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Author: Lissa Smith @lissasmith80 Two years ago, when I got home to Indianapolis from the first WITness Success event in Chicago, to say I was blown-away is an understatement. From the engaging, vulnerable, and honest panel discussions, to the introspective and informative workshops, to the inspiring keynotes: I left feeling energized, motivated, my confidence level […]

Why do we need this space? I’m super excited to be in a space created by and for women. It’s rare and powerful to be in an intentional space created to foster community for a specific underrepresented group. For women in tech, it’s a relief to be in a place where they can feel safe […]

In this post we talk about the make up & rationales for the various teams. Here we will break down the Core Team specifically, since they’ve put a ton of hours in across many months in both broad and specific ways. Early Days At first, things operated a bit like a startup, where everyone wore many […]

An event like this always takes a village, but luckily we have some wonderful talent in the WIT community excited to lend a hand. Let’s talk a little bit about the team behind this conference. Core Team From the early days, this event had a clear set of extraordinary people willing to go the extra […]

 We are 45 days from the event and for weeks now have already selected all our speakers for breakouts, keynotes & pre-conference sessions. While we’re still updating the website and waiting for some headshots, let’s talk about how we did things this year. The Content Form We introduced our form with this ask: “The leadership […]

The Webster definition of the word Ally is to associate or connect by some mutual relationship, as resemblance or friendship, or as a verb is a person, group, or nation that is associated with another or others for some common cause or purpose. Why is this important? Allies are important in their united common cause […]

Along the way of planning this event, a lot of questions have come up. One of them is “why Chicago?” Another one that comes up quite a bit is “why right after Midwest Dreamin?” To answer one is to answer both, and comes from how we started this planning process in the first place, which […]

Other “Dreamin’s” All over the globe, user group-led regional events have been popping up over the years. The idea of these events is that the local user group leaders will bring host an extra special couple of days of user group meeting something like a mini Dreamforce event to their local area. If one has been hosted […]