Why We’re Obsessed with the Sustainable Development Goals
Technology -- and collaboration -- can help us achieve the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.
inclusion
Will Tech Unite or Divide? How Our NY Program Chose Us
When we prepped for our NY conference May 14-15, almost every speaker brought up something about being worried about tech. Nobody knows if we're headed towards enlightenment or dystopia. But it's become a main conference...
How to Manage — and Remove — Bias in AI
We have a tremendous opportunity to design fairness and transparency into our decision-making systems.
Tech is Bridging the Gender Equality Gap
In recent years, companies have been increasingly focused on addressing the gender equity gap. It’s good business: executive-level, gender diverse companies are, on average, more profitable. But the fact remains that as employees move from...
Diversity is Meaningless Without Inclusion
Diversity programs are a good start, but diversity hiring alone is meaningless without a commitment to include those voices in a substantial way.
Tony Prophet: The Business of Equality
Techonomy 2018 speakers answer critical questions in an ongoing series: Tony Prophet, chief equality officer at Salesforce.
If Society is Governed by Computer Code, How Will Coders Understand Ethics?
As technology extends further through tools like artificial intelligence, we need to ensure that the people writing the software — the computer scientists — are educated in ethics.
Marlin Page on Diversity and Inclusion in Technology
Marlin Page of Sisters Code with some "real talk" about diversity and inclusion in Technology at Techonomy 2016.
New Tools to Tackle the Business Diversity Crisis
Almost every company is embarrassingly uniform in its ethnic and gender makeup, even as data increasingly shows that in diversity is strength. Now, finally, software and other tools are emerging that may help bring a...
