> if you can't find women, POC for your conference, you didn't look hard enough. Part of the problem with finding more women and/or POC is that most conference

> if you can't find women, POC for your conference, you didn't look hard enough. Part of the problem with finding more women and/or POC is that most conference organizers aren't looking for people at all; rather, they're looking for interesting projects/products/businesses. And what happens is they get a representative of that organization on the phone who agrees to send someone to present, but often they don't even know who will actually be getting on stage until much later. This obviously isn't true if you're getting a keynote speaker to talk about their career, but you only get one of those per event.