Women in Tech Summit Gets a Lesson in Listening to Local Communities

When the Women in Tech Summit organizers unveiled the speaker lineup for their second annual conference in D.C. (coming March 24), some in the D.C. women in tech community saw a glaring error. One of the conference’s speakers this year (and, at the time, one of just two keynote speakers to boot) is a man.

DataLensDC’s Kate Rabinowitz took to Twitter to express her concerns:

Summit organizers undoubtedly had reasons for making the choice they did, but by giving Rohit Bhargava a keynote spot they inadvertently stepped on very sensitive ground.

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