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World's Largest Conference for Female Engineers Coming to Philadelphia

The world's largest conference of female engineers will land in Philadelphia in October, and bring an estimated economic impact of at least $10.1 million with it.

The Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau based the dollar amount on 5,000 attendees at the Society of Women Engineers, or SWE, annual conference, but organizers said they expect nearly double that amount will descend on the Pennsylvania Convention Center come Oct. 26.

More than 300 employers will be part of a career fair at the conference – an event SWE Executive Director and CEO Karen Horting said is a prime opportunity for women seeking to make a career pivot, land a senior level position or enroll in an advanced degree program.

Philadelphia's central location in the mid-Atlantic region, where many SWE members are located, helped draw the conference to the city, although Horting said there wasn’t one particular reason they chose Philly as their gathering ground this year — there were many.

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