6 outstanding women in 6 different categories. Congratulations to the winners!

We were honoured by the presence of distinguished guests and 4 female Ambassadors to Portugal: H.E. Florence Mangin, French Ambassador, H.E. Claire Rochecouste Australian Ambassador, H.E. Celia Anna Feria, Philippines Ambassador and H.E.Lisa Rice Madan, Canadian Ambassador. Thank you for your support!

Women in Tech Lifetime Achievement Award

Corinne Vigreux
Co-Founder at TomTom – Founder at CODAM Coding College
France/The Netherlands
Corinne is a Co-Founder of TomTom, the navigation technologies company that continues to create cutting edge innovations that solve mobility problems and address the challenges of autonomous driving and smart cities. She launched the new tuition-free Coding College in Amsterdam, CODAM. She is a member of the supervisory board of takeaway.com NV, Groupe ILIAD, and Dutch National Opera & Ballet and advisor to the Amsterdam Economic Board.

Women in Tech Global Leadership Award

Bedy Yang
Managing Partner at 500 Startups
Brazil/USA
Bedy Yang is a managing partner at 500 Startups. She oversees 500’s ecosystem development programs including investor education courses, corporate and government around the world. 500 Startups invested in over 2000 startups in 75 countries. She also founded Brazil Innovators, an organisation that became the epicentre and resource for Brazilian tech founders.

Most Disruptive Women in Tech Award

Julia Salasky
CEO at Legl
UK
Julia is a lawyer and entrepreneur. She is the CEO of Legl, whose flagship product, CrowdJustice, has enabled thousands of people to access the law, generated millions of dollars for legal matters to go ahead, and has seen ordinary people change the law. She’s been awarded the Financial Times Legal Innovator of the Year, Legal Week’s Innovator of the Year, The Legal 500 Outstanding Achievement Award, and a «Future Shaper» by Marie Claire

Women in Tech Start Up Award

Narisa Chauvidul-Aw
CEO and Founder@ KogoPay
Thailand
Narisa found KogoPAY in the mobile payment industry that is dominated by most men founders. KogoPay has created a regulatory compliant mobile application to facilitate instant payment both locally and cross-border. The KogoPay wallet app enables instantaneous payments mobile-to-mobile, mobile-to-bank, and QR payments.

Women in Tech Allie Award

Jeanette Cheah
CEO & Co-Founder, The Hacker Exchange
Australia
Jeanette Cheah is the co-founder and CEO of The Hacker Exchange, a tertiary-accredited organisation connecting the next generation of leaders to Silicon Valley, Tel Aviv, Singapore and beyond. Through their immersive programs, The Hacker Exchange encourages students to develop global citizenship, entrepreneurship and innovation skills, and to embrace lifelong learning. A firm believer in encouraging women in tech, Jeanette mentors early-stage startups and leads tech diversity programs at Monash University.

Aspiring Teen Award

Brianna Gopaul
Intern @Sanctuary AI
Canada
Brianna is a 16-year-old girl aiming to become a future quantum computing engineer. She is looking towards solving the world’s most difficult problems using uprising technologies like Quantum Computing and AI. She’s a speaker in different panels and enjoys sharing her opinions on being a part of the next generation of females who will be shaping technological development.

Find out more about the event

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Online meet up: All about blockchain | 29 October 2019

admin2571 — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 12:24:37 +0000

How are women changing the way how the blockchain industry is evolving?

About the Event
Women in Tech: Online Meetup & Virtual Networking
Time: 18:00 CET / 12:00 EST / 09:00 PST / 16:00 UTC
Date: 29th October, 2019
Venue: Remo Conference (online face to face networking platform)

How it Works

Discussion Topic & Voting Polls: We will begin the event with a main productivity hack discussion topic. Thereafter, you can submit your own productivity hacks to the platform so other attendees can vote for the best ones to discuss!

Turn on your video and microphone: Meaningful conversations happen face-to-face! Turn on Video and Microphone access to enrich discussions and create lasting relationships.

Jump to different tables: Move to different tables and interact with a whole new set of people. Table hopping is unrestricted, giving you the freedom and opportunity to get the most out of this networking event.

Network and Connect: This is what you came for! Interact face to face with some of the best in the business and connect on LinkedIn directly through the platform.

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Women in Business Expo – London, 16 & 17 October 2019

admin2571 — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 09:42:14 +0000

Women in Tech is happy to be a partner of the Women in Business Expo that is taking place in Farnborough on the 16th and 17th October 2019.

We have a booth, so come by and meet us!

Our Founder Ayumi MOORE AOKI will also give a talk on the 17th October:

Global Sisterhood – Build your Tribe

“I learned very early in life that if we want things to change, we must start by taking action ourselves. Each of us can make a difference, but Change can only come if we all work together.

I believe that when Women get together, Magic happens. We can connect to each other in very different levels, saying “I trust you”, “I have your back”, “I support you”. Sisterhood is empowering not only on a personal level but also on a global level.

Building your tribe is connecting to other women that share similar values and have a common vision. Collective thinking and encouragement, focusing on what brings us together and respecting our differences. Using this ocean of positive energy to build things and move mountains. Revealing the SuperWomen that we all are.”

More information here

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Women in Tech Macedonian Chapter Launch | Skopje, 25 September 2019

admin2571 — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 19:47:22 +0000

The kick off of the Women in Tech Macedonian Chapter took place in Skopje on the 25th September 2019.

We were honored to have the support of the Government and its Minister Damjan Manchevski who pronounced the opening speech. A very interesting panel on the state of #WomeninTech in Macedonia was held with distinguished guest speakers: Elisaveta Nojkovska, Benjamin Perks, Ema Ristovska, Ivan Chorbev, Vesna Ivanoska, Martina Boshkovska.
The Chapter is led by our 2 ambassadors: Monika Rizovska and Katerina Trajchevska.

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Women in Tech New York

admin2571 — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 21:43:51 +0000

Women in Tech organized a series of Networking events in New York this Summer.

On Sunday 18th August, we hosted a Women’s Brunch. A nice occasion to meet some incredible women that are actively involved in Tech not only in the Big Apple, but also around the world.

We were partners of the Bervann Capital Gala that took place on August 19th at the beautiful Metropolitan Club NYC. It was a grand networking event gathering active investors (institutional, families, UHNWI, PE, VC, HF, FoF, Angel), government officials, diplomats, celebrities, investment professionals, corporate executives, fund managers, business owners, entrepreneurs, non-profits and medias.

On Thursday 22nd August, we held another networking event where members from NYC, Australia, The Netherlands, Kosovo, India and the Ivory Coast met and shared their experiences.

It was a fun and fulfilled week. Thank you to all who made this possible!

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