Dare ObasanjoNov 27, 2023

Gergely Orosz has uncovered a tech conference organizer that regularly lists non-existent female speakers on its agenda.

The DevTernity conference occurring on December 7th & 8th lists a female Coinbase engineer and a WhatsApp engineer who are completely made up.

Similar fake profiles have been discovered on the speaker roster for JDKon, a Java conference by the same organization.

This is a new low.

There are too many talented female engineers to pull this crap. 🤬

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gergelyorosz_software-engineer-anna-boyko-has-an-impressive-activity-7134825190613491712-e0GS/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

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Show threadJason St-Cyr 
@carnage4life That thread goes deep, apparently well beyond fake speakers. Apparently there are fake sponsor listings, fake people working for the event to promote it, sponsors and speakers who have backed out are not being taken off the site. This is one of the worst ones I've seen in our tech space in terms of event fraud.
Nov 27, 2023 at 3:25pmWeb