After two decades in IT consulting, software development and project management, Jumoke Dada — founder of consulting firm Signature RED— kept running into women of color she hadn’t met before at tech events outside of Philly.

“Here they were, 10 years into a software engineering career, and I started paying attention to the fact that there were these women out there that no one hears about,” Dada said. “My experience being here in Philly in terms of women of color is that there has to be more of us out there.”

That’s what led Dada to start the Tech Women Network platform and the upcoming HUE Tech Summit conference, two spaces geared at growing connective tissue between women of color in tech, a vertical that in Philly(and beyond) is widely dominated by male, white staffers.

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