By Erica Kawamoto Hsu (Online Media Producer & Photographer, Kuishimbo)

The 2012 Women 2.0 PITCH Conference & Competition on Valentine’s Day was amazing – the agenda and speaker lineup made me realize it was something I had to be at.

I brought my camera to the PITCH Conference on Tuesday to shoot candids at the event. But I kept stopping – to speak to the amazing women entrepreneurs I was meeting.

Each person that I spoke to or I shot for the Sit With Me campaign had their own startup – and would show me what they were working on their smartphones.

I was so impressed – not only the caliber of the event and its speakers, but the conference attendees I was meeting on the floor – the diversity, ambition and products of the women I met were inspiring. Below are a few of the pictures I took from the conference.

Please tag people you know on the Women 2.0 Facebook albums here and here.

I started volunteering for Women 2.0 by shooting Founder Friday events in San Francisco and even made a Founder Friday video reel.

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About the guest blogger: Erica Kawamoto Hsu is an online media producer and photographer from Los Angeles, California. Her video project, Fly Project TV, was selected as 1 of 3 works-in-progress by the Bay Area Video Coalition for their 4×10 Panel. She has photographed in her candid shooting style events for Women 2.0, Mega Startup Weekend, and East Bay College Fund. Check out her photoblog at Kuishimbo. Follow her on Twitter at @ericakhsu.