Dear Ela Community Members, We wanted to reach out to you today and update you on our future Ela Conf plans. As we wrote in our post to close out last year, “Over the three years that Ela Conf has existed we’ve seen members grow in their careers, get the…

Dear Ela Community Members, With Ela Conf 2017 taking place this past weekend we feel it’s a crucial moment for us to say a few words reiterating on who we created this space for. We, the organizers (Joni Trythall, LeeAnn Kinney, Katy DeCorah, Arti, Shanise Barona) want to first and…

We help promote sponsor jobs each year in return for their financial contribution to our mission. Many of our 2017 sponsors have supported us for several years and we are thrilled to help them get the word out regarding current opportunities to join their stellar teams. The Jobs Sponsor jobs are posted…

Ela Conf 2017 is taking place next month, October 27–28 in Philly 🎃 We recently made our speaker selections and put the finalized agenda together and couldn’t be more excited to officially announce and share these details with you now. Speakers 🎤 Check out the full speaker lineup here and click on…

🔔 Update: early bird tickets have sold out and regular priced tickets are now available. As of today, August 1st, a limited number of Ela Conf 2017 early bird tickets are officially available for the conference October 27–28 in Philadelphia. You can secure an early bird ticket for $150 USD…

We are endlessly excited to officially announce our 2017 Saturday morning opening keynote and MC. Zalyndria Crosby As a GDI chapter leader we know Zalyndria through chapter leader summits. Her leadership skills are endlessly inspiring, making our keynote selection an easy decision. We are so thrilled she enthusiastically agreed 🤗

This year marks the third year for Ela Conf. In this time we have been fortunate enough to receive and review 132 speaker applications and host 43 women speakers at the 2015 and 2016 conferences. …

I, Joni, recently gave a presentation inspired by how often we receive feedback that people love the “feel” of Ela Conf and community. This “feel” is entirely intentional, a ton of work, and does not happen organically. …

On June 6th at 3:30PM EST Brenna O’Brien will be hosting a casual, remote Q and A session for the Ela community. Brenna O’Brien is a professional coach for tech conference speakers and a front-end engineer at TED. Committed to increasing diversity in tech and building healthier developer communities, Brenna…