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Homepage > News > Business > Women in Tech Week features Blockchain Building 101 session We need more women in blockchain, and providing a welcoming environment for educational opportunities is a wonderful place to start. Here in the United Kingdom, the very first “Women in Tech Week” took place from October 7-11, featuring in-person and virtual events hosted across the nation with a focus on education, career development and networking. Supporters of the Tech Week included big names such as Barclays (NASDAQ: BCS), Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), Morgan Stanley (NASDAQ: MS) and EY with an even longer list of partners, including Tec Women, Code First Girls, Next Tech Girls, HSBC (NASDAQ: HSBC), Zoom (NASDAQ: ZM), Women in Tech, Women in Data and the list goes on and on. The Block Dojo was also a Women in Tech Week partner and hosted an in-person Blockchain Building 101 Session last October 8, an event I had the pleasure of attending. “When the team behind the inaugural Women in Tech Week reached out to us to become a partner and run a skills session to help bridge the tech gap facing women in the U.K., we jumped at the chance,” Cait Pilkington, Block Dojo Dealflow Manager, shared with me. “The tech space, and particularly Web3, is heavily dominated by men, and it can seem intimidating for women trying to break into the space or build a career within it,” she said. Pilkington went on to explain how the Block Dojo program, a global venture builder with a special focus on blockchain and future tech, strives to make access to technology and the space, in general, more inviting to women. “We know that innovation is bred through diversity of thought. Increasing this diversity within the space introduces exciting new ideas and ways of doing things,…

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