Access, not gatekeeping
Every room we build is a room someone can walk into for the first time. No prerequisites, no insider language, no waiting for permission.
Future Technology Female
Women are building the future of technology — together.
FTF is where women in tech find new beginnings, mentors, skills, and the people who open the right doors. Networking, programs, and live events across the world.
The future is female
12,400+
community members
380
events hosted
64
partner companies
24
cities
Partnering withNorthbyteLumen LabsKaya CloudOrbitaVellum AISundeck
Who we are
A community built on introductions that lead somewhere.
FTF started in 2019 as twelve engineers meeting in a borrowed meeting room, comparing notes on the things nobody puts in a job description. It grew because the format worked: bring practitioners together, keep the talk specific, and follow up.
Today we run mentorship cycles, bootcamps, career clinics and monthly meetups across 24 cities, with a network of partner companies who hire from our rooms. We are still the same thing at heart — women in tech making each other's next step shorter.
What we believe in
Craft over hype
We talk about real systems, real code and real trade-offs. Our programs are led by practitioners who ship, not by keynote slides.
Progress you can measure
A promotion, a first offer, a talk given, a team led. We track the outcomes our members reach, and we design the next program around them.
Programs
Four ways in, whichever stage you are at.
Everything we run is practitioner-led and outcome-shaped. Pick the one that matches the step you are trying to take this year.
Mentorship
Six-month one-to-one pairings with senior engineers, designers and product leads. Structured goals, monthly check-ins, honest feedback.
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Workshops and Bootcamps
Hands-on cohorts in backend, cloud, data and AI engineering. You leave with something running, not with a certificate.
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Career Support
CV and portfolio reviews, salary negotiation clinics, interview practice with hiring managers from our partner companies.
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Community Meetups
Monthly evenings in 24 cities. Short talks, long conversations, and the kind of introductions that change what you work on next.
Learn moreEvents
What is happening next.
Summits, hands-on workshops and panels — in person where we have a chapter, live online everywhere else.
October 18, 2026Kraftwerk, Berlin
FTF Summit: Systems That Scale
A full day on distributed systems, platform work and the careers built on them, with 14 speakers and an open hiring floor.
November 6, 2026Studio Nord, Amsterdam
Applied AI Engineering Workshop
Bring a laptop and leave with a working retrieval pipeline. Twenty seats, two facilitators, no slides after the first ten minutes.
November 27, 2026Online, live
First Leadership Role: A Panel
Three engineering managers on the first ninety days, the mistakes they made and what they would ask for again.
Free resources
Take these with you, membership or not.
Written by our members and program leads, updated every year with what the hiring market actually looks like.
Guide
The FTF Interview Playbook
Forty-two questions from our partner companies, with the reasoning hiring panels actually score.
Free downloadTemplate
Promotion Case Template
The document our members use to make their impact legible before review season starts.
Free downloadReport
Women in Tech Salary Report 2026
Pay, progression and retention data from 3,100 responses across 24 cities.
Free downloadMembership
One membership, the whole community.
No tiers of access, no upsells inside the community. Members get everything we run, all year.
- One-to-one mentorship matching, twice a year
- Free entry to every FTF meetup and online session
- Member rates on bootcamps and summit tickets
- Private job board from 64 partner companies
- CV, portfolio and salary negotiation reviews
- Year-round access to our recorded program library
Monthly
$19/mo
Flexible, cancel any time. Ideal if you are trying us out around one program.
Become a memberAnnual
$180/yr
Two months free, priority mentorship matching and guaranteed summit seating.
Become a memberTestimonials
In their words.
“I came to my first meetup on my own and left with a mentor. A year later I was the one demoing our project on stage.”
Amara Okafor
Age 20, computer science student
“Nobody in my family works in tech. FTF Academy showed me what to learn first, and then who to send my CV to.”
Priya Raghavan
Age 19, first tech internship
“The workshops were the first place I built something real. I still use that project to explain what I can do.”
Elena Marchetti
Age 22, junior data engineer
News & Stories
The people behind the projects.
Chapter launches, member stories and the small wins that turn into careers.
Featured StorySeptember 12, 2026
Four teenagers, one weekend, and the hackathon they were not supposed to win
Our Lisbon chapter sent a first-time team to a 36-hour build. They came back with a prize and a plan for the next one.
NewsSeptember 2, 2026
FTF Academy opens chapters in Lisbon, Tallinn and Nairobi
StoryAugust 21, 2026
From a school robotics club to a paid summer internship
Worldwide
Events and opportunities around the world.
Summits, weekends, scholarships, internships and open calls — wherever you are, there is a way in.
EventGermany
FTF Academy Summit
A full day of talks, demos and an open hiring floor built for first-timers.
BerlinOctober 18, 2026
ScholarshipWorldwide
Full bootcamp scholarships
Forty fully funded places on our cloud and AI engineering cohorts, no prior experience needed.
RemoteApplications close October 31
InternshipNetherlands
Partner internship programme
Eight-week paid placements with our partner engineering teams, mentor included.
AmsterdamSummer 2027 intake
EventKenya
Girls Build Weekend
Robotics, sensors and code for ages 15 to 20, free to attend across the weekend.
NairobiNovember 8, 2026
Open callEstonia
Speak at your first meetup
Ten-minute first talks with a coach to rehearse with. We will find you the room.
TallinnRolling
EventBrazil
Campus Tour: Applied AI
One evening, three universities, hands-on stations run by our alumnae.
São PauloDecember 5, 2026
Follow us
See what the community is building.
Short films, member takeovers and behind-the-scenes from every chapter.
Contact
Tell us what you are looking for.
Joining, speaking, partnering or starting a chapter in your city — write to us and a member of the team replies within two working days.
Community social profiles will be available here once their links are confirmed.