There’s No Other Conference Like It The Platform Summit is not just a conference, it’s an experience. You will not just be educated, you will be moved. You will cheer. You may cry. You will meet luminaries and people who will one day be luminaries. You will be overwhelmed, and yet energizedby opportunity. You will wish it wasContinue reading "Platform 2014"
The SHPE Conference is the major event for the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Inc. and the largest technical and career conference for Hispanics in the country. Each year, the SHPE Conference attracts over 5,000 engineering professionals, students and corporate representatives. The conference is an opportunity for engineering companies and corporations to recruit top talentContinue reading "Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Conference"
This year’s conference theme is Diversity at Scale as the Tapia Conference celebrates efforts to move diversity in all aspects of computing beyond conversation and study into full practice and implementation. As a community, we recognize that we must scale our diversity efforts to fully utilize computing to address the larger problems faced by today’s society.
Join the Kapor Center for Social Impact's Benjamin Jealous and BMe's Trabian Shorters to celebrate the release of REACH, an inspiring collection of short essays from 40 Black Men speaking on living, leading and succeeding. Tuesday February 24, 2015, 6pm Betti Ono Gallery 1427 Broadway Oakland, CA 94612 Proceeds from the sale of the bookContinue reading "Release Celebration for Reach"
On behalf of Google.org, the Black Googlers Network, and the Kapor Center for Social Impact, we're excited to invite you to attend a free community screening of the film Selma at the historic Oakland Grand Lake Theatre. Thursday, February 26th Doors open at 6:00 pm | Screening begins at 7:00 pm Grand Lake Theatre 3200Continue reading "Selma Screening"
A panel discussion of the current landscape for Latin@s in tech, including examinations of the biggest challenges and misconceptions as well as a look at efforts to diversify tech.
Village Capital, in partnership with eBay Foundation, the Kapor Center for Social Impact and the Center for Financial Services Innovation, is recruiting local Oakland FinTech startups for an Oakland FinTech Forum. The event will be a half-day workshop of business development training and mentorship for startups creating alternative financial technologies to benefit low-wealth individuals andContinue reading "FinTech Forum – Oakland"
The 22nd annual SXSW Interactive Festival returns to Austin, Texas from Friday, March 13 through Tuesday, March 17, 2015. An incubator of cutting-edge technologies and digital creativity, the 2015 event features five days of compelling presentations and panels.
In this discussion, Engineers and VCs from several prominent tech companies will discuss what’s being done to create more inclusive and diverse tech companies through reaching people earlier in the pipeline and investing in retention
This SXSW panel explores current and emergent efforts and thinking behind ways to create a tech sector that is led by and works for all.