Reimagine What's Possible with CreateHER Fest

THIS ISSUE AT A GLANCE

• #75HER Workshops dropped → Kick off 75 days of building with workshops designed to help you become “HER” in every room.

• BUIDL at ETHDenver → Tell us if you want in on potential scholarships for flights and stay, plus support to ship a real Web3 BUIDLathon project.

• Reimagining Our Stories Through Data → See the exhibitions at Art Basel Miami that will change the way you think about emerging tech projects.

• Building Out Loud w/ Darlyze → See what co-founder of CreateHER Fest, Darlyze Calixte, is building for the community.

• Resource Drop 📚 → Tap into AI, career, and community opportunities—from agentic AI deep dives to developer advocate roles and creator-friendly Gemini prompts.

#75HER Workshops are Live!

We’re kicking off #75HER with a powerful first round of workshops designed to help you step into your most visible, confident, and technically fearless self. From leadership to AI, every session is led by women, for women!

Here’s what’s already on the calendar:

This is just the start—more workshops are dropping soon across AI, AR, Blockchain, business, and marketing to help you become HER in every room you walk into.

Be a Blockchain BuildHER at ETHDenver

ETHDenver is the world’s largest and longest-running Ethereum event, bringing together thousands of devs, founders, and creators for a full week of talks, workshops, art, and a high-stakes BUIDLathon. If you’re already building—or ready to start building—in Web3, this is your chance to plug into that ecosystem with real support behind you.

CreateHER Fest is exploring a limited number of travel and accommodation scholarships for CreateHERs who attend ETHDenver, participate in the official BUIDLathon, and commit to shipping a project. Past ETHDenver partner programs have offered things like travel stipends, flight scholarships, and builder-focused housing to make sure money isn’t the reason you can’t show up. If selected, you’ll get help getting into Camp BUIDL—ETHDenver’s three-day “from curious to hackathon-ready” training ground—so you’re prepared to submit a polished project by the end of the week.

We’re especially looking for builders (and soon-to-be builders) who are excited about Web3, and interested in topics like DeFi, community tools, on-chain identity, or social impact. Depending on interest, we’re also exploring exclusive women-in-tech programming and meetups on-site in Denver so you’re not navigating the conference alone!

Tell us you’re interested so we can shape the scholarship details and programming around you!

Reimagining Our Stories Through Data

Walking through Art Basel this year reminded me how expansive emerging tech becomes when it’s in the hands of people who care about community and justice—not just code. In Data Consciousness: Reframing Blackness in Contemporary Print, artists turned census data, oral histories, and community archives into prints, installations, and video that reimagined how Black life is measured and seen, building on W.E.B. Du Bois’s historic data portraits. Even if your own story is different, the message lands for all of us in tech: data is never neutral, and we have the power to design tools that reflect people’s full humanity instead of flattening it.

At 1 Hotel South Beach, artist BREAKFAST’s site-responsive installations pushed that idea into the environment. Kinetic works like Carbon Wake, Antarctic Ice, and Water 80 pulled in live data about emissions, melting ice, drought, and water usage, translating abstract numbers into movement and light you could physically feel in the room.

You didn’t have to be a climate scientist—or come from any specific background—to understand what was at stake; the tech did the work of making the stakes visible and emotional.

With AI, AR, data visualization, and interactive installations, we’re not limited to “just” shipping features; we can also teach, memorialize, protest, dream, and design experiences that make someone feel seen in ways they didn’t know were possible.

If you’ve been thinking too small about what belongs in your portfolio, let this be your permission slip: emerging tech is a medium, not a box. Your next project could be a tool, an artwork, a learning experience, or a story that only you—with your mix of cultures, beliefs, and lived experience—could bring into the world.

Register for #75HER to redefine what’s possible today!

Building Out Loud At CreateHER Fest

At CreateHER Fest, “building out loud” means using your real skills to solve real problems—and letting the community watch, learn, and build with you. One Dataccamp scholar put it perfectly: “I am looking for something more robust than simply putting another badge on my LinkedIn. I have not seen any real job traction from doing that in the past.” That hit me, because honestly, same—what actually moved the needle for me was building and sharing projects that showed my skills, my story, and my impact.

So I started building the Project Idea Generator because if there’s one thing I’m going to do as an engineer is build something to help someone out. It takes in your skills, interests, and career goals, even a job description (The Brief), runs them through an analysis engine to match you with what the market actually needs (The Analysis), and then spits out a full project blueprint with tech stack and milestones (The Blueprint). My hope is that this breaks the “what should I even build?” spiral, gets you out of tutorial hell, and helps you ship portfolio pieces that feel fun, aligned, and actually worth talking about!

If you want to build this with me in public, come hang out in the CreateHER Fest Discord. You’ll be the first to know when the Project Idea Generator is ready, and you can also catch me live during Discord office hours where we co-work, troubleshoot, stay accountable, and sometimes live build together.

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THIS WEEK’S RESOURCES

• Betting On Open Source: Inside the Agentic AI Foundation

  • Virtual fireside chat (Today at 3PM ET) on the new Agentic AI Foundation, uniting Block, Anthropic, OpenAI and others to define open standards, governance, and tools for the next decade of agentic AI. Register Now →

• Become the next Technical Developer Advocate at Fireworks AI

  • Join Fireworks AI as a Technical Developer Advocate to build demos, content, and community around cutting-edge LLM infrastructure in a fast-growing, on-site SF Bay Area team. Learn More →

• LinkLab Masterclass: Intro to Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) with x402

  • LinkLab, Chainlink Labs, and Base are hosting a free two-hour virtual masterclass Today at 3 PM ET for developers that covers an introduction to CRE, how to start building with it, how AI agents trigger CRE workflows using x402 for payments, plus a live Q&A with product and engineering leaders. Register Here →

• Debugging LLM Apps with an AI-Powered Assistant (Opik Virtual Learning Series)

  • A live virtual workshop on using Opik Assist to debug LLM applications, covering how to log traces, analyze issues with an AI assistant, identify performance bottlenecks, and tune prompts for quality and cost + an interactive demo and live Q&A for developers building LLM-powered systems and agents. Register Here →

• Can Artificial Intelligence Bring Us Closer to God? The Ethics of Algorithmic Faith

  • A special Christmas edition virtual event Tomorrow, December 17 at 5:00 PM ET with the AI Collective exploring how AI intersects with spirituality, prayer, and religious authority. The session will examine ethical questions around “algorithmic faith,” faith-based AI tools, and the impact of AI on spiritual communities, featuring speakers from Longbeard AI and Vatican-affiliated institutions. Register Here →

• Spatial XR Mixer @ CES 2026

  • A networking mixer hosted at the Vdara in Las Vegas, it’s positioned as a meetup for people working on spatial computing and virtual worlds (Plan to attend CES? Reply to this email to get more events of the week from Adriann!) January 7, 2026 Register →

• Turn Your Services Into a Visual Whiteboard Infographic with Gemini

  • Alicia Lyttle shares a plug‑and‑play Google Gemini prompt that turns your services into a loud, playful whiteboard infographic, plus simple steps to generate and share your own creative visual. Learn More →

• Become a Base Fellow in 2026

  • 12-week, part-time remote fellowship (Spring 2026) for Black researchers to gain mentorship, training, and hands-on projects in AI safety, security, and governance. Apply by Jan 9, 2026. Apply Today →

Until next time,

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