Women Impact Tech

Happy Women’s Equality Day! 🌟 Today, we celebrate women's incredible strides toward equality while recognizing the work still ahead. Let’s continue to break barriers, shatter ceilings, and create a world where every woman can thrive in their career.   In that spirit, we're thrilled to announce the launch of our 2025 Regional Accelerate Conference Series! 🚀 Through our events, we empower women in tech by providing opportunities for professional growth, personal development, and pathways to leadership. We also help companies fulfill their initiatives by providing a talent pool of highly qualified and diverse women technologists.    Because inclusivity is at the heart of what we do, we've added more event locations to bring conferences closer to you! Our Accelerate Conference Series features five events centered around major tech cities across every region in the U.S.   🎯 What to look forward to in 2025:   ★ Regional Focus: We’re reaching more women and organizations, creating more opportunities to build a future of equality, inclusion, and endless possibilities.  ★ Customized Recruiting: Our diversity-focused recruiting team will source candidates anywhere in the region to match your open roles. Send us job titles, descriptions, and locations. ★ Access Elite Talent: Gain a database of over 1,200 experienced, underrepresented women in tech per event. ★ Make Your Next Hire: On average, our exhibiting sponsors walk away with 2 to 7 diverse new hires. ★ Showcase Your Brand: Promote your brand as one that prioritizes diversity, inclusion, innovation, and belonging.   👉 Click the link to view our upcoming regional conferences and dates: https://lnkd.in/e6Axgs7M   Start planning your 2025 sponsorship today! 🌇 Contact us at [email protected] to learn how Women Impact Tech can help your organization achieve its gender equity hiring goals in tech or provide customized retention programs for your women in tech.   #WomensEqualityDay #Accelerate2025 #WomenInTech #DiversityAndInclusion #WomenImpactTech #Sponsorship #Regional #GenderEquity #AccelerateConference #Retention

Women Impact Tech is excited to be a sponsor and attend the 2024 Great Lakes Women's Business Council Conference, "Bridging the Gap; Building The Future!" We are looking forward to networking, attending educational workshops, and more. 🌐 To learn more or register, click here: https://lnkd.in/eHryb9ne #BridgingTheGap2024 #40yrsGreatLakesWBC #GLWBC2024 #GreatLakesWBC #ProudSponsor

🌟 Women of Impact Wednesday 🌟 This week’s Women of Impact Award Honoree is an innovative leader driving technological advancements in retail. Please join us in celebrating Seemantini Godbole! 🎉 👏 As the Chief Digital and Information Officer at Lowe's Companies, Inc., Seemantini has revolutionized the way customers approach home improvement. Under her leadership, Lowe’s introduced Infinite Kitchen, a 3D-rendering tool powered by Google Cloud’s Immersive Stream for XR platform, allowing users to design kitchens from their mobile devices. She’s also spearheaded Lowe’s expansion into the metaverse, offering 3D products for download and introducing wearable NFTs, blending the physical and digital shopping experiences. 🛠️ 💡 Seemantini's innovation extends beyond customer-facing projects. She has driven internal improvements, including Project Unlock, which uses RFID chips and blockchain to combat organized retail crime discreetly. Additionally, she’s focused on cultivating tech talent, leading the development of Lowe’s Tech Hub in Charlotte, North Carolina—a 357,000-square-foot space set to employ up to 2,000 tech professionals. 🌍 ✨ With over 25 years of experience working with Fortune 50 companies, Seemantini is an expert in digital transformation, leading global teams, and growing digital businesses. Her dedication to innovation, both externally and internally, has solidified her role as a trailblazer in the retail industry. Congratulations, Seemantini! Your impact is truly remarkable! 💜 #WomenOfImpactWednesday #WomenInTech #Leadership #womensupportingwomen #womenimpacttech

🚨 Our live webinar is tomorrow, and there’s still time to sign up! Don’t miss out on this opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with expert Kait Arnold. 🗓️ When: TOMORROW 🕒 Time: 1:00-2:00 PM EDT 🔗 Sign Up Here: https://lnkd.in/eqN_iR8R This webinar will explore: ✅ AI’s capabilities and limitations ✅ Ethical considerations in AI development ✅ The impact of AI across industries ✅ The risks and rewards of AI ✅ The future of AI and its relationship with humanity Whether you're intrigued by AI or concerned about its implications, this session is for you. Register now to join the conversation! #AIWebinar #ArtificialIntelligence #TechTalk #Webinar #FutureOfTech

🌟 Talent Acquisition Tuesday 🌟 Congratulations to this week’s Talent Acquisition Professional Award Honoree, Kimberly Prescott! Kimberly, Director of Talent Acquisition, Global Strategic Skills & Pipelining at Bayer, is dedicated to helping employees find their sense of purpose, achieve success, inspire others, and grow both at work and at home. By putting these values into practice, Kimberly has achieved a balance between her work and personal priorities, allowing her to excel as a female leader. 🌱💼 Kimberly’s goal is to cultivate this experience for all talent that Bayer interacts with. She consistently strives to meet this goal by aligning organizational marketing and communication strategies to maximize outreach to underrepresented groups, with a special focus on attracting female talent. 🌍👩🔧 Regularly connecting with talent, Kimberly provides mentorship, skill-building opportunities, job openings, and ways to grow professional networks both in and outside of Bayer. She also operationalizes diversity initiatives into Bayer's recruitment standard processes, ensuring a constant focus on diverse panels, diverse slates, gender bias language detection via software, and stakeholder upskilling through interview and unconscious bias training. 📊🤝 Congratulations, Kimberly! 💜🎉 #TalentAcquisitionTuesday #WomenImpactTech #DiversityRecruitment

Thrilled for Paula R. Bratcher Ratliff and I to be in Cincinnati, Ohio for Women's Business Enterprise Council Ohio River Valley (WBEC ORV)'s #catchthewave2024 conference and celebration! Looking forward to networking and sharing best practices with our fellow #womenowned business colleagues, catching up with business partners and friends from NiSource, Victoria’s Secret & Co., Humana, and Cardinal Health. Equally excited to share the mission of Women Impact Tech, to drive gender equity in tech, with potential new partners at Fifth Third Bank, Eaton, VISTRA, Miami University, Duke Energy Corporation, FirstEnergy, Premier Health Partners, Nationwide and OhioHealth. It's going to be a packed couple of days! * peep the giant #buckeyes that I spotted at a rest area on my drive 😎 #OHIOproud #womenempoweringwomen #womenintech #supplierdiversity

I can't let today pass without commenting on how much progress we have made. And when I say progress, I mean... 'one step forward, one step back'. It's true. A side by side comparison still shows that women are consistently paid less for everything, every where, all the time. There are 1,000 fun statistics - but that's the bottom line. So shrink your salary bands and pay grades, stop negotiating salaries and pay everyone what they are worth. #WomenEqualityDay #WomensDay #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2024

🚀 Ready to elevate your career in tech? Join us at our virtual Denver, CO Accelerate Conference on Thursday, September 26th. Don’t miss out on our last virtual event of the year!   📅 Time: 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM MDT 🔗 Register here: https://lnkd.in/eiAa3ceU   What to expect:   🔹 Keynote Speakers - Hear from industry leaders about their career journeys and gain valuable advice. 🔹 Insightful Panels - Featuring women who are breaking barriers in tech. 🔹 Info Sessions - Delivering on the latest tech topics. 🔹 Explore our virtual Expo Hall - Browse our sponsors' open jobs and network with Aon, Lockheed Martin, The Trade Desk, and other innovative companies. 🔹 Network – Virtually connect with like-minded women in tech.    This is an incredible opportunity to connect, learn, and grow! ✨ Whether you’re looking to advance your career, find new opportunities, or get inspired, this event is for YOU!   To see who was at our Denver event last year, click here: https://lnkd.in/eZECRhkf   #AccelerateConference #WomenInTech #DiversityInTech #WomenImpactTech #Networking #CareerGrowth #VirtualEvent #TechConference

This Thursday I had the incredible honor of speaking on a panel discussion about "Innovation for Gender Equality: Activating Tech and Creating a Gender Equal Future in Tech" at the Women Impact Tech Conference 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. Alongside a remarkable group of esteemed panelists and our awesome moderator we discussed key pivotal moments that shaped our career, essential skills for women in tech industry and beyond. The insights shared by my fellow panelists were truly invaluable. Truly grateful to Jenny Carangelo for giving me this great opportunity. These events truly become worthwhile even if you are able to inspire one fellow woman and it made my day when I read these in my inbox, "I like the way you were answering questions, So confident and trying to explain every single part of what you know" "I loved how passionate you were for the tech and the community!" #womenintech #genderequalityintech

I participated in a fantastic panel discussion for Women Impact Tech where we talked about the qualities that make a leader someone people want to follow. We talked about empathy, authenticity, accountability, and leaning into whatever makes you unique. We shared stories of having difficult conversations, building trust and respect, and staying connected in remote, hybrid, and in-person environments. What struck me most was the thread throughout our conversation that the best leaders CARE. They care about their people at work and outside of work. They know what's going on in their lives, how they spend their weekends, and how they can support their teams in whatever challenges they face. They make time to check-in, answer questions, and recognize their people. The best leaders care and their people feel cared about. And that, more than anything else, leads to trust, respect, and a genuine desire to work together. Shout out to the fantastic A-Team (my first collaboration where all our names started with A): Anita Morris, Alejandra Torchia, and Amanda Kersey #leadershipdevelopment #womenintech