What it’s like attending a huge #tech conference
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The good and the “humorous” from a female perspective“I feel like I’m about to go to the first day of school.”I said out loud as I walked into the Moscone Center Tuesday morning.A few coworkers and I got free tickets to the #google Cloud Next Conference. It was my first time attending a conference of that scale. They said there were over 25,000 attendees.I had no idea what to expect, but I’ve certainly experienced a lot now.1. Plethora of humans of the XY kind.A week prior, I asked my boyfriend, who’s known as the “Cloud Guy” in our scene, what kind of people go to Google Cloud Next.“Umm…men.” He said.And oh boy he couldn’t have been more perfect with his answer.This game is called “find the female engineers”Having “Cloud” in the conference name, it shouldn’t be shocking that many talks are about (...)