How To Prevent Inappropriate Presentations

Three reasons why inappropriate conference presentations happen and what we can do to fix the problem.  By Sarah Mei (Founder, The Ministry of Velocity) This weekend there was another inappropriate presentation at a technology conference. This is sadly not a new...

Are You Aspiring To Code? Join The Club, Literally…

A conference attendee said she didn’t study computer science in school and didn’t know any code a year ago, but is now working as a full-time developer. By Melissa Tinitigan (Founder, Event Digerati) I’ve always been fascinated by technology, and I was...
Racism and Meritocracy

Racism and Meritocracy

By Eric Ries (Contributing Writer, TechCrunch) Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you can’t have missed the recent dust-up over race and Silicon Valley. Like almost every discussion of diversity and meritocracy in this town, it turned ugly fast. One side says:...