AlterConf NYC 2016
who it's for
diversity and inclusion leads, engineering managers, hr and talent recruiters, community managers, product managers, founders and tech leads, software developers
topics
internet English dominance; moderating intellectual trolling; building teams in developing nations; cross-language communication; informal leadership tactics; microaggression intervention techniques; unconscious bias mitigation; personal chatbot assistants; race and empathy conversations; diversity via Hamilton analysis
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Opening the Internet: Looking Beyond English Dominance | Christina González | 16m |
The talk shows concrete gaps and fixes: web language share is roughly 26.3% English 20.8% Chinese 7.7% Spanish, Internationalized Domain Names are proposed in… | ||
| Dealing with Intellectual Trolling | Alexandra Bowen | 19m |
Forty percent of internet‑using adults report harassment and a quarter of women 18–24 report sexual harassment while a quick Twitter poll shows 67%… | ||
| Building World Class Teams From Developing Nations | Juan Pablo Buriticá | 23m |
Built a world‑class engineering team from Latin America by hiring 35 hires in 14 months, paying similar rates to New York while spending 70% less cost than… | ||
| Crossing the Language Divide... | Aditya Mukerjee | 23m |
Claims that source code and docs can be localized end up with specifics: a proof of concept called koro localizes Go into Bengali by replacing keywords and… | ||
| How to be Boss When You're not the Boss... | Natali Wachtman Perilo | 15m |
Claims that leadership is behavioral and trainable with applied behavior analysis tools: break interactions into Antecedents Behaviors Consequences, time… | ||
| It's not Lit... | Candace Williams | 20m |
Names specific examples — Navajo Nation v. Urban Outfitters, the mannequin challenge, and a flagged Twitter email using AAVE — then explains concrete… | ||
| Dismantling the Binary, one Microaggression at a Time | Jameson Hampton | 15m |
Defines specific microaggressions: treating people like resources (constant on-demand education, invasive questions about names or genitals), making binary… | ||
| Battling Unconscious Bias | Neem Serra | 20m |
45 million people take the Implicit Association Test and the results show big patterns: about 70% of white people and 50% of black people register a preference… | ||
| How a Personal Chatbot can Make Your Life Better | Lauren Golembiewski | 22m |
Argues that personal chatbots can automate difficult social work and protect people not just serve brands, and demonstrates a concrete build: Ghostbot for… | ||
| "You Make Everything About Race" - An Appeal for Empathy... | Kareem Francis | 20m |
Argues that the concrete tool to change conversations about race is practiced empathy — listening, pausing and reframing — demonstrated with a workplace Cards… | ||
| Incredible Witness: Findings From the Public Laboratory | Allison Parrish, Clarinda Mac Low, Lauren Bierly | 19m |
Incredible Witness runs live public experiments: a mediated navigation exercise with a deck of 30 instruction cards that deliberately induces disorientation, a… | ||
| Diversity and Inclusion in Tech Through a Hamilton Lens | Lizzie Siegle | 18m |
Claims that inclusion breeds diversity and urges companies to hire for slope not y intercept rather than prestige. Cites corporate numbers: Google reports… | ||
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