This year the Women in Agile (WIA) gathering returned to the Global SAFe Summit. Even
though we were still virtual, we all set aside time to connect with each other and, maybe even
more importantly, connect with ourselves.
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Organizer Thoughts: 5th Anniversary of Flagship Women in Agile Conference
By Natalie Warnert Looking back on the five years of the Women in Agile (social movement turned nonprofit) partnership with the Agile Alliance is a wild ride. Starting out with our first event in 2016 in Atlanta, we had no idea that the event would triple in size in two years and continuously sell out […]
Business Agility 2020 NYC Summary
What an adventure we had in New York City at our March 10th event that partnered with the Business Agility Conference! Agility might have been in the name of the conference, and it was never more important as during an ever changing pandemic situation.
Agile2019 – Recap Women In Agile
By Cheryl Hammond
On the Sunday afternoon before Agile2019, the 300 people (our largest audience ever – sold out) in the Women in Agile community convened in Washington, D.C. for our annual, international, half-day conference. Read more about our keynote speaker, activities, and new voices launched!
Seek a topic, not a gender
Women in Agile and its members frequently receive requests to recommend female speakers because apparently they are hard to find. While I appreciate the effort and attention to gender parity, I feel like asking for female speakers is the wrong approach. It feels more about a quota than caring about the quality and the expertise of the speakers themselves. As a conference organizer I wouldn’t want to get called out for not having enough diverse speakers on a panel, but as a speaker I also don’t want to feel that the token reason I was chosen was because of my gender. Conferences need to challenge themselves to consider what their outcome is for a more diverse lineup of speakers, not just diversity for diversity’s sake.