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Digital Diversity Network
Join us in Beverly Hills, California on June 17 for a one-day summit with the industry's top VR creators! 360 production has become one of the most fascinating creative platforms for creators and filmmakers in less than two years. Brands, social networks, and studios are all trying to figure out that winning alchemy of blending technology and 360-videography to change the way we interact with content. This intimate workshop is geared for content creators who want to really dive-in to the craft and master the art of experiential content production, gaining tangible skillsets for a career in immersive storytelling. We've assembled top professionals across VR and 360 content creation to provide an in-depth education on the medium. Whether you're just starting out or wanting to further your knowledge of the creative and technical aspects of 360 VR, you won't want to miss out on this workshop.
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Fast Company
Imagine how entangled this issue can be if there's this level of contradiction and questioning in the headlines. "It took just minutes of searching to come up with these titles and more. What's happened with this conversation? It's supposed to be about people and something good. In many ways it's become a bastardized, sticky conversation to have," says Damien Hooper-Campbell, eBay's first chief diversity officer.
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Tech Crunch
There was once a time when everyone knew in their hearts that the tech industry was super white and male-dominated but didn't have the stats to back it up.
Now that the likes of Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Google, Amazon, Netflix and, most recently, Uber, have released their reports, the stats are out there. And what a lot of people thought about the industry’s lack of diversity turned out to be true.
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Chicago Tribune
Tech entrepreneur Jimmy Odom, who went to work for Gov. Bruce Rauner to focus on minority entrepreneurship in 2015, said Monday that he's leaving state government.
In a Medium.com post announcing his resignation as acting assistant director at the Illinois Department of Central Management Services, Odom said the state hasn't given enough attention and resources to minority business development.
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Comcast NBCUniversal
 NBCUNIVERSAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, the industry's premiere diversity short film festival, is a nationwide search for talent focused on discovering the next generation of content creators. The bicoastal festival seeks narrative works made within the last two years in the categories of DRAMA, COMEDY, WEB SERIES and Comedic PILOTS. The goal is to not only scout up-and-coming directors, writers and actors but to introduce them to top industry executives, agents and tastemakers while awarding prizes ranging from camera packages, monetary grants, development meetings and holding deals. Notable alumni include Randall Park (FRESH OFF THE BOAT) and Hasan Minhaj (THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH). To learn more and submit, visit NBCUshortsFEST.com
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Let Diversity Best Practices help your company target its efforts to understand demographic gaps and raise the bar on D&I strategy. Registration ends June 2! MORE
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VentureBeat
Social mobile game publisher Zynga has made a big gift to the University of Southern California to promote the study of social mobile games, inclusive game production, and advancing diversity in the industry.
The gift was announced jointly by Frank Gibeau, CEO of Zynga and Tracy Fullerton, chair of the USC School of Cinematic Arts' Interactive Media & Games Division and director of USC Games. The gift funds three years of class curriculum and an event series of panels and lectures on inclusivity and diversity in the video game industry.
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Technical.ly Philly
Black millennials dictate popular culture and Nielsen has the data to prove it.
Black millennials are the leading innovators in technology use, according to a 2016 Nielsen report. That same report attributes $162 billion in buying power to black millennials with African Americans as a block projected to have $1.3 trillion in buying power in 2017.
The idea is to leverage that consumption into creation. Transfer the talent that creates viral trends into creating innovate technologies.
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BostInno
Current Alphabet Executive Chairman and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has a low tone of voice. However, his ideas sounded loud and clear in the MIT's Wong Auditorium recently.
"Diversity and inclusion are really good business," Schmidt said. "It’s good for shareholders."
Schmidt intervened in a panel at MIT about how technology can close the skills gap.
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KEN-TV
The tech industry continues to grow in Austin as many businesses have been able to find their footing in Central Texas — including one company that has a creator who never seems to give up.
Joah Spearman has never had the luxury of knowing what lies ahead. As a kid, he grew up with two brothers and a single mother in Killeen, Texas as his family needed to use food stamps to get by. As a preteen, he said he needed to step up to help his family.
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Fortune
Earlier this week, Silicon Valley's gender problems made headlines — again — when a former Facebook engineer told The Wall Street Journal that female developers received 35 percent more code rejections than their male peers, and waited 3.9 percent longer for approvals. Of course, Facebook is far from the only tech venue where gender bias looms large. Last year, a group of researchers analyzed open source software contributions on GitHub, one of the industry's largest code-collaboration sites.
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Fortune
It's almost that time of year when America's top tech companies release their annual reports offering the public a glimpse into the number of underrepresented employees across their ranks. Uber kick started it when the ride-hailing company released its figures this Spring; during the summer months ahead, other tech companies are expected to release their reports.
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Akron Beacon Journal
What's the first thing you learn in Drones 101?
Don't call them drones.
People who use them professionally call them UAS — Unmanned Aerial (or Aircraft) System — and everyone from anthropologists mapping ruins to zoologists counting endangered species now depend on them.
There are already help-wanted ads in Florida offering UAS pilots $25 per hour.
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