AlterConf San Francisco 2016
2016-06-04
San Francisco, United States
[AlterConf San Francisco 2015, AlterConf San Francisco 2016, AlterConf San Francisco 2017]
who it's for
diversity and inclusion managers, product managers, designers, engineering managers, people operations, community managers, support engineers
topics
gender options in signup flows; inclusive user model fields; support engineering handoffs; identity data collection and bias; empathy training for engineers; accountability and whistleblowing online; workplace organizing and vendor labor campaigns; designing for marginalized users; measuring diversity impact with metrics; pair programming onboarding practices; CSS transition property mapping to UX
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Outside Looking In: Working to Reshape... | Josh Lim | 24m |
Claim: projects carry the cultural imprint of their creators and that shows up in concrete failures and fixes. Evidence: English Wikipedia contains roughly 55%… | ||
| Fighting For Justice: Voices from Tech's Invisible Workforce | Maria Noel Fernandez, Antonio Arenas, Maria Geurrero, Maria Gonzalez | 32m |
Claims specific enough to act on: tech growth creates 1:4 ratio of tech to service jobs in the Bay Area, janitors at Facebook win a master contract at Facebook… | ||
| Supporting your support... | Kiera Manion-Fischer, Steph Snopek | 20m |
Support teams are often more diverse yet get low pay and are treated as replaceable so companies miss product signals and burn out staff — one company sees 50%… | ||
| Why Your Diverse Workforce is Code-switching... | Caroline Karanja | 18m |
Claims that diversity boosts business with 57% more collaboration, 75% more likely to see a marketable idea implemented and 70% more likely to capture a new… | ||
| Imagining Radical Queer Futures through Tech | Morgen Bromell | 20m |
Claim: tech is designed by and for a narrow, colonial binary and that fixes who fits and who is filtered out. Evidence and specifics: founder-built dating app… | ||
| Surveying Identity or Surveillance... | Vikram Babu | 27m |
Claim: the omission of identity data causes harm and biases; adding wider fields produces actionable insight. Cited specifics: Melinda Gates funds $80 million… | ||
| What Just Happened? | Erica Joy | 19m |
An engineer turns private writing into public controversy by posting candid accounts that name Google, skips PR approval, and watches a post explode across… | ||
| Remember the pain... | Neha Batra | 18m |
Title claim: someone teaches themself to code in nine months and urges peers to remember the pain so they’ll help new joiners. Specifics: two Recurse Center… | ||
| My Gender Is Emoji Pizza Unicorn... | Tilde Ann Thurium | 15m |
Pinterest ships expanded gender options on signup by adding an optional string field to the user model, changing middleware and API surfaces, and updating web… | ||
| Engineering Empathy... | Lateesha Thomas | 13m |
Dev Bootcamp adds a sixth module teaching measurable emotional skills alongside coding: self‑awareness, resilience, communication, and a toolkit of… | ||
| CSS VS. My Gender: A Study In Transitions | Jamie Chung | 14m |
Maps the transition property in CSS — its four arguments (properties, duration, timing function, delay) — to concrete aspects of a gender transition: claims… | ||
| Crash Through that Glass Ceiling... | Jacquelle Amankonah | 09m |
Claims a concrete path: graduated high school at 16 and a Master’s at 20, now driving a major YouTube product at Google, so the five actionable strategies are… | ||
| On cubes, people, and snacks | Siobhán K Cronin | 04m |
Connects stereotype threat alters brain over time with everyday social habit and uses a dream as method: constructing a translucent cube, observing how… | ||
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