Our Mission

Our Mission

We are dedicated to providing a platform for successful innovations from women.  With a community buzzing with technological women leaders, we provide essential coaching throughout the curation journey from ideation to design to creation of a product and finding a meaningful way to communicate its value.  Women led innovations do not get the support they need. Despite tremendous historical success with women led ideas and entrepreneurship, women continue to face the challenge of inclusivity and sponsorship.   Our mission is to shine a light and provide encouragement and foster diversity in creativity.

Our Vision

Our vision is that technology will transform the way we live in the future. The lifeblood of humanity is driven by technology today.  While it is exciting and fulfilling for us all to create such an explosion, it is not crazy to be freaked out about the dangers that can evoke.   It is more important now more than ever to influence this journey and join the innovation podium.  This influence must be diverse with women, and other minorities included.  Our goal is to ensure equal opportunities of influence and the time is ripe now.    

 With generative AI or large language models (LLMs) or neural networks, we are at the cusp of reshaping how we live and operate.  Technology is going to diffuse into our consciousness at a pace faster than we can imagine whether we like it or not.  In a mere matter of the next decade, it should not be a shock to see humanoid robots replacing a significant set of activities now performed by humanity.  Without diverse perspectives, you can expect machines to be biased and it won't be far from reality when robots guard the door an exclusive country club where certain genders or races may be prevented from entering.  The world continues to face gender, race and economic power biases especially in the technology sector.  We are finding the numbers of minorities entering majors such as computer science, engineering and data sciences dwindling since the last decade.  

Let's stop the bleeding and encourage our youth to participate in bigger numbers and strengthen our representation.  History proves that despite common misgivings women have consistently defied barriers and pioneered innovations leading to progress in technology that humankind can boast of today.  Examples of outstanding contributions include "frequency hopping" by Hedi Lamarr that became the foundation of modern day Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS technologies, and the first computer compiler by Grace Hopper who pioneered automatic programming that led to high level programming languages such as COBOL.  Let's harness these dramatic achievements in history to propel the percentages of inclusion and diversity in creativity.

At Girlhacks, we believe that we need to start at grass roots level and get onboard with rebuilding the world, this time with equal inclusion and opportunities to showcase the creativity from everywhere and everyone.