#tecHER 2026
Why join #tecHER 2026?
As people in STEM, many of us share the same desire: not simply to build technology, but to use it to make a real difference - ideally without needing seventeen tabs open to do it. Yet too often, some of us underestimate ourselves, hesitate to take space, or forget the value we bring. This is where #tecHER comes in.
#tecHER is an engaging community of people working in tech roles. We run an annual event (now in its 5th year), host an annual Mentorship Program, and distribute a monthly newsletter packed with informative articles, interviews, and videos covering a broad range of topics designed to help you in your career journey - minus the jargon overload. We also have a hub of content created with your tech career goals in mind, which you can browse below.
The theme for #tecHER 2026 is Rise to Impact. It is a reminder that your skills, ideas, and perspectives matter - even when your inner critic suggests otherwise. Through inspiring role models, practical advice, honest conversations, and a community that truly understands your journey, #tecHER is here to help you rise to your full potential.
Whether you're studying, starting out, or already established in your career (and still occasionally searching for the Teams unmute button), this is your place to connect, learn, and be inspired by women who are turning their passion for tech into meaningful impact.
Because the future needs technology. But it also needs women like you to shape it.
Ready to see where your next step could take you? Register for #tecHER today and join a community ready to rise, connect, and make an impact together.
Event agenda
- Tech for Impact: Demonstrations of autonomous robots and trucks, humanoids, and VR/XR.
- Tech Challenge: Five participants tackle a complex safety issue, showcasing technology, collaboration, and innovation.
- Starting a Career in Tech: Explore modern tech roles, essential skills, overcoming barriers, starting without experience, and immediate next steps.
- Navigating a Tech Career: Build visibility, networks, resilience, leadership capabilities, and future-ready skills - including AI.
- Becoming a Role Model: Identify your strengths, take practical action, promote allyship, and inspire future generations.
Register today!
Meet our speakers and event participants
Event content
(Available from November 19th)
Watch the consise 60-minute highlights version of the event, or dig deeper into a broader selection of topics below! There's tons of great insights and personalities to discover from #tecHER 2026.
In the meantime, you can check out the highlights of #tecHER 2025 below.
Discover more event content
This content will be available on November 19th.
- Discover top tech for impact
- Enjoy our tech team challenge
- Start your career in tech
- Navigate your career in tech
- Become a role model
Technology comes in all shapes and sizes and solves a multitude of real-world challenges. In this segment we will examine some of the latest technology that has the potential to create lasting impact in our world, and learn how such tech can be employed for the benefit of all. Included in this segment, you will see robotics - both autonomous factory robots and humanoid robots, explore the workings of an autonomous truck, and get an insight into our VR/XR capabilities.
This year, we are bringing you the brand new #tecHER Safety Challenge. One team, five people, one goal. Creating a solution that shapes the future of safety. We have invited five brilliant and creative engineers to prepare a working prototype with 3D printers and legos. They will have only three hours to do so. You will follow that team throughout the thrill, tensions and satisfaction of collaboration and innovation in the making. Join us to see real emotions, creative process and to feel inspired - because change is starting from you!
You want to start your career in tech - but where exactly should you begin? In this discussion you will hear the voices of both students wishing to start their career in tech and people already working in the field. It will answer some of the most relevant questions you might have such as:
- What exactly are tech jobs?
- Which skills matter (beyond degrees)
- How to get started with ZERO expeience
- How to navigate a career in tech as a woman
- And what you should start doing tomorrow...
In this panel discussion you can learn how to become more visible, stay in the game and grow and utilize the latest tools such as AI to keep evolving in your career.
We'll cover topics such as networking and sponsoring, how to make the most of your inner strengths, and how you can grow into leadership and keep up to date on how to use AI as a career accelerator.
This panel discussion examines how you can give back to the community and become a role model for others. The discussion examines how to develop your role model identity and how it can create lasting impact for future generations. Questions and topics covered will include:
- What exactly is a role model?
- Can you be a role model?
- Harnessing your superpowers as a mother
- What are the steps you need to take to become a role model?
- How role models build a sense of allyship between women and with men
- Making an impact as a role model
