The Next 50 Million Developers (Keynote)
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Claims concrete numbers and programs: 50 million developers now 100 million in five years, a projected global talent gap of 85.2 million skilled workers and $8.4 trillion lost revenue by 2030, and a measurement where one June 2020 TensorFlow commit appears in 23,500 projects and touches 50,000 developers across 151 countries. Cited interventions include Laboratoria, Vue, Google Summer of Code, Outreachy, GitHub Sponsors and Major League Hacking fellowship, with emphasis on lowering first-commit barriers and funding maintainers.
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