{"id":42540,"date":"2023-10-20T15:21:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/australias-first-all-female-hackathons-to-launch-in-sydney-and-melbourne-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:21:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:21:56","slug":"australias-first-all-female-hackathons-to-launch-in-sydney-and-melbourne-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/australias-first-all-female-hackathons-to-launch-in-sydney-and-melbourne-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s first all-female hackathons to launch in Sydney and Melbourne – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sydney and Melbourne are readying to host Australia\u2019s first female-only hack-days as women\u2019s coder groups combine forces to boost the number of female tech start-up founders.<\/p>\n
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The She-Hacks events will be run in the Google Australia offices in Sydney and at Melbourne co-working space Inspire9 in late March.<\/p>\n
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The events will bring together coders, project managers and designers who will form teams of around five to develop apps around a \u2018communities and neighbourhood\u2019 theme.<\/p>\n
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The She-Hacks events are co-ordinated by the local chapters of international networking group Girl Geek Dinners.<\/p>\n
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According to co-ordinator Tammy Butow, the Melbourne chapter has grown from 300 to 800 members in 18 months.<\/p>\n
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Butow told StartupSmart<\/i> they\u2019re looking forward to seeing the impact of more tech-savvy women.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe internet we know now was primarily built by men, so we wonder about what it will look like if there were more women involved in it,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
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She attributes the underrepresentation of women at existing hackathon events to low numbers of women pursuing tech careers and ineffective marketing campaigns.<\/p>\n
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