Keynote
summary
A founder describes building a student-led tech community into T3chFest (2,000 attendees) and a seven-year mentoring network, running a Telegram group of about 120 women and organizing local meetups patterned on Carnegie Mellon’s Women in Computer Science dinners. The work includes winning a Women Techmakers scholarship and attending a Zürich cohort, launching TecnoVisión (≈500 schoolgirls presenting three-month STEM projects), and using campaigns like #ILookLikeAnEngineer and 11F to drive outreach and policy discussion.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Welcome
- 3:54Text origins and women's community
- 10:20Carnegie Mellon inspiration
- 16:19Woman Techmakers grant and key talks
- 22:14Feminist movement and TechFest 2018
- 26:50Outreach and societal connection
- 31:27Impact and current role models
- 34:55Closing
