Event

She's Geeky DC: A Technology Conference for Women

She's Geeky DC: A Technology Conference for Women Are you a woman? Are you a Geek? This event is for you! We invite women from a diverse array of technological fields and those doing technology within non-technical fields. This includes:

* Nonprofit Technology
* Advocacy Campaigning
* Open Source
* Intelligence Community
* Entrepreneurs
* Coders / Programmers
* Product Managers
* Users of Tech tools
* Gadget Enthusiasts
* Hardware Hackers
* Engineers
* Video Geeks
* Gamers
* .....what ever you think is geeky

About She's Geeky:

She’s Geeky convenes to inspire women technologists for the future and advance systemic change in tech culture, providing a space to create enduring communities that foster collaboration and innovation among women professionals working in Science Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.

In early 2007 a group of women working in the high-tech sector in the San Francisco Bay Area recognized a need for a gathering space where women who self-identify as geeky could meet in person to support, educate, and share experiences with each other. Although many organizations already existed for women in different areas of technology and as well to encourage girls to pursue careers in such fields, there was no commons area that:

* brought all interested individuals and organizations together;
* supported peer-to-peer learning exchange;
* built connections and established relationships across diverse communities and disciplines to support women technologists; and
* specifically attended to retaining women in technology fields through community

Rather than creating another niche women-in-tech organization, we decided to work with and promote existing activists and organizations, inviting them all to meet at an interactive event called an unConference.

You can bring your daughters! We even created a special ticket price for them. Girls as young as 9 years old have attended She's Geeky with their mothers / aunts / mentors.

Company/Organization: She's Geeky
Raul Yzaguirre Building, 1126 16th St., N.W., Washington, DC 20036
United States [Google Map | Yahoo! Map | MapQuest Map]

Friday, November 13, 2009 thru Saturday, November 14, 2009
9:00am - 5:00pm
http://shesgeekydc.eventbrite.com/