A crowd of well over 100 packed into the very cool Hamiltonian Gallery on U Street on Tuesday, June 15, 2010 to hear a provocative panel discussion about women in technology. The panelists and moderator Debbie Weil, are DC members of Fast Company‘s 2010 Most Influential Women in Technology.
From left to right on the panel (pictured above): moi, Katie Stanton, Special Advisor on Innovation at the U.S. State Department; Teresa Carlson, VP of Microsoft Federal; Ellen Miller, co-founder of the Sunlight Foundation; Shireen Mitchell, founder of Digital Sisters and Allyson Kapin, founder of Women Who Tech. At left, Ellen Miller, L; Teresa Carlson, R. Photos by Robert S. Katz.
Attendees devoured 120 deliciously dense cupcakes from Baked and Wired (the signature of a Sweets and Tweets event). Make that 119 because one fell on the floor. By all accounts this special DC Week edition of Sweets and Tweets, sponsored by Microsoft U.S. Public Sector, was a huge success. 
Katie Stanton, (at left), former Googler and member of the Obama White House New Media team, urged the audience to go home and read Clay Shirky’s rant about women. His basic point: women don’t promote themselves enough.
Thanks to Debbie Weil for her excellent moderation of this dilectible discussion and for sharing her write up of this event. To read more about Sweets & Tweets check out her blog!
