There is a need for improving gender diversity within the senior ranks of tech industry management. Facebook’s director of engineering is one of many successful senior female executives that will be featured at the conference.
Jin Zhang, Director of Engineering at Facebook, is the keynote speaker for the upcoming Extraordinary Women in Tech conference, which aims to encourage women to attain higher levels within organizations. Zhang has come a long way in her life and her career — making it easy to see why she was chosen for the keynote speaker role. She’s of Chinese ethnicity, from inner Mongolia, a mother of two young children and with ambitious goals for her career. I recently spoke with Zhang about her role at the upcoming conference in San Francisco: Here are my notes: I asked Zhang what she will be talking about during her keynote speech. She says she doesn’t yet know, it hasn’t been written yet. But one important point she wants to convey will be that women shouldn’t give up too quickly in pursuing their career goals. It can be easy to be discouraged as an ambitious woman executive in making progress within many organizations but her advice is don’t give up too quickly, staying the course a little longer can be very rewarding. The Women in Tech conference features a long list of senior female executives — sharing their stories and acting as examples and mentors to other women.
