What happens when you put 2,500 queer women in tech into one conference?

Last week I travelled to San Francisco to attend the fourth annual <a href="http://lesbianswhotech.org/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Lesbians Who Tech (LWT) Summit </a>conference. It was my first time attending the conference, which saw 2,500 lesbians, queer women and allies descending on the Castro district in San Francisco to talk all things tech from mixed reality and building the Hololens, to creating a team to lead digital services to improve the lives of all Americans by the third<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPWTPOHZOV8" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"> CTO of the United States of America</a>, staying woke and fighting fake news. But why do “Lesbians Who Tech” need their own conference? Do queer people do tech differently? In a previous post I argued that <a href="http://www.effectiveui.com/blog/2016/06/13/does-being-out-in-tech-matter/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">being out in tech matters</a> because for many of us there is still a danger associated with coming out. Here I’d like to suggest that conferences such as LWT Summit have a crucial role to play in improving diversity and inclusion in tech and offer some points for consideration for those interested in fostering Diversity and Inclusion from attending the conference. <a href="https://medium.com/@tamaramhale/what-happens-when-you-put-2-500-queer-women-in-tech-into-one-conference-e38fa4ccfe94">Read More</a>