中文Girls Who Print, the nonprofit dedicated to advancing the careers and contributions of women in printing and graphic communications worldwide, has opened a global call for speakers for its 14th Annual Girls Who Print Day Conference. The free, online event takes place on 12 November 2026 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. ET, and this year’s theme is SHEOMETRY.
The “SHEOMETRY” concept rests on a simple, resonant idea: careers do not follow a single formula. Different experiences, decisions, relationships, skills, opportunities and unexpected variables combine to shape a meaningful result. Under that banner, the conference invites women across the industry to share their own “winning formula” — expressed as an equation that captures the experiences, choices, strategies or combinations that produced a career outcome. A sample offered by the organisers: EXPERIENCE + A BOLD IDEA = A NEW DIRECTION.
The speaker call is explicitly global and inclusive. Girls Who Print is asking women everywhere to apply to speak and tell their story in a way that helps others chart their own path. The format is deliberately flexible: a speaker might frame her journey through mentorship, risk-taking, technical mastery, community-building or sheer persistence. The point is to surface the diverse arithmetic behind real careers in a field where female representation in leadership has long been uneven.
Submissions close on 16 October 2026, and interested speakers can apply through the organisers’ online form. Because the conference is free and online, the audience reach is broad — from students exploring print as a career to seasoned executives willing to pay forward the lessons that shaped them. That accessibility is core to the organisation’s mission of visibility and mentorship.
For an industry grappling with a persistent skills and image problem, initiatives like this matter. The printing and graphic communications sector struggles to attract young talent and to retain women through mid-career inflection points. By giving women a public platform to narrate their trajectories, Girls Who Print both normalises diverse routes into leadership and supplies role models that generic recruitment campaigns cannot.
The timing also fits a broader cultural shift in the trades and manufacturing: a growing recognition that resilience, adaptability and community are as decisive as technical credentials. “SHEOMETRY” leans into that, reframing career success as a personal equation rather than a prescribed ladder. For employers, the conference is a low-cost, high-signal way to scout perspective and champion their own people.
Girls Who Print has built a durable community precisely by treating advancement as something to be shared, not hoarded. The 14th Annual Day Conference continues that tradition, turning individual wins into collective momentum. Women with a story to tell have until mid-October to put their formula forward — and, in doing so, help rewrite the equation for the next generation of women in print.
Source: PrintCAN (printcan.com), article “‘Girls Who Print’ Call For Speaker For Conference,” published 29 September 2026.
Beyond inspiration, the conference functions as a talent pipeline. By surfacing practitioners who might never appear on a traditional speaker roster, Girls Who Print widens the pool of visible expertise and quietly strengthens the industry’s bench. For companies serious about diversity, sponsoring or encouraging internal speakers to apply is a low-cost way to back the message with action.
The deeper value is cultural. Printing has long struggled to retain women through mid-career inflection points, and visible role models materially change that calculus. A conference built on personal equations rather than prescribed ladders tells a younger audience that there is no single correct path — and tells employers that the talent they need may already be in the room, waiting for a platform.
Submissions close on 16 October 2026, leaving a narrow window for would-be speakers. Because the 12 November event is free and online, its reach spans students exploring print careers to executives paying lessons forward. Women with a story to tell have a clear, low-barrier opportunity to shape the next chapter of the industry’s talent narrative.
There is also a quiet commercial logic for employers. A visible, well-attended conference showcasing women’s leadership lowers the cost of attracting and retaining talent in a tight labour market. Sponsoring speakers or encouraging applications is a small gesture with outsized signalling value, turning a community event into a recruitment and retention asset.
Perhaps the most enduring effect is normative. When an industry sees accomplished women narrating varied, non-linear careers, the implicit rules about what a printing leader looks like loosen. The SHEOMETRY conference does not just fill a speaker slate; it quietly rewrites the default assumptions that have long constrained who steps forward, and that cultural shift outlasts any single event.
The 14th Annual Girls Who Print Day Conference therefore arrives at a pivotal moment for the trades. As manufacturing rediscovers the value of skilled, diverse teams, a forum that makes women’s leadership visible and shareable is not a side event but core infrastructure for the industry’s future workforce. The equation each speaker brings may differ, but the sum is a stronger, more representative print community.
