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🌟 Celebrating Women in Tech at Microsoft Partners! 🌟 As someone deeply connected to the tech industry, I’m thrilled to highlight the incredible contributions of women working at Microsoft Partners. These talented individuals have been shaping the landscape of technology, often within a traditionally male-dominated field. Let’s recognize their brilliance and empower them to step into the spotlight. 🚀 The Microsoft Power Women in Tech Award 🚀 Nominate yourself or a colleague for the Power Women in Tech Award! It honors women leaders within our partner organizations who’ve forged extraordinary paths, leveraging tech innovations and promoting diversity in STEM careers. These trailblazers inspire others and shape our industry’s future. 🌐 Criteria: 1. Work for a Microsoft partner. 2. Have 15+ years of experience in tech leadership. 3. Demonstrate performance, impact, and diversity promotion. 4. Possess a social media presence as an influencer or opinion maker. If you are a Power Woman, nominate yourself. If you know any Power Women within your organization – please ask them to nominate themselves. Nominations open until May 8, 2023. Let’s celebrate these remarkable women and inspire the next generation of tech leaders! 🌟   Learn more and nominate at: https://aka.ms/MPWAForm    For full details, including participating territories and nomination criteria, visit us at https://lnkd.in/dqmWEEM9. #WomenInTech #DiversityInTech #MicrosoftPartners #TechLeadership

Nerosh R., a Power Women in tech winning the 2023 Microsoft Award. Nerosh’s story is one of overcoming limitations, finding power in community, and using learning as an opportunity to transform the world.   “Sending the elevator down is not only a moral imperative but also a strategic approach on how we can support other women by sharing our journeys and learnings: discussing the pitfalls and how we’ve overcome them, celebrating the unsung heroines, and amplifying role models. And then collectively putting all that together to build networks and communities to sponsor one another.”   Read our full interview: https://lnkd.in/gF9bNPSS Nominate yourself for an award: https://aka.ms/MPWAForm   Teresa Virgínia Joana Vala Pires #MicrosoftPowerWomenAwards #WomenInTech #DiversityInTech #PartnersMakeMorePossible

Could your story inspire other women in the tech industry? Right now, women hold only 29% of all tech roles. For high-level leadership positions such as VP and C-suite, representation drops to 17.8% and 12.4%, respectively. These are statistics we want to change—could you be the one to do it?   The Microsoft Power Women Awards is an EMEA-wide program that celebrates and elevates the inspirational women working within the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program. If you’re a Woman Leader in technology and a champion for inclusion, nominate yourself at https://aka.ms/MPWAForm. I would love to see women from Central Europe represented!   For more information about the awards visit us at https://lnkd.in/dY2d2a8W. Dominika Bettman Michal Marek Leonid Polupan Bogdan Putinica Peter Szabo Sergey Leschenko Aliya Nazarkasimova Boglárka Blahut Gyula Sarusi Renate Strazdina #microsoftemea #msftadvocate #partnersmakemorepossible #MPWA  

🎉 Celebrating the Microsoft Power Women Awards Winners! 🎉 At Microsoft, we’re committed to inspiring a new generation and investing in female tech talent. The Microsoft Power Women Awards shine a spotlight on remarkable women who champion diversity and inclusion across our partner network. With nearly 400 nominations and 19 winners, this year’s awards have seen unprecedented growth. As part of their well-deserved recognition, all the winners will participate in the prestigious Microsoft Women Leaders Program at INSEAD. This program promises growth, networking, and empowerment for these forward-thinking women. Read the full article to discover the list of winners. #MicrosoftPowerWomen #InclusionMatters #TechLeadership

It's time to invest in women! Join us for a captivating discussion with esteemed speakers from Amazon Web Services (AWS) Microsoft #Masterfund, Stripe Facebook AT&T Google Click2Cloud Inc. and other top companies. Together, we'll explore the vital topic of women's empowerment. Don't miss out on this enlightening dialogue! See you there! #WomenEmpowerment #Leadership #TechIndustry"

It's apparently easier to create FAKE women than to find real ones with something to say. This article about a tech event organizer who created fake women speakers to simulate diversity in his speaker lineup brought some memories to the surface for me. Here's some versions of this story that I've personally witnessed: 1. Saying "the lineup is "almost 40% women" and hoping that everyone agrees that 23 is "almost 40" 2. Putting a female moderator on a manel and calling it a day 3. Putting a female MC on an all-male two-day event and calling it a day 4. "there's so few qualified women we couldn't find a single one to be on this panel but we did find these 8 men" 5. "Let's fill up the agenda and worry about the diversity quota later" 6. "the invited country/organization nominated the speaker and we didn't feel we could say no" Time to do better, folks. #Diversity isn't optional. Thanks Jiahao Chen for bringing this article to my feed!

Celebrating Women in Tech: Empowering Female Cloud Solution Architects at Microsoft As we celebrate International Women's Day, it's important to recognize the need for diverse perspectives and talents in the tech industry. Microsoft's cloud solution architects are paving the way with these thirteen brilliant women at the forefront. Their collective expertise and dedication send a powerful message: the tech industry is not just a man's world. These women demonstrate their technical prowess, innovation, collaboration, and leadership in one of the most dynamic fields of our time. Their achievements shatter stereotypes and inspire future generations of tech leaders. By encouraging more women to pursue careers in technology, we not only empower individuals but also enrich the industry as a whole. Let's celebrate and support women in tech today and every day. Happy International Women's Day! #microsoftlifeireland #Internationwomensday #womenintech #microsoft #Internationwomensday2024

Be Authentic ✨ Change is inevitable 🔁 Explain the Whys ❔ Removing the Blockers for our teams ❌ I was blown away by how driven the female tech leaders who joined us this afternoon were to share their insights and help each other. 💞 I cannot wait for the next event. If you would be interested in joining an open and beneficial environment, where you can share and learn from peers - reach out to me for more to come in 2024! 📅 #womenintech #womenintechnology #networking #peertopeer #mcsgroup

Women in IT👩🏻💻 Throughout history, women have played a vital role in technology. From Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer, women in information technology paved the way for much of the computing power we take for granted today. Many people have a stereotype that IT is a man's industry and don't even know that many global tech companies are run by women. Here is a few examples👇🏻 🔸 Safra C., CEO of Oracle In 1999 Safra joined Oracle as its senior vice president. She joined the company's board of directors in 2001 and was named president in 2004. Under Catz's direction, Oracle initiated more than 130 acquisitions and mergers over the next decade. The most well-known of these acquisitions was direct rival PeopleSoft, which Oracle acquired in 2004 for $10.3 billion. In 2014, Catz became co-CEO of Oracle, along with Mark Hurd. She became the CEO in 2019, after Hurd's death. She also teaches accounting at the Stanford School of Business and was elected to the board of directors of the Walt Disney Co. in 2017. 🔸 Amy Hood, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Microsoft As the first female CFO in Microsoft's history, she now works to increase the big tech company’s long growth while promoting a culture of equality. Hood is focused on bringing additional Black-owned partners and suppliers into Microsoft’s network. She is a big proponent of equality for women in large leadership roles and speaks regularly at events such as Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit. 🔸 Elizabeth Churchill, Senior director of user experience at Google Elizabeth held positions at various tech companies, including Yahoo, eBay and Google. She is currently Google's director of user experience. In this role, Churchill researches and presents on topics related to computer science, psychology, design, analytics and anthropology to make user experience more precise and efficient. Churchill also serves as the vice president of the Association of Computing Machinery. She also has more than 50 patents granted or pending and more than 100 published articles in multiple fields of psychology and computing. Try to guess in comments: what percentage of IT specialists are women?🤔 #DevITGroup #IT #Technology #WebDevelopment #Programming #itservices 

✨It’s Women’s History Month✨ It’s Women’s History Month so let’s get into it. While I make sure all candidates are reviewed equitably and treated fairly, I would be beside myself if I didn’t mention that amazing talent I’ve found within my women candidates. To celebrate the first 7 days of Women’s History Month, here are my wins that honor women over the past 3 months. 1. Hired 1 woman at the senior level, 1 woman at the principal level, 4 got hired at the entry level. 2. Connected 8+ more candidates with hiring leaders. 4 of them moved to final interviews. The rest are screening. 3. 4 of my latest hiring leaders have been engineering leaders who are women. They didn’t necessarily hire women. They were extremely fair across the board. It’s important that we talk about the differences we are making for women in these spaces. At one point, it was more common for women to be secretaries and teachers. Now we’ve expanded our representation to be engineering leaders! Happy Women’s History Month! #recruitercousin #LinkedIn #womenshistorymonth #jobseekers #community #blackintech #Microsoft #Microsoftjobs