This is the first of many collaborative podcasts between Women in AV (WAVE) and MarketScale Pro AV, where WAVE Founder Jennifer Willard and MarketScale's Voice of B2B Daniel Litwin discuss challenges, positives, trends and important figures affecting women in Pro AV.

In this first episode, we want to take you back to 2011, when Willard founded Women in AV. Not that long ago in the grand scheme of things, but as Willard recollects in her June article "Why I'm Proud to be a Woman in AV," things were a lot different for women looking to get involved or already entrenched in Pro AV. Just look at the InfoComm tradeshow floor; Best of Booth Babes slideshows adorned the projector screens, and there was more hired female talent than actual women representing their organizations. Since then, through efforts taken to recognize and advance women with training, awards, mentoring initiatives recently launched in the UK, and with AVIXA's Women's Council local groups taking off in the past year and a half, things have improved a lot for women in Pro AV. "When it comes to the Women in AV, the only requirement that you have to be a 'woman in AV' is that you support us," Willard said.

That doesn't mean there aren't new or deeper challenges that need to be addressed. Willard and Litwin will discuss a sort of "State of the Union" for women in Pro AV, building a foundation of the most exciting wins and distressing problems afflicting the space, new WAVE initiatives being launched to tackle existing challenges, and setting the stage to hear from other thought-leading women in Pro AV about their experiences, insight, innovations and creativity.

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