Tickets go on sale this morning for the second annual Hopperx1 Seattle conference, a take on the popular, long-running Grace Hopper Celebration that brings together women in technology from around… Read More
The event was Amazon’s AWS re:Invent conference last November and the hall was packed. Yet Arif Gürsel felt isolated. “I was sitting in this conference center and 50,000 people are… Read More
Earlier this month, after Amazon’s board initially opposed a shareholder proposal requiring the company to consider women and minorities for open board positions, criticism from employees and members of Congress… Read More
Amazon shareholders will congregate in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood Wednesday morning for the tech giant’s annual meeting, listening to CEO Jeff Bezos and other executives provide updates on the company’s business… Read More
The tech industry has a real struggle when it comes to attracting diverse talent, and Ada Developers Academy is doing something about that. The non-profit offers an intensive, tuition-free coding… Read More
Silicon Valley is the birthplace of some of the most innovative companies in the world — Apple, Google and even Facebook among them. But these days, it’s also become infamous for… Read More
The pay gap between men and women doing similar work has been a persistent issue in the U.S. for decades. RELATED: Starbucks pledges $10M to support development of recyclable, compostable… Read More
Gender imbalance is a tale as old as the tech industry itself. Across the industry, women make up just 30 percent of the workforce and, at many companies, the percentage… Read More
Inclusion. Culture fit. Unconscious bias. These words are buzzing through the technology industry as the “Me Too” movement and a slew of high-profile cases of sexual harassment turn the spotlight… Read More
March is Woman’s History Month, and Seattle’s tech community is already gearing up to celebrate and support women in tech. The TUNE House, a scholarship program for women studying computer… Read More
In 1715, Sybilla Masters traveled from colonial America to London to register a patent. She had invented a new way to process corn, but she was in for a nasty… Read More
In 2013, indie video game developer Zoe Quinn became the target of relentless and coordinated online harassment by men in the video game community. The harassment spread to other women… Read More
Hannah Lidman arrives before 7 a.m. in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood. She’s an entrepreneur on a mission: Find a technical co-founder for her new business, DayHeart, an app that connects… Read More
Diversity. Inclusion. Intersectionality. There are a lot of code words for having an open and welcoming culture, and we see them in headlines and speaker abstracts all over the tech… Read More
Todd Stabelfeldt is a pretty chill dude. He lives 90 minutes from Seattle by ferry, in a home with his wife and occasionally two stepkids. He runs a consultancy for… Read More
Being a working parent — and particularly a working mom — is hard. But can being a parent also make you a better business leader? Julia Freeland thinks so. She’s the founder… Read More
Tech has a big diversity problem, and Ada Developers Academy tackles that problem head-on. The non-profit, fast-growing coding school offers a free software development training program for women, gender-diverse people and… Read More
Diversity — or lack thereof — in the tech and startup worlds is a persistent problem. But there are plenty of opportunities to highlight and support the work being done by… Read More
Looking for a new job? Looking for new friends? Just want to have some fun on a Thursday? The Washington Technology Industry Association has you covered with its Downtown Seattle… Read More
There have been increasing efforts over the past few years to close the gender gap in tech, and particularly in startups. A high-profile scandal inside Uber’s engineering division, and constant efforts from… Read More
The gender wage gap in the U.S. has been slowly shrinking over the past decades, but in tech and other industries the gap is still far from gone. A new study… Read More
We’ve seen the numbers on diversity in startups, and they’re not good. Less than one-fifth of startups that receive funding are led by women, and investors are more likely to… Read More
On March 8, 1908, more than a decade before women earned the right to vote in the United States, thousands of women filled the streets of New York City. They were… Read More
This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we kick things off with a look into Microsoft’s huge new move into artificial intelligence, including the tech giant’s 5,000 person AI engineering… Read More
The Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) announced today that its apprenticeship program, Apprenti, was awarded a $7.5 million contract from the Department of Labor to expand its services nationally. Although apprenticeship programs… Read More
Tech’s diversity gap — and particularly the gender gap — is starting to feel like a well-trodden subject. But despite increased efforts from large tech employers, minorities and women are still drastically underrepresented in… Read More
Let’s be clear about a few things up front. If you’re going to one of the HERE Seattle meetups, don’t count on ping pong. Same goes for anything Pokemon. And… Read More
If you’ve ever interviewed for a job as a software engineer, you’ve probably encountered the dreaded Whiteboard Test. Just you, a blank wall, and a marker. “Five developers sat across from… Read More