Conference aims to lift up Black people in tech
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on May 21, 2025
CINCINNATI (WKRC) - There are two major events drawing people from across the country to Cincinnati this week.
The Cincinnati Music Festival is getting underway Thursday, but you may not have heard of Black Tech Week.
“So, I started a meetup group in 2016 and I posted a picture of eight of us in July of 2016, and here we are this many years later, and we’ve got, probably, close to 1,200 people coming,” said Candice Matthews Brackeen, founder of Lightship Capital.
And people have landed here in Cincinnati from as far . . .
