This weekend’s Women in Tech Brunch by sisterspeaks254 wasn’t just about showing up — it was about reimagining what “belonging” in tech actually means. We’re so used to the narrative that to be taken seriously in AI, you have to be building models in your sleep, speaking in code, or fine-tuning LLMs until your coffee runs cold. But here’s the reality: the AI value chain is massive, and every link matters. There’s the person collecting the data, the one making sense of it, the one asking “should we even be building this?”, and the one making sure it’s useful to the people who need it most. The industry loves to glorify a narrow slice of skills, but real change happens when we make space for the strategists, the communicators, the ethicists, the designers, the policy-makers - the people who connect dots others don’t even see. I hope everyone who left with merch walks away remembering it’s not just a tote bag or a t-shirt - it’s a quiet little rebellion against the idea that tech is an...