Women In Agile - Conference Allyship

Conference Allyship

Conferences provide reliable routes for creating local impact in the community, and need our support in becoming more uniformly accessible, diverse, and inclusive environments.

Upcoming Events

WIA Europe: 2024

The 6th edition of Women in Agile Europe will take place in Prague, Czech Republic on Wednesday, September 18, 2024.

This year’s thee: Lead Embrace Unit Include.

2024 Badass Agile Coaching Day

We are honored that Agile Moose has chosen to support Women in Agile Org with proceeds from the 2024 Badass Agile Coaching Day.

There are options for APAC, Americas & EMEA September 17-19, 2024.

Scrum Day Madison

The WiA Launching New Voices program will be part of
Scrum Day Madison on October 23, 2024. This year’s event
focuses on delivering product with value.

Impact

We can examine both your conference submissions and speaker gender and diversity ratios, and give advice to help improve them over time. We have some great tool recommendations and can give you ideas of new ways to increase your event’s inclusivity!

We know not all conferences can afford to pay participating speakers, but we think it’s important to be transparent about what expenses are covered (and for whom). We encourage speakers to solicit compensation and also provide them guidance on negotiation, so that they are recognized and compensated fairly wherever possible – we can help with event sponsorship!

When there are limited funds available, Women in Agile is open to exploring other ways to sponsor conferences and events that align with our mission. Please contact us to learn more about how Women in Agile can help sponsor your event (note: Women in Agile’s sanctions must be agreed to and followed. Women in Agile does not provide people to plan and run your event – that’s where your creativity shines!).

Conferences and events should provide safe and inclusive space for attendees to network and learn. Unfortunately, some conferences either do not have codes of conduct in place, or established policies and procedures relating to them are not followed. Women in Agile provides consultation and templates for event codes of conduct, and encourages participants to advocate for implementation and/or enforcement of them.

Thank you to Agile Alliance for being our Conference Allyship program sponsor. They have supported our organization since it’s inception as an Agile Alliance initiative and provided space for the annual WIA event with their conference since 2016. Our Launching New Voices Program is made possible through the support from our LNV Program Sponsor,