Frequently Asked Questions

Most frequent questions and answers about Women in Agile Europe 2019 (WIAEUROPE2019)

Conference

Women in Agile Europe 2019 is the first Women in Agile conference organized in Europe. This first conference will we in the Netherlands on the 7th of November 2019.

ONLINE Women in Agile Europe 2020 was the second Women in Agile conference organized in Europe. This conference was online due to COVID-19 on the 23th of November 2020.

ONLINE Women in Agile Europe 2021 is the third Women in Agile conference organized in Europe. This conference was online in November 19th of 2021.

ONLINE Women in Agile Europe 2022 is the fourth Women in Agile conference organized in Europe. This conference will be online on November 9th of 2022.

We strive to have a gathering which is safe for all genders to network, meet your future colleague, share knowledge and show your awesomeness.
In a passion charged event, where personal safety is a core element. No mansplaining, gaslighting or tone police.
With this event we would like to start a European community of Women in Agile.

More broadly:
In the IT labour market the participation of women is a mere 10-12 %. In all other market (in Europe) 45%. We thought that % participation of women in Agile would be greater because of the sought-for-competencies are largely attributed to women. Still it is stuck on 10-12%. Of the 100 women that graduate in STEM, only 8 work in (i)technical jobs. So there is something going wrong….

It is important to include women (and all other ‘minorities') in IT to solve the demographic crisis. And gain the proven benefits for organizations that have a balanced (gender) diversity.
And there are some more issues we wish that could be solved too: gender pay gap, all male organizing boards, all male executive boards, etc. Maybe we can think of something that would help us, the companies we work for and the labour market.

This conference is about inclusiveness, everyone is welcome to join us. We are celebrating “Women in Agile”, why don't you join us in our celebration? If you feel left out, let us know, together we can find a way to make you feel included.

Many times we find that the voices of women are not heard, ignored or their power reduced. You can help them by countering the behaviour that leads to this. 
When you hear women voice their opinion, giving talks, lecturing, show your support. Share their posts, tweets, imagery; counter negative comments that are based in sexism, and sometimes take a step back to let women speak so they can be heard. 
An exercise in this can be to use your imagination, “how would I feel if someone said this to me?”. Our society is silently accepting behaviour that leads to women not being heard. Even women often accept it as “normal”. Yet is it not. This is one of the main reasons why we need allies.

If you need any examples of the kind of comments women have to face you could read The Nine Types of Reply guy. Because we know you would never comment like this 🙂

This event is organized by a group of volunteers backed by a foundation.

Foundation: Julya van Berkel, Mary Beijleveld and Evelien Roos.

WIAEU2019: Julya van Berkel, Mary Beijleveld, Joanne Boerstoel, Evelien Roos, Eva Offermans and Harry Nieboer.

WIAEU2020: Julya van Berkel, Alisa Stolze, Natalie Caraman, Jan Fischbach, Veronika Hefle and Harry Nieboer.

WIAEU2021: Julya van Berkel, Alisa Stolze, Natalie Caraman, Jan Fischbach, Veronika Hefle and Harry Nieboer.

WIAEU2022: Julya van Berkel, Alisa Stolze, Jan Fischbach, Veronika Hefle and Harry Nieboer.

See Organizers for details and contact information.

The organisation team consists of Dutch people, we decided to organize the first edition of Women in Agile Europe in the Netherlands, but want to see if we can (help to) organize the next one in another European country. 

This is a non profit conference.

Although this is a non-profit event we ask participants for a small fee for a day with lots of fun, knowledge, networking and practice. We pay all our speakers and keynote speakers, we do not pay hotel costs or travel costs. Selected (CfS) speakers and volunteers earn free access to this event.

Any money that is left after the conference will be used to organize next year's conference in Europe.

All Women in Agile Europe attendees, speakers, sponsors, vendors, partners and volunteers are required to adhere to the Code of Conduct. 

Organizers will enforce this code throughout Women in Agile Europe events and operations. We expect cooperation from all participants to help ensure a safe environment for everybody.

Women In Agile Europe follows the Women In Agile Code of Conduct, please take a few minutes to read it over.

Report concerns
To report any concerns, harassing behavior, suspicious or disruptive activity, contact event organizers or volunteers, or email us at conduct@womeninagile.eu

Women in Agile Europe reserves the right to refuse admittance to or remove any person from an activity at its sole discretion, and discontinue their affiliation with the organization or individual. This includes event attendees, organizers, sponsors, partners and volunteers.

Attending

The host hotel for WIAEUROPE2019 was the Corendon Village Amterdam.

All sessions and meals took place there in the Meeting Places.

WIAEUROPE2020 was online using Zoom.

All sessions took place in Zoom rooms. Participants were able to access their room of choice via a switchboard on https://womeninagile.eu 

WIAEUROPE2021 was online using Zoom.

All sessions took place in Zoom rooms. Participants were able to access their room of choice via a switchboard on https://womeninagile.eu 

WIAEUROPE2022 will online again, as we assessed the Covid related situation to still be unclear. 
Participants will be able to access their room of choice via a switchboard on https://womeninagile.eu

For next year we are aiming at a live event again.

The event is open to all interested in joining the conversation for low costs.
We will have amazing keynote speakers, seasoned local speakers as well as new voices. 

  • Regular Ticket: 39 Euro ticket, available to anyone who would like to attend WIAEUROPE2022

See Tickets for details.

  • Early Bird Ticket: 50 special priced tickets will be available for a limited period for anyone who would like to attend WIAEUROPE2021
  • Regular Ticket: Available to anyone who would like to attend WIAEUROPE2021
  • Member Ticket: Available to individual members of organizations sponsoring WIAEUROPE2021.
    You can buy one of the above tickets using a promotion code.
  • Help Me Out Ticket: You cannot afford a ticket. You feel you need to be at the conference. Contact us directly and we'll see how we can make it happen.

See Tickets for details.

We think WIAEU2020 is affordable for all.

For WIAEU2021 we will have a limited number of “Help me out” tickets
When you really cannot afford the ticket price and feel you need to be at the conference, use the contact form to contact us. 
We'll see how we can make it happen. We do however not pay hotel costs or travel costs. 

The cost of the ONLINE conference covers live admittance to all main sessions and a choice of breakout sessions.

We are investigating recording sessions and making them available after the conference.

The cost of the conference covers all sessions, food* and drinks**,  as well as conference swag, and sponsor giveaways. Hotel and Travel are not included and are the responsibility of the attendee to book.

*Food provided includes:

  • Morning Break 
  • Lunch
  • Afternoon Break 
  • Diner

**Drinks provided includes:

  • Coffee/Tea/Water

We are investigating possibilities for networking. Currently we have a dedicated slack and a secured part of the womeninagile.eu website in mind. 

The costs of these networking abilities are included in de WIAEU2020 ticket price.

We are investigating possibilities for networking. Currently we have a dedicated slack and a secured part of the womeninagile.eu website in mind. 

The costs of thes above networking abilities are included in de WIAEU2021 ticket price.

We ALSO organize a pre-conference event in May where participants can network and meet the keynote presenters.
The event includes a dinner (buffet style with drinks included) and meet and greet in the bar. Drinks at the bar are free in the first hour and at your own costs afterwards.

The costs of the pre-conference event are 40 Euro. You can buy your pre-conference event ticket at https://womeninagile.eu

We have nothing organised for kids.

For the ONLINE WIAEU2020 conference, bringing your kids could be fun, especially during breaks.
For grown up kids, please buy an additional ticket 😉

Sorry, we only have discounts for organizations that sponsor WIAEUROPE2021.

All cancellations must be received by email two days before the conference date at 5:00pm Amsterdam TIME (CET). There may be a processing fee for any cancellation to cover handling costs (to be determined).

No refund of any kind, for any reason (including medical emergencies) will be given for cancellation requests received later two days before the conference date at 5:00pm Amsterdam TIME (CET). 

No-shows are liable for the entire conference fee.

Call for Speakers

Yes, fo the ONLINE Women in Agile Europe 2022 there will be a CfS.
The organizers will select a diverse group of speakers. When we sell more tickets than anticipated, we will invite more speakers.
For ONLINE Woman in Agile Europe 2022 we use a new functionality to  manage our 2022 Call for Speakers. The Call for Speakers will start soon.

For the ONLINE Women in Agile Europe 2022 we invite both experienced and inexperienced speakers.

If you feel that you have a story to tell, to inspire other women in agile, but are not sure you are ballsy enough to share it on stage, please give it a try.  Here is some helpful advice.

We offer mentoring / coaching for those willing to share their stories, in order for you to shine on stage.

We really think speakers should be compensated. And we think the conference should be affordable for attendants. We are constantly looking for the right balance.

Therefor we pay selected a compensation of Euro 250 for each selected session.  When you have co-speakers or helpers, you share the Euro 250. 

That's anything between small money and a good pay. A sure thing is that you can add a paid talk or workshop on a great conference to your resume 😉

We do however not pay hotel costs or travel costs for speakers. 

Selected speakers additionally earn free access to this event.
In case you are selected and already bought a ticket, you will get refunded.

Each speaker can propose a maximum of two sessions.
Sessions are in English.
Session types are:

  • Talk (45 minutes)
  • Workshop (45 minutes)
  • Workshop (90 minutes)

When we receive many proposals we may reduce the number of longer session slots to accommodate more speakers. (In that case, when you proposed a 90 minutes workshop may ask you if you are open for a 45 minutes version)

The theme is “Breaking Boundaries”.

We may come up with tracks later, or will group selected proposals into tracks after selection.

For the ONLINE Women in Agile Europe 2022 we assume speakers have their own computer setup with camera, microphone, ample light and good networking bandwidth.
We will use a mix of speaker and organizer Zoom accounts.

Each session one of the organizers is available to introduce the speaker and (optionally) take care of handling questions in the chat.

Sponsoring

We appreciate you wanting to help us make this conference a success 😉
We have several sponsoring opportunities, take a look at

https://womeninagile.eu/online-2020-sponsorship-portfolio/ and

https://womeninagile.eu/berlin-2021-sponsorship-portfolio/

on the website. We are open to other suggestions.


We will have special early bird opportunities for companies willing to sponsor both 2020 and 2021!

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Venue

ONLINE WIAEU2020 will be on Zoom. BERLIN WIAEU2021 will be at Berlin.

Location details will follow.

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