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Wired
There are any number of reasons why TED is different than your typical tech conference.
There's the $8,500 per ticket price tag, for one thing, and the star-studded list of attendees, for another. There's the confidentiality agreement that prevents me from writing about my run-ins with those stars (even though I really wish I could, you guys) and the fact that no personal screens are allowed in the main event hall — yes, even in 2016.
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South Florida Caribbean News
The 2nd annual Black Tech Week connects entrepreneurs with the people and tools they need to increase the number of startups that are founded by people of color and connect them with the resources to scale, deliver solutions for stronger partnerships, training and expand the technology blueprint and access to VC funding in the black community.
The weeklong series of events will be held during Black History Month, Feb. 15-20, 2016 on the Biscayne Bay Campus of Florida International University providing impactful programming centered on innovation, technology and creativity.
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The Mercury News
Reddit, the Internet company, has hired Mark Luckie, a vocal critic of tech's lack of diversity.
Luckie will be Reddit's new head of journalism and media, NBC News reported. He previously worked at Twitter as manager of news and journalism.
Reddit has struggled over the past couple years with a host of issues related to diversity — its management, under former CEO Ellen Pao, tried to assert some rules on channels, known as subreddits, about what sort of speech was unacceptable.
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Startland
When Google and Intel first released their employment statistics in 2014, the topic of diversity was nowhere as elevated as it is today in corporate circles.
Silicon Valley and its many companies from large tech giants down to startups are under the diversity and inclusion microscope. Why all of the emphasis on diversity? Demographically our country is changing with the rise of the "New Majority" — all the people who are considered to be minorities. 43 percent of millennials and 50 percent of newborns are non-white, according to a study by Pew Research Center.
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The Huffington Post
In San Francisco, four black female engineers from the group-messaging company Slack stood before a crowd and accepted an award on behalf of their company for fastest-rising startup of the year.
For anyone who cares about diversity in tech, it was an awesome sight to behold.
"There are many things that are major keys to the success of Slack, not least of which are diversity and inclusion," Kiné Camara, Slack engineer and former Skype engineer, told the crowd at TechCrunch's awards show, the Crunchies.
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Tech Crunch
Google for Entrepreneurs has partnered with Tech Inclusion, an organization and conference organized by Change Catalyst, which is geared toward helping people of color and women in tech gain equity. Through the partnership, Tech Inclusion will be able to scale and add more entrepreneurship programming to its events, Tech Inclusion co-founder Wayne Sutton told me via email. GFE will also offer financial assistance and Google employees as startup mentors and speakers.
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Tech Crunch
Last Sunday, 22 football players suited up and took the field to play in the NFL’s 50th Super Bowl. Like any given Sunday, a large percentage of the players on the field were black. In fact in 2014, 70 percent of NFL players were black, but until 1946 black players were shut out of professional football completely.
The year that color barrier was broken, talent of all colors flooded in and changed the face of the game forever.
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Latin Post
Silicon Valley has been working on its diversity problem for nearly two years, ever since the Rev. Jesse Jackson challenged the industry from the podium at HP's shareholder meeting in early 2014.
But while there have been some slight improvements across the industry toward building a more inclusive workforce, some have recently drawn attention to the fact that top leadership of most tech companies has remained mostly unchanged and as homogeneous as ever.
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Tech Crunch
A new 500 Startups batch means new diversity stats. In the startup accelerator's 15th batch, 44 percent of the founders are international, 33 percent are female, 15 percent are black and 10 percent are Latino, 500 Startups Founding Partner Dave McClure announced recently at demo day.
500 Startups has generally been pretty good around investing in female founders. To date, more than 400 startups in the 500 Startups portfolio have at least one female co-founder, McClure said.
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Vox
Consulting firm Accenture's annual diversity report shows the company is doing better than most others in the tech industry, but one of its chief executives says the company still has a long way to go.
The report, released recently, shows women compose 35.8 percent of the overall staff and, proportionately, make up 31.3 percent of executives (though three of the 19 C-level executives at the company are women, according to its website).
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Fast Company
With the spotlight on diversity and inclusion in the tech industry and beyond, there is a wealth of companies casting about for strategies that will ensure their employees reflect a mix of gender, race, age and educational backgrounds.
For established players such as Intel, it's taken a $300 million investment, not only to recruit, hire, and retain staff at the 107,000+ person juggernaut, but a variety of other measures to diversify.
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