Speaker Angie Chang is CEO and Founder at Girl Geek X (formerly Bay Area Girl Geek Dinners), a growing community of 40,000+ mid-to-senior level women in technology. Girl Geek X works with mission-aligned companies to help them engage, hire and retain women and non-binary leaders & technologists via custom recruiting events. Over the past decade, we have partnered with hundreds of the world’s most innovative tech and consumer brands (PayPal, Etsy, Tesla, Adobe, Meta, Microsoft, Netflix and more) to host more than 400 events in the San Francisco Bay area, and virtual events for over 20,000 attendees — creating opportunities for more than 2,000 women to take the mic and share their thought leadership and expertise as speakers.
Prior to Girl Geek X, Angie was VP of Strategic Partnerships at Hackbright Academy, a women’s engineering school for female software engineers. Angie led partnerships with employers at Hackbright, where she built valuable hiring partnerships (Uber, Slack, GoDaddy, Redfin, Indiegogo and more), launched the mentorship program (enlisting 700+ industry engineers as volunteers in 4 years) and connected countless women to new jobs in tech. She also co-founded Women 2.0 in 2006, a media company which promotes women in high-tech entrepreneurship. She was named in Fast Company’s 2010 “Most Influential Women in Technology” and more recently Business Insider named her one of “30 Most Important Women Under 30 In Tech.”
Angie has been invited by the U.S. State Department to speak on women’s high-tech, high-growth entrepreneurship in the West Bank, Switzerland and Germany. In her early career, Angie held positions in product management and web/UI production at various Silicon Valley startups. She holds a B.A. in English and Social Welfare from UC Berkeley.
Email speakers@girlgeek.io to learn more about having Angie Chang speak to your organization or group in 2024!
Select speaking engagements:
** Disney (Asia-Pacific, Virtual)
** Roblox (San Mateo, California)
** Google – Girl Geek Dinner (w/ U.S. Consulate General in Zurich, Switzerland)
** Microsoft – Build (Seattle, Washington)
** PASS Summit – Lunch Keynote (Seattle, Washington)
** Salesforce – Dreamforce (San Francisco, California)
** TEDxUIUC (Chicago, Illinois)
** European Innovation Academy (Nice, France)
** Jumpp & Techettes (w/ U.S. Consulate in Frankfurt, Germany)
** University of Auckland – Centre for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (Auckland, New Zealand)
** Palestinian universities & hubs (w/ U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem & occupied Palestinian territories)
** Private, Corporate Exec/Team Meetings (various)
+ more.
Speaker delivered on:
** APAC: Rewire Your Confidence Mindset
** From Boba Barista (And Web Designer) To Serial Entrepreneur
** Cutting The #8 Wire Mentality: Lessons From Silicon Valley
** How To Ask For What You Want And Need
** Free-of-Charge Marketing Channels and Tools for Early-Stage Startups
** Moving. Mindsets on Gender Diversity
** It’s Not Rocket Science: Practical Interventions for Increasing Diversity
** Building A Startup Ecosystem
Press:
** Angie Chang Featured in “Voices for Change” for Women’s History Month (📺 KTVU FOX 2 News – March 26, 2023)
** Women in Tech: Take Your Career to the Next Level with Practical Advice and Inspiring Stories (📚 Amazon – March 29, 2016)
** Angie Chang Featured In “Influencers Aren’t Born, They’re Built — Here’s How” (📖 First Round Review – August 20, 2015)
Email speakers@girlgeek.io to learn more about having Angie Chang speak to your organization or group in 2024!
Company: Mode (Industry: B2B software, Employees: 100-500)
Funding Stage: $46.4M total raised – Series C (2019)
Event Capacity: 130 (Tickets Sold: 271)
Successful Hiring: 2 (1 sourced, 1 influenced within 4 months post-event; expecting more long-term)
“It was great for engineering — and not just engineering, but employer brand awareness. Hiring in technology is competitive here in the San Francisco Bay Area, so we always have to be doing more — and we’re always trying new stuff to get our name out there and get candidates engaged,” said CTO Heather Rivers about how Girl Geek X contributed to Mode’s successful engineering recruiting plan.
