#women-in-tech

Where are all my #blockchain Ladies, at?
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(Past assignment for an ICO)Photo Source: ▻https://cryptocoin.news/news/30-of-the-most-innovative-and-exciting-women-to-watch-for-blockchain-and-crypto-insights-5200/amp/Every morning I enjoy my morning coffee with my Blockchain Sisters. We laugh, share, cry and pass around positive memes like the “Boss Babes”, we are! (#GirlBoss)On a unique Sunday during brunch, a few of us shared our daily “Words of Affirmation” but we decided to become more philosophical than usual. I was playing “reporter” that weekend, as I asked to highlight the issues women in blockchain are facing. I’m not really a know-it-all, so I asked the REAL experts for their opinions.I was saddened as some of the most recognizable names in crypto had surprising answers. All successful tech gals, my friends and I pondered why (...)

#hackernoon-top-story #blockchain-technology #cryptocurrency #women-in-tech

In a world of Tech Disruption, I still don’t feel like I belong
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In the era of Disruptive Tech, I still don’t feel like I belongFor those coming of age beside Angelfire, our pioneering contributions don’t matter that much on paperI feel like Paramore gets my feels, and that is the most ‘old millennial’ thing I’ve ever said in my life.We were hopelessly dorky and found refuge in embedded chatrooms, websites with enough animated gifs to send any modern-day web designer into a mental breakdown, and Neopets coding.The internet was new, weird, and full of P2P file-sharing software that took centuries to snag a song you liked…that was hopefully not mislabeled as something Green Day made, instead of Harvey Danger.We grew up pushing boundaries, spoofing Neopets login pages, running MMORPG private servers off of our Windows 95 machines, and exploring the rogue (...)

#entrepreneurship #women-in-tech #startup #technology #design

The not-so-glamorous behind-the-scenes of giving my first ever #tech talk
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#DevStories at Github HQ:And the lessons I’ve learnedDerpy cat“I can’t do this! This is too much pressure!” I shouted and reverted to a five year old phase.It was the evening before my first ever tech talk. I was mechanically staring at my powerpoint presentation for hours, constantly adding things, yet nothing gets added.As the clock ticked towards midnight, my anxiety came to a boiling point.The powerpoint sucked. There was no cohesion. And I had no idea how to present my topic.Feeling I needed a change of pace, my boyfriend suggested I put away the computer and start talking.Though it was only an audience of two, comprising of people I’m closest with, I felt like a deer caught in headlights.I opened my mouth, but words couldn’t come out. After a mild anxiety attack, some sweat and tears, I (...)

#hackernoon-top-story #career-development #women-in-tech #public-speaking

PM Career Tips w/ Nitin Julka, Group PM @ LinkedIn
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AWIP fireside chat with Nitin Julka, co-hosted by WeWork SFOn Thursday, April 26th, Advancing Women in Product (AWIP) held a fireside chat with Nitin Julka, a Group PM at LinkedIn, leading LinkedIn’s Campaign Manager, where we discussed advice he had for aspiring PMs on the cusp of becoming PMs as well as concrete tips on how to climb the ladder to PM career success.For Aspiring PMsBe methodical — come up with a list of interested companiesMaking a list of companies (typically I separate companies by sector, funding stage, interest in the founders) with the criteria you want to satisfy is a great way to have a methodical way to proceed through interviews. This will help solve a lot of the early questions, such as, “What kind of startups do I like? Which industries?” And this will even come in (...)

#careers #women-in-tech #product-management

Digital Trends’ “Tech for Good” Campaign Took Center Stage During #sxsw
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(Photo credit: Priya Kuber)Following a year where headlines about #privacy breaches were rampant, responsible use of technology was a theme at this year’s South by Southwest, the annual music and film festival that attracts over 75,000 art and tech enthusiasts from all walks of life. A handful of SXSW talks referenced 2018’s Cambridge Analytica scandal and its impact on both brands and consumers.Grappling with these evolving realities of technology to reclaim creativity is the theme of Brian Solis’s new book, Lifescale: How to Live a More Creative, Productive, and Happy Life, which debuted at SXSW. And at a pop-up panel hosted at The Riveter in Austin, TX, data #ethics took center stage.Tina Mulqueen facilitated the panel on behalf of Digital Trends, the largest independently-owned (...)

#women-in-tech #social-good

2019 Complete StableCoin Guide 1/10
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Chapter 1Enjoy shorts from my book while my partner, Kyle Rea of cREAtiveCastleStudios finishes our graphics!What is a StableCoin?DefinitionSimply stated, a StableCoin is a #cryptocurrency pegged to another asset. Or, a global digital currency solely unrelated to a central entity. StableCoin’s make for practical usage of cryptocurrencies by allowing for secure, convenient transactions without the high volatility traditional cryptocurrencies hold.History of StableCoinsWhile Satoshi Nakamoto’s vision for Bitcoin to be used as electronic cash, the world’s first cryptocurrency is rarely used as a medium of exchange on a day-to-day basis. Rather, volatility and high fees make many cryptocurrencies impractical for daily transactions, therefore is used more as a long term investment.StableCoins (...)

#crypto #finance #women-in-tech #blockchain

Event Recap: Deriving Product Insights from Data Analytics
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Credits: Advancing Women in Product Team, Aneesha Prakash, Product Manager at Replicon, Jo Dong, BD Manager at Stardust, and Kanika Kapoor, Product Manager at PayPalAs the critical link between business and engineering, product managers need to develop and implement suitable product analytics strategies that can be understood by professionals from a variety of different backgrounds. This task is not as straightforward as we think: are we optimizing for a strategy that is universal, or something that is more data-driven? And above all, how should the product analytics strategy align with company’s business model? Those are just some of the important questions to start with. During the February 26th discussion during #awip’s Deriving Product Insights from Data Analytics event last Tuesday (...)

#women-in-tech #data-analytics #product-management #women-in-product

Interviews with Three Amazing Female Web Developers Who Promote Diversity and Inclusion in Tech
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The Stories Behind BlackTechPipeline, @WomenTechBot, @React_India, and @WomenCoders01Three Amazing Web Developers Who Are Doing Their Best in Engaging Women and Minorities in Web DevelopmentNot long ago I started a series of articles on women in technology at our corporate blog, at soshace.com. And so far I’ve managed to publish just one that featured five outstanding women who were promoting coding education among children, teenage girls, mothers who recently delivered babies, and different other minority groups. I am passionate about promoting equality and diversity in various fields, be it science or creative writing. Unfortunately, back where our company’s based, in Russia, we’re far behind those practices, but there is definitely a nascent trend for inclusion. Writing articles such (...)

#female-developer #girls-who-code #hackernoon-top-story #diversity-in-tech #women-in-tech

Women in Tech: Software Engineer Career Advice
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Is it really a man’s world when it comes to software engineering? Glancing around a Java uni lecture or checking out the engineering department at an old school software house might feel like you’ve just stepped into a secret men’s club.But don’t be fooled. This isn’t a disadvantage; in fact, it’s just the opposite.By making strategic moves in your career, you can use your scarcity to climb the ladder and help orchestrate more diversity in your own teams.We spoke to three leading women in tech — Nicola Eade, Frontend Developer at Open Agent, Liz Crawford, Chief Product and #technology Officer at Flare HR, and Aisha Khan Information Analyst at EY — for their take on excelling as a woman in software engineering.Combatting STEM stereotypesWomen in technology and soft skillsIn your career, simply by (...)

#software-development #diversity-in-tech #women-in-tech #career-advice

Women as Entrepreneurs — A Changing Climate
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Women as Entrepreneurs — A Changing ClimateThe entrepreneurial road to business success is never easy. But one way to make the path to entrepreneurial success even more challenging is simply to be born female. Female entrepreneurs face challenges that their male counterparts have never even considered.However, in spite of incredible odds against them, females are making amazing headway into the entrepreneurial arena. On this journey, they are being helped by new and creative initiatives designed to connect these businesses with those who can best help them succeed.Shaky StatisticsSome of the ways women are “getting ahead” in business look like positives on the surface, but in reality are not as great as they sound. For example, the US Department of Education’s finding that college attendance (...)

#entrepreneurship #women-in-tech #wetalk #female-entrepreneurs #women-as-entrepreneurs

WiCipedia: Diversity in Product Dev & Israeli Entrepreneurs Protest Sexism
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This week in our WiCipedia roundup: Keeping smart home products safe for all; Merkel finds sexism in Israeli tech community; girls have limited access to mobile phones worldwide; and more.Interested in joining Women in Comms on our mission to champion change, empower women and redress the gender imbalance in the comms industry? Visit WiC online and get in touch to learn more about how you can become a member!Despite all of the challenges that women have endured in the tech sector lately, many still have a glass-half-full perspective on the future of women in the industry, reports a new study from Booking.com. Though there are certainly impediments to women who work in tech advancing their careers, the study — which surveyed women who currently work in tech and women who are interested in (...)

#press-release #women-in-tech #product-management #technology #awip

#wtf did we do at the WTF Hackathon?
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Women Tech FabFor all those days I have been working to bring diversity into the tech domain, here was a hackathon that was happening exclusively for women and how could I not be a part of it?! For most #hackathons in the past, I used to mentor and attach myself to teams from colleges and help them out during technical difficulties. This time around, I badly wanted to participate because I had everything they asked for:An IdeaTeamOf course the hackathonThe ideaStoryIn my previous company, I used to log my work, thought process, learning, and design decisions in a google document. As days passed by, the document started growing, and in the end, I had a 36-page document from which I could never infer my learning/thought process. One other issue was you can’t ensure all the employees log (...)

#women-in-tech #javascript #wtf-hackathon

Amplify Conference 2018
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It’s 10:15pm. The Amplify conference starts the next morning, and I just found out that I would be attending. I could not wait.Amplitude talking about their #growth engine productI received a pass to Amplify because of the generosity of the Advancing Women in Product (AWIP) community — AWIP is a organization whose goal is to empower the next generation of women product leaders.So there I was on the morning of October 9th, nibbling on my mini breakfast croissant, bumping against the shoulders of product leaders, anticipating the start of a jam-packed, learning-rich, & Ritual Roasters coffee-filled day.If I think about the learnings I drew out of the conference, I’d say they weren’t necessarily profound nuggets of wisdom — they’re more like gentle reminders. Things I already know but tend to (...)

#amplitude #awip #product-management #women-in-tech

My 4-year journey from bootcamp attendee to senior software engineer
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Image from hereA retrospective on lessons learnedI recently got promoted to senior software engineer at Apollo.io. However, a title is just a title. How have I actually grown?I left my pre-med path at the start of 2015, and I started my first job in tech soon after. Like so many others, I have often questioned my place in this industry.Am I learning fast enough? Am I growing in my career? Will I get replaced by someone fresh out of college?These thoughts creep up every once in awhile, and a few weeks ago, I thought to myself I hadn’t grown much in the last year or so. I felt uneasy until I talked to a colleague about my experience in this industry thus far.“Tell me about each of the places you have worked at. Why did you join? Why did you leave?”Our conversation revolved around this (...)

#startup #hackernoon-top-story #startup-lessons #women-in-tech #software-development

Where do #outliers Live ?
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Are you an outlier? You are going to love this blogAre you here because you read and loved the book Outliers? Yes, I have read that too. Just setting the expectations right, this blog got nothing to do with the book Outliers.I have been an outlier all my life. I felt left out of my gang in college due to my crazy passion for technology. Things didn’t change much even after I entered the workforce. The problem is that Tech-domain is not diverse. Most of the times it was just me and bunch of guys and the tech stuff in a meetup. I got used to this unfair reality over a period. It was hard to shove away the fact that I was an outlier.The world portrays outliers as the ones who live on the extreme ends of a bell curve. As an outlier, you don’t have to see everything like the rest of the world (...)

#motivation #empowerment #entrepreneurship #women-in-tech

Bootstrapping A Career Via Developer Camp
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Developer CampWhile there’s hundreds of #hackathons held world-wide, there’s only one Developer Camp.Square, Getaround, Temple Run, OAuth, TestFlight, push.io, and Zūm — each of these have foundations at Developer Camp over the past twelve years. In fact, major compaines including Apple, Oracle, Google, Amazon, Disney, and Facebook have purchased companies from the winning teams at Developer Camp.What makes Developer Camp so unique and special? Three words.Inclusion, Diversity and Empowerment.Developer Camp is a concept that fused from several distinct, previously-existing event models. The first was BarCamp, a participant-driven “unconference” in which the content of presentations is decided by the attendees, presented by them, and organized entirely on the spot. Our camp incorporates this (...)

#developer-camp #women-in-tech #developer-bootcamp #careers

AWIP Announces Inaugural Executive Summit to Advance Female Leadership Across Technology Industry…
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AWIP Announces Inaugural Executive Summit to Advance Female Leadership Across Technology Industry — AP NewsSAN FRANCISCO — (BUSINESS WIRE) — Nov 6, 2018 — Advancing Women in Product (AWIP), the organization empowering high potential female product and tech leaders through professional education and executive mentorship, is announcing the organization’s inaugural Advancing Women in Product Executive Summit 2018. The summit will take place on Wednesday, November 7, 2018 in San Francisco, California with programming designed to help emerging women leaders land more senior roles in tech. The event will feature an intimate networking portion highlighting AWIP’s goals of enhancing personal and professional growth through executive networking and educational opportunities.Additional featured speakers (...)

#product-management #women-in-tech #press-release

10 Upcoming Conferences (and a couple of awesome diversity scholarships) for Women in Tech
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Originally published at blog.stephsmith.io.Over the past few years, I’ve developed a passion for technology–first through working at a tech company and more recently learning to develop technology myself. I find the industry fascinating and the ability to create something from seemingly nothing extremely rewarding.As I’ve made my way further into technology, I’ve noticed to little shock that the “deeper” I get, the greater the gender gap. I’m confident this will continue to be true as I get even deeper into development, especially since some would not even consider me a “real developer” yet. These obstacles are something that I feel tied to from experience, but also through understanding the importance of inclusion in this industry.In fact, some of my most rewarding experiences recently have (...)

#women-in-tech #women-in-stem #conference #women-in-business #women-in-tech-events

Why You Don’t Always Have To Be Growing
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Paul Jarvis, Author of Company of One (right) and Poornima Vijayashanker, Founder of Femgineer (left)Interview with Paul Jarvis, Author of Company of OneHappy new year! I hope your 2019 is off to a great start :)If you’re curious what I’ve been up to and what I have in store for 2019, I’ll tell you right off the bat, I do not set goals or resolutions at the start of the year. Instead, I review my progress every quarter to see what I want to keep doing, what experiments I want to run, and what I am going to cut or put on the back burner!Taking a broad approach has served me well in running my business, balancing it with the ever-growing demands on my time as a new mom, and most importantly, managing overwhelm. So I won’t be sharing my goals for 2019 or if I’ve resolved to exercise more or (...)

#entrepreneurship #women-in-tech #podcast #startup #growth-mindset

Bias in #ai: a letter to my daughter
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My dearest Eliisabet,Only 5 years old, but you will grow up to become a strong, beautiful & independent woman, of that I’m sure.You are a daughter of a man that wasn’t always an example to others. It took some time for me to grow up & take responsibility for my actions. Being your father has accelerated this process for sure.My generation seems to be struggling with growing up as well. Especially in the relatively young tech community, and more specific the artificial intelligence community, people are not always taking their responsibilities serious.Equality is hard work for my non-white & non-male colleagues in both academia and the industry. The current system is biased in many subtle but also in some very obvious ways.Although the tech community has an huge impact on (...)

#feminism #bias-in-ai #ai-bias #women-in-tech

Why We Need More Women Working in #blockchain
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In 2018, cryptocurrency market capitalisations were worth more than $700 million, and although market trading neared $1 trillion, only 5.5% of bitcoin investors are women. Another study by Quartz looked at crypto startups founded between 2012 and 2018, which discovered that only 8.5% had a founder or co-founder who was a woman.Blockchain needs women to grow successfully, and women need blockchain, too.Blockchain needs women because diversity equals success.Women make businesses more successful at all levels. One study in 2016 found that women were 34% more successful at trading (in traditional markets) than men. Another discovered a high correlation between gender diversity in senior management and better financial performance. In the tech sector, companies with a high level of gender (...)

#technology #women-in-tech #blockchain-technology #blockchain-development

Trailblazing Women in the #cybersecurity Field
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Photo SourceWomen have always had to fight hard for equality and acceptance, especially in the workplace. In primarily male-dominated fields like cybersecurity, women make up only 20 percent of the workforce. Although that figure is climbing, we have a long way to go before women are seen as more than tokens in the industry.There is a tremendous opportunity for women who want to break into cybersecurity. According to Forbes Magazine, by 2021, there will be 3.5 million jobs available in cybersecurity. Cybercrime is on the rise, and companies all over the world are scrambling to fill the open positions with good cyber technicians to field the swarm of threats that are coming.Experts hope that within the next few years, that gender gap will narrow with women making up 50 percent of the (...)

#cybersecurity-field #women-in-tech #women-in-crybersecurity #tech

How To Assert Yourself As A Woman In Tech
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It’s tough to be a woman in the male-dominated tech world.As a female front-end developer for over a decade, I often hear feedback from #women who are told they aren’t able to do the job as well as men. That they’re too emotional, and incapable of understanding the more technical concepts — the code or the #technology.This narrative is completely false. But it’s one that women themselves take on as a self-fulfilling prophecy: because they’re treated so poorly, they think they must be less worthy.It breaks my heart when extremely smart, talented women say they don’t feel heard or respected by men in their industry.Unfortunately, the stats reinforce this gender inequality. In 2017, female founders of all-women teams received just 2% of all venture capital dollars. And most firms don’t even report (...)

#empowerment #women-in-tech #empowering-women

5 Best Practices For Keeping A New Product On Track
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Vera Reynolds, Software Engineer at Pivotal Tracker (middle), Lisa Doan, Product Manager at Pivotal Tracker (right)and Poornima Vijayashanker, founder of Femgineer(left)Interview with Lisa Doan and Vera Reynolds of Pivotal TrackerLast week on Build, we shared why instead of rebuilding or redesigning an existing product, it might make sense to build a brand-new product, and we walked you through how some folks on the Pivotal Tracker team arrived at their decision.When you start building a new product, you have the best of intentions to revise old processes and move away from bad habits. But it’s easier said than done. So this week, we’re going to share some best practices for keeping a new product on track!And to help us out, Lisa Doan and Vera Reynolds are back! You’ll recall Lisa is a (...)

#women-in-tech #project-management #agile #product-development #software-development

Why Build A Brand New Product Instead Of Rebuilding Or Redesigning One
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Vera Reynolds, Software Engineer at Pivotal Tracker (middle), Lisa Doan, Product Manager at Pivotal Tracker (right)and Poornima Vijayashanker, founder of Femgineer(left)Interview with Lisa Doan and Vera Reynolds of Pivotal TrackerHappy November!November is one of my favorite months mostly because I love Thanksgiving. Last year I had a wonderful time celebrating it with Meghan Burgain, Femgineer’s Community Manager in Bordeaux, France. We had a Frenchgiving, and had the opportunity to share how Meghan works remotely.This November, we’re going to be tackling a new theme on Build: building a brand-new product.If you’ve been building a product for a while, you know it’s natural to start accruing tech debt and product debt. And there comes a point when it becomes really hard to add new features (...)

#agile #software-development #product-development #project-management #women-in-tech