Angie Chang is CEO and Founder at Girl Geek X (formerly Bay Area Girl Geek Dinners), a growing community of 40,000+ mid-to-senior level women in technology. Girl Geek X works with mission-aligned companies to help them engage, hire and retain women and non-binary leaders & technologists via custom recruiting events. Over the past decade, we have partnered with hundreds of the world's most innovative tech and consumer brands (PayPal, Etsy, Tesla, Adobe, Meta, Microsoft, Netflix and more) to host more than 400 events in the San Francisco Bay area, and virtual events for over 20,000 attendees — creating opportunities for more than 2,000 women to take the mic and share their thought leadership and expertise as speakers.
Prior to Girl Geek X, Angie was VP of Strategic Partnerships at Hackbright Academy, a women's engineering school for female software engineers. Angie led partnerships with employers at Hackbright, where she built valuable hiring partnerships (Uber, Slack, GoDaddy, Redfin, Indiegogo and more), launched the mentorship program (enlisting 700+ industry engineers as volunteers in 4 years) and connected countless women to new jobs in tech. She also co-founded Women 2.0 in 2006, a media company which promotes women in high-tech entrepreneurship. She was named in Fast Company's 2010 "Most Influential Women in Technology" and more recently Business Insider named her one of "30 Most Important Women Under 30 In Tech."
Angie has been invited by the U.S. State Department to speak on women's high-tech, high-growth entrepreneurship in the West Bank, Switzerland and Germany. In her early career, Angie held positions in product management and web/UI production at various Silicon Valley startups. She holds a B.A. in English and Social Welfare from UC Berkeley.
Select Speaking Engagements:
** Google - Girl Geek Dinner (w/ U.S. Consulate General in Zurich, Switzerland)
** Microsoft - Build (Seattle, Washington)
** PASS Summit - Lunch Keynote (Seattle, Washington)
** Salesforce - Dreamforce (San Francisco, California)
** TEDxUIUC (Chicago, Illinois)
** European Innovation Academy (Nice, France)
** Jumpp & Techettes (w/ U.S. Consulate in Frankfurt, Germany)
** University of Auckland - Centre for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (Auckland, New Zealand)
** Palestinian universities & hubs (w/ U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem & occupied Palestinian territories)
** Private, Corporate Exec/Team Meetings (various)
+ more.
CONTACT:
angiechang@gmail.com / angie@girlgeek.io
EXPERIENCE:
20+ years of tech experience instrumental to building successful brands and businesses.