“We’ve had ‘Conversations with Men in Tech,’ and now this is ‘Conversations with Women in Tech.’ But we need to get to a place where we can just have ‘Conversations in Tech.’”
We were pleased to host a thought-provoking evening of conversation at Marketsite last night: the New York Tech Meetup and NASDAQ’s Conversations with Women in Tech event. (Watch the webcast here.)
NYTM managing director Jessica Lawrence opened the event with our headline quote, setting the tone with this message: There’s no achievement gap, and there’s no ambition gap between men and women in the tech world. There is, however, a comfort gap — but hopefully frank conversations like last night’s, about where the community needs to go from here, will move the tech community towards a new set point where men and women can work together to develop ideas, recruit broadly and build great companies.
Below the jump, a few standout quotes from each of the five other speakers who took the stage (Rachel Sklar, Founder, Change The Ratio; Tara Hunt, CEO, Buyosphere; Anil Dash, Co-founder, Activate & ThinkUp; Amy Quispe,Senior at Carnegie Melon & HackNY fellow; and Cindy Gallop,Founder, IfWeRanTheWorld/MakeLoveNotPorn) to share their thoughts on the status of women in tech and where the community needs to go next.
Thursday, June 28, 2012
