Female Friday at The Next Web Conference?

Join us @ The Next Web Conference 2009The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam is coming up in 2 weeks, and The NextWomen are organizing Female Friday, an Open Coffee Friday April 17th, 9.00-11.00. We asked Boris Veldhuyzen van Zanten, organizer of the conference his views:

“There are lots of great women in technology and we are proud to know quite a few of them. Unfortunately we don’t always see them getting the same attention as men in technology seem to get. We are partly responsible for that of course as bloggers and conference organizers. But we try…

One of the things we did was lend a hand during the launch of The Next Women, and have Simone Brummelhuis blogging at The Next Web blog regularly about women in technology. I am happy that, similarly as the Women on The Next Web meeting at last years conference, there will be a The NextWomen Open Coffee at this years conference.meetup

And we want to do more. We all know events and conversations are more interesting, and productive, if women participate. So how can we attract more women to our events? One way would be to get more women on stage. We did very poorly on that end this year with only one female speaker, Hermione Way, so that is something to look at for next year.

For this year we decided to actively start positively discriminating and offer all women a 20% discount. Yes that is correct; being a female gets you 25% off the normal price if you use this link to order your ticket.

We hope this incentive will attract more female visitors who in turn will attract more female speakers. Here are a few female speakers we would be very interested in hearing from:

Arianna Huffington, Catherine Fake, Esther Dyson, Gina Bianchini, Anne Wojciki, Kim Polese, Marissa Mayer, Meg Whitman, Carol Bartz.

Don’t know some of those names? Why not? They are some of the most important people in the technology industry!

Who would you like to see on stage at The Next Web Conference 2010?”

Thanks, Boris.

So join The NextWomen on Open Coffee Friday 17th, 2009 in Amsterdam.

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April 3, 2009 | Filed Under Simone Brummelhuis awards & events, news | 1 Comment 

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One Response to “Female Friday at The Next Web Conference?”

  1. Colleen Geske on April 7th, 2009

    Great initiative, but how about seeing some Female start-ups at the conference as well! If you want to see one, you can vote for my start-up here:

    http://twittercounter.com/twittervote/poll.php?startup=Babylolly.

    Thanks in advance!
    Colleen

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