Tech Talk
12 May White House CTO Megan Smith on the Value of Tech Diversity
AS CHIEF TECHNOLOGY officer of the United States, Megan Smith often uses her public stage to point out that women have always been coders—and crucial to the evolution of computer science. “They’ve just been written out of history,” she says.
11 May eMerge Americas: How to increase diversity in tech
Creating diversity in the technology workforce doesn’t have to be costly, experts said Tuesday at the eMerge Americas tech conference in Miami Beach. “Not always [do] we need money to make things happen,” said Ricardo Santos, director of education transformation for Cisco Brasil. “For mentoring programs, we can have our employees across the world share their knowledge. … This is priceless.”
11 May Can the NFL playbook help solve tech’s diversity problem?
Bonnie Crater believes she’s been lucky. As a woman in technology, she has enjoyed a 20-year career that began at Oracle and has led to her current position as CEO of Full Circle CRM, a startup that provides marketing performance applications to businesses and is backed by Salesforce Ventures. Crater was one of only five women vice presidents at Oracle back when the company had about 4,000 employees. Now she’s one of the few women leading a tech startup. “I’ve had wonderful managers encouraging me who appreciated my skill set,” she says. Not every woman is as fortunate, especially in the male dominated tech industry. So Crater has made an unusual public pledge: whenever her company has an opening for a senior leadership position, she or her colleagues will interview at least two women for the job. Crater is challenging other tech business leaders and venture capital firms to do the same.08 May Entrepreneurial Diversity To Be Showcased At TiEcon 2015
TiEcon 2015, the world's largest gathering of entrepreneurs, will be a showcase for the growing diversity among technology innovators and business leaders in Silicon Valley and worldwide. The two-day show, taking place on May 15-16 at Silicon Valley's Santa Clara Convention Center, will highlight women and minority leaders that are at the forefront of "disruptive entrepreneurship." This year's show will feature the largest-ever gathering of women and minority innovators, engineers and panelists. Featured speakers will include industry leaders like Blanca Trevino, President and CEO of Softtek, which has grown under her leadership to become the leading IT services company in Latin America. Trevino has been cited as a Rising Star on Fortune's list of the 50 Most Powerful Women and was the first woman to be inducted into the prestigious International Association of Outsourcing Providers Hall of Fame.