Code, Connect, Launch: A Tech Skills Activation Lab

🚀 Skills Activation Lab: Your Hands-On Pathway into Tech

Ready to launch or level up your tech career? Learn by doing—not just listening.

Join Women.NYC and Baddies in Tech for a dynamic evening where you'll gain real skills, explore high-growth career paths, and connect with women who are building their futures in tech—right now.

Whether you're considering your first pivot into the industry or ready to expand into UX/UI, cybersecurity, or AI, this Skills Activation Lab gives you what most events don't: hands-on practice, honest career guidance, and a supportive community.

This isn't another panel where you take notes and wonder "what's next?" You'll actually create something, ask the questions that matter, and leave with tools you can use immediately.

Your Evening Includes:

💬 Real Talk Panel: Ask Me AnythingGet unfiltered answers from UX/UI designers, cybersecurity pros, and AI practitioners. Hear how they broke in, navigated pivots, and built careers on their own terms.

🛠 Choose Your Workshop (Hands-on)Pick one intensive, hands-on session:

• UX/UI Design: Create user personas and wireframes. Learn key accessibility principles.
• Cybersecurity: Try a beginner-friendly "Capture the Flag" challenge. Discover entry points into this in-demand field.
• Artificial Intelligence: Build a mini-GPT from scratch. Explore where AI roles are heading and how to position yourself.

🤝 Intentional NetworkingMeet women at similar career stages and those a few steps ahead who are ready to share insights.

📂 Resource Toolkit Walk away with curated guides, learning pathways, and next steps tailored to where you want to go.

This Lab is for you if:

✓ You're exploring a career change into tech.

✓ You're ready to go deeper than tutorials (early- or mid-career).

✓ You learn by doing, not just listening.

✓ You want honest answers and real community

If you're ready to gain real, actionable skills you can build on, save your seat today!

Space is limited—save your seat today!

All attendees must display a valid picture identification card prior to being signed in. Examples of a valid photo I.D. card are (driver's license, NYS non-driver's identification card, passport, military identification card, social services identification card, city and / or state employment identification card; etc.

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About Women.NYC

Women.NYC - part of the New York City Economic Development Corporation - is a flagship City initiative to make New York City the best place in the world for women of all backgrounds to thrive in their businesses and careers. Women.NYC advances gender equality and fosters economic mobility by creating strategic partnerships with public and private sector partners, launching tailored programming, and by amplifying economic empowerment programs, and focusing on equipping women to succeed in the future of the economy.

Bookmark https://women.nyc/ to stay engaged in this program. We will have a series of events centered around these high-priority sectors, allowing you to sign up for career coaching and shadowing. This is the only women-centric network established to help you take control of your future.

About Baddies in Tech

Baddies in Tech (BiT) is a career mobility platform and global community empowering over 100,000 women of color through skills development, networking, and job opportunities. We deliver these resources through our membership program and activate our community with events and workshops, often in partnership with Fortune 500 companies, startups, and local organizations.

About Hostos Community College

Hostos Community College is an educational agent for change that has been transforming and improving the quality of life in the South Bronx and neighboring communities for over half a century. Since 1968, Hostos has been a gateway to intellectual growth and socioeconomic mobility, as well as a point of departure for lifelong learning, success in professional careers, and transfer to advanced higher education programs.

*Disclaimers:

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*Note: Anyone can participate in Women.NYC programs regardless of actual or perceived sex, gender, gender identity or gender expression, sexual orientation, age, religion, creed, partnership status, marital status, disability (including use of a service animal), race, color, national origin, alienage, citizenship status, military status, or any other class protected by City, State, or Federal law.