Not your typical "women in tech" event, but PNTM is focusing on data and analytics and presentations by six women who design, build and use it. Maria Scharin (neo4J), Catherine Cook Connelly (The Meet Group), Alexandra Pappas (Etsy), Karen Stine (Radian), Darla Mitchell Wolfe.

Sometimes exploration is worth it. Sometimes you just spent a week of the team’s attention answering a question the founder could have tested in an afternoon. That is the part I think leaders underestimate. Ideas do not only cost money. They cost time, focus, and brainpower long before anyone approves a budget. The question I’d want answered is: how much of the organization does this idea deserve yet?