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A TECH CONFERENCE LISTED FAKE SPEAKERS FOR YEARS: I ACCIDENTALLY NOTICED

blog.pragmaticengineer.com9 min read

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A tech conference called DevTernity had women speakers on their website who did not exist in real life. For 3 years straight, the DevTernity conference listed non-existent software engineers representing Coinbase and Meta as featured speakers. This addition of fake women speakers happened after the conference organizers were called out a few years ago for having an all-male panel.