Marc Benioff, CEO, Salesforce & Kara Swisher, Co-Executive Editor, Re/code
Venue // NYU Law School in Washington Square park
New York Content Tracks:
Lesbians Who Code
Lesbians Who Tech // Finance
Lesbians Who Tech // Media & Digital
Workshop focused professional growth
Thursday, October 1st
- Tech Crawl // Visiting different tech offices around the city and Brooklyn
- Tech Dinners // Dinners at different offices, in partnership with tech groups around NY
- Night // Welcome Party
Friday, October 2nd
- Morning // Brunch on topics around specific topics like entrepreneurship, media, engineering, design and more.Tech Crawl // Visiting different tech offices around the city and Brooklyn
- Ted Style Talks
- Badass Speakers
- Networking that doesn't suck
- Lesbians Who Code Track
- Lesbians Who Tech // Media & Digital Track
- Lesbians Who Tech // Finance Track
- Friday Night PARTY
Saturday & Sunday, October 3rd & 4th
- Workshop // Professional Growth & Entrepreneurship
- Hackathon
- Picnic in the park
- Brunch
- Saturday Party
- Other satellite events
Some of my favorite talks from San Francisco's Summit
Check out our San Francisco Summit Agenda to see how we roll
Unpacking Privacy // Rose Hayes, Engineering Director at Google & Board of Directors at Transgender Law Center
Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing and the Future of Personalized Medicine // Emily Drabant Conley PhD, Director of Business Development, 23andMe
UX Research and Design: The Human Side of Tech// Aga Bojko, Director of User Research, Indiegogo
Breaking the Bro Code//Dominique DeGuzman, Software Engineer, Twilio
Queer Women Who Media // The Future of Technology & Journalism
From Data Geek to a People-Focused Leader // How to Emerge from the Shadows // Christy Gaughan, Director of Marketing Science, Genentech
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How We're Using the Money
With funds from the campaign, we're going to secure the venue we have on hold.
If we raise above our goal, there are tons of other Summit expenses we'll apply the funds to. The total cost of the Summit will be well above the campaign amount; this campaign is just to get us started.
Venue Costs // $15 - $25k
Food Costs // $20k - $30k
Video & AV // $10k - $15
Livestream // $5k - $10k
Design & Materials // $5k - $10k
Staff & Support // 10k - $20k
Speaker Travel // TBD
Other Ways You Can Help
Can't make it to Lesbians Who Tech New York? You can still help!
- Email friends and tell them about the campaign!
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Share the campaign on social media! Use the links above (just below the video) to share it on Facebook and Tweet it.
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Talk to your company about sponsoring the Summit. It's a great opportunity to recruit women and diverse talent, and support the LGBT community. Please email Leanne for more information: leanne@lesbianswhotech.org
Be a Sponsor!
Want to show your support of the women and LGBT communities, and connect with our audience at the event? Be a sponsor of Lesbians Who Tech New York.
Sponsoring is great for:
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Branding: Build positive associations for your brand among this loyal audience
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Community Support: Show that you're supportive of the LGBT community, to the public, your employees, shareholders and job candidates
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Recruiting: It's a great opportunity to recruit women and diverse tech talent. The Summit is 50% engineering talent and 50% business talent (marketing, sales, product marketing, etc.)
Sponsors of the San Francisco Summit included:
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And more! Check out a full list of Lesbians Who Tech Sponsors here.To learn more about connecting your company to our audience, please email Leanne Pittsford: leanne@lesbianswhotech.org.
Allies are welcome and encouraged to #showup
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