DiversITy Matters - IPC

Presented on June 10th 2015 at the International PHP Conference, Berlin, Germany.
https://phpconference.com/2015se/en
---------------------------------------------------------------
While some of the older, more established IT companies are trying to make a difference, the IT industry is still a pre-dominantly white male domain. In every industry where the work-force has shifted – often over a thirty year period – 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, the time has come to accelerate this much-needed shift. In this talk we’ll look at some of the psychological and sociological aspects which inhibit the change to a more diverse workforce in the IT industry. But we don’t stop there: we all are in an unique position to contribute to this change, so let’s discuss what each of us can do today to 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. (41) 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
29. Quality Economy
31. Quality Economy Success
34. Quality Economy Success
35. Understanding
39. Tony Perez CEO & co-founder Sucuri Virginia Rometty President and CEO of IBM Padmasree Warrior CTO Cisco Rashmi Sinha CEO & co-founder Slideshare Tim Cook CEO Apple Sheryl Sandberg COO Facebook
40. Photo by Claus Tom Christensen
43. Image credit: XKCD/385
46. Code wrangler ?
47. Ninja ?
48. Rockstar ?
49. Enablers Top performers
53. If you want to be incrementally better: be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: be cooperative.
54. What can we do today?
55. Government
56. Employers
63. Conferences
70. Communities
71. Photo by Clipp2nd
72. Photo by Me! Migayi!
74. “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” ― Maya Angelou
75. YOU YOUR PHOTO HERE
79. Thank you! @diversity_IT http://diversitymatters.it/