On December 4-5, 2024, Girl Geek X founders Angie Chang and Sukrutha Bhadouria hosted over 1k women & allies globally, with 79% attendees interested in hearing about jobs, and 30+ speakers, and 2 employers actively recruiting! Help a girl geek land her next job in tech!

Here are the top 10 most engaging sessions from ELEVATE 2024 Conference & Career Fair:

#1 – Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview: Opening the Door to Opportunities – Gayle Laakmann McDowell, Author of Cracking the * Interview series

#2 – Crafting Your Resume as a Signal Thru the Noise – Remy Schor, Recruiter at Voxel51

#3 – How To Sell Yourself – Maria Kitaigora, Senior Enterprise Account Manager at AWS

#4 – Bloom and Thrive: Where Do You Want to Grow (Big Tech vs. Startups vs. Entrepreneurship) – Janet Lee, Product Marketer at Meta & Coach at EmbraceNow

#5 – Fireside Chat: Mentorship, Goals, and Career Acceleration with WEST – Heidi Williams, Founder at WEST D&I Mentorship & Chief Technology Officer at Murmuration

#6 – Courage as a Carry On: An All Inclusive Itinerary to Launching You, Leveled Up – Lilah Jones, Director of Key Accounts at Google & Coach at LilahJones.com

#7 – Making Pivots in Your Career – Dr. Julie Huang, Staff Scientist at Alector

#8 – Cracking the System Design Interview – Sukrutha Bhadouria, Director of Engineering at Salesforce & CTO at Girl Geek X

#9 – Voxel51 Employer Intro – Remy Schor, Recruiter at Voxel51, Josh Leven, VP of Engineering at Voxel51, Lanny Wang, Software Engineer at Voxel51

#10 – Financial Stability 101 – Kristina Robinson, Senior Engineering Manager

Thank You To ELEVATE 2024 Supporters – They Are Hiring!

Special thank you to our supporters at Voxel51 and 18C for recruiting from the Girl Geek X community of mid-to-senior level technical women. We can’t wait to help another girl geek get her next job in tech.

Don’t forget to check out featured jobs from Voxel51 and 18C.

The conference theme is “Lift As You Climb.”

Speakers from Airbnb, AWS, Meta, Google, Upwork, Salesforce, Adobe, Microsoft, Workday, Walmart and more startups, spoke and answered questions, sharing career advice with attendees during their sessions, often welcoming connections on Linkedin.

If your company is looking to recruit more women this year, please don’t let them miss out on our next ELEVATE Virtual Conference & Career Fair sponsorship opportunity in March 2025 celebrating International Women’s Day!

In addition to virtual events, we partner with companies monthly on Girl Geek Dinners in the San Francisco Bay Area, booking now for 2025 dates.

Please email sponsors@girlgeek.io and we’ll be in touch.

Thank you in advance!

Angie Chang, Sukrutha Bhadouria, Amy Weicker, Amanda Beaty and the team at Girl Geek X