{"id":42758,"date":"2023-10-20T15:23:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/hey-sydstart-looking-for-female-conference-speakers-here-are-almost-50-women-you-could-call-for-starters-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:23:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:23:33","slug":"hey-sydstart-looking-for-female-conference-speakers-here-are-almost-50-women-you-could-call-for-starters-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/hey-sydstart-looking-for-female-conference-speakers-here-are-almost-50-women-you-could-call-for-starters-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey SydStart, looking for female conference speakers? Here are almost 50 women you could call for starters – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
All-male panels have become an all too common sight.<\/p>\n
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Recently we\u2019ve seen one of Australia\u2019s biggest startup conferences, SydStart, announce its first round of speakers without any women featured<\/a>, although they\u2019re promising there are female entrepreneurs to come.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It\u2019s a problem in the industry that some are starting to address, with a call to \u201chack\u201d all-male panels by men giving up their seats to women. This happened recently at a panel in Cardiff, with Andrew Grill switching seats with a female entrepreneur in the audience.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Pollenizer partnerships manager Nicola Farrell was one of the first to respond to SydStart\u2019s male lineup, and later forwarded on a list of potential female speakers to the organisers.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n She says it\u2019s disappointing to continually see a lack of women at tech conferences.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s quite disheartening from someone in the industry to not be represented in conferences,\u201d Farrell says.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s no reason for me to be part of that sort of event then.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cConferences need participation from all types of people in the community.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cTo launch an event without a substantially diverse list is not good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n There is a wealth of female entrepreneurs to draw on for startup conferences, and many in the Australian scene have begun to suggest names that should be appearing at upcoming conferences.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThere are many female entrepreneurs that we want to hear from. People like me want to hear their stories,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We thought we\u2019d help out and produce a list of potential speakers. With just a little research, some help from our friends over at Women\u2019s Agenda<\/i>, and a few chats with the right people, it didn\u2019t take very long at all.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It\u2019s certainly not close to a conclusive list, but it\u2019s a start. It\u2019s mostly Australian with a few internationals that we\u2019d love to hear speak. If you have any suggestions to be added to the list be sure to let us know and we\u2019ll add them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who sent suggestions through. We really appreciate it. Below you\u2019ll find some more speaker recommendations from the fantastic #startupaus community.<\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Raising your<\/i> first round of capital<\/i><\/a>? Starting a<\/i> crowdfunding campaign<\/i><\/a>? Want to grow your business<\/i> with Instagram?<\/i><\/a> StartupSmart School can help.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" All-male panels have become an all too common sight. Recently we\u2019ve seen one of Australia\u2019s biggest startup conferences, SydStart,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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