WomenBuild… inspiring career paths in technology
Posted on 03. Nov, 2008 by geekgirlblogs in PDC, Podcast
While at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in LA last week, I was fortunate enough to make it along on the Sunday to the Women Build event based on Lego Serious Play Program (LSP). It was a fantastic event in which we got to play with Lego Kits to create models as metaphors for challenges that you are faced with when trying to integrate diversity in a workplace.
Our table had a fantatsic group that was made up of a mix of both male & female participants which included people from different cultures & nationalities. In our group itself, it was interesting to see the range of solutions provided & it really highlighted the value of working together, and the value you can achieve when you welcome the thoughts and opinions of diverse groups & work together (as well as the challenges with doing this!)
Throughout the event, I was able to grab a few of the organisers & facilitators & get some feedback on the ideas of how it all started – and what they had hoped to achieve. These can be found in the 3 short podcasts below:
Podcast 1: Asli Bilgin & Mark Hindsbo
Podcast 2: Lindsay Rutter
Podcast 3: Frank Arrigo
There is now a WomenBuild facebook group that has been created to further support this initiative and we are all interested in getting the discussions flowing here, so feel free to join in & offer your opinions on the site.
You can also register for the MSDN Developer Conference coming to a US city near you for more experiences with WomenBuild and live delivery of PDC content!
Nice interviews!
Damn that power puff girls post…I’ll never escape it
@Bronwen – LOL!
I am not sure if I agree with your post here. See you do make the best point, I don’t think you have actually given a large amount of thought to the opposite side of the argument. Perhaps I could do a guest post or a follow-up, just tell me.