AlterConf Los Angeles 2015
2015-11-21
Los Angeles, United States
who it's for
diversity and inclusion leads, community organizers, tech educators, engineering managers, hr professionals, accessibility advocates
topics
vestibular nerve surgery outcomes; hearing loss coping techniques; visualization as meditation; methodical email trail practices; forced feedback for creators; brogrammer culture critique; community hacker spaces; implicit association testing; blind resume experiments; gay straight alliance organizing
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Disability isn't always what you expect | Ben Hopkins | 17m |
Claims direct and concrete: part deaf since childhood, diagnosed with Meniere's disease about five years ago, tries hearing aids that fail and undergoes… | ||
| Being Young, Gifted, Black, and Other Adjectives... | Charles Babb | 21m |
Argues that Black game developers must be multi-skilled and overdeliver, gives a step‑by‑step blueprint: keep a methodical email trail after meetings, use… | ||
| Brogrammer Culture in Tech | Archie Prakash | 17m |
Argues that a pervasive brogrammer culture starts in college, creates gatekeepers, and leaves as few as 1 in 100 people of color or women at conferences; cites… | ||
| Gender Bias - Identifying the unconscious evil in ourselves... | Indu Alagarsamy | 26m |
Shows concrete numbers and experiments: companies report Google 18% Microsoft 16% Apple 22% for women in tech, film has 12% women leads and 1% women of color… | ||
| Learning from Gay Straight Alliances to Diversify Tech | Ash López | 10m |
Created a Gay Straight Alliance at a rural community college and partnered with a local LGBT Center to run meetings, rights workshops, and training professors… | ||
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