In this “Women in Tech” blog series post, Yuan Weigel, Vice President of Global Marketing at Akamai, discusses why it is important to increase accessibility in the tech industry as a way to improve diversity and increase the inclusion of women in tech. Exposure boosts interest \r\n Yuan Weigel, Akamai’s Vice President of Global Marketing,has had a successful career in the tech industry for more than 30 years. Yuan attributes her success to always having access to tech through her family of engineers. \r\n “My family lived near the Silicon Valley area and members of my family were all in tech,” says Yuan. “My sister is an electrical engineer with 18 patents, my aunt was an IT software engineer for 35 years, and my uncle is also an engineer. They all had a science background.”  \r\n Be open to opportunities \r\n Yuan’s early access to the industry normalized the idea of women working in tech , so she naturally gravitated toward the field while attending the University of California at Davis.…