Alternatives to Grace Hopper Celebration

I know, I know. I get the hype. I attended Grace Hopper Celebration in 2015 and enjoyed the feeling of being in a room with 15,000 technical women, the evening events, and the great talks I went to, but truthfully I have been to better conferences. The scale of GHC means the keynotes attract inspiring executives, seeing Susan Wojcicki and Sheryl Sandberg on the mainstage was incredible, but the rest of the conference is long lines for food and the restroom, sifting through large crowds to get to a certain panel, and losing the friends you came with over and over. Networking is harder than it looks, unless you’re really extroverted. There are too many people and you probably won’t run into them again so you can just feel lost in a sea of people most of the time. The career fair is nice, but overwhelming. <a href="https://medium.com/@christinechapman/alternatives-to-grace-hopper-celebration-234b1ac71363">Click Here</a>