Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit in October 2014 "…will be an intimate forum at which the titans of technology, business, and media engage in important, exclusive conversations about the future." Of the 48 speakers announced so far, only 12 are women. Apparently, the "new establishment" is only 25% women. Vanity Fair can do better.
Read MoreCode for America Summit 2014 is a breath of fresh air from the technology community. THIS is what speaker diversity looks like. Silicon Valley, it can be done! Bravo. 25 total speakers, 12 women.
Read MoreRegional Economic Development Initiative (REDI) Cincinnati's Executive Board has 16 members, only 2 of which are women. This leaves them with a paltry 12.5% female board.
Read MoreThe Financial Reporting Council Conference in the UK boasts 13 speakers at its latest conference, 6 of whom are women. U.S. Financial Services conference organizers: It can be done!
Read MoreAmerican Legislative Exchange Council Annual Meeting has 11 featured speakers at its annual meeting July 30 – August 1. That is a 9% female speaker ratio even though 24% of state legislators are women. ALEC just announced Lisa Nelson as the new CEO and includes a female Chair, so perhaps more featured speaker roles will go to women next year.
Read MoreY'All Connect is a blogging and social media conference that took place in Birmingham, Alabama in June 2014. 6 out of its 10 speakers were women!
Read MoreFortune's Brainstorm Tech 2014 is "a marketplace of ideas that assembles the smartest people we know". Its preliminary participants are 69 men and only 24 women. First impressions count, and this isn't great!
Read MoreThe 2014 Games for Change Festival "features leaders in the game world and experts in other fields who are using game-thinking to solve some of the world's most challenging questions." 40% of speakers (43 out of 110) are women. Apparently there are women leaders in the tech field after all!
Read MoreNationalJournal's The Next America: Making America Work on June 24, 2014 will engage key opinion leaders to discuss financial empowerment, workforce development and entrepreneurship. It has 50% women speakers and moderators. Go, NJ's Next America!
Read MoreSilicon Valley Energy Summit 2014, sponsored by Stanford University, boasts 43 speakers, only 12 of whom are women. 28% is hardly balanced. More Silicon Valley nonsense.
Read MoreThe Saskatchewan Festival of Words is an annual event in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, which brings authors from across North America together to speak about their work, promote reading and writing, and empower youth writers and leaders. Year after year, the SFOW has ensured that women have a strong voice at the annual event. For the Summer 2014 event, 58% of the presenting authors are women!
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