AlterConf Minneapolis 2016
2016-04-09
Minneapolis, United States
who it's for
diversity and inclusion practitioners, hr leaders, engineering managers, startup founders, product managers, accessibility specialists, community organizers, developers
topics
pathways for underrepresented founders; mentor programs that mirror mentees; targeted startup investment strategies; summary plan document review; inclusive employer health coverage; paid parental leave outcomes; COPPA and kids' privacy; privacy tools for workplaces; designing alcohol-free events; age-friendly hiring and accessibility
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Graveti: Building a Stronger Tech Startup Ecosystem | Alex Rodriguez | 09m |
Graveti positions itself as a social venture creating pathways for Blacks and Latinos and argues the ecosystem fails them: 18% of CS degrees but only 9% in… | ||
| Hacking Your Employers Health Insurance Plan to... | Marie Fromm | 21m |
Breaks down actual plan text by comparing Summary Plan Documents and insurers’ clinical guidelines to find deletions and precise additions that guarantee… | ||
| Maternity and Motherhood in Tech | Sarah Olson | 19m |
Only three of 185 countries offer no paid parental leave — the U.S., Suriname, and Papua New Guinea — and U.S. law only guarantees 12 weeks unpaid under FMLA… | ||
| Liar Liar Pants on Fire: Being a Kid in the Tech World | Sebastian W | 12m |
COPPA, passed Oct 21, 1998, legally bars under‑13s from many web identifiers and forces kids to lie to use Gmail, school accounts and banks; that lie blocks… | ||
| Culture is Not a Game, But Created Like one! | Christopher Williams | 29m |
Claims that culture is built like a game: successful titles (Beyond Two Souls, Heavy Rain, Final Fantasy) share a relatable character and a clear conflict, and… | ||
| Surviving and Thriving in the Panopticon: Maintaining Privacy... | Cassie Traun | 21m |
Chronically ill Crohn’s patient reports cannabis put remission in place after three years of failed drugs, cofounder of CryptoPartyMN, and lists concrete… | ||
| It Shouldn't Come With the Job: Addressing the Culture of... | Victor Yocco | 25m |
Claims that design and tech normalize alcohol—office keg, open bars at conferences and recruiter happy hours—and that this excludes people who are sober or… | ||
| Decoupling From (Bad) Shibboleths in the Software Developer Community | Walé Ogundipé | 23m |
Argues that language/editor/tool shibboleths (Vim vs Emacs, Java vs Ruby, PHP dismissed by Scala users) create structural barriers to newcomers, and offers… | ||
| Aging and Accessibility in Tech | Catherine Lundoff, Valerie Lockhart | 22m |
Argues that IT loses workers after about age 45 (BLS data) because cultural assumptions — “too expensive,” “resistant to change,” irrelevant skills — outweigh… | ||
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