Signatories

Vectorworks has a DEI committee and initiative to improve efforts within our company, partners, customers and community. We strongly support DEI efforts within the industries and communities we serve and live.

UX Glasgow Manifesto: https://uxglasgow.co.uk/about

People make UX Glasgow. These are the things that are important to us as user centred designers:

1. We design solutions to real problems for the benefit of all, not just a few.
2. We demand sustainability first. We design for the planet as much as the user, and consider the local and global impact of our decisions.
3. We believe in removing barriers both as professionals and as a community. We don’t disable people through our designs, and we ensure the outputs from our community are accessible to all.
4. We believe in equality, empathy, and equity. We are open to all and everyone’s voice is included.
5. We understand that technology is a tool that can be used for good or bad. We want to do good.
6. We acknowledge that we don’t have all the answers – so we listen to people and consider the implications of our actions before crafting a solution.

In the meetups and conferences I organise we actively aim for a diverse group of both organisers and speakers. We realise the difficulty but don't use that as an excuse not to do something to improve.

Although we are a very female-dominated organisation, we pride ourselves on Equity over Equality for all.

We are paying attention to creating more diverse formats (e.g. organizing non-conferences like Barcamps) - and we are inviting people from all sorts of backgrounds to contribute, not just the same "experts" who are given a voice everywhere already anyhow...

I try to ensure to learn more about my prejudices, finding ways to support black and other melinated voices, accept advice/criticism when I get it wrong, using diverse photos in my marketing, and anything else I can find.

Teach Topics with Motivating Examples on Diversity
Support Diversity of Members in Team Projects
Publish Papers Advocating Diversity

I am committed to creating more inclusive environments by:
- providing low-cost and sliding scale options for my services
- educating myself about systemic racism in formal and informal ways
- developing services that are relevant and accessible to diverse communities
- implementing a non-tolerance policy within my services for behavior that is racist, homophobic, transphobic, misogynistic, bullying, dominant, punitive, or otherwise hateful or harmful
- establishing an ongoing lifestyle practice of consent to reduce harm and increase accountability in how I interact with others
- designing services the include closed captioning, recording, sensory adjustments, and by creating clear and welcome procedures for requesting accommodations
- openly acknowledging the power dynamic between myself and others to empower participants to say "no" to me
- including an accountability page on my website to make it easy for people to give me feedback and address harm
- engaging in formal diversity/equity/inclusion/justice business building
- partnering with diverse professionals who share my values for public events and projects

We're working with local organisations - including You Make It (https://www.you-make-it.org/) and Hackney Council to help local people from varied backgrounds of all ages with employability. Our first full time permanent employee is a person that worked with us through You Make It's work placement programme. We're also in the process of starting our own digital skills development programme, working with local people that want experience in our industry to deliver a project for Hackney Empire.

Midnyte City is committed to the improvement of diversity at events, to enable change in the technology industry for the better. Creating safe and inclusive spaces allows greater opportunity and enchiches culture for all who participate and attend.

Midnyte City is dedicated to the evolution of technology culture. We see a vibrant industry where all voices, regardless of race, gender, social class or sexual orientation, weave together in the common pursuit of better technology.

“The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.” Our imperative is to continually inspire raising that standard across the industry.

We've used your code of conduct template as the basis for our community guidelines - covering both on and offline spaces. Thanks so much 🙂

As regular event speakers, we will ensure that we find out what the event organisers are doing to bring a diverse set of people to the stage and audience before we commit to speaking. We will work with our clients when they are planning events to promote diversity. As an employer, we will not send our staff to events that haven't committed to diversity.

Amplifying diverse peoples and mutual aid

Inspire minority women in the States to become aspiring change agents.

VeeamON is a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment where all community members and event attendees feel valued and respected.

Hello, we are a not for profit committed to diversity and foregrounding Aboriginal First Nations wisdom. Our manifesto is to place people at the heart of everything we do, so that equity and access to better systems and policies will enable all Australian's to lead better lives. Read more at tacsi.org.au

Open Web Docs supports web platform documentation for the benefit of web developers & designers worldwide. We intend to emphasize diversity and inclusion across all our efforts including project contributions, community organization, tech events, and resource allocation.

As Founder and Principal Consultant at Pollinator Social Innovation (PSI), a boutique EDI&B, Innovation, Leadership & Organisational Development and Service design Consultancy, I am 100% committed to the diversity agenda. Personally, I consider myself a Decolonial Activist and therefore diversity champion. This stance informs all of the work I do within and beyond PSI. So, regarding the Diversity Charter, I pledge to utilise and deploy as many of the pro forma recommendations provided by the Charter in PSIs direct work and to recommend to ALL our clients that they too, proactively engage with the Charter, adopt it and champion it through their professional and social networks. Change is possible. Hope is power. Action is where change lands. A luta continua!...

Encouraging psychological safety, inclusion, and demonstrating from my own transgender journey that anything is possible and helping all I encounter to build self and to realise their value. I am also on the board / panel for diversity and inclusion at Infosys Consulting.

Diversity and Inclusion should not be a question of choice. It should be a given. But it is seldom that way. As a community organizer, speaker, trainer, and coach I will do everything in my capacity to withhold the values of Diversity and Inclusion!

Nurturing diversity, nurtures progress. Denying diversity leads to progress atrophy, and society is forever poorer for the denial.
Respect everyone for their goodness and uniqueness, and challenge everyone to be their best selves - for others.

As a speaker, I will approach each event with a mindset of humble enquiry about the speaker community and the topics presented: who's present, who's absent? Knowing that some forms of diversity may be invisible, I will raise the topic and invite others to think about potential barriers for underprivileged speakers.

I facilitate teams and business to achieve the best products ever. Not only the results but how we get there is relevant. In this endeavour, we all discover and learn from other team members, and grow personally as well as in our relationship being a team.
I founded and learnt working with people the need to have very diverse people, roles and cultures in the team. Many years working in multicultural environments like United Nations, have provided me the essence to be a diversity agent.

We have a values page on our website where we post all our efforts and we continuesly try to improve. https://eventsourcing.live/2021/diversity

We deliver games on culture, diversity and inclusion and are conducting regular online open gamified meetings as well as conference events that discuss diversity and cultural issues and connect people for collaboration and synergy.

At DevOpsDays Zürich we don't want to be a tech-Conference only -- instead we want to be a conference focusing on knowledge, networking and a connecting atmospheric vibe, welcoming a range of backgrounds, experiences and opinions. We dedicate a considerable amount of time and passion to improve continuously and are happy to welcome you at the conference and see for yourself.

I champion diversity and inclusion through Modern Leadership https://modernleadership.net/ – a platform I have created to build a community of progressively minded established and emerging leaders and leadership experts.
Modern Leadership is teaching us how leadership is changing, recognising the growing importance of human values-led leadership, especially with regard to diversity and inclusion, sustainability, social justice, workplace change and business transformation.

Having been bullied viciously for my race when I was in high school by white teachers and students, I am keen to do my part to stop racism and bullying. Solidarity with the BAME community.

I actively work to create opportunities for diverse voices at conferences, in publications, etc.

The Institute of Association Leadership is the professional community for current and future chief executives and c-suite professionals who lead within the unique environment of the membership sector.

Since its reemergence the IAL, now a Community Interest Company, has worked to advance its mission. Refocused on the elevation of association leaders, the IAL is committed to helping members to be the professionals capable of advancing society.

Our four core values are Community, Inclusivity, Professionalism and Development. Of course, as an organisation, we can do more. We will look to develop clear and meaningful policies and a code of conduct to ensure that we continue to advocate for diversity and inclusion in all that we do for our community, not just via our events.

As a socially responsible business, our focus is on supporting people, planet and prosperity; and through a variety of methods, we work with individuals and organisations in defining, developing and delivering high-impact leadership practices that inform innovative business ideas, generate economic success, and add value to communities.

Of course, as a company, we can do more. We will look to develop clear and meaningful policies and a code of conduct to ensure that we continue to advocate for diversity and inclusion in all that we do, not just our events.

Hello Emily,

My name is Anna, I am applying on the behalf of Geekle.us. We're engaged in tech events organization.
These are global events, thus, we have both speakers and attendees from various countries.
We highly support diversity and are eager to increase it at our events.

DigiMarCon follows a Code of Conduct for all our events in order to create the best experience possible for all attendees. DigiMarCon also supports the Diversity Charter, a commitment to our best faith effort to make all our events diverse.

As a white male use that 'default status' for good and speak up to create awareness and change. 🙂

First Person Project is a not-for-profit community interest company.

We believe in socially progressive mental health
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We provide mental health action support.

Our mission is to develop and embed a horizontal community network across the Liverpool City Region to improve mental health as a positive mediator of socially progressive change.
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Our vision to support the development of a self-sustaining, creative and socially innovative community approach to mental health action.
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We progress beyond mental health awareness to generate high impacting social value.
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We act as a thought catalyst, creating a safe environment where peoples’ minds can be challenged, inspiring disruptive change to occur.

Big Orange Heart has a mission to support and promote positive well-being and mental health within the remote working communities.

We are an equal opportunity charity taking into account the diversity within our workforce, volunteers and service users.

We believe that everyone should be treated equally, regardless of their religion, beliefs, age, gender, race, disability, sexual orientation or any other protected characteristics.

We will continue building on our inclusive culture that values diversity and encourages trust, openness, and mutual support so that our employees can bring their best self to work.

We will build high-performing teams comprised of diverse skills, cultures and experiences.

We will demonstrate diversity and inclusion leadership across our business and be recognised internally and externally as one of the best places to work.

We will also show our commitment to diversity at events through partnerships and advocacy.

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Dubai Production City

Agile France funds and supports community, agile, French-speaking events in several ways.
Since 2016, we offer scholarships for underrepresented participants to supported events.
Since 2018, we have added to our conditions for supporting events a commitment to diversity.
We are currently trialling a diversity measurement survey so that we can track the impact of initiatives we set up to increase diversity.

Organize an including conference (Women in Agile Europe).

We believe diverse connections lead to diverse solutions. Together, we can change the future of the workplace.

We strive to have a gathering which is safe for all genders to network, meet your future colleague, share knowledge and show your awesomeness.
In passion charged events, where personal safety is a core element. No mansplaining, gaslighting or tone police.

With our events we like to help build a European community of Women in Agile.

I'm personally committed to driving true diversity and support women in becoming the most empowered versions of themselves in whatever they choose to do professionally!

I do this in my own work at WOW-HUMANS.com and with my actions at Women in Tech and LEAD Network Europe

We promise to try harder to make our events more diverse and inclusive

We will take the following actions:

- Aim to create racially diverse speaker lineups
- Aim to create gender-equal lineups at all conferences
- Create a series of charitable events around diversity and inclusion
- Create an open application process to encourage speakers to apply from outside of our network

We are an early stage business and want not only to ensure diversity in our b2b community, in our speakers and audiences, but also within our team. Our hiring strategy (for contractors and for full or part-time staff) focuses on competencies and skills and we welcome applications from entrepreneurial, smart and creative thinkers from all backgrounds.
Diversity isn't just a pledge - it is a requirement for ensuring that great decisions, innovative thinking and a wide range of ideas are built into the fabric of the business.

We are living in an Exponential era. After Coronavirus and people understand more about exponentials and the effects of not taking the right decision at the right time. I would like to help organizations to expand their business strategic portfolio-landscape from Searching to Executing. The mindset is completely different in each extreme of the equation. I offer my view of living in Latin America.

I will continue to prioritize interviewing and considering the talks of under-represented minorities in tech.

I’m going to bring up the topic and importance of diversity at social events as much as possible, inspiring people to recognise its benefits and support it.

Seeking courage and being kind...

Swarm - Australia's national conference for community professionals - is committed to pursuing, protecting and defending diversity in programming and event experience.

We believe it is essential our event reflect both the diversity of our practice and the communities online and offline our presenters and attendees manage.

We believe a richer tapestry of voice and lived experience helps build a better world and a better future for everyone.

I want to participe, this is my contribution !

Since a few years, when I'm invited to speak at a conference, I ask the event organisers (or my network) for a local women that is knowledgeable on the topic. Together we co-create the talk and we pair-deliver these talks. The only exception is if I can give a talk with my children, which is another kind of diversity.
As lead coach for coderdojo Ghent, I created separate tickets for boys and girls. And now we have as much girls as boys that are programming in Scratch at coderdojo Ghent.

At FarallonesMusic.com we believe in equality for all. We provide a friendly environment that is diverse and inclusive, as we work with music artists and individuals of all walks of life in the music industry. We value variety and promote respectful and harassment-free experiences for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, race, ethnicity, or religious beliefs.
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En FarallonesMusic.com, creemos en la equidad para todos. Facilitamos un ambiente amigable, diverso e incluyente, pues trabajamos con artistas en música y personas de todos los caminos de la vida en la industria musical. Valoramos la variedad y promovemos experiencias respetuosas y libres de acoso para todos, independientemente de su género, identidad y expresión de género, edad, orientación sexual, discapacidad, apariencia física, raza, etnia o creencias religiosas.

At our conference we will have a Code of Conduct and we will strive to have diversity in speakers and panelists.

At all of our conference events we are aiming to achieve a balance of speakers, including gender, cultural, age and all other type of diversity.

We take into consideration accessibility.
We look into the needs of our participants and speakers.
We have a diverse line up.
We offer scholarships.
We have a Code of Conduct.
We have a quiet room.
We have gender-inclusive bathrooms.
We provide childcare.

We take into consideration accessibility.
We inform ourselves about the needs of our participants.
We have a diverse line up.
We offer scholarships.

At ENGINE we believe in a culture of inclusivity without categories or constraints, we celebrate difference and believe that diversity makes our business more relevant, our work more meaningful and our people more empowered – a culture where our business and our people thrive.

A few examples of steps we are taking:
• Our Brilliant Women network has been running for over 5 years delivering events and campaigns for our female client base.
• Panelists for our Women in Sport event in June 2019 signed up to take part under the proviso that the panel was inclusive and representative.
• In 2018, Engine and our Royal Air Force client won the Diversity in Advertising Award. Our LGBT+ network is committed to continuing this approach in making our client work more representative of the LGBT+ society.

Ultimately, we’re looking to be:
• Representative of population
• Diverse in thought
• Inclusive of all

At DfE Digital one of the ways we show our commitment to diversity and inclusion is to make sure our colleagues take part in events that represent the society we live in.

Thanks for the initiative. This should become a must and there should be no more discussions about it. It has to become the norm and not be the exception. Thanks again

We're providing free OpenZFS Developer Summit conference tickets to under-represented groups, offering a free attendee ticket to anyone who refers a speaker from an under-represented group, will reach out to individuals to help increase our speaker diversity, and are advertising these free tickets on websites like Women in Tech Fund. We also have a code of conduct in place for the event and community.

QCon is dedicated to helping software developers who strive to bring innovation into their teams. Our commitment to empowering them is reflected in our inclusion and diversity initiatives. We hope to foster an inclusive environment within the software industry where everyone feels safe to express themselves and learn while facilitating access to technologies that create change and innovation.
Some OnSite Resources include:
- Subsidized child care
- Family room, prayer room, and quiet areas
- Gender-neutral bathroom with clear signage
- Voting boxes designed with color-blindness in mind
- Labels with food allergies (deconstructed menus) and cultural food preferences (ie. Halal)
- We organize Women & Allies in Tech Breakfasts

EDIS is committed to continually delivering inclusive and diverse events.

At QCon we have a “We Care” philosophy. We try to ensure our attendees, speakers, sponsors, and guests have the best conference experience possible. Here are some of our OnSite resources:
- Subsidized child care
- Family room, prayer room, and quiet areas
- Gender-neutral bathroom with clear signage
- Voting boxes designed with color-blindness in mind
- Labels with food allergies (deconstructed menus) and cultural food preferences (ie. Halal)
- We organized Women & Allies in Tech Breakfasts (Our more recent ones at QCon San Francisco 2018 sponsored by Netflix and QCon London 2019 sponsored by Facebook?)

We're working hard to make sure we'll become a diverse community of talents. Diversity is our ADN we promote in our internal and external events. Peace.

Web Teaching Day is a small event for those teaching web design and development. We aim to respect and involve all voices either speaking or attending the event to ensure diversity.

Develop strategic Diversity management and inclusion at our University of Applied Sciences

Sadly race tends to be brushed under the carpet when it comes to diversity. Research proves that ethnic minorities, primarily from BME communities, are grossly under represented in most sectors. We aim to address this under representation, due to negative perceptions, by educating companies in the benefits of multicultural work-teams and by creating awareness. We do this through our events, business briefings and bespoke workshops. Talent has no bias and our BME cultural diversity expert practitioners, leading research academics and BME Network building Specialists are passionate about everyone having a fair chance and helping those with the least help. Thank you for this Charter. Contact us on http://www.allthatmedia.agency
jm@allthatmedia.agency

We believe that the medium of immersive should be diverse and inclusive. We pledge to uphold this belief not only in practice ourselves but through all events, conferences, and festivals that invite us to participate.

We're working hard to make sure our events have diverse speakers. It's a journey.

Integrating Diversity charter and code of conduct to our Canalys events

The IT industry has a diversity deficit. Our audience of senior industry leaders reflects this. We are committed to making our event more diverse and inclusive and to help inspire change.

We commit to seeking diversity both in the events we run and the events we attend. We'll strive to seek speakers who showcase diversity and venues that support attendance by meeting diverse needs.

We're working hard to make sure our budding community starts off on the correct foot.

I am interested in understanding and promoting Diversity within the music industry, live events, and recording/music production industry that I work in.

DevOps Days Toronto is committed to including diverse and underrepresented voices at our annual conference. We do our absolute best to reach out to communities, representatives and members of underrepresented demographics to include them and invite them to join us.

Each year we personally invite underrepresented voices to speak and submit talks to our CFP, as well as providing support and guidance to new voices in the form of CFP workshops and coaching.

Our organizing team and volunteers is carefully chosen to be diverse and inclusive, to ensure we have ideas and participation from a broad spectrum of experiences and backgrounds. We appoint a diversity, outreach and inclusion representative each year to hold us accountable to the highest standards.

We ensure our selected program reflects the diversity and representation we wish to see in our participants. We have a clear and strict code of conduct specifically acknowledged by all involved in the conference, whether they are organizing, speaking, attending or sponsoring.

In order to make as many participants feel welcome and comfortable we offer our speakers:
- Travel and accommodation support for out-of-town speakers
- Childcare or financial assistance that would help with the time obligation
- Free tickets for partners
- Speaker coaching available to assist with material, delivery or practice
- All meals, receptions and activities included at no cost
- Comfy, well equipped and quiet private speaker lounge
- Accessibility accommodations

We choose accessible and well equipped venues and work to ensure everyone who wishes to attend or speak can easily do so. We offer free tickets to underrepresented individuals to ensure everyone who wishes to attend can do so.

A portion of our proceeds is donated back to local Toronto diversity initiatives to support their efforts. We connect with diversity, equity and inclusive groups as community sponsors to share their work and presence with our audience.

We remain open to ideas and iteration on all of our efforts to continuously improve!

We provide Debate Trainings to raise awareness for diversity

I want to contribute to this amazing platform by sharing something useful from the experiences and learning of my life.
I intent to be kind everyday to make this world a better place.

The topic of diversity management is firmly anchored as a strategic sustainability topic in our Corporate Principles with the emphasis on internationality, gender and age. For us it means appreciating all of our employees – with respect to both their differences and similarities.

PressED is a WordPress and education, pedagogy and research conference that's held on Twitter. It's an international conference that's open and free to attend.
People and teams anywhere in the world are able to submit a session on using WordPress in teaching, pedagogy and research and presenters can tweet in any language they wish. We invite and encourage participation from anyone and especially from people who may feel excluded or under-represented at educational conferences or in their professional life. Sessions from people who have never presented at conferences before are particularly welcomed including from students, non-academic members of staff as well as other staff members.

We are an international publishing House producing publications primarily in the legal and finace sectors.

We have just joined the The Women in Finance Charter to promote equality and diversity in the sectors we serve.

Actively seek a diverse and inclusive mix of speakers for my events and as experts in my programmes.
Actively encourage other event/conference organisers to do likewise.
Recommend female speakers and speakers of colour whenever I am asked if I know anyone.

I'm working with my local AFP chapter to further IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access) in our community!

Making improvements to our team’s diversity to try and attract the right kind of staff and customers!

Start making a difference to diversity at our internal events

We offer programming courses for women* in Vienna. With this initiative we are fostering diversity in IT jobs.

In my experience lack of diversity leds to one-sided, and I would argue also shortsighted views, decisions, culture, products... It might seem that including everyone is costly and takes time, but what is the cost of not doing so?

We run a large event in Nottingham, called New Adventures, returning in 2019 after a five-year hiatus. https://newadventuresconf.com/2019/ / @naconf.

As part of our increased commitment to inclusivity, we hope to reach a more diverse audience with each event. This time, we're encouraging applications for one of our diversity tickets. It is essential that we reach a more diverse audience.

We can and should encourage attendance from practitioners representative of minority groups under-represented in the industry. Offering diversity tickets is one way of demonstrating this commitment. We ourselves are providing thirty tickets, but we're actively seeking to offer more with ticket matching and sponsorship initiatives.

“To achieve equal representation within tech professionals, we must provide more opportunities for all gender minorities and leaders in tech to connect, to work together and discover talent first-hand.”

WDD brings gender minorities and leaders in tech together, to share knowledge, experiences and to create real connections, promoting sponsorship through hackathons, practical sessions and events.

Platitudes are cheap. We’ve all heard services say they’re committed to “diversity” and “tolerance” without ever getting specific, so here’s our stance on it:

We welcome you.

More information on our policies and diversity efforts here: https://yowconference.com.au/policies/

We're not claiming to be perfect and we're making an effort to constantly improve, with the help of initiatives such as the Diversity Charter, and feedback from our community.

I try to push representation and inclusion in the communities and conferences I’m involved in. I’m taking part in initiatives pushing diversity & inclusion, especially in the field of free & open source software. Whenever invited for an event or talk, I’m recommending relevant people from underrepresented groups to also be invited.

Tech for Good Dublin is a group who believe in the power of technology to positively impact people, communities and the planet. We aim to be as inclusive as possible because diversity will make our group stronger and allow us to do more, hear more voices, learn more and reach more people. The Diversity Charter is a great resource and we are happy to sign it. Find out more about us on MeetUp or at http://techforgooddublin.org/

The people we serve are global and diverse. We serve them better when we and our events are like them.

We work on creating inclusive, diverse and friendly events, from workshops, meetups and larger events like conferences. When we collaborate with other organisations, events and conferences, we ensure that they are also committed in making sure it's diversity-friendly.

Encourage where possible diverse speaker lists that are compiled in a more systematic way then just who you can remember works in an area. Praise conferences on their diversity in line up and facilities provided to aid diversity.

We advise all our clients to consider the diversity of panels, events and speaker line-ups before committing to attend and contribute to events. We call out non-diverse events and prepare and promote our diverse client group as speakers and participants. We are committed to employing a diverse workforce and screen our ads and processes for unintended bias.

Together better!!!

Putting diversity at the core of CogX

voxgig is committed to making the events industry more inclusive and diverse. To achieve it, we promote diversity, professionalism and inclusion in public speaking and events by curating a newsletter, writing blog post, and organising meetups and conferences such as World Speech Day Ireland.

We also offer workshops aimed to encourage more voices to gain confidence and speak in public. We believe when a person gains the courage and confidence to express their point of view, on and off stage, things start to change. More and more people will stand up for themselves and for others; less injustices will be tolerated. Our voice is a powerful tool for change. Let's make it heard.

We're curating an international conference in 2019 and are committed to gender and cultural diversity in our speakers and audience

Sharing this information with event organisers and speakers

We run events and always stress the fact that we need more women, people of colour and other minorities to attend our events. We ask people who attend to reach out to people amongst the minorities that they know and send them a warm invite to come along to our events.

Point out the inclusion of underrepresented groups in events where they are overlooked .

Programming is for everyone! I promise to do my part (as a speaker and organiser) to ensure that everyone feels welcome. <3

I pair with newbie speakers, especially women, to give more people a chance to build confidence and reputation and get accepted at more conferences. I send lists of awesome women presenters to conference organizers. I don't go to non-diverse conferences.

Head of Product in government

We will be actively encouraging diversity throughout our workforce; promoting equality and ensuring all members of staff - irrespective of their background, ethnicity, religion and/or culture - are represented fairly. Protect will also be ensuring that we endeavour to recruit from ethnic minority communities and give everyone equal opportunities for progression within our company. We are a company for all, not just a few.

Have the charter be the foundation of how we organise and run our events in the tech industry.

We are working in a number of area across the country to engage our partners and our work force in recognising, celebrating and promoting difference and diversity through work place charters, wellbeing and open exchanges of beliefs, aspiration and traditions, we call this "makebetterhappen"

I will only speak at/attend events where contribution is from a diverse group

I am Onkwehonwe female working in the tech industry for 25+ years. I will continue doing all I can to respect all of creation - right now alot of people need more folks to acknowledge the bias as a place to start. I will continue acknowledging the biases even while I may not personally experience negative impacts from the bias. I will continue supporting, promoting, creating and cheerleading for diversity in the tech industry.

I am committed to, along with my program team, of crafting programs and inviting/selecting speakers that represent as much diversity as possible. But beyond the program part, I want to help mentor & guide folks into becoming better and more comfortable with public speaking. I view this not as a goal, but as a journey that will take energy, effort, and focus. Please hold me to count on my journey and help me as well...

I am working on inclusion programs, including events, at Mozilla. And I volunteer with four organizations who are specifically committed to public good and/or diversity in tech.

As a frequent speaker at events, I have the opportunity to engage with organisers and point out when their line-ups could be better. I also can actively curate my slides and speeches to reduce biases. I am sure I can learn a lot about how to contribute better to diversity

I run a local tester meet up and want to invite more under-represented voices to speak next year.
Were have had a reasonable diversity of speakers in the past 3 years, but I can do more by actively inviting more diverse speakers and being aware of diversity issues.

We want to foster and empower women at work and facilitate an interdisciplinary platform to exchange, support and inspire each other.
Everyone from all genders (men are welcome, as well), from straight and LGBTIQ people, from 18 to 64+ ... is welcome to join our event.
We believe that the world looks much better in color!

WHY?

Because we want…
…to see more diversity in society and in the workplace.
…women to be more visible and represented in leadership positions, executive boards and involved in decision-making processes to bring forward women-related matters.
…to support women to become even stronger and more connected.
…women to support and empower each other.

YOU want to help accomplish this goal?
Contact us, join the network or be an active member of the community.
http://www.iw-connection.com
hello@iw-connection.com

I need to learn more about diversity and how to improve it, at least around me at work and hobbies.

We organise many events and we aspire to commit ourselves fully to diversity. Of course we can always do better and this charter provides a marker for us - not to mention some useful advice and a network to help us be the best we can be.

We care about diversity for our events, to the extent that in addition to following as many of the guidelines and pointers as we can here, we're committing to having at least a third of our attendees at our events coming from diverse backgrounds from now on.

We're an organization which aims for a more rich and diverse tech community, so we sign the charter to show our support for diversity at events.

Promote Diverse events / conferences, Encourage diverse panels when there aren't any, Elevate diverse talent to increase visibility so they're more likely to be invited to speak & participate, Carefully curate events I host to have diverse speakers / panels

I have been a part of a community which is multicultural and includes a fair mix of people from different backgrounds. Experiencing a new phase of my life. I have been advocating diversity throughout and now am a part of it, the beneficiary.
Hope it’s on ground as in words.
Lot to do.

Where possible attend events and conferences that have signed the Diversity Charter.

Having originally signed the Charter some time ago, I'm re-signing to reaffirm LAST Conference Melbourne's commitment to enhancing diversity. I also want to register that the other events that Tabar runs (1st Conference and Spark the Change Melbourne) as well as those in the future, also share the values of the Diversity Charter.

Regarding the other editions of LAST Conference in Australia (currently Brisbane, Sydney and Canberra), Tabar supports the local organisers and helps them find ways to enhance diversity and to reflect the communities that they serve.

We will forever and always pursue a world whereby everyone is commended on merit from equal opportunity rather than who they are or where they come from.

We strive for greater diversity of staff, volunteers and clients. See http://www.WestKentYMCA.org.uk/film

At Skyline Academy, we do support digital diversity and inclusion and aim to minimise digital skills gap.

We've examined our hiring process to try to remove unconscious bias and address our lack of diversity. We've also asked for advice from our business community as to what we can do to continually improve.

We're still a brand new event. We've run 4 so far and are on to our 5th. Our first event was an experiment and we had 5 male mentors and 5 female mentees. We immediately knew this was not good and pushed to increase the diversity quickly. We have now redressed the balance https://twitter.com/0100/status/887582007504642048 . We also encourage diversity in the mentees that attend our event, but don't publish who attends.

I would like to see more diversity in tech. I am considering starting a meet up that facilitates the teaching Android development. It would be geared towards women and minorities.

Together we bring values from both BBC and Co-op such as equality, fairness and respect. We want to highlight the diverse, beautiful and unique facets of our community by providing a place where people are free from judgement, ideas can be challenged and differences in opinion are welcomed. We will do all we can to make sure our line up of speakers is diverse and from multiple disciplines from across the research spectrum.

We created an interactive festival for women in tech, business and beyond to connect, collaborate and learn better. I Am Tomorrow's mission to discover more female role models across the world and showcase women-led startups.

As an event organiser, I commit to curating diverse panels and considering equal representation on stage when approaching speakers. As a Director of Liverpool Girl Geeks I am passionate about diversity and will continue to push this agenda forward through our platforms & networks. I also commit to speaking out when I see instances of a lack of diversity within event programmes (in a constructive manner).

We are working hard to support a diverse, open, and accessible event at UK Health Camp.

We know we won't bet everything right straight away, but as an event team we are open to and will embrace suggestions and feedback on how we can keep getting better.

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Doing reviews of venues I attend for work and social to make the general public aware of accessibility in these venues. Canvass lib dems on accessibility and review government policy to ensure accessibility is included. I have given presentations on why recruiting people with disabilities into the technology industry is beneficial for society and the recruiting organisations. I write blogs on diversity and I am a member of Northern Voices with encourages female speakers to speak in the media and at conferences and I am a member of the DWP Women in Technology group and the DWP Disability Network

These suggestions are standard practice at our organisation. I'm signing as I think they should be standard practice everywhere!

To other events organisers: It's important to acknowledge that it can be difficult to get internal buy-in for this type of commitment, especially in times of crisis. Know that you are right to commit to these practices, and by standing firm you are helping your organisation in the long term by increasing the quality of discussion at your events.

We recognise, support and celebrate the diversity of our colleagues. As an organisation we aim to create an environment where the diverse experiences, perspectives and backgrounds of our people are valued and utilised. We foster an inclusive and supportive culture where our interactions with each other, and with our clients, are founded on mutual respect.

One of my pilot programmes at Tech North, Northern Voices, trained 28 women working in digital for public speaking and media opportunities, followed by six months helping them secure bookings.

The idea was to help these women use existing platforms to highlight the digital industry as an attractive option for more people, while eradicating ‘all-male panels’ and the business culture that implies they are acceptable.

By bringing together technical and non-technical women of all ages and backgrounds, I wanted to make it clear that you don’t have to be a ‘techie’ to be in tech. So far, the women have almost 200 appearances done or in the pipeline.

We were really pleased to see that diversity was one of the key challenges outlined in the government’s Digital Strategy, and the Minister of State for Digital Matt Hancock was so impressed with Northern Voices he attended one of the training days.

Serving on the leadership team of the Drupal diversity and inclusion working group, trying to address similar issues in the open source Drupal community. http://drupaldiversity.com

Supporting Diversity and Inclusion for over 50s within Aviva

Have a diverse set of speakers, to support new comers on the speaker scene and to actively work with the people to drive ideas and create thought leadership in our events.

I will always have a neutral stand. I believe I should defend the rights of every human being, regardless of gender, race, lifestyle, religion of political views - if they do not offend or attack others. Other from that I believe that being diverse means being all the same. One should not make a fuss about it and just live equally among everyone and everywhere. In order to fulfill my place in this world I have to be in peace with myself and others.

Creating events that are diverse in all ways; inviting those who are comfortable or not so comfortable to speak in a comfortable and familiar environment.

We will try to follow the lead of events like agile on the bench and provider a diverse set of speakers each and every time we host an event. We will reach out to the under-represented parts of our community and try to give them a voice. We will not tolerate prejudice of any kind.

Combat structural inaccessibility of events. Improve representation of and hold space for underrepresented groups in speaking slots and audience attendance. Maintain a welcoming atmosphere and enforce codes of conduct.

Provide a safe space for all participants

Welcome first-time speakers

Provide a range of session formats - not just 'expert' talks

Provide a gender-balanced speaker programme.

Encourage and invite speakers from under-represented groups to speak / participate

Diversity shouldn't need to be promoted, but we're just not there yet. Until then, I'll be pushing for it whenever and wherever possible.

- We relentlessly speak about diversity and at every state of the planning of the conference. From the conception of the web design, program committee, program, on social media, to the execution of the conference.
- We failed the years we made it a "side" discussion, we should never forget to always make the subject a main discussion.
- We should never believe "Diversity" is common sense, it isn't and a lot of people fight the idea back. We have to be pedagogic and able to explain why it is important.

Strive to ensure we consider accessibility and relevance to all of our events and information

Creating a welcoming environment for all, in the club that I run.

I am from a BME background and I have had first hand experience of casual racism, flippant prejudice in job interviews when I looked for work last year. The workplace in the UK has changed it is a very hostile environment for BME people. My goal is to encourage us to work for ourselves and to support ourselves so that we do not have to endure the humiliation of traditional job interviews.

I just speak my mind lol. Even when it winds people up. I tend to be sceptical of "diversity" claims but after reading your Diversity Statement it is very apparent that you really mean it.

My personal philosophy is to respect people and not exclude them just because I might extremely disagree with some of their opinions or practices. Though I reserve the right to protect my own right to maintain my philosophy and practice my philosophy which means I might be in conflict with others sometimes who would like to see my rights taken away. (And of course this means I end-up not really agreeing with any significant set of people because, in my view, social bonding is reliant on group consensus and prejudices that would diminish another groups if permitted etc.)

At our recent Service North conference we worked hard to build a diverse panel of speakers, and supported students from Leeds City College by using sponsored places to allow them to attend their first professional conference.

Please see comments in https://www.meetup.com/Study-Of-Enterprise-Agility-Meetup/events/239331051/

In an attempt to answer this question fully, we wrote a Medium post:
https://medium.com/21st-century-organizational-development/tackling-team-diversity-tactics-lessons-and-data-4e97be328e0f

We join with LAST Conference Melbourne in valuing diversity and encourage everyone in our community to submit and participate in our event.

I only participate in conferences and events that support diversity, inclusion and social and economic justice.

If I ever try to present at a conference again, I'll first be sure the organizers have managed to make it diverse. (If half the speakers look like me, that's probably failure.)

This is a great charter! We can all do more to help improve the population of diverse speakers by mentoring and growing more people to be able to (and willing to) speak at conferences.

I support diversity as a speaker, as well as the founder of DevTernity conference. The beauty of our world lies in the diversity of its people.

Helping to improve diversity of events by being involved in program committees.

Also when asked to speak at events vetting their commitment to creating a diverse event by looking at what they say, who has spoken at their events before, and other factors. If I don't think the commitment is there, I decline to speak. If they need help, I give them pointers, but decline to commit unless I see a real commitment to change.

We run an annual festival about service design that involves a varied programme of events over the course of 2 weeks. In our 3rd year last year, we found we had a good representation in the audience of all ethnicities apart from BME. This highlighted our need to focus on BME inclusion - not just within the festival, but within the wider service design industry too.

We don't run all male panels. Our hosts, speakers, volunteers, and team are diverse in terms of their gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and ability. Events are free to remove barriers to access. We're starting to track diversity data.

We are committed to learning and adapting with the times and as the festival & industry grows. We take a co-design approach in strategising and doing, which means we get diversity of insight in order to form our inclusion action - we're committed to diversity through and through. We're actively seeking cool new ways to try out to be inclusive - we want to make it fun. We go out of our way to be accessible. We're delighted to put our name under this charter.

Hello, We are a conference based in Cornwall UK and we are keen to actively promote greater diversity at our event. We have an open speaker submissions process and actively promote all to submit to speak, we welcome all to join us to attend, speak and engage at Agile on the Beach. Our key aim is to create a conference where all feel safe and welcome to attend and provide a great experience for all. We are keen to proactively create a conference that is welcoming and open to all and are always open to new ideas for how we can improve their engagement and experience. Cornwall has its own recognised minority status so we are keen to promote Cornish individuals, groups and organisations that represent this minority, as well as encourage and invite more diversity in our county through our conference. http://www.agileonthebeach.co.uk

Encouraging involvement from all through programming, participation and planning.

Exactly what we need, diversity brings an incredible wealth of knowledge and experience from people you may not normally work or socialise with.

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Commit to ensuring that all events provide a positive and welcoming space, properly support diversity amongst speakers and audience alike, and provide the opportunity and support for people to develop their skills and connect with a wider, diverse community. And embed this in our culture and the way we work.

being the diversity chair of the UK RSE 2017 conference

Digital Health Oxford will continue to support diversity in our events and activities, and offer a friendly and inclusive environment for all speakers and attendees to facilitate community building and the exchange of ideas.

I'm now looking at events to see they have diverse speakers / sessions.

As a minority in HR in Tech, I am trying to find more ways to bring people together and create more inclusive internal events.

For the past few years I have been doing all my conference sessions pairing with women who are new to presenting. It gives them confidence and experience, and having presented at a major conference already increases their chances of being accepted on their own to others. It has worked very well, my pairs have gone out and started successful presenting careers!

We are working hard to get more diversity at our conference. We would love new speakers to take part and welcome attendees and speakers regardless of gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality or colour.

Trying our best to promote diversity of speakers in our event. We'll work harder to create a more inclusive place.

I have requested Codes of Conduct to be added to two events I attend; I've spoken on diversity in panels; I'm a supporter of Katherine Kirk and Sallyann Freudenberg's work on neurodiversity, regularly pointing other people to it (and now you know about it too); and I have given my time to help new speakers polish their presentations. I'll continue to promote diversity as and when opportunities arise.

Continue to encourage and seek out speakers for our conference that are diverse and who may be otherwise underrepresented in our industry.

I will encourage a wider range of people in my org to speak at , facilitate and explore more diverse events & topics.

What will you do to make things better?
Will? We 'do' it! Both Australian Testing Days 2016 and the upcoming Quality Software Australia 2017 conferences are focused on fairness. TEAM (Test Engineering Alliance Melbourne) takes diversity seriously.

To continue to practice diversity in podcast guests and event panels / speakers 😉

great and very important initiative - diversity is about more than filling the female / disability quota, it's about leveraging what every single person can bring to the table. to do that successfully, we need to learn how to embrace, enable and manage the resulting conflict!

Encouraging and supporting the under-represented to speak at conferences

As co-founder of Liverpool Girl Geeks, diversity as at the heart of my hopes and dreams for the future. I'm passionate about embracing difference, embracing variety, embracing new perspectives.

As director of Liverpool Girl Geeks I will make sure that I will speak up about diversity where needed and make sure that all of our events will continue to be diverse

Promote diversity in events I am involved in organising, like BDDX.
Promote diversity in organisations I am coaching and assisting.
Promote diversity in volunteer activities, e.g. Code Club.

We are promoting female speakers for the first 12 months at our new Agile event called Scrum Event.
We are always looking for more female Agile speakers.

Challenge inequality, always

I am one of the first women presidents of a global professional accounting body.I have used that position to spotlight achievements of, and challenges for, women in business. and in the professional space. I am a skilled presenter and speaker and I am available to speak on business issues, gender pay gap and governance.

We run an annual conference for digital designers that care about climate change and inclusion. Having a diverse line-up is crucial to us. We actively recruit for diversity.

We intend to support the charter both as an organization that sends people to speak at and participate in events and also as an event sponsor.

We'll seek to have a diverse range of both speakers, workshop leaders and participants at https://2017.open.coop/ and will endeavour to have 50/50 split of men/women on any panels. We're also looking into childcare/ creche options, are using an accessible venue, and 50% of tickets will be free or very affordable.

Coach and encourage people from underrepresented groups to speak at conferences. Make conference organisers aware when their speaker profile is looking homogeneous. Co-present with different people. As a track host actively promote diversity of speakers.

Making track hosts spend more time to go out of their way to find diverse speakers

Check the diversity of events before signing up to attend - and highlighting diversity gaps when I spot them

I organize a testing conference with a gender balance. I coach new speakers with emphasis on women, without excluding men who ask my help. I facilitate #TestGems as a webinar platform open for new speakers that offers support when needed. I speak personally a lot in conferences around the world.

As a speaker I refuse to speak at events that don't make an effort to include diverse people and opinions. Often I offer to help out reaching out to a more diverse set of speakers.
As an organiser I go out of my way to attract speakers if diverse backgrounds.

As a speaker, I speak only at conferences with a Code of Conduct (which I believe helps diversity) and I work on becoming more aware of the different kinds of diversity and call out if I see lack of it.
As me I do my best to make everyone feel welcome and included; and safe.

Help out with the diversity group.

I am in an under represented group and work on issues of inclusion and equality across my professional and perosnal life http://sandboxeducation.co.uk. Can you assist me to have a voice for the ' seldom heard' I believe the term has been used. I am currently a consultant to the Department of Health, The CQC and shortly the PSHO. I am working on a prototype and workshops in tech for children and young people in this group to build themselves and use to assist their access to technology and careers in technologies so their voices can be heard.

I'll share this charter with friends and colleagues and also work to ensure any events I'm involved in managing reflect these principles

I want to make the events and communities I help organise more diverse but I recognise they have some way to go. Being explicit is a first step and I'm going to make sure we have our code of conduct and the Diversity Charter logo clearly on display. We try to encourage new speakers from our communities with shorter speaking slots and lightning talks that require less time investment and we also run regular speaker development workshops. But we need to keep finding ways to reach a more diverse crowd and ensure they feel comfortable however they participate.

We can make a difference! Diversity matters!

We strive to have an inclusive and diverse lineup of speakers at our conferences, our workshop events and out meetups, and in doing so hope to create a safe, welcoming, diverse and inclusive environment for attendees.

Embrace and encourage diversity.

I'm going to have a lot of noisy opinions about why diverse is better for everyone.

Call out diversity as a cross cutting concern in events I am involved in organising.

We have a responsibility in our generation to improve the expectations of past generations, so that the next generation expects even more.

I will actively seek out events which encourage and ivite contribution from diverse speakers and participants in preference to those unrepresentative of our diverse society.

I will only attend or speak at events with a solid stance on diversity and who implement real actions to ensure better diversity.

1. Speak out when I see something wrong - address (gently) with the organisers
2. Make sure my own panels are diverse when organising things
3. Not soeak at 'undiverse' conferences

Volunteer to take part in more panels and conferences. Ensure any events I organise are as diverse as possible!

I always use diversity in my policy of teams and think tanks to get different prospectives

At Wuthering Bytes we try to create events with a wide diversity of speakers and opinions in a welcoming environment for everybody, we'll continue to do that. We'll also set out a clear code of conduct for our events and we'll give out free/discounted tickets to groups that are under-represented in the technology sector.

In our opinion, all events should be as accessible, diverse, friendly, inclusive and welcoming as possible and we're working towards that.

I will only speak at events which have diversity in their speakers and panelists, and ensure this happens where I work. I will challenge elsewhere when this isn't happening.

Only sponsoring or speaking at events which clearly have values that support diversity. Challenging the diversity of panel discussions and striving to find diverse groups of panelists myself.

Turing Festival is a technology business event in Edinburgh and, as such, we feel it has a responsibility to attempt to achieve gender and ethnic diversity amongst our speakers. The technology industry has a poor track record in this area, and we believe that each of us within that industry should play our part, however small, in improving this situation.
At Turing Festival 2016, 48% of our speakers will be female, and we will also have several speakers from ethnic minorities. We have not compromised on quality on order to achieve this: it is really not that hard to do.

Talk about this charter in public
Encourage people to sign it
Make sure dot everyone events reflect it

Working as Women's Tech Hub ~ Bristol to increase diversity at events & conferences in Bristol & SW - it can be as simple as changing the words & images used in the calls for papers/speakers. Similarly working on helping local tech companies with job adverts.

When I'm asked to speak at conferences or events explore in advance with the conference organizers how diverse the speakers are and where there is a clear lack of diversity decline invitations

Actively spread the word about this worthy topic and also champion it at the Agile Sheffield MeetUp that I co-host.

I will encourage others to sign up.

I encourage diversity by pointing other new speakers to the excellent public speaking MOOC I've taken a few times now.