Sisters What do you think of the women in tech summits?
Attended a few. Frankly a big waste of time and will not attend anymore. Prefer attending tech conferences where I can learn a thing or two and network. Curious to hear your experiences. I am a mid career 18yoe btw and female.
I am distrustful with the women focused groups at most companies; it's kind of like giving you a cracker when you're starving. It's meant to pacify. There's a lot of talk and posturing but equal pay, more women in management, maternity and paternity leave, the important issues aren't addressed in a meaningful way or impactfully. Most of them are to mark dissatisfied women and report them back to HR so they can be kept under scrutiny.
Whoa! How so? Like they mark the ones who seem to be troublemakers?
Yes. I think they mark the ones the believe could be difficult.
Just expect it as networking opportunities, nothing more.
Unfortunately nothing meaningful in these networking opportunities. You speak for a short time (like speed dating), connect over LinkedIn and then what??
Wait for one to land a cool job, then reconnect. I find twitter is a better place to connect because there is open discussion going on and people get to know you after the event, and you get to know them
I’m generally annoyed by the sycophantic men that attend these things.
It depends what you expect out of the conference. There are so many excellent speakers and panelists that come to these events. I had a lot of takeaways from the conference I attended. Personally, I didn't learn anything that I thought applies to me because I'm a woman. But keeping that aside, I think it is a great opportunity to get to attend one of these.
Most of them are pr only. Women know what the issues are, why do we need to go to talks on them? When there's a conference aimed at senior leaders, I'll get behind that. Otherwise, a waste of time.
Completely agree. More senior leaders should talk about the pitfalls to avoid and watch out for, rather than talking about what you should do.
I agree. I’ve joined some female prof groups, even led some, and at the end of the day I don’t get any more out of it than I would a mixed conference. The networking is good, but sometimes I feel like it’s just highlighting inequality rather than supporting inclusiveness
After a while I find everyone saying the same thing. I am not learning anything new anymore.