No Women Speakers in Tech?

#productsf found them

This was the second year of #productsf — a one day conference focused on product managers by product managers— as this conference was the brain child of product managers (Josh Elman and Ty Ahmad-Taylor).

I went last year, and there was something noticeably different at this conference:

About 50% #productsf speakers were amaze-balls women!

The gender ratio of women speakers was noticeably up from #productsf 2013 as well as other conferences . Last year, I didn’t recall one woman speaker. The first two speakers were women, and then just general awesomeness from all the speakers followed:

Julie Zhuo
Design Director @Facebook
FUN FACT: Her team was responsible for coming up with phototagging

Mina Radhakrishnan
Product @Uber
FUN FACT: Her team came up with #UberCade — call an uber and you might get a motorcade!

Ellen Chisa
Product @Kickstarter
FUN FACT: Her team used the “art way” — metrics minimzed, inspiration maximized, to re-design Kickstarter’s Landing Page

As you can tell, these were not token females, but women who were leading design and product from amazing companies such as Facebook, Uber, and Kickstarter… !

This conference was aimed at the people that really truly have the power to change the world — product managers. Gender diversity in this profession is both crucial and strategic. I’m glad it was more aptly represented and encouraged this year. Product Managers lead, direct, inspire, and encourage teams to build products that change the world — It’s great to see some of the women who are doing it ;).

P.S. These were just some of the women speakers, not all of them…

Great re-caps of #productSF here:
Twitter https://twitter.com/search?q=%23productsf
Blog posts
http://blog.ellenchisa.com/2014/06/16/productsf/
http://www.adamdsigel.com/2014/06/14/recapping-productsf/
https://medium.com/@tyahma/5102ece984c7

Until next year….