This reminds me of some Ohio Christian university advertising racial diversity in all their media, and some guy exposed them as having exactly three non-white students, all whom turned out to be shills from another country who were technically employees.

See, the thing is, a lot of these women will not agree to speak at your conference if you're a total creep.

How hard is it for these organizers to actually reach out to women developers

What? You want men coders to somehow make up the gall to

speak

to a woman?

I mean, that quote you mention sounds pretty innocent, but the other ones, like

was accused of making up fake female speakers to attract high-profile speakers

fake profiles created by the event organizers to make the event look diverse in order to "successfully attract some of the most heavy-hitter men speakers in tech."

Sound almost like it was going to be a human trafficking fair rather than a programming conference. If the idea that some great male speakers will come to the conference just because there will be female speakers is correct then it's fcked way beyond what I would imagine. Sounds as if IT is a bunch of creeps although I know for granted that it's not (only) like that