Attention women of New York City : If you are in the technology, media, finance, non-profit, marketing or education fields and are looking to network and brainstorm with like-minded women, then She's Geeky East is for you.

It will be two-and-a-half days of unconferencing.

Yes, it will be an unconference.

(Take your time.)

You don't know what an unconference is? Ah, well, let me use Kaliya Hamlin's own words to describe it. She is not only an expert on this sort of "brain swap" gathering, she also happens to be the founder of She's Geeky.

"An unconference is a facilitated participant-driven face-to-face conference around a theme or purpose. [ ... ] The name "unconference" arose to describe conferences that step outside of the more traditional model -- that is, presentations selected months beforehand, sponsors buying speaking slots, boring panels of talking heads, and high fees."

Kaliya facilitated the first She's Geeky last year as a response to too many techie women feeling left out or completely alienated in traditional tech and women-centric media conferences. Techie women in traditional tech conferences are still rare and so you can understand how one has to be prepared to deal with all the testosterone. Then there's the traditional media and blog women-centric conferences that focus too much on definitions (ie : mommyblogging, shopping) and keep "shop talks" about technology as far away of the spotlight as possible.

I've always felt (and am sure that Kaliya would agree) that there's quite a communications divide when women speak of skills traditionally attributed to men. The unconference format looks like the best way to get women who deal with technology in some form or another (from developing software, running a blog or selling online ads) to talk about tech and rant about tech in an open way that would lead to learning from one another while creating a new network of future allies, colleagues and friends.

So to make sure every woman in the New York City area who is interested in new media and technology comes to She's Geeky, we're offering not one but two offers :

• Our fearless leader is offering a discount. Just enter "shesgeeky".
• If you've been burned by any of the Wall Street bailouts (or lack thereof), just tell us who and when you got downsized, bring a friend and, Presto! You've got a two-for-one deal.

Register and joins us at the Microsoft NYC Headqaurters on December 5th to 7th at 1290 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Floor). The schedule is as follows : December 5th:
Cocktail party begins at 5pm, unpanel at 6m, networking continues 7pm+

December 6th:
Doors Open at 8:30, Agenda Making at 9:30 (please be there for this) the day ends with a closing between 5-5:30pm (please plan to stay for this)

December 7th:
Doors open at 9:30, Agenda Making at 10:30, closing by 3pm.