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Join First GA Thunderclap: 15% Women Speakers at WSJDLive 2015

WSJ.D Live, a global technology conference hosted by the Wall Street Journal, has only 15% women speakers this year.  

Show the Wall Street Journal that we are paying attention and that it's time to value the voices of women. Sign up for our ThunderClap today and help create a tidal wave of tweets highlighting the lack of women speakers at #WSJDLive and encouraging them to prioritize women's voices onstage at their future events. 

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#HallofShame | ZERO Women Speakers at JDD 2015

JDD starts on October 12th and bills itself as "a two-day conference for all Java enthusiasts - anyone who lives and breathes Java in their professional and personal lives." When creating their lineup for this event, JDD organizer ProIdea claims that they "invite speakers from all over the world."

So JDD and ProIdea, you have the whole world at your fingertips and you didn't think to add any women speakers?

47 speakers appear on the JDD lineup. 100% of them are men.

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#HallofFame | 47% Women Speakers at Forbes Under 30 Summit

The Forbes Under 30 Summit brings together "2,000 of the planet's top young entrepreneurs and game-changers, as well as world class mentors" from October 4th through October 7th, 2015. The action-packed agenda covers everything from food to business to entertainment and includes an impressive lineup of 58 speakers.

This year, we're welcoming to Forbes and the Under 30 Summit to the GA Hall of Fame! 27 out of 58 of their speakers are women, giving them a Hall of Fame worthy gender ratio of 47% women speakers. 

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#HallofFame | National Book Awards 2015 Longlist

The National Book Award is a prestigious "American literary prize administered by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization." Previous winners include literary luminaries Flannery O'Connor, Saul Bellow, Alice Walker, and more. 

The National Book Foundation recently released their longlist of nominees, and 60% of the nominated books were written by women!

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#HallofShame | Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit [UPDATE]

The Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit "emphasizes disruptive solutions to the Health Care conundrum" and offers the opportunity to "learn about emerging technologies that will impact the economics of care and improve the ways we prevent and treat illness." This is a critical dialogue that covers issues with a widespread impact. Obviously, women's voices should be a part of this conversation. Unfortunately, they are barely included in the speaker lineup.

The Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit features just four women speakers out of 38 total.  

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#HallofShame | Personalized Medicine World Conference 2016

The Personalized Medicine World Conference 2016 has over 100 speakers this year, and only 19 of those speakers are women. On January 24th, "recognized authorities and experts across healthcare and biotechnology sectors" will come together to watch a nearly all male lineup weigh in on critical issues facing personalized medicine. 

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#HallofFame | Social Good Summit 2015, Second Year in a Row!

We're thrilled to announce that the Social Good Summit is in the GA Hall of Fame for the second year in a row!

In 2014 they featured 43% women speakers. This year, the conference has improved its Hall of Fame ratio. The 2015 Social Good Summit lineup includes 48% women speakers! 

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