10 Tips for Planning a Tech Conference that Women Will Actually Want to Attend


A number of women from the Women Who Tech community feel like large startups admit there are diversity issues, but not enough action is being taken to address the problems. Conferences can be a great venue for attendees who are in positions of management, including founders and future founders to get concrete advice.

The fact that this post was published two years ago brings about mixed feelings in me. A) It’s reassuring to think some of these tips have been repeated a million times and b) it’s disheartening to think that they need to be repeated again.

In any case, they’re true, honest, and well-founded. Here, Allyson Kapin, Founder of Women Who Tech, gives her feedback and recommendations of how to welcome and engage women to your conferences in the most effective ways.

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