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October 23-26, 2017 - Prague, Czech Republic
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Thursday, October 26 • 12:00 - 13:30
Lunch Panel: Diversity & Inclusion: On the Path to Increasing the Ten Percent - Moderated by Guy Martin, Autodesk

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The technology industry has been a major source of innovation and economic growth, but its ability to encourage diversity among its ranks lags. In 2016, women and underrepresented minorities accounted for 30% of the larger tech industry, while comprising roughly 10% of the Linux and OpenStack communities. To harness the full power of technology to tackle a broader set of societal challenges will depend, in part, on our ability to encourage a diversity of ideas, experiences and talent. Join us for an interactive discussion as we explore the numbers and what they mean, and in turn, discuss concrete, actionable steps that we can collectively take to foster a diverse, inclusive environment within our larger open source community.
Moderators
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Guy Martin

Director, Open@ADSK, Autodesk, Inc.
Guy Martin is Director of Open@Autodesk, where he represents the company to the broader open source community and works with internal teams to help accelerate their use of and collaboration with open source software. He also helps build ‘innersource’ communities to enable better... Read More →

Speakers
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Dawn Foster

Consultant, The Scale Factory
Dawn is currently a part-time consultant at The Scale Factory and is pursuing a PhD at the University of Greenwich in London, which she plans to complete in mid-2018. She spent more than 20 years working at companies like Puppet Labs, Intel, Jive Software, and more. She has expertise... Read More →
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Daniel Izquierdo

Chief Data Officer, Bitergia
Daniel, a co-founder of Bitergia, is a leader in analyzing open source communities and other types of software development teams. He focuses on filling the gap between companies and open source projects, helping to understand risks and the best ways of working in and with open source... Read More →
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Jeffrey Osier-Mixon

Open Source Community Strategist, Intel
Jefro is well known (infamous?) in open source circles, particularly those related to Linux and embedded systems. He is notorious for supporting embedded initiatives such as the Yocto Project, OpenEmbedded, Zephyr Project, and E-ALE. Jefro works at Intel's Open Source Technology Center... Read More →
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Nithya Ruff

Sr. Director, Open Source Practice, Comcast
Nithya A. Ruff is the Senior Director for Comcast’s Open Source Practice. She is responsible for growing Open Source culture inside of Comcast and engagement with external communities. Prior to this, she started and grew the Western Digital’s Open Source Strategy Office. She first... Read More →
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Amye Scavarda

Gluster Community Lead, Red Hat
Gluster Community Lead at Red Hat

Thursday October 26, 2017 12:00 - 13:30
Karlin I-III
  Diversity Summit

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