Ladies in Tech wants more women speakers

Happy Cog interactive development director Jenn Lukas and designer Yesenia Perez-Cruz have launched Ladies in Tech, aiming to encourage more women to participate at conferences.

Lukas’s first article on the site recalls her experience at JSConf, where almost all the women left after an announcement for a ‘Significant Others’ track that largely involved touring around the city. Later, having felt "genuinely lonely and out of place as a woman", for the first time in her "nerd life", Lukas took a five-minute ‘lightning talk’ slot, asking those in the crowd to encourage more women to get involved.

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