Just before Women's History Month kicked off, tech enthusiasts in the New York City area gathered at SVA Theater in Chelsea for Tech in Motion’s NYC Women Transforming Tech panel discussion.
Tech in Motion was able to gather together an incredible group of influential women working in the tech community to speak on a panel regarding issues such as equality, hurdles faced in and out of the work place, market news and much more.
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We would like to thank our wonderful panelists and moderator:
- Cassidy Williams, Software Engineer and Developer Evangelist at Venmo
- Rebecca Garcia, Co-founder of CoderDojo NYC and Developer Evangelist at Squarespace
- Maitreyi Krishnaswamy, Principal Manager of Verizon's consumer video services
- Moderator: Samantha King, Division Manager at Workbridge Associates
Upon arriving, attendees were encouraged to enjoy some light networking and grilled cheese from Mrs. Dorsey’s Kitchen before taking their seats to listen to the discussion. Before the panel took to the stage to discuss the past year’s tech headlines, a few words were spoken by representatives from the event’s headline sponsor companies Jobspring Partners, Workbridge Associates, and Verizon FiOS.
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Samantha King dove into the panel discussion by taking a quick poll from the audience. She asked the audience to raise their hand if the answer was yes.
“Are you currently a women working in the tech industry?”
“Are you currently learning to code or interested in working in technology?”
“Do you think there are gender based inequalities in the tech industry?”
Each question resulted in more and more hands raised. Once almost every hand in the audience was raised, King turned to the panelists and asked, “Is ‘women in tech’ a real issue or a perceived one?”
The three women of the panel shared their opinions and insights on the topic and Rebecca Garcia’s clear answer stood out to the crowd. She stated that until there are no longer panels and events on women in tech, there is indeed a women in tech issue.
Throughout the panel discussion, the women shared their personal experience both good and bad, their messages of encouragement and motivation and advice on how to succeed in the technology industry despite the facts women face today.
As King asked questions on what some of the challenges women face are and what advice the panelists had to share with the audience, the audience attentively listened to their every word.
“We need to be more confident," summed up Krishnaswamy with her opinion on women networking in the tech space.
Get confident and some network at a Tech in Motion event coming up nearby.