Manuela Malasañaduring my career as a graphics programmer ive been invited to speak on a few panels and every time its a huge honor, and i feel petty and ungrateful to complain about it, but every single one of those panels was a "woman" panel. women in STEM one, women in gamedev one, women in mixed reality, and so on. its like convention organizers are saying "you're very eminent in your field. i mean, like, for a girl"
Undead Zeratul@Xibanya even I felt that as a guy who works in tech... I fully believe you have what it takes to give those panels, but it sucks any meaning out of it once it's painted in a reductive gender-based criteria...
The silver lining, I guess, is at least they didn't pick a guy to do those panels instead...