Last month’s Tech Inclusion conference in San Francisco was everything I look for in a conference experience: excellent content, outstanding networking, and a great mix of attendees – entrepreneurs, diversity and inclusion experts, policy people, executives, designers, engineers, marketers, investors, and hard-to-categorize people. The vibe was wonderful as well, positive with a sense of excitement, with the aid of remarkably good food and coffee.
In short, I really enjoyed it, learned a lot, met some interesting people, and came away feeling like it was a very good use of my time.
There are already several other good posts on the conference (see the list at the end), so I’m not going provide a detailed play-by-play. Instead, after reflecting on the conference for several days, I’m going to highlight a few themes that struck me as particularly important. Read on for more about
- A roadmap for building a diverse and inclusive companies
- Diversity as a strategy
- Embedding diversity in the software
- Final thoughts
