Yuree Hong, a digital marketer underpinned in Singapore, is determined to change that.
Her blockchain community, S/HE Blockchainers Asia, invites sole female speakers, but opens its doors to everyone.
While many blockchain occasions draw few women, at least 30 to 40 percent of the attendees at Hong’s occurrences are female, she said. Hong explained that having female rabble-rousers encouraged women to participate.
Hong told CNBC she began to swot blockchain technology more deeply last year, attending seminars and happenings where she frequently found herself the only female, or, at best, one of a fistful in events of about a hundred people.
She tried to look for communities with happier gender ratios, and, when she couldn’t find any, she decided to start her own in Singapore eventually year.
After about six months, the group has more than 500 associates and has hosted events in Singapore, Seoul and Ho Chi Minh City.
Hong covets to challenge the perception that there are few qualified women in the blockchain range. In fact, when she first told people she would only invite female tub-thumpers, “people told me it is going to be difficult.”
She was pleasantly surprised to find it was “not unyielding at all,” Hong said, and she has invited women from a variety of roles in the blockchain interval — including Liu.
Blockchain conference and community organizers are taking note of the gender imbalance.
Final week, Singapore-based blockchain conference De/Centralize, which had been criticized for delivering only a few female speakers on its roster, partnered with Hong’s S/HE Blockchainers Asia and offered deductions to her community.
Kenneth Bok, a De/Centralize organizer, told CNBC via email that the symposium had found it challenging to get female blockchain experts for the conference. He said the purpose was to have female speakers make up a third of the roster next year.