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Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled

Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled

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Comments (76)

  • cmiles8
    Sad to see this canceled and especially at the last minute.Since DEI imploded most companies won’t touch anything with a 100 ft pole that looks like it might go anywhere near that, and seems like that didn’t help on funding and sponsors.This always seemed like a good event and only ever heard positive things about it. The controversies and scandals surrounding DEI were not about this, and thus it would appear this may be collateral damage.
  • grahar64
    Is it because international registrations were down. I know that I am dodging US travel ATM
  • beej71
    Ugh. A bunch of our students already booked travel and rooms. What a horrible situation all around.
  • roughly
    Some of the best hires I ever made came through GHC - truly a sad day.
  • mooreds
  • chasil
    For as much COBOL as my (former) coworkers use every day, they should bankroll her day.
  • akoboldfrying
    Who does AnitaB.org actually support or advocate for?Their "Our Mission" page refers only to the perfectly vague "our community", never once describing what that is. Nor does their landing page. Their "Our History" page says that the organisation started out to support women in the tech industry, but then describes several name changes, eventually dropping all use of the words "woman" or "women" and switching to the user of "individuals" without explanation or elaboration. It reads like a perfectly choreographed PR "product" designed to maximise deniability of... something. But what?
  • wolfi1
    I have to admit, I suspected the Secretary of War cancelled the funding
  • angry_octet
    I think we can safely assume that all the major sponsors from 2025 pulled out. Any one of them could have carried the whole thing.https://codewithkate.squarespace.com/blog/the-complete-grace...Tech Giants & Major PlayersAmazon - Booth 751Google - Booth 1246Meta - Booth 1010Nvidia - Booth 1039Disney - Booth 946Snap - Booth 447Roblox - Booth 1209PlayStation - Booth 433Nintendo - Booth 429Finance & Trading FirmsGoldman Sachs - (Location TBD)Morgan Stanley - Booth 633Jane Street - Booth 618Citadel - Booth 62Two Sigma - Booth 1046DE Shaw - Booth 410IMC - Booth 1051Walleye Capital - Booth 1052Apollo Global Management - Booth 647Five Rings - Booth 310Cboe - Booth 952Banking & Financial Services Bank of America - Booth 439Capital One - Booth 831Bloomberg - Booth 824Navy Federal - Booth 426USAA - Booth 614Vanguard - Booth 819Insurance & Financial Tech Prudential - Booth 526CHUBB - Booth 344Voya Financial - Booth 1226NEXT Insurance - Booth 1227Manulife - Booth 1122Tech & Software Companies Intuit - Booth 422PayPal - Booth 514Cloudflare - Booth 533Wayfair - Booth 342Xero - Booth 343Adyen - Booth 605WEX - Booth 1014Chewy - Booth 1114Infoblox - Booth 852InterSystems - Booth 518Red Hat - Booth 919DTCC - Booth 418Consulting & Professional Services EY - Booth 1228E-commerce & Entertainment Audible - Booth 1251Automotive & Manufacturing Rivian - Booth 1022John Deere - (Location TBD)Crown Equipment Corporation - Booth 1210Automotive & Manufacturing Rivian - Booth 1022John Deere - (Location TBD)Crown Equipment Corporation - Booth 1210Real Estate & Corporate Services CBRE - Booth 341Lumen - Booth 345Retail & Food Services McDonald's - Booth 339Healthcare & Medical Technology Tandem Diabetes Care - Booth 313Northwestern Medicine - Booth 1214Mortgage & Real Estate Tech Rocket - Booth 1211
  • knorker
    The first thing I think about when I hear GHC is the gaslighting. For years I was prodded about that I should go. Men are absolutely welcome. Everyone is welcome, etc.I never felt that I was actually welcome. And I don't have to be. It's not for me, and it doesn't have to be. I answered women inviting me that no, that wasn't made for me, have fun though.Then mass layoffs happened, and men who lost their jobs, or looking for their first job, went.Suddenly everything flipped. Keynote was basically "what the fuck are all you men doing here, taking the space of women?".Oh, the gaslighting. Glad I never went.
  • 0xbadcafebee
    Why it may have lacked the funding to continue operations:"Last year, Women Who Code, a nonprofit that got its start in California, closed because of a lack of funding. AnitaB.org, which brings together women in tech at its annual Grace Hopper Celebration, cut its workforce in 2024 and pointed to a downturn in corporate DEI investments." - "Why Big Tech is pulling back [from DEI efforts]" [2025] (https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-02-15/google-and...)"I've seen companies who have rebranded their diversity, equity, inclusion as colleague engagement, as listening and empowerment, or and whatever else, I've seen many different iterations, and I think a lot of organizations... [want] to get to a place where they can hide their activity..." ... "Those organizations want to continue doing the work, but they no longer want attention for that work. And so to try to, like, hide it in some ways, and we're in a very unprecedented time right now, nothing is normal right now." ... "Well, basically, corporations interpreted the ADA to say, like, I don't have to offer any... And then you have this three executive orders around DEI, and companies are falling over themselves to comply in advance without any legal mandate for compliance." ... "I just saw a New York Times article that was published a list of a hundred and ninety-nine words that the Trump administration is targeting, words like diversity and inclusion, but also things like bias, stereotypes, underrepresented, underserved, and many more words. They're flagging these words, they're removing them from websites, they're investigating, delaying, denying grants and funding." - Bo Young Lee, President of Research & Advisory for AnitaB.org [2025] (https://voices.berkeley.edu/podcast/dei-not-doa-part-1 | locally AI extracted transcript: https://pastebin.ca/5Mmy5Q6deu)
  • fortran77
    I wonder if people are confused about their repositioning.An AnitaB.org press release dated April 24, 2025, stated its mission as:> “to get women in tech skilled, hired, promoted, paid, and funded so that they can thrive, lead, and drive innovation for a more equitable and sustainable future.”The current mission page instead says:> “to get our community in tech skilled, hired, promoted, paid, and funded, so they can thrive, lead, and drive innovation for a more impartial and sustainable future.”It's really hard to tell from their current mission statement who "our community" is.
  • surume
    This is a pure example of the Woke turning on their own first. This cancellation was NOT about funding. Grace Hopper was white - and the woke truly hate white people - so they decided to erase her.
  • WangComputers
    Why did they cancel her, did it turn out that she owned slaves or something?
  • zkmon
    There are no isolated phenomena. There are no accidents. It apples to everything. Times are changing. Priorities are changing. The party is coming to an end. People are getting real. It's like the world suddenly progressed past it's childhood or waking from a musical dream.The courtesy smiles, the pretentive presentations, the sale talk, the polite social customs, the diplomacy, the power due to knowledge, weaponry, currency fixations, - all will face the concrete realities. Water recedes exposing the naked, boisterous economies. The zero-carbon evangelists run to Russia for diesel and to China for minerals or they get extinct, unable to adapt and sitting on their presumptive glory.