EVENT
ELEVATE 2026 Virtual Conference (April 21)
2026 demands creativity, resilience, and real technical leadership. Our community deserves a moment aligned with innovation itself.
Call for Speakers: Open Now!
We’re looking for lightning talks, technical deep-dives, workshops, and stories from:
- Leading or building AI, data, platform, infra, security
- Founders creating future-defining products
- ICs with frameworks, failures, breakthroughs, hard-earned lessons
- Anyone shaping the future through creativity + technology
If you’ve been meaning to submit a talk, this is the perfect moment to send us a proposal! Details on how to submit a proposal here
NEW: Employer & Demand-Gen Sponsorship Opportunities w/ Run-Up Partner Events
ELEVATE is expanding — and so are the ways employers can partner with us.
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.
