Lesbians Who Tech + Allies

[1] By the end of 2013, small events were launched in New York, Seattle, Boston, Los Angeles, London, Berlin and Toronto and the community had nearly 4,000 people.

[5] In October 2023, the Lesbians Who Tech + Allies Summit celebrated their 10th year anniversary with a 3 day in-person event that featured many keynote speakers, including Kara Swisher, Ilene Chaikin, Jennifer Beals, Kiran Gandhi, Chani Nicholas, ALOK Vaid-Menon, Chasten Buttigieg, and Debbie Millman.

[5] Lesbians Who Tech & Allies aims to build a network of colleagues, associates, and friends in the industry that share the same sexual orientation, in order to help make comfortable connection within the work space.

[10] The first White House's LGBT Tech and Innovation Summit took place in July 2014 with the aim to explore how technology can be used to end discrimination.

The sixth-annual Lesbians Who Tech & Allies Summit, a three day event, took place in San Francisco from February 28 to March 2, 2019.

Senator Tammy Baldwin, former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, San Francisco Mayor London Breed, and Emerson Collective founder Laurene Powell Jobs have given speeches at Lesbians Who Tech + Allies Summits.

Among many others, further noteworthy speakers include Hillary Clinton, Stacey Abrams, Sheryl Sandberg and Marc Benioff.