What we’re about
Madison Women in Tech is a supportive, inclusive community of women and gender nonbinary folks working or interested in technology, from designers to programmers to recruiters to students. Through regular events and a digital newsletter, we empower and elevate women and enbys in Madison’s tech scene.
View our website here! https://madisonwomen.tech
Sign up for our semi-monthly newsletter, featuring community events, WiT news, volunteer opportunities and job openings. Follow us on Twitter at @Madison_WiT and find us on Facebook.
WHO CAN ATTEND OUR EVENTS?
Any woman or nonbinary person interested in or working in technology is welcome at ALL of our events. (To be extra clear, "women" includes both trans and cis women. 🏳️🌈)
Men are welcome at most of our events, but not all; occasionally, we host events that are specifically for women and nonbinary folks. In either case, we strive to make it crystal clear in the event description.
Still unsure if it's appropriate for you to attend? Feel free to shoot us an email at admin@madisonwomen.tech and double-check (we're very nice ❤️).
ACCESSIBILITY / INCLUSION
With rare exceptions, all our in-person events are hosted at accessible locations near multiple public transportation options; we also work to have gender neutral bathrooms available at every in-person event. When food is involved, we make sure to have vegan and gluten-free items available.
CHILDREN
We aren't often able to provide dedicated childcare, and some of our events might not be appropriate for children (depending on their age), but we encourage you to bring your children if it would otherwise be a barrier from you attending (or if you think they'd enjoy the event!).
CODE OF CONDUCT
Madison Women in Tech deliberately curates spaces for and by women and nonbinary folks. At in-person and virtual events where men are invited to attend, they are expected to listen, and not center themselves or their experiences.
All attendees, at both in-person and virtual events, agree to adhere to the Madison Women in Tech code of conduct.
INTERESTED IN BEING A SPONSOR?
Learn more about different options for sponsorship on our website! https://sponsorship.madisonwomen.tech
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- HYBRID: "Unlocking AI Potential: Chat GPT for Small Businesses"Best Western Plus Inntowner Madison, Madison, WI
For coordination purposes, please register via the LGBT Chamber's event page: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unlocking-ai-potential-chat-gpt-for-small-businesses-tickets-873510833417
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Join us for an engaging conversation, co-hosted with the Wisconsin LGBT Chamber of Commerce!
Generative AI like ChatGPT represents a cutting-edge addition to everyone's arsenal, especially small businesses owners with limited resources. Nonetheless, there are underlying hazards associated with these tools.
This presentation zeroes in on ChatGPT, offering insights into its functioning and highlighting risks, encompassing legal, ethical, and regulatory aspects. It provides instances of companies integrating it into their operations and imparts valuable advice on how small business owners can harness its potential effectively.
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SPEAKER
Naveen VK, Technical Director at nvisia, has more 24 years of professional experience in designing and constructing bespoke on-prem and cloud applications across a range of industries such as finance, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, and government sectors. She loves to share her technical expertise and experiences at diverse meetups and conferences.
TRANSPORTATION
Best Western Plus Inntowner is located on the near west side, by University Hospital.
By car
Free parking is available in the hotel's parking lot.
Street parking is also available on the following nearby streets (among others): University Ave., Walnut Street and Kendall Ave.
By bus
The following bus lines come within a few blocks:
C, E, J, 82, 64, A, F
By bike
Nearby BCycle stations (~10-minute walk):
- UW Children's Hospital
- Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
Nearby bike routes:
- Kendall Ave. is a bike boulevard
ACCESSIBILITY / INCLUSION
The hotel is wheelchair accessible. All genders are allowed at this event.
If you have another accessibility concern, we encourage you to reach out directly via admin@madisonwomen.tech.
CODE OF CONDUCT
While this event is open to all genders, Madison Women in Tech deliberately curates spaces for and by women and nonbinary folks.
All WiT members who attend agree to adhere to the Madison Women in Tech code of conduct: http://coc.madisonwomen.tech
- HYBRID: "Legal Considerations for Your New Business"100state, Madison, WI
NOTE: This event will be both in-person AND online via zoom, to support the convenience of all of our members. ❤️
Interested in someday starting your own tech business? There are numerous legal aspects to consider, so we're here to help break it all down!
We're co-hosting this event with Doyenne, a Madison organization focused on women and marginalized gender entrepreneurs. Thanks to 100State for hosting us!
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"Legal Considerations for Your New Business" provides current and aspiring business owners with an overview of the legal issues they may confront as they start, buy, manage, grow, evolve, and sell a business. The presentation touches on entity selection, ownership planning, debt and equity financing, intellectual property, customer contracts, employment issues, dispute resolution, and real estate matters.
Participants will leave with a good sense of the issues they should discuss with their business attorney, and understanding what to expect and demand when working with them. Questions encouraged!
SCHEDULE
In-person: Feel free to arrive anytime between 5:30 and 6pm
Online: The Zoom room will open up at 5:50pmSam's presentation will begin at 6pm.
ZOOM
Zoom URL for this event will be shared day-of.
Zoom is a free video-conferencing platform, with mobile and desktop apps. Learn more about installing and using it here: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362033-Getting-Started-on-Windows-and-Mac
TRANSPORTATION / PARKING
100state is located downtown at 17 S. Fairchild Street, on the 7th floor.
By car
Metered street parking is available, and the following garages are within a few blocks:
- Overture Center Garage
- Capitol Square South
- Metropolitan Place Parking
By bus
The following bus lines come within a few blocks:
A, B, C, E, F, R, 38, 75
By bike
There are bike racks nearby, outside of Genna's and outside of Barrique's.
Nearby BCycle stations:
- S. Hamilton & S. Carroll St.
- W. Mifflin @ Central Library
Nearby bike routes:
- Capital City Trail
ACCESSIBILITY / INCLUSION
In-person: 100state is wheelchair accessible, and will have bathrooms designated as gender neutral during the event. All genders are welcome, as are children when accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.
Online: Zoom offers a variety of accessibility-oriented features, including:
- Keyboard accessibility
- Screen reader support
Learn more: https://zoom.us/accessibility
If you have an accessibility concern, we encourage you to reach out directly via admin@madisonwomen.tech.
CODE OF CONDUCT
While this event is open to all genders, Madison Women in Tech deliberately curates spaces (both online and offline) for and by women and nonbinary folks. Men who attend are expected to listen, and not center themselves or their experiences.
All attendees agree to adhere to the Madison Women in Tech code of conduct: http://coc.madisonwomen.tech
- TECH TALK: "Mastering Pythonic Data Validation and Transformation with Pydantic"Madison Public Library - Central, Madison, WI
We're excited to partner again with Madison's Python meetup, MadPy, for this educational deep dive into Pydantic from Sydney Runkle!
Pizza and soft drinks will be provided. All genders are welcome at this event.
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In this talk, attendees will have the opportunity to learn about Pydantic, Python's leading data validation library. Powered by type hints, Pydantic rapidly validates, with support for easy-to-use custom validators and serializers. Pydantic also offers JSON schema generation, which allows for easy integration with tools across platforms.
Attendees will learn about basic usage of Pydantic, and how the tool can be applied to a wide variety of applications, from LLM response validation to API request/response structural support. We'll also touch on some little-known performance tips and recently released features.
SPEAKER
Sydney Runkle is a Senior at UW-Madison studying computer science. After graduating in May, Sydney will be starting work full-time at Pydantic, where she currently works part-time as an open-source focused software engineer.
In her free time, she loves to train for triathlons, cook, read, and spend time outside!
SCHEDULE
Feel free to arrive anytime between 6pm and 6:30pm; Sydney's presentation will begin at 6:30pm.
PARKING / TRANSPORTATION
The Madison Central Library is located downtown off the Capitol Square.
Parking
The State Street Capitol Parking Garage and Overture Center Garage are the closest parking garages; nearby metered street parking is free after 6pm.
Biking
The nearest B-Cycle station is Philosopher's Grove (South). The library also has multiple bike racks.
Bus
The following bus lines come within a few blocks:
A, B, D, E, F, R, 28, 75
ACCESSIBILITY / INCLUSION
All genders are welcome at this event. The building is wheelchair accessible and has gender neutral bathrooms.
CODE OF CONDUCT
While this event is open to all genders, Madison Women in Tech deliberately curates spaces for and by women and nonbinary folks.
All attendees agree to adhere to the Madison Women in Tech code of conduct: http://coc.madisonwomen.tech
- NEW DATE: "Language Does More: Exploring Language as Tech, as Data, as Identity"Link visible for attendees
This event was originally scheduled in March as a hybrid event, but inclement weather and school closings led to us postponing it for later in spring.
---------------------------------------Language does more than you think it does. Join Samantha Beaver and Women in Tech for an exciting evening of linguistic exploration: learn to reframe language as a technology, leverage language samples as business-critical data, and understand your own self as being indexed by the language you use.
Both theoretical and practical, this talk is a great opportunity to dive deep into a fascinating topic - with a real linguist - that too often goes under-examined in the workplace.
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Samantha Beaver is a Linguist. Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, and Conversation Analysis are her areas of linguistic expertise, and her favorite topics to explore are language equity, language & gender, language learning, language & people management, and language & power. When she’s not doing linguistic work for other people, she is at home fostering the language development of her two young sons, Simon and Louis.
SCHEDULE
The Zoom room will open up at 11:55am. Samantha's presentation will begin at 12:05pm.
ZOOM
Zoom URL for this event will be shared day-of.
Zoom is a free video-conferencing platform, with mobile and desktop apps. Learn more about installing and using it here: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362033-Getting-Started-on-Windows-and-Mac
ACCESSIBILITY / INCLUSION
Zoom offers a variety of accessibility-oriented features, including:
- Keyboard accessibility
- Screen reader support
Learn more: https://zoom.us/accessibility
If you have another accessibility concern, we encourage you to reach out directly to WiT via admin@madisonwomen.tech.
CODE OF CONDUCT
While this event is open to all genders, Madison Women in Tech deliberately curates spaces (both online and offline) for and by women and nonbinary folks. Men who attend are expected to listen, and not center themselves or their experiences.
All attendees agree to adhere to the Madison Women in Tech code of conduct: http://coc.madisonwomen.tech
