2022

Women Impact Tech is a community - a safe haven- for collaboration, professional growth and belonging that will inspire, educate, empower, and advance women in technology. Our mission is to advance gender equity so that women can thrive in their careers and organizations can build productive, diverse, and inclusive teams.

Actioning on Our Mission

To build a community for women in technology that will inspire, empower, and advance gender equity we focus on three core pillars:

• Knowledge and Insights – providing data and guidance on the industry, market trends, business acumen, and work-life balance

• Meaningful Connections – enabling new interactions and fostering connections to build a continuous support network

• Equity in Hiring – connecting progress companies who have strong diversity, equity, and inclusion programs with qualified, women technical professionals

Bringing our Mission to Life

Our core pillars are implemented through several offerings that help us bring our mission to life.

• Accelerate Conferences – in-person events held in major tech cities designed to connect professionals and organizations, while providing content that enhances knowledge and inspires

• Elevate Series – private virtual events partnering with a singular company designed to strengthen their diversity, equity and inclusion program

• Diversity Recruiting – custom diversity recruiting solutions hyper-focused to build and scale tech teams

• Job Board – digital platform to connect progressive companies with women in tech looking to make a career move

• Membership Program – continuous stream of knowledge and insights through our videos-on-demand and live webinars, opportunities to connect with other members, and exclusive access to research and reports

Our Story

Women Impact Tech began as a mission-driven business concept in late 2018 by the founders Patrick McAdams and Daniel McAdams of Andiamo Consulting LLC to help companies create greater gender parity in technology through talent acquisition. In fall of that same year, Andiamo hosted a hiring event in New York, NY for Women in technology to connect underrepresented female engineers with companies committed to inclusion and diversity.

In 2019, Women Impact Tech operated as a separate brand of Andiamo and hosted 6 events in various cities across the United States. Unfortunately, with COVID, Women Impact Tech was only able to host one in-person event in 2020 before having to pause operations.

In 2021, founders Patrick and Daniel selected Paula Bratcher-Ratliff to lead and build Women Impact Tech so that they could activate the mission and business goals set forth.

2022 has been a successful year thus far as Women Impact Tech has been able to engage over 3,000 technologists at our in-person conferences making a measurable difference in the lives and livelihoods of women in technology, the very women who have been historically excluded from equal access to opportunity.

In addition, Women Impact Tech has been able to recognize and showcase both companies and individuals who have made significant contributions towards women in tech through two inaugural award programs. The first, Women Impact Tech 100 where a list was compiled using public data regarding employee’s feedback on workplace culture for women and other underrepresented groups, employee benefits and perks, and dedicated diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. The second, Women of Impact recognizes women who have made a significant influence on the technical profession paving the way for other women in the field. Nominations were collected and panel of independent judges selected the top women.

Although there is much to do in the form of gender equity and inclusion, Women Impact Tech is encouraged by the progress that has been made.

Breakthrough Film Of The Year 2022

The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales

In this feature-length, personal essay documentary, The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales, filmmaker and philanthropist Abigail Disney grapples with America’s profound inequality crisis. The story begins in 2018, after Abigail encounters workers at the company that bears her name struggling to put food on the table. Could she, a descendent, with no role in the multinational conglomerate, use her famous last name to help pressure Disney and other American corporations to treat low-wage workers more humanely?

Believing her conservative grandfather, Roy Disney, (Walt’s brother and company co-founder) would never have tolerated employee hunger at “The Happiest Place On Earth”, Abigail reexamines the story of modern American capitalism from the middle of the last century, when wealth was shared more equitably, to today, when CEOs earn upwards of 800 times more than their average employees. What happened? What Abigail learns-about racism, corporate power, and the American Dream, is eye-opening, unexpected, and inspiring in that it begins to imagine a path to a fairer future for everyone.

Filmed over a two-year period, The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales expertly weaves together Abigail’s family story and the stories of Disneyland workers; with commentary from historians, authors, and academics. The film artfully employs archive, animation, and never-before-seen Disney family movies. From the boardroom to the union hall, the film will no doubt jump-start urgently needed conversations, about how to make American capitalism work for everyone. As Abigail concludes, “It won’t be easy, but with imagination and courage it can be changed.”