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Karis Hustad

Karis Hustad

Karis Hustad is a reporter based in Arhus, Denmark, covering technology and business. She was a reporter at Chicago Inno, covering tech, innovation, startups, higher ed and alternative education in Chicago. She produced the Chicago Inno Show, a bi-weekly podcast on tech news, changemakers and startup oddities. Before joining Chicago Inno, she taught digital storytelling in Hyderabad, India, with The Modern Story while reporting on tech and business for the Christian Science Monitor. She studied journalism and Arabic in Morocco, and journalism and sociology at Loyola University Chicago. She was a 2016 Women in Tech Fellow with GroundTruth.
Rights

What it’s like to have male mentors as a woman in tech

Susan Kelly, a director of technology at Verizon’s Innovation Labs in Waltham, Massachusetts, has been in the tech...

Nov 01, 2016
The "smart bra" will help monitor women's heart beat and other biometrics.
Health

New ‘smart bra’ will monitor women’s heart health

A startup out of MIT is creating a wearable specifically aimed at better monitoring and understanding women’s cardiovascular...

Nov 01, 2016
Rights

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff calls out other tech execs on gender pay gap

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff spent $3 million last year adjusting salaries to ensure that men and women are...

Oct 22, 2016
Thousands of women in the tech industry gathered at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Houston, Texas, this week. (Photo by Rachel Rohr/GroundTruth)
Americas

14,000 women showed up in Texas to address tech’s gender gap

HOUSTON — The largest gathering of female technologists in the world, the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing,...

Oct 20, 2016
Kara Swisher, an influential journalist known for reporting of the tech industry and for creating, producing and hosting All Things Digital, the Wall Street Journal's technology conference. (Dan Harber/Flickr)
Americas

‘The most powerful tech reporters happen to be women’

Kara Swisher is one of the most influential women in tech, without actually working for a tech company....

Oct 19, 2016
Women hold just 22.5 percent of top leadership roles in across major tech companies such as Google, Amazon, Apple and Facebook.
Rights

Women will revolutionize tech, but they have to be included first

Gender in tech is often discussed as a tacked-on afterthought – a program to encourage more equal participation,...

Oct 18, 2016

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