Tuesday, August 4, 2020
5:30PM ET | 4:30PM CT | 2:30PM PT
The Indy CIO Network usually dines together; however with pandemic continuing, this event went virtual and we're able to extend invitations to IT leaders across the country.
You're cordially invited to a Virtual Dinner Event, hosted by InterVision and featuring Keynote Guest: Dr. Ruha Benjamin, associate professor of African American Studies at Princeton and author of Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code.
The demonstrations that have swept across the country in the wake of the death of George Floyd has elevated the discussion of race for us as a country, as individuals, and as leaders. Many organizations are taking a hard look at their diversity and inclusion practices and realizing they fall short.
As technology leaders, we need to examine this issue from the same three perspectives we examine many issues: people, process and technology.
● African Americans employed in tech only number about 8% of all tech jobs. Latinx in tech are only 7%
● Many of our internal processes only serve to perpetuate those numbers
● Unconscious biases and racism are being incorporated into our technology and algorithms
What can we do to raise awareness, educate ourselves and our teams, and listen to the voices of our diverse peers and colleagues?
Dr. Benjamin’s address will be followed by a panel discussion of technology leaders from around the area. The panel will share their own experiences with race in the world of technology, insights into their thoughts and feelings this spring and summer, and key messages they want all of us to hear to enable our organizations to be inclusive and excel.
Agenda:
5:30 – Welcome & Introductions
5:45 – Dr. Ruha Benjamin
6:05 – Panel Discussion
7:00 – Wrap
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GUEST SPEAKER Ruha Benjamin is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, founder of the JUST DATA Lab, and author of Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (Polity 2019) and editor of Captivating Technology: Reimagining Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life (Duke 2019) among many other publications. Ruha’s work investigates the social dimensions of science, medicine, and technology with a focus on the relationship between innovation and inequity, health and justice, knowledge and power. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including from the American Council of Learned Societies, National Science Foundation, Institute for Advanced Study and, in 2017, she received the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton. For more info, please visit ruhabenjamin.com |
PANELISTS |
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