Women’s History Month Meets the Future: Building Economic Power in a Tech-Driven World
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Women’s History Month offers a powerful moment to look back and an even greater opportunity to look forward. Over the last decade, March is the month for The Women’s Entrepreneurial Opportunity Project, (WEOP), to bring women together with purpose to discuss challenges, opportunities and how we can define our future.
This commitment is reflected in the theme of “BEYOND CHATGPT: Powering Growth, Opportunity, and Revenue with AI” for WEOP’s annual event scheduled for March 18, 2026 at Georgia State University, Law School, knowles Conference Center. The overall goal is to challenge business owners to think strategically about how AI and open source can be leveraged to drive real economic opportunity.
The forum challenges participants to think bigger than individual tools and trends. Through engaging discussions and real-world insights, attendees explore how AI and open-source technologies can be leveraged intentionally to increase efficiency, unlock new revenue opportunities, and strengthen long-term business growth.
One of the key topics explored at the forum will be open source as a powerful tool for collaboration, visibility, and economic opportunity. While women, particularly women of color remain underrepresented in open-source ecosystems, these platforms offer a unique pathway to move beyond being passive users of technology to becoming innovators and contributors.
One of the most distinctive features of this year’s forum will be a real-world, pre-event learning experience. Participants will take part in a mini training allowing for deeper, more meaningful participation. Shaping this experience is a strategic partnership with a global technology leader whose platform powers millions of builders, developers, and innovators around the world.
Through a pre-event learning experience, a guided mini training, and a fully open hybrid engagement model, there are no barriers to participation. Through this inclusive in-person and hybrid approach, WEOP anticipates impacting more than 1,000 women locally and nationally.
This model is not only central to this year’s forum, it is intentionally designed to extend WEOP’s reach beyond a single moment, creating a scalable framework that multiplies impact and supports ongoing engagement, learning, and economic empowerment before and long after the event concludes.
“Beyond ChatGPT” is an invitation to think bigger, build smarter, claim space in the digital economy and take action to make real opportunities happen.
And for women of color, it is a timely and necessary step forward.
