Social media links for WiVR
Since Google Plus was the main way WiVR members communicated with one another, and that platform is now gone, the main alternative is the Women in Virtual Reality LinkedIn group, which has more than 400 members.
Updates
Female VR visionaries speak at Mondo.NYC conference
Music and technology converge at Mondo.NYC, a tech summit and music festival that starts today at New York University in New York City. During the day, Mondo.NYC will present discussions and demonstrations on a wide range of music industry, business and tech-related issues, including Virtual Reality, terrestrial and Internet radio and streaming services, policy issues …
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Lesbians Who Tech launch coding scholarship honoring Edie Windsor
Lesbians Who Tech, the organization for lesbian and queer women in tech, will select more than ten lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer women to receive scholarships to attend coding bootcamps at General Assembly, Dev Bootcamp and Turing. There is no deadline for applications, and acceptance is on a rolling basis, organizers told WiVR. The coding …
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Melinda Gates will focus on women in tech
Melinda Gates, former Microsoft executive and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation co-chair, has said that she is opening a new personal office, separate from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to help get more women into technology. It is not clear yet what form the initiative will take but Gates has said she is also looking …
Fashion Model Karlie Kloss launches coding initiative
Fashion model Karlie Kloss has launched two scholarship opportunities through her organization Kode with Klossy for young girls and women interested in computer programming. The idea is to change the perspective towards women in IT and to get students to learn programming languages behind apps like Twitter and The New York Times. The two scholarship opportunities, Camp Scholarship and …
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Unity organizing gaming career events for women
Unity Technologies is organizing series of events in US and Canada to talk to young women who are curious about careers in game development. The company behind the popular Unity game platform engine used to develop video games for PC, consoles, mobile devices and websites. Unity is also one of the most popular platforms for developing virtual reality …
World’s largest computing society elects all-female leadership team
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has announced the election of new officers who will lead the organization for a two-year term beginning July 1. With this election, ACM will have its first all-female Executive Committee. “This is an opportunity to highlight the contributions that women have made to computing and to inspire young women to view …
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Unity sponsors ‘Women in Gaming’ talk series
Press release: Unity Technologies To Promote and Invest in Success of Women Globally With Series of ‘Women in Gaming’ Talks Key Female Leaders and Executives Will Offer Their Views on Best Practices for Strategic Thinking, Influencing, and Career Navigation in Five Talks Globally Throughout 2016 San Francisco, CA — Unity Technologies, the largest global development platform …
Aussie men say ‘no’ to male-only panels
The all-male CEBIT panel that panelist Alan Jones called out on Twitter. More than 30 men — so far — have signed an Australian pledge to say “No, thanks, mate” to invitations to appear on all-male panels. “Every study into diversity and collaboration I’ve read supports the fact that it raises the collective IQ,” said …
Women only 7 percent of VC investors
Women account for only seven percent of all the active and participating investing partners in the top hundred venture firms globally, according to a report released this week. And only 38 percent of the top hundred venture firms have any female investment partners at all — 28 percent of the firms have only one and 7 percent …