Tech Talk

24 Sep Benioff grades himself ‘between A and D’ on diversity, calls out Apple, Amazon and others

"I'm not going to give myself a D, because isn't this amazing?" exclaimed Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, to great applause from the crowd. He was referring to a Dreamforce panel between himself, Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) co-founder Parker Harris, and Re/code founder and editor Kara Swisher on efforts to achieve gender equality at the company, which previously admitted that only 15 percent of its leadership roles are filled by women.

23 Sep Tech Diversity Gets Another Conference: Tech Inclusion 2015 Brings Google, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest

A few weeks ago, Melinda Briana Epler and Wayne Sutton were unsure whether anyone would show up for Tech Inclusion, the technology industry diversity conference they’ve been planning for months. This week, they had to start turning people away after the event sold out, the latest sign that the tech industry’s diversity movement is quickly gaining momentum.

22 Sep Tech Companies Have A Major Diversity Problem — And Twitter’s The Worst

The social media company has zero percent black women on staff — and Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Intel aren't much better.

17 Sep Talking (About Tech Diversity) Is Hard

In the past seven years, diversity in tech has gone from a “nice to have” to a “need to have” to a “desperately need to have”, which is the state we are in now. And though we’ve made some progress, whether it’s more women and people of color being considered for CEO roles, more of us being vocal about our right to be treated as competent members of our community, more of us showing returns or a more diverse cross-section of people learning to code in the first place, we have a ways to go.