While I have attended a Woman's Leadership conference recently and it was a great experience, something was missing. I found the missing piece at the She's Geeky open conference in NYC. Not only did it bring me back to my adopted hometown, but I got to meet other women in technology. It was so nice to discuss the problems and challenges being in a traditionally male field of work. Additionally, the conference took place at Microsoft so we got to take a tour of the Microsoft Executive Briefing Center. The name sounds off putting but it is where Microsoft puts on it's dog and pony show for executives of companies looking for IT solutions. You could immediately tell we were indeed a group of girl geeks when we walking into the room and saw the rows of servers behind the glass wall. They were something to see and it took all I had not to press my face against the glass! We met a fellow IT woman who worked in the center and she was so happy to be with a group of woman instead of the men she usually worked with. We did get quite a few looks from the men in the center who probably wondered who we were. We also got a preview of the new Xbox Kinect. It was interesting to see, especially since it wasn't released to the public yet.
