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#MoveTheDial founder and CEO Jodi Kovitz announced the decision on Wednesday, stating that as of next week #MoveTheDial will be pausing operations in order to preserve the organization in the long term.

Move the Dial was formed by Toronto lawyer Jodi Kovitz with the purpose of bringing more participation and leadership of women in the tech sector. Essentially “moving the dial” to help women get deserving opportunities.

Interac arrived at the #movethedial annual summit in Toronto with a message that promoted diversity and interconnectedness — but we needed the help of participants to complete the picture.

“I recently spoke at the #MovetheDial diversity and inclusion (D&I) summit in Toronto where professionals from around the globe discussed what is and isn’t working in D&I.“

Kovitz’s Move The Dial Global Summit is creating meaningful opportunities to include black women and girls in spaces where they otherwise would not be welcomed.

Eleven Western alumnae have been named recipients of the 2019 Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award, the Women’s Executive Network recently announced.

Western alumnae winners this year include… Jodi Kovitz, who leads a global movement and organization founded to advance the participation and leadership of all women in tech.

Among the many perks of events like the #movethedial Global Summit are the benefits that come with bringing together and connecting like-minded female founders and entrepreneurs.

After taking to the Main Stage, our Global Summit featured speaker Bozoma Saint John caught up with Kris Reyes of ABC News. They discussed her early days in the corporate world and the lessons she has for first-generation leaders.

That single event spawned into a global movement, with dozens of events around the world all culminating the Global Summit, which took place in Toronto. One message rang throughout the day: make the change you want to see in the world.

Recognizing women who have made a describable difference to the advancement of women in the workplace.

While attendees at this year’s #movethedial Global Summit remained optimistic that change is on the horizon, the overall message was clear: There’s still a lot of work left to close the gap.

Leagh Turner, president of Ceridian, and Jodi Kovitz, founder and CEO of #movethedial, join BNN Bloomberg to discuss the state of diversity in Canada's tech scene and the overall jobs market.

The Playbook, which is available for download, features key insights and tactics that tech companies at different stages of development – from startups and scaleups to large enterprises – can adopt to accelerate inclusion and help retain more women.

At the Movethedial Global Summit in Toronto yesterday, I listened intently to a talk titled “No polite fictions: What AI reveals about humanity.”

At a time when only 5% of Canadian tech companies have a female CEO and the gender pay gap is stuck wide, she remains positive. What she’s fighting for is more good news

Women’s participation in Canada’s tech sector has remained stagnant over the last decade, and according to research conducted by #MoveTheDial and Feminuity half of women surveyed believe tech companies do not want to hire them.

Women account for 25 per cent of Canada’s technology sector, a number that has remained stagnant for the past 10 years despite the rapid growth in the market.

BetaKit spoke with #movethedial Global Summit speakers Rola Dagher, President of Cisco Systems Canada, and Armughan Ahmad, President and Managing Partner, Digital Transformation at KPMG Canada, prior to the conference.

Jodi Kovitz, founder of advocacy group #movethedial, said in an interview that while Canada is moving in the right direction when it comes to gender equality, the survey shows that progress is not happening fast enough.

#movethedial, a global movement dedicated to advancing the participation and leadership of all women in technology, today announced “Going All In” as the key theme for its 2019 Global Summit.

Kovitz wondered, how could young women in STEM possibly believe in something they couldn’t see? With #movethedial, she tackles this head-on, working towards closing the tech gender gap, turning industry leaders into mentors and leading by example.

“But #movethedial’s mission also includes objectives such as ensuring that industry panels routinely include women, and networking with large corporations and government agencies so tech firms headed by women can make inroads with their procurement teams.”

Molly Q. Ford, senior director of global diversity programs at Salesforce and Jodi Kovitz, founder and CEO of #MoveTheDial joined ELLE Canada’s managing editor Carli Whitwell for a panel discussion on how organizations can become more inclusive and what challenges still need to be overcome.

#movethedial tackled the issue of imposter syndrome in entrepreneurship during their Stories Toronto event on March 20th. Speakers shared the different ways imposter syndrome hit them and how they overcame it.

Women continue to be underrepresented in the tech sector. Kim Parlee speaks with two women looking to change that: Sladjana Jovanovic, VP of Online Technology at TD, and Jodi Kovitz, founder and CEO of #movethedial.

#movethedial was formed by Toronto lawyer Jodi Kovitz with the purpose of bringing more participation and leadership of women in the tech sector. Essentially “moving the dial” to help women get deserving opportunities. 

In honour of International Women's Day, we are celebrating five Torontonians who inspire us and who are each making a lasting impact in their own unique way.

On a typical early November morning in Toronto, I attended the first #MoveTheDial summit. I admit my expectations were quite high, as I had heard about what Jodi Kovitz and her team were trying to accomplish for women in tech, and was eager to cover the conference for Alpha Woman.

Jodi Kovitz was the CEO of Acetech Ontario, a Toronto-based community of technology CEOs, COOs and executives, now called Peerscale, when she became dismayed by the lack of women participating.

When Bo Young Lee graduated from New York University’s School of Business in 2003, she was a vegan yoga teacher that expected to spend her career working at non-profits. At the time, she found they were the few groups doing the type of work she aspired to do – implementing change and making organizations more inclusive.