No Women Speakers in Tech?

This was the second year of #productsf — a one day conference focused on product managers by product managers— as this conference was the brain child of product managers (Josh Elman and Ty Ahmad-Taylor).

I went last year, and there was something noticeably different at this conference:

About 50% #productsf speakers were amaze-balls women!

The gender ratio of women speakers was noticeably up from #productsf 2013 as well as other conferences . Last year, I didn’t recall one woman speaker. The first two speakers were women, and then just general awesomeness from all the speakers followed:

Julie Zhuo
Design Director @Facebook
FUN FACT: Her team was responsible for coming up with phototagging