How did you get started?
So how I got started it can be started in terms of the
the initial point in time
Number of different ways I got started specifically with innovation women in 2014
Where I just got fed up. I had been to a couple of conferences
kind of one right on top of another where there were no women speakers or a very small number of women speakers and
I was starting to get annoyed and incensed about it and I said, you know what I own the domain
innovation women I
work with
founders I work with technical women I could just create a platform that allows event managers and
female speakers to directly connect so in the summer of
2014 I sat down and kind of looked at things like Kickstarter and said I could crowdfund the money
to hire a developer to create this platform and so I did in the fall of
2014 I kicked off a crowdfunding project
Brought in I think it was about $22,000 that enabled me to hire a development team to create the platform
and we launched in 2015 and
Really talked at that point about the mission of getting more women on stage at conferences and events
and how two-thirds of all conference speakers are men and
That kind of kicked off where we are today