“Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology.”

From: http://findingada.com/

I only heard about this today to be honest. Perhaps that makes me part of the problem, I’m not sure. I don’t want to go into the gory details of equality in the workplace. What I do want to say is that there is definitely a clear lack of female role models in the industry. That’s why this pledge is so important: there are a lot of women out there doing excellent things in the community and that’s why I’m writing this post: my pledge to talk about a woman in the industry that I admire: Catherine Eibner.

Catherine is one of the most community focused people I have ever met, male or female. A single mother who also started her own company, while kicking off the Sydney CRM user group, a podcaster and geek girl,  a regular attendee of Sydney user groups in general and frequent speaker herself, Australia wide.

Catherine was awarded the MVP status from Microsoft, only to have it recalled when she became a Microsoft full-time employee for the DPE group: just two more indicators of how much the community appreciates her involvement.

Whenever I am in Sydney and looking for the local community events, Catherine is always there to show me the way! Thankyou Catherine, and keep up your good work. The world’s a better place for having you.

You can find Catherine here:

• Blog
• Twitter

I encourage all of you to post about a female in the tech industry you admire and why. If you don’t know one, at least spend the time to think about why that might be.