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23 Dec Achieving Diversity & Inclusion: Q&A With Divine, Part III

I’ve previously chatted with hip-hop and rap recording artist Divine about his personal journey into technology, the themes of knowledge and power and the similarities and differences between hip-hop and Silicon Valley. In this third and final installment, we bring it all together and discuss if we can bring true diversity to the technology industry — and, if so, how and when.

14 Dec How This Bay Area Couple Works to Increase Diversity in Tech

As tech companies like Twitter, Apple and Uber soar, they've also come under increased scrutiny for their lack of diversity. According to a recent report, Twitter's workforce includes just 1 percent African-American and 3 percent Latino employees in the U.S., and 13 percent women employees in its global workforce — this, despite Twitter emerging as an important space for underrepresented voices and activist efforts. Leslie Miley, a former Twitter engineering manager, who was the only black engineer in a leadership position at the company, recently resigned from his position and penned several articles critiquing Twitter's diversity policies.

11 Dec Inaugural 2016 Women Transforming Technology Conference to Tackle Gender Diversity in Tech — Registration Now Open

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), a global leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility -- in partnership with EMC, Intuit, Pivotal, Women Who Code and the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University -- today announced that registration is open for the inaugural Women Transforming Technology (wt2) Conference. Scheduled for Feb. 23, 2016, the wt2 Conference is expected to host more than 300 industry professionals, students, and members of the community, and will offer a wide breadth and depth of content targeted at a variety of roles and levels -- from new career to senior level, more technical to more support roles.

10 Dec Focusing on the tech ‘pipeline’ may harm efforts to recruit more diversity

Despite a slew of initiatives aimed at increasing the diversity of workers in the technology industry, including pledges by Pinterest and Twitter to increase their hiring of women and minorities, diversity numbers for many Silicon Valley firms remain stubbornly low.