DiversITy Matters - Codemotion Rome

Presented on March 19th 2016 at the Codemotion Conference, Rome, Italy.
http://rome2016.codemotionworld.com/
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In every industry where the work-force has shifted from severely limited diversity to a divers work-force, you'll find that both productivity as well as profitability has increased. Taking into account the enormous shortage of IT professionals world-wide and the distinct lack of diversity in the IT work-force, the time has come to accelerate this much-needed shift in the IT industry. We all are in an unique position to contribute to this change. In this talk we'll take a look at what each of us can do today ànd tomorrow to help us move towards a healthier and more economically sane industry.

Transcript

1. Wouter Groenewold Juliette Reinders Folmer @diversity_IT http://diversitymatters.it/ Disclaimer This talk contains gross generalisations. These are not meant to be taken personally. Feel free to leave if you think you can’t deal with that.
6. What is Diversity ?
7. Gender
8. (42) Age
9. Skin tone
10. Ethnicity
11. Believe system
12. Body form
13. Health
14. Sexuality
15. Living situation
16. Conference experience
17. Employment
18. We are developers
19. We  diversity
20. “Diversity is not about being equal, It is about celebrating the differences.”
21. What’s in it for me ?
22. Quality
24. vs
25. vs vs
28. Quality Economy
30. Quality Economy Success
33. Quality Economy Success
34. Understanding
40. Tony Perez CEO & co-founder Sucuri Virginia Rometty President and CEO of IBM Ursula Burns CEO, Chair Xerox Rashmi Sinha CEO & co-founder Slideshare Tim Cook CEO Apple Sheryl Sandberg COO Facebook
41. Photo by Claus Tom Christensen
44. Image credit: XKCD/385
48. Code wrangler ?
49. Ninja ?
50. Rockstar ?
51. Enablers Top performers
54. If you want to be incrementally better: be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: be cooperative.
55. What can we do today?
56. Government
57. Employers
64. Conferences
71. Communities
72. Photo by Clipp2nd
73. Photo by Me! Migayi!
77. “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” ― Maya Angelou
78. YOU YOUR PHOTO HERE
82. Thank you! @diversity_IT http://diversitymatters.it/