Developer conference axed after fake females outcry

The outcry began after participants discovered fake profiles late last week when Gergely Orosz, who runs a popular tech newsletter, posted on social media that he had identified fabricated profiles of women on DevTernity’s speakers list and notified attendees. — Photo by Kaitlyn Baker on Unsplash

An online developers conference was cancelled after several tech executives pulled out of the event following accusations that the organiser fabricated female speakers’ profiles.

High-profile engineering leaders in the developer community – including Microsoft Corp’s Scott Hanselman and Kelsey Hightower, a former developer advocate at Alphabet Inc’s Google – withdrew on Monday from DevTernity, where tickets were sold for as much as US$870.