Developer Conference Axed After Fake Female Profiles Outcry (2)

An online developers conference was canceled after several tech executives pulled out of the event following accusations that the organizer fabricated female speakers’ profiles.

High-profile engineering leaders in the developer community — including Microsoft Corp.’s Scott Hanselman and Kelsey Hightower, a former developer advocate at Alphabet Inc’s Google — withdrew on Monday from DevTernity, where tickets were sold for as much as $870.

WATCH: An online developers confernce is canceled after organizers allegedly make fake female profiles.

Source: Bloomberg

The event’s organizer, Eduards Sizovs, confirmed the cancellation of the event. “It looks like someone really wanted to deliberately damage the conference,” he said in an emailed statement. Sizovs earlier said in a post ...