Opening herself up to a room of potential judgement, Ashley Wellington-Fahey, the founder of the female-targeted digital sports network Relish, sat alongside major male athletes at The Players Technology Summit and reminded herself that she deserved to be in the room.
The inaugural mostly off-the-record event, hosted this week by Golden State Warriors players Andre Iguodala and Stephen Curry and sponsored by Bloomberg, was meant to bring together athletes, venture capitalists and founders in sports technology.
But Iguodala, who brought in Black Girls Code founder Kimberly Bryant as one of the prominent speakers at the three-day summit, said the event wasn’t just about connecting celebrity athletes to powerful investors, but also about opening the discussion about diversity in technology.