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I meant to make this blog entry for a while now, but yeah, was a bit busy. It started when we had a discussion about speakers at Tech-Ed and someone made a comment that he doesn't know of a lot of women speakers. Ignorance, ignorance ;-) There may not be close as many as the male speakers, but as I got more involved in the community I was stunned at how many women there are that are contributing a lot to our industry. (I think I have said this previously, but it is worthwhile to say it again!)

The list is not extensive, but here are a few 'highlights' and links to who they are, what they've done and their blogs.

Julie Lerman:
- .NET Rock Star
- INETA Committee Chair
- MVP (ASP.NET)
- ASPInsider
- Owner of The Data Farm
- Speaking at:
     Edge 2004 East
     DevTeach
     DevDays
Kate Gregory:
- Microsoft Regional Director
- Authored/Co-authored over 10 books
- CodeGuru guru
- INETA Speaker
- MVP C++
- Owner of gregcons
- Speaking at:
     VSLive
     TechEd
Michele Leroux Bustamante:
- Microsoft Regional Director
- Author
- Microsoft ASP.NET Developer Center author
- INETA Speaker
- .NET dashboard newsletter
- Part of the IDesign team
- Speaking at:
     TechEd
     VSLive
     VSConnections
     Visual C++ Connections Conference
     Other
    

Kimberly Tripp:
- Microsoft Regional Director
- MVP SQL Server
- Co-authored  SQL Server 2000 High Availability
- www.winnetmag.com author
- Founder of www.sqlskills.com
- Speaking at:
     Tech Ed (Top rated speaker 2003)
     VSConnections
     VSLive
     PASS

 

Some more excellent women in our industry: 
- Kathleen Dollard:  (blog)
- Rebecca Dias: Advanced Web Services Product Manager, Microsoft. (blog)
- Suzanne Cook: CLR Developer, Microsoft (blog)
- Marcie Robillard (blog)
- Deborah Kurata
- Sara Williams: Program Manager MSDN, Microsoft (blog)
- Dana Coffey (blog)

And then I have to add that it would be real cool to actually SEE one of them speak, so keeping my fingers crossed and waiting for the list of speakers at Tech-Ed Africa!!! (Should probably have raised my voice earlier :)

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Posted: Aug 15 2004, 07:29 PM by Thea Burger | with 10 comment(s)
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Ernst Kuschke said:

Thea, maybe we can add you to the list soon :)
# August 16, 2004 4:10 PM

Craig said:

First we let them vote, then we let them code. What's the world coming to...


I'm kidding. Sheesh. You people need to relax.
# August 16, 2004 4:28 PM

Thea Burger said:

Ernst - :P
Craig - that was funny :)
# August 16, 2004 7:45 PM

Simon Stewart said:

Thea,
We ran the poll on SADev and I've mentioned this to MS SA, so hopefully they've listened at there will be some female speakers for TechEd SA.

When I spoke to Kate Gregory about TechEd SA, she said it would be great to come out here for it. So, let's wait and see...

Suggest you send a mail to Kaylash anyway.
# August 21, 2004 6:11 PM

Tina said:

I'll see you at the lunch for women at Tech-Ed. In architecture, women are even scarcer than in development. I'm having a lot of fun though...no competition :)
# September 21, 2004 10:41 PM

Thea Burger said:

Very true!!! ;)
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# December 18, 2004 7:48 AM

Neil Burnett said:

Thea, you are quite right there are some female speakers, but certainly not enough. Have a look at our website and you will see a lot less than 51% women. But then you will also notice a lot less than 80% black. The industry has some catching up to do
# February 23, 2005 3:41 PM

Chrissy said:

Nice post! I was at VSLIVE in San Francisco recently and was disappointed by the lack of women. There seem to be a lot of women involved in SQL Sever though! I went to a few of the ASP.NET sessions and saw far fewer women than I did at the SQL Server sessions. I also got a peek at Kimberly Tripp talking about indexing which was cool. Thanks again for the post :)
# February 23, 2005 8:31 PM