Plenary IV: Ctrl, Alt, Delete: Shutting Down Tech’s Racial Gap
Sponsored By
Remarks: Senator Merkley
Moderator: Dr. Randal Pinkett, Chairman & CEO, BCT Partners
Panelists:
Brandon Andrews, Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer, Gauge; Sr. Consultant; Consulting Producer for “Steve Harvey’s Funderdome”
Angel Rich, Commissioner of Financial Literacy
Tiffany Dena Loftin, Director, Youth & College Division, NAACP
Ruben Harris, Co-Founder of Breaking into Startups
Allison Jones, Senior Director of Marketing and Communications, Code2040
Will Lucas, Founder and CEO, A William Lucas Company (AWLCo); Founder/CEO, CREADIO
Sponsor: Georgia-Pacific
For as long as there has been a tech industry, black people have made significant contributions. We are not just buyers; we are also inventors! However, statistics reveal a very discouraging fact, which is minorities are depreciated in tech. This session will discuss why there is such a wide racial disparity gap in the tech profession and ways in which we can fix it. The technology industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the world and shutting down the exclusion of African-Americans is imperative.
Speaker(s)
Dr. Randal Pinkett has established himself as an entrepreneur, speaker, author and scholar, and...Read more
Brandon Andrews is co-founder of Gauge; a mobile market research platform fundamentally changing...Read more
In 2009, Rich became a Global Market Research Analyst for Prudential Financial. While there she...Read more
Tiffany Dena Loftin is the National Director of the NAACP Youth & College Division. In this...Read more