Importance of Women in IT April Event

How we will teach 1 million women to build the internet by 2025  Join us to hear from Sarah Moran, co-founder and CEO of Girl Geek Academy, as she tells us how and why she founded Girl Geek Academy and how they plan to teach 1 million women to build the internet by 2025.   Currently, with only 12 per cent of those "building the internet" being women, Sarah and her team are dedicated to levelling the playing field so that future generations will have the same leadership and salary opportunities as their male counterparts.  Meet Sarah Sarah Moran is co-founder and CEO of Girl Geek Academy, with a mission to teach 1 million women to get into tech and launch their own startups by 2025. Girl Geek Academy is behind Australia's first all-women hackathon, #SheHacks, Australia's first all-women makerfest, #SheMakes, and the world’s first hackathon for girls aged five to eight, #MissMakesCode. Sarah learned to code when she was just five years old and believes that you’re never too young – or old – to learn how to code. Alongside her four fellow Girl Geek Academy co-founders, Sarah is on a mission to create a lifelong community of women who love to learn tech. Sarah has worked across Australia and Silicon Valley and has witnessed first-hand the issues faced by women in the industry.  In 2017, Sarah joined the Channel Ten and FOXTEL LifeStyle channel television series, Common Sense, where she is having her say on what’s happening in the world, while showing the nation its cool to be a smart chick.