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Most of the tech industry leaders who showed up at the Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes this week were confronted with one of the most important issues facing Silicon Valley today: How diverse are your ranks? In the video below, watch Reddit’s Ellen Pao, Apple’s Jeff Williams, Snapchat’s Evan Spiegel and other speakers offer their thoughts on the topic and, in some cases, hard numbers on how many (or how few) minorities and women make up their ever-growing ranks.

How can we improve our work with grantees? More than 100 Knight Miami grantees came together on Nov. 4 to help us answer this question. Among them were the innovators, entrepreneurs and creatives that have been part of Knight’s journey to make Miami more of a place where ideas are built. They provided a view into the progress made since the foundation’s Miami program launched an effort to support the city’s emerging community of entrepreneurs and startups nearly two-and-a-half years ago. Each had a part in the transformation that has occurred in Miami’s innovation ecosystem since that time.