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🌐 Global Data & AI community for women
✨ Add to the fabric of AI, fueled by community
📍 10th Conference | May 2027| Toronto

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The data and AI consulting market is full of people who shouldn’t be selling it. 🤷🏾‍♀️

People who think prompting an LLM makes them an expert.

People with no battle wounds from real production.

People who steal others’ thinking, claim it as their own, and still can’t execute.

Companies are paying them. Then watching the projects fail.

Or worse, exposing them to legal, reputational, and regulatory risk.

They don’t need more AI hype. They need the people who have actually led and shipped this work.

Meanwhile, the women who can do it are charging less. Or nothing.

Every month you stay silent or underpriced is money you leave on the table.

The economic climate is not in our favour. Every layoff cycle, every DEI rollback, every restructuring proves this. Consulting work. Advisory work. Speaking fees. That builds resilience. That’s how you stop being one quarterly decision away from starting over.

That’s what the Woven Founder Intensive is for.

If you know me, you know I’m thorough. When I redesigned this from 1:1 coaching to a group format, I wasn’t going to bring in just anyone.

8 sessions. 5 guest experts. Women who have actually built what you’re trying to build.

Cynthia Warner Beck, MBA, CFA, Fractional CFO at Lightbulb Finance, on knowing your numbers before you build anything.

Jen Barnes-Nolan, Founder of JenAI Consulting, on declaring your niche.

Andrea Bolden, Business Lawyer and IP Strategist at Goldmine Business and IP Law, on owning and protecting what you’ve built.

Karlyn Percil-Mercieca, Founder and Chief Equity Officer of KDPM Consulting & Equity Institute, on building your media kit, speaking proposal, and activating a pipeline that gets you paid.

Cher Jones, Chief Learning Strategist at Socially Active, on your online presence so the right people can actually find you and building your signature talk.

This is not a webinar series. Every week has a deliverable you develop. And you’ll have an accountability partner to keep you on track.

Applications are open until June 19. Visit JOINWOVEN.COM or comment and I’ll send the link by @join.woven

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5 months ago

I watched this video and instantly felt immensely proud.

You know how people describe body dysmorphia? Where you look in the mirror and can’t see yourself accurately? I have that about my work. I’ve been so close to it, so deep in the logistics and the outreach and the stage cues, that I genuinely couldn’t see how big this thing is.

This video fixed that.

Nine years. Six thousand women. And I finally looked at what I’ve been building and thought: this is my event? This is huge and looks like an amazing time.

Year 10 is next.✨

If you were at the Woven conference this year, you have access to reduced first bird pricing until May 31.

Everyone else, first bird runs until June 30 then early bird opens.

You do not want to miss Year 10. I raise the bar every year and 10 years is a milestone I never dreamed I’d hit.

Huge shoutout to our Diamond Sponsor Tech@RBC, and bronze sponsors Mistplay, CIFAR and O’Reilly. Your support means the world to me and contributes to the magic of our community.

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🎥Videography by the KOA team led by Ryan Malcolm-Campbell ✨ @mr.koa. Team @onlocation.studios & @geesunkvisuals on the flawless headshots 💁🏾‍♀️ taken in Toronto Canada by @join.woven

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5 months ago

What happens when you bring together diverse tech executives who rarely find themselves in the same room?
Honest conversations about challenges, vulnerability about failures, and collaborative visions for a more inclusive industry, all over amazing food and even better company.

This is the exclusive glimpse into our executive dinner!
Before our Womxn In Data Science conference officially began, these moments of authentic connection set the tone for everything that followed.

At Woven, we believe transformation starts with connection.
Creating spaces where leaders can be authentic is how we weave change into the fabric of tech.

Ready to be part of these conversations?
Comment "NEWSLETTER" below to join our newsletter and be the first to know about our next exclusive gathering of minds and missions! ✨.
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#inclusivetech #techforgood #aiforeveryone #aicommunity #womenintech #diversityintech #techtips #techcoaching #womeninai #airevolution #futureoftechnology #datascience #machinelearning #nextgenai by @join.woven

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a year ago

Leadership in tech does not mean giving up hands-on execution. In this edition of Thread Count, RBC Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect Valerie Riabova shares how she scaled her impact from hands-on architect to managing teams.

Key takeaways from Valerie's interview:
Hire for candidness rather than agreement.
Maintain your technical skills while building leadership depth.
Build high-trust teams comfortable with direct debate.
Build bite-sized learning habits.
Connect technical solutions directly to business value and storytelling.

Swipe through for the breakdown, then read the full interview on the Woven blog at the link in bio. by @join.woven

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3 days ago

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For the past 4 years I’ve watched how political sentiment impacts investment in anything meant to serve diverse communities. The fact that it’s happening at the same time as there is a hyperfocus on AI should ring alarms for you.

Why wouldn’t they want us at the table to contribute to the design and deployment of technology that scales so broadly?

How does the widespread adoption of a technology not warrant a more diverse representation of people involved in the creation process?

Why just the intense narrative about being consumers and end users or risk being left behind? by @join.woven

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4 days ago

He's not the audience we built this for. He came anyway.

"Kishawna's leadership has been amazing over the last nine years. Being able to lead an organization, put the right people in the right room."

A man, at a conference for women in data and AI, talking about what it did for him to be in that room.

That's what nine years of doing this actually builds. Early bird pricing for Year 10 is live. Comment CONFERENCE for tickets by @join.woven

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5 days ago

This event is hybrid: in person and virtual attendance options

The job market is shifting daily. Roles are changing, competition is high and applications disappear into systems where you rarely find out what happened or why.

Join RBC and Woven for a live AMA on recruiting for data and AI roles. Kishawna Peck, Founder of Woven, will moderate. You ask, and get the unscripted answers.

Bring your burning question about your job search or your next career move. Come with questions about a resume that isn’t getting callbacks, an offer you’re weighing, an interview that went sideways, or a plan to change careers.

What you can ask about:

How to stand out when hundreds of people apply to the same role
How to move into data and AI from another field
What to do when you’re laid off, between roles, or stuck in one
When to bring up salary and what you can negotiate beyond base pay
How AI is changing the way candidates apply and the way recruiters screen
Who should come:

Anyone job searching in data and AI right now
Early and mid-career people building a path in the field
Experienced professionals planning their next move or a bigger role
Career switchers coming in from other industries by @join.woven

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10 days ago

This is the quarter you win. It doesn't matter that a week has already gone by. It doesn't matter what happened earlier during the year. This quarter is yours if you want it to be.

Here is a preview of my Quarter You Win blueprint. It's a fillable workbook for you to work through your goals, reflect, and hit the ground running.

I know that this year has been hard for a lot of us, and I may be delusional, but I feel like we can turn this around.

Comment "WIN" for the link. by @join.woven

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10 days ago

She came for her team at YWCA Toronto. Mobile app developers who weren't sure a data and AI conference was for them.

By the end of the day: "I can see the crossover now, or how this might work."

That's the thing about this room. You don't need to already know how it applies to you. You find out by being in it.

Early bird tickets for Year 10 are live now. Comment CONFERENCE for tickets by @join.woven

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12 days ago

She came in as a student wanting to understand how AI and data actually work inside a business. She left with this:

"It's more of a helping tool rather than a replacement tool. We will still need engineers, humans to be able to use the AI, to prompt engineer, to use the data that we have and actually implement it correctly."

That's the perspective we built this conference to make room for. Women shaping how AI gets used, not just worried about being replaced by it.

Year 10 early bird pricing is open. Comment CONFERENCE for tickets by @join.woven

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19 days ago

I’m the first call for so many women in my community and beyond. My brain basically runs on game theory so come plan the rest of your year with me.

I’ve always planned my life in quarters. I stole the habit from companies and treated myself like one long before I started Woven. Quarterly planning is what led me to start Woven. I was looking for events, courses and communities to join for the quarter. I never planned to start anything but saw the gap and took it a step at a time. 8 years later, no five year plan I ever drafted could have predicted this.

With the ground shifting beneath so many of us, I don’t want to plan Q4 alone this year. I need to be of service.

Over the last few months I’ve collected data on the mistakes I’ve made, the lessons I’ve learned, and the wins too. I’m ready to apply all of it and end this year on a (high) note I can be proud of.

I know you want the same too so here’s the deets:
Thursday, October 1st, 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET, online

We review what happened this quarter and build your plan for the last three months of 2026. You do the work during the session, so you leave with a plan. You’ll have continued access to our group chat to hype each other up through Q4 and collaborate towards your goals.

See you Thursday?

Rooting for you always 🫶🏾

P.S If you’re between jobs right now or things are really tight, msg me and we’ll sort something out. I want to see you win. by @join.woven

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20 days ago

"Women bring essential, fresh perspectives to AI and how it transforms every industry." Don't miss your chance to join this incredible community of innovators at the Woven conference. Early bird pricing ends October 31st!

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