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APAC Speaker - Angie Chang, Girl Geek X (1).pptx
- 1. Speaker: APAC Audience Angie Chang Founder, Girl Geek X March 2023 - Women’s History Month
- 2. My Story - Circa 2006 The start of Women 2.0, Girl Geek X, and Hackbright.
- 3. Women 2.0 - Moonlighting, Mostly Sharing stories of women starting startups, and working in technology!
- 4. FT Women 2.0, Thousand-Woman Conference Going full-time on Women 2.0 meant scaling our conferences from 400 attendees to over 1,000 attendees each time!
- 5. 2008: Started Girl Geek Dinners in SF Bay Area Excited about the value of bringing women in tech together, and having always worked at small startups without a WIT group, the inaugural Girl Geek Dinner in the SF Bay Area was held on January 2008 at Google headquarters in Mountain View for 400+ women.
- 7. ….Dinners continue over a decade! Name these companies:
- 8. Successful Recruiting Arquay Harris attended Slack’s Girl Geek Dinner because she was interested in the company and on hiatus from working (formerly at Google). Arquay interviewed at Slack although she wasn’t seriously looking and became a Senior Director of Engineering at Slack for over four years! “I credit Girl Geek Dinners with exposing to me to such a great company” - Arquay
- 9. "There are a lot of toxic things about banking but why do *they* have women leaders?" Frances Haugen speaking at GitHub Girl Geek Dinner 2015 on intersection of product & gender. Great Speakers Sharing Expertise & Ideas Frances Haugen speaking to Congress in 2021 as Facebook whistleblower.
- 10. Get Involved - Attend a Girl Geek X event! Meeting fellow girl geeks is fun and easy at Girl Geek Dinner in San Francisco at Mode HQ. Erica Kawamoto Hsu / Girl Geek X
- 11. 1. Have a goal when walking in the door: Is it to meet 1-3 people at an event? To stay for an hour? Set expectations for yourself before you go. 2. Practice curiosity: Ask people questions about what they do, their company, the engineering roles there, the tech stack… 3. Have a drink: Whether alcoholic or coffee, many people have suggested having some liquid courage beforehand. 4. Early bird gets the worm: If you go to an event early, there are fewer people so it's easier to talk - and it's probably quieter - or ask a question Crowdsourced Networking Tips Learned from Girl Geek Dinners
- 12. Crowdsourced Networking Tips Learned from Girl Geek Dinners 5. Figure out your 1-2 line answer to “what do you do?”: Everyone always asks, so might as well prepare. You can even try different (truthful) answers to see which answer piques the most interest with folks. 6. Stand by the food: Ask who joins you - “what is good?”, have they been to this event before, how did they hear about this event, what do they do, etc. 7. Friendliness: Wear a conversation-starter nerdy t-shirt or statement sweater or earrings. A warm smile and a genuine curiosity in others is free and easy.
- 13. Crowdsourced Networking Tips Learned from Girl Geek Dinners 8. Network online and off: From mailing lists to Slack channels, from in- person events to browsing LinkedIn, send a message asking to grab a coffee (IRL or virtual) with someone to chat more. It’s GOOD to have a goal of getting to the next level, or learning more for career evaluation.
- 14. Q&A From Audience ● What is confidence? How do you increase it? ● Have you witnessed a confidence gap between men and women? How can we bridge the gap? ● Any tips for speaking with confidence? ● Do you have strategies for building your network? ● What is “micro-mentorship”? How can we find or create moments of “micro-mentorship”?
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- Why am I here - who am I - first I will talk about what I’ve started in terms of building communities for women in tech, business and entrepreneurship. Angie Chang is CEO and Founder at Girl Geek X (formerly Bay Area Girl Geek Dinners), a growing community of 40,000+ mid-to-senior level women in technology. Girl Geek X works with mission-aligned companies to help them engage, hire and retain women and non-binary leaders & technologists via custom recruiting events. Over the past decade, we have partnered with hundreds of the world's most innovative tech and consumer brands (PayPal, Etsy, Tesla, Adobe, Meta, Microsoft, Netflix and more) to host more than 400 events in the San Francisco Bay area, and virtual events for over 20,000 attendees — creating opportunities for more than 2,000 women to take the mic and share their thought leadership and expertise as speakers. Prior to Girl Geek X, Angie was VP of Strategic Partnerships at Hackbright Academy, a women's engineering school for female software engineers. Angie led partnerships with employers at Hackbright, where she built valuable hiring partnerships (Uber, Slack, GoDaddy, Redfin, Indiegogo and more), launched the mentorship program (enlisting 700+ industry engineers as volunteers in 4 years) and connected countless women to new jobs in tech. She also co-founded Women 2.0 in 2006, a media company which promotes women in high-tech entrepreneurship. She was named in Fast Company's 2010 "Most Influential Women in Technology" and more recently Business Insider named her one of "30 Most Important Women Under 30 In Tech." Angie has been invited by the U.S. State Department to speak on women's high-tech, high-growth entrepreneurship in the West Bank, Switzerland and Germany. In her early career, Angie held positions in product management and web/UI production at various Silicon Valley startups. She holds a B.A. in English and Social Welfare from UC Berkeley.
- Girl Geek X
- With Women 2.0, I was working at my first VC-funded startup in Palo Alto after graduating from UC Berkeley with my humanities degrees and work experience in IT, both on the marketing and web design side. I was a co-founder of Women 2.0 in 2006, and launched a beacon of entrepreneurial hope out into the world. Having gone to male-dominated events for tech and entrepreneurship at Stanford, I was tired of asking about where the other women were in the Web 2.0 movement and created Women 2.0 as a brand to capture interest in the growing entrepreneurial movement. I created the brand and platform to share stories of entrepreneurship in women, hard work, the trough of sorrow, and edited articles from women entrepreneurs as well as articles such as profiling women angel investors. You didn’t need to be a Kardashian to be celebrated as an entrepreneur starting up. We were creating a place for normal aspiring tech entrepreneurs, builders and funders to gather and honestly share stories, challenges and hard work being done, which inspire women everywhere to do their own best work. We had partnerships with Kauffman Foundation, and content distribution thru Forbes and Huffington Post.
- I started Women 2.0 as a side hustle while working at my first few startups in engineering. We started an annual business plan competition, or as we called it, PITCH: the napkin business plan competition, where you mailed in your submission on a paper napkin, and also your application. Every year we’d have the finalists pitching onstage in front of venture capitalists, mostly women. In 2009, Clara Shih was one of the finalists on the winning team for her startup idea at the time. She’s written at a few books, been referenced in Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In book, started her company called Hearsay Social, and today is Clara Shih is CEO at Salesforce AI. Women 2.0 celebrated entrepreneurship but I also wanted to reach a broader coalition of women interested in STEM - science, technology, engineering and math. The Girl Geek Dinner name came across my internet search for similar events, but they were only happening in London and some places around the world, and after 6-12 months of waiting for a Girl Geek Dinner to happen in the San Francisco Bay Area, I decided I would have to host one.
- London Google HQ was hosting a dozen or two dozen women in their office for London Girl Geek Dinners, so I found a woman in diversity recruiting at Google in 2008 and proposed hosting a Girl Geek Dinner in the Google - Mountain View headquarters. She found a room for 200 people and we created a Google site at the time to take registrations, and the event received over 400 registrations by word of mouth in five days. This completely exceeded everyone’s expectations. The Google host had to shut down registrations immediately and find a way to both book Google’s largest venue at the time, Charlie’s Cafe, and also put up a giant white tent outside for additional networking and sushi dinner, Google girl geek mug distribution, etc.
- The first Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner took over Google’s Mountain View Headquarters one evening in January 2008. We featured a panel of women, from a venture capitalist, to a developer/founder Leah Culver, entrepreneur Sumaya Kazi, Google Director of UX Irene Au, and Rashmi Sinha, founder of SlideShare, acquired by LinkedIn.
- We continued to host fun Girl Geek Dinners at companies all over the San Francisco Bay Area to showcase their products, teams, schwag, women onstage talking about tech and innovation, and women talking offstage at science fairh booth type. We were at Tesla, Facebook, Perforce, Genentech, Salesforce, and not pictured, Intel we were at a handful of times with fun bunnysuit photoshoots.
- Aside from all the fun celebrations of women in tech, we were also successfully connecting women in tech to their next job in tech. Here’s Arquay Harris, who attended the Slack Girl Geek Dinner when she was in between jobs. She had just left Google and was going to travel the world for a while, but saw the Slack Girl Geek Dinner announcement, and attended the event as it piqued her curiousity. She got recruited at the event and interviewed even though she wasn’t seriously looking, and got hired, and was promoted to Senior Director of Engineering at Slack for over four years. Since then she has been a VP of Engineering at Webflow and now is on another hiatus, her LinkedIn says she is “retired” but I’m sure she’ll get recruited to another great company, maybe a Disney Girl Geek Dinner if there is one, you can recruit her to be your VPE.
- In the course of 16 years of hosting Girl Geek Dinners and now our ELEVATE Virtual Conferences, we have had the opportunity to hear from some incredible women in tech. One of my personal favorites is Frances Haugen, now famously the Facebook whistleblower who in 2022 was a Facebook data scientist and took hundreds of screenshots and shared them with journalists to who disclosed The Facebook Files, which became a trove of damning information about how tech giant knew about harms to children which drew government scrutiny. Here’s one of many pictures of her testifying before Congress about what Facebook knows. I bring up Franches Haugen because she is a 3x Girl Geek Dinner speaker over the years. She spoke at a Google Girl Geek Dinner early-career while she was a product manager at Google, her first job after college. She spoke att Yelp at the GitHub Girl Geek Dinner about the intersection of product and gender, which is one of my favorite talks of hers, and she spoke at Pinterest Girl Geek Dinner when she was working as a product manager at Pinterest. Then two years ago, I saw Franches Augen on 60 Minutes talking about Facebook. She has been smart, eloquent and persuasive in front of Congress. I am so proud of Frances Haugen the girl geek, whom I first met during Women 2.0 when she come to a meetup to support entrepreneurship and women with other Google product managers. I say this all to encourage you to practice your craft early and often, whether it’s speaking - Frances started with debate in high school - and 20 years later, is a pro testifying in front of Congress, making tech accessible - and accountable to the people
- Making friends is fun and easy! I may be biased but I truly have found that Girl Geek Dinners has been a way to connect with others as an introvert around like-minded things. I met many close friends, popcorning around the Bay Area hosting Girl Geek Dinners at different companies, it’s never the same thing. There’s also something we did that I found an excellent move - we offered a rideshare document, which is something we still offer for Oakland school volunteers, where people who are registered get access to a document that lets you share your ridesharing status: where you’re coming from, where you’re going, how many seats, what’s the phone number to text you at about the rideshare. This is because Bay Area traffic, like many places, is pretty terrible, and we like to rideshare, both to save money and resources (gas) but also you get to meet at least one new person in that long car ride there and back with uninterrupted conversation :) You might be able to organize something similar the next time there's a conference, event, dinner, or work off-site that you'll be attending. See if you can pull some folks together to rideshare and attend together. It's not only a great chance to connect and get to know people, but taking the initiative to organize it can also increase your own visibility.
- We all know that networking is important and can greatly accelerate your career and lead to a more impactful life. We've all heard the many benefits and upsides of putting yourself out there and expanding your network. But networking doesn't come naturally for most of us. We get nervous. We don't know what to say. Or we experience imposter syndrome and convince ourselves we have nothing of value to contribute. Networking doesn't have to be as hard or as scary as we make it feel in our own minds. I've crowdsourced some networking tips from women who've attended Girl Geek Dinners over the years...
- In Australia and New Zealand, tall poppy syndrome refers to successful people being criticised and their peers believe they are too successful, or are bragging about their success. And such intense scrutiny and criticism of such a person is termed as "cutting down the tall poppy". In Japan, a similar common expression is "the nail that sticks up gets hammered down". There are some good books and ways to think about it - The Loudest Duck is a book about diversity and management and may be a good one to read. It says that a Chinese story exists about a loud - the loudest - duck that quacks and gets shot! But in Western culture, there's a saying -- "the squeaky wheel gets the grease." Speaking up, raising concerns, sharing an opinion, and even complaining is REWARDED in Western culture, not admonished. Whereas in many Asian cultures, the opposite is true. Children, and young girls especially, are conditioned to be quiet, not to complain, not to speak out, and even to speak in lower volumes and hushed tones. That's not really a thing in Western culture, where voices are louder, speech patterns have more exaggerated intonations and animated speakers are considered more engaging. Children are even sometimes criticized if they speak too softly or mumble. There's a stark cultural contrast. You may have to unlearn that deeply engrained social conditioning and learn to speak up, to speak loudly, to speak confidently. In the office... you're not a duck. There isn't a target on your back for speaking or having an opinion. Your perspective and willingness to share your opinion makes you a more valuable part of your team. And if you aren’t loud or you are uncomfortable with speaking, written communication and Slack messages are ways to speak and let your colleagues pick up your subject matter expertise and be able to mention you when you are not in the room. Especially as thought workers, we are hired for our ideas, our creativity, our good judgement. We are hired and promoted our ability to think creatively, strategically, to problem solve and think of out of the box solutions. Your team and your peers will benefit from being able to consider your perspective and your ideas. Sharing them isn't arrogance. Arrogance would be believing that your idea or opinion is the only one that should be considered, that you couldn't possibly be wrong, and that everyone around you is stupid for not seeing it. If those aren't the thoughts going through your head... then don't even worry about being perceived as arrogant. You aren't. And on the off chance that someone does mistake your confidence for arrogance -- let them. Because you belong. You are in the room or at the table for a reason -- someone recognized your talent and value. And you have just as much right to be and to share your insights and expertise as anyone else. We need to address the implications of the word arrogant, which is how the original question was framed with the assumption of arrogance. It belongs in the traditional family of thought, where confidence means “bossy” and “bad” in girls - and whereas for boys, it means you have “executive leadership skills”. In 2010, Sheryl Sandberg gave a viral TED talk about “Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders” she talks about how women need to be associated with leadership skills, not being bossy (which is something that sounds undesirable). She also talks about how families have signed up their sons, but not their daughters, for tech camps. There is work to be done in all of us where we encourage all genders equally to pursue STEM because we are all capable and brilliant builders, inventors, and leaders.