Diverse by Design - Mountain View

Diverse by Design will host its fourth convening on October 25th, 2017 at Google's Global Headquarters in Mountain View California. The MountainView conversation will examine diversity through an entrepreneurial lens, asking the tough question—how can technology leadership, on the cutting edge of social, cultural and technological change, innovate to support the building blocks for new hiring and retention systems across the country?

This event will bring together c-suite thought leaders to elevate best practices and develop solutions to forge a more direct path for businesses to attract, develop, and retain a more diverse and inclusive workforce.

By nature, entrepreneurs question what already exists and find success in the creation, improvement, and redesign of products for the global marketplace. Diversity and inclusion, a long-time stagnant issue for the industry, finds strong partnerships and support amongst leadership who understand the social and business-case for supporting a diverse workforce. The convening will engage leaders in technology, finance, energy, government and non profit experts to share best practices and model solutions for achieving diversity in the workforce.

Diverse by Design is working to create thousands of tech sector champions who can amplify and help to scale the strategies that can cultivate tech talent and open more doors to transformative technology careers for underrepresented groups, including women and minorities.

What: Diverse By Design Mountain View

When: Wednesday, October 25, 1:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. PST

Where: Google, 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA, 94043

More info: www.diversebydesign.org/google-mountain-view

For more information on how to participate in the conversation or to attend Diverse by Design send an inquiry to diversebydesign@perscholas.org.

About Diverse By Design

Achieving diversity in the tech sector has been a challenge for years. But now, new pressures threaten every American employer’s ability to hire high-tech, highly-skilled talent at a rapid speed, to meet the pending and projected demand for talent. Tech employers increasing demand for jobs offers an unprecedented opportunity for companies to source non-traditional talent from alternative pipelines to further strengthen and diversify their workforce.

Diverse by Design was created to help the tech sector address this need by driving a conversation and action around best ways to cultivate tech talent and open more doors to transformative technology careers for underrepresented groups, including women and minorities.

The first Diverse by Design event was held on June 21, 2016 at Google’s New York City headquarters and was followed by a second event at Google D.C. At both events nearly 200 guests convened to hear diversity and inclusion best practices from Fortune 500 thought leaders in technology, finance, energy, and social impact.

Diverse by Design is organized by Per Scholas, a national nonprofit that drives positive and proven social change in communities across the country through rigorous and tuition-free technology training and professional development for successful IT careers, and by the Information Technology Senior Management Forum (ITSMF), the only national organization dedicated exclusively to cultivating professional talent among African-American IT executives.

Diverse by Design thanks our partners at JPMorgan & Chase, the National Society of Black Engineers, CompTIA and Google for their continued support elevating conversations around diversity and inclusion in the workplace.