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ELEVATE 2026 Virtual Conference (April 21)
Join us online for the 9th annual ELEVATE Virtual Conference celebrating World Creativity & Innovation Day! Register for your FREE ticket! 🎟️
2026 demands creativity, resilience, and real technical leadership. Our community deserves a moment aligned with innovation itself.
We’re gathering for a fun day of inspiring talks, networking & connecting on April 21 to celebrate World Creativity & Innovation Day with thousands of women in tech & co-hosts Angie Chang & Sukrutha Bhadouria, introducing dozens of speakers. IT’S FREE TO RSVP — SAVE YOUR SEAT!
Tune in, connect and learn first-hand from technical leaders sharing successes, challenges, tips, tricks, & career insights focused on the unique set of challenges mid-career women face. For full session & speaker details, go to ELEVATE.GIRLGEEK.IO
Inspiring Career & Tech Talks include:
✅ Designing Your Promotion Playbook: AI, Ambition, and the Future of Growth in Tech
✅ The AI-Augmented Engineer: Cracking Massive Codebases in Record Time
✅ The Agentic Shift: Architecting the Future of Autonomous Innovation
✅ The Hidden Cybersecurity War of Online Shopping
✅ Reinventing Yourself Mid‑Career — Without Starting Over
✅ The Shadow Résumé: Reclaiming the Hidden Work That Builds Careers
✅ From Supply Chain to Sustainability: Engineering Impact Beyond the Lab
✅ How To Have Empowering Performance Reviews
✅ The Four Taxes of Transition: A Strategic Framework for Leading Through Change
✅ Compliance by Design: Build Secure Products and a Resilient You
✅ Building Inclusive and Intelligent Financial Technology
✅ AI Agents in the World of Public Education
✅ Leading With Inner Strength: A Framework for Women in Tech Who are Ready to Build Presence, Confidence, and Impact At Work
✅ How To Be A Valuable Individual Contributor (IC) from Day 1: A Practical Guide to Early Impact
✅ Agile Is Dead: Adaptability Is The New Currency
✅ Building Scalable and Reliable Data Platforms
✅ Optimization to Maximization: Unlocking the Full Potential of MMM, MTA, and Experimentation to Fuel Scalable Economic Growth
✅ Breaking Into the Health Tech Space
…and More! See ELEVATE.GIRLGEEK.IO for SPEAKER DETAILS & AGENDA – and get your FREE TICKET TO JOIN ONLINE!
In the lead-up to April 21, companies can now sponsor or co-host:
- Lightning Talk Preview Events
- Technical Workshops (AI, data, infra, security, product)
- Behind-the-Scenes Engineering Tours
- AMA sessions with your Leaders
- Newsletter Thought Leadership Features
- Podcast interviews
- AI Build Nights / Weekends
- Girl Geek Dinners (IRL)
These pre-conference activations help teams raise brand visibility, support their women leaders, and connect with a highly engaged technical audience.
If your company is hiring, building your employer brand, or looking for meaningful ways to engage women technologists, we’d love to collaborate.
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Girl Geek X is a community that has grown to 40,000+ women in tech over a decade from Bay Area Girl Geek Dinners. At Girl Geek X events, women share thought leadership in STEM expertise, as well as career advice in the fast-paced tech industry – hosting over 250 dinners at over 150 tech companies and startups across the San Francisco Bay Area – and globally we host annual virtual conferences. Girl Geek X events feature women at the mic sharing industry knowledge and career advice, for the retention and recruitment of mid-level / senior women in tech – a critical lever to increase the ratio of female CEOs, executives, engineers, entrepreneurs, and leaders.
