Events matching tag "diversity"
Friday, March 7
Much of today’s news coverage dwells on images of violence, stories of government instability, and a world in chaos, but there is another story to tell here. Technology is reshaping human society in ways we never imagine…
Advanced
Presenters
Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen, Steven Levy
As per the recent Pew poll, Hispanics were more than twice as likely to use reddit than other ethnic groups. There is a subreddit dedicated to all the Spanish speaking countries and cities around the world, and bilingual…
Beginner
Presenters
Elianne Ramos, Lia Navarro-Pennington
Saturday, March 8
Evidence-based medicine and patient-centered outcomes research share an assumption: Give patients and providers the information in plain language and you’ll improve their capacity for making good decisions. Not so. Resea…
Intermediate
Presenters
Aimee Roundtree
You can’t innovate without diversity. Period. Yet most of the proposed solutions to increasing diversity in tech involve people of color moving to Silicon Valley (leaving their social and supports networks) or exposing b…
Advanced
Presenters
Kathryn Finney
Just 1 in 14 tech employees in Silicon Valley is African American or Latino yet the number of young urban americans who want to start a business has never been higher. The question must be asked: are African/Latino Ameri…
Intermediate
Presenters
Amy Schapiro, Andre Briggs, Jason Smikle, Ryan Stoner
Sunday, March 9
This panel seeks to provide practical strategies to help attendees become respectful allies to marginalized groups of people and expand the understanding of intersectional diversity. Every year thousands of people exper…
Intermediate
Presenters
Adria Richards, Kortney Ziegler
Monday, March 10
Are you leveraging age to your advantage? Our youth-centered society promotes the young in pursuit of the "bright shiny object". The current entrepreneurial renaissance reinforces stereotypes that innovation is the domai…
Intermediate
Presenters
Christina Vuleta, Sarah Kunst, Susan McPherson , Tereza Nemessanyi
When the World Wide Web first became commercially available, researchers and pundits touted a new "cybertopia," a utopic view on how race would no longer "matter" on the Internet and one that some continue to hold today.…
Intermediate
Presenters
Jenny Korn
Every month, the tech industry adds about 9,600 jobs to the U.S. economy. By 2018, it will have added another 1.2 million new jobs, boasting an average salary of $78,000. But women make up just 22% of the computing workf…
Beginner
Presenters
Baratunde Thurston, Laura Weidman Powers, Mario Lugay, Ryan Seashore
Wednesday, March 12
On a DJ mixer, the crossfader allows for seamless transition between two separate pieces of music. Explore this master control for merging sound: its technical history, its role in shaping hip-hop, and its potential as a…
Presenters
J Period, Josh Kun
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