I went to a great event which was hosted by SUP46 last week. The host invited three women guests who work in Tech as well as almost a hundred of women who are interested in Tech to get together. Through the event, the guest introduced their experience as a woman in tech field. There are several points I think were quite inspiring.

  • Networking. One guest said when she worked in a tech company as an assistant. Since she hadn’t get salary for a month, so she had to bring lunchbox. One day, a woman walked by and talked to her that you are new, how about have lunch together. The guest almost threw her lunchbox away and went out ate with this woman. Later in a meeting, the guest found this woman is a manger and in that meeting they were discussing a new manger position. And this woman recommended the guest to take the position. This story listened as a lucky story, but it is also true that we should open to people. The more we talk to people, the more information and chances we get. In this event, I talked to three people. One is an architect who started to learn programming five months ago. Her husband works in a social robot startup called Furhat which started at KTH as well as he has a part time job at Spotify. When I took multimodal course, I saw the same robot before. The teacher in this course is one of the co-founder of Furhat. Somehow the people we talk to will have some connections with you. I even gave her my Email address, maybe it is a good chance to get an internship.
  • Being yourself, not to try to behave like a man. Sometimes, women is regarded as not good as man by some people. This is absolutely wrong. We see women work in every fields and they are doing good. We don’t have to pretend to be man. We can just be ourselves. Only in this way, women can fully show their potential rather than being handcuffed.
  • Investors want to invest on companies which have gender balanced teams. They pointed out that if a team has only man, they will feel very strange why there is no women. Also when a team has women, they are more willing to fund them. Having gender balanced team is good to business.
  • Vinnova introduced early stage startup investment program. In phase one, the selected startup can get up to 300,000 SEK funds without any conditions. If some of you reading my journal and also has a compony needs funds, maybe give a try.

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