AWIP Launches New York City Chapter to Bridge the Gender Leadership Gap in Tech

IOpipe CTO and Co-Founder Erica Windisch to join panel discussion on Oct. 16

• Inaugural chapter event includes a panel discussion hosted at the AWS Loft with female tech CEOs and a Google exec, moderated by a Principal at New Enterprise Associates
• AWIP to empower NYC’s growing population of tech leaders through skill-based training, mentorships and networking opportunities
• AWIP reaches 12,000 global members including product managers, VCs, product designers and tech executives

NEW YORK — (BUSINESS WIRE) — Advancing Women in Product (AWIP), the organization aiming to bridge the diversity gap for technology leaders by empowering high-potential female product and tech leaders through equality of opportunity, today announced the launch of a new chapter in New York City. This chapter will offer skill-based training, executive mentorships, networking opportunities and career development programming to help women and other underrepresented groups bridge the leadership divide in tech.

“AWIP is committed to increasing workplace diversity by propelling more female product and tech leaders to the next level and supporting them with the tools they need to land leadership roles,” said Nancy Wang, CEO and co-founder of AWIP. “Through education, training and mentorship, we want to empower our members to change the current status quo in the industry and leave their mark on the thriving NYC tech scene.”

Since launching the first chapter in San Francisco in 2017, AWIP has grown to more than 12,000 members worldwide with chapters in San Francisco, Boston, Seattle, London, and Paris. The AWIP NYC Chapter will offer a broad range of resources to create a thriving tech community focused on increasing representation of women and other underrepresented groups in leadership roles. The chapter will host multiple events featuring tech leaders from NYC, as well as mentoring circles and skills-based workshops to help members build key product leadership skills.

“Diversity thrives in New York City, and AWIP’s commitment to inclusion aligns perfectly with that culture,” said Jackie DeJesse, AWIP NYC Programming Lead. “Our local chapter will foster a community where women and their allies can find mentors, develop a network and ultimately help them advance their careers.”

The AWIP NYC chapter will host a panel discussion, “Contrasting PM Disciplines Between Coasts,” followed by a Q&A session and networking event sponsored by Domio. AWIP will have panelists share their personal product management journeys and actionable take-aways on what it means to build products for a bicoastal or national audience.

WHAT:

AWIP to host panel discussion, “Contrasting PM Disciplines Between Coasts,” followed by a Q&A and networking event.

WHO:

Panel moderated by Crystal Huang, Principal at New Enterprise Associates (NEA).

Panelists include:

• Charlie Javice, Founder & CEO, Frank (Forbes 30U30)
• Erica Windisch, Founder, CTO, IOpipe
• Veronica Pinchin, Director, Product Management, Sidewalk Labs, an Alphabet company

WHEN:

October 16, 2019, 6:30 p.m. — 9 p.m. EDT

WHERE:

AWS Loft

350 West Broadway

New York, NY 10013

If you are a company based out of NYC and would like to partner with AWIP, please reach out to partners@advancingwomeninproduct.org. For ticketing information to attend the event, please visit here.

About AWIP

Co-founded by two Google and Amazon PMs, Advancing Women in Product (AWIP) empowers tech leaders through equality of opportunity in career advancement for both men and women. AWIP believes in the power of equal opportunity to propel the technology industry forward. To learn more and to join AWIP, visit www.advancingwomeninproduct.org, @theAWIP on Twitter, and @AdvancingWomenInProduct on Facebook.

About IOpipe

As the leader in serverless dev tooling for monitoring and observability, IOpipe offers real-time visibility into the most granular behaviors of today’s serverless applications on AWS Lambda.

Founded in 2016 by Erica Windisch and Adam Johnson, IOpipe reduces debugging time from hours to seconds, delivers transparent insights into the behaviors and performance of your serverless functions, and reduces risk for enterprises shifting to serverless.

Working with global brands like Matson, Rackspace, and APM Music, IOpipe empowers engineering teams to deliver with confidence, debug intelligently, and get busy building the impossible.

In other words, IOpipe makes it a lot more fun to be a developer. Visit www.iopipe.com to learn more and try it for free.