Friends,
Please join us on Tuesday, August 4th for our next virtual Austin Forum on Using Data & Technology to Improve Our Racial Climate
Awareness of racial injustice, discrimination, and inequities has soared in the US recent months, motivated by the tragic killing of Black Americans—including George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and many others. This has created a wave of social protests and calls for change, from reforming police departments to removing symbols of the Confederacy to increased investment in Black businesses and more.
There is much work to be done to achieve the goals of the United States of America—that every person is treated as equals and have access to the same opportunities. This is a societal issue, but can data and technology help us? There are notable examples of technology being used to discriminate and persecute, in the US and globally, and of data that clearly shows inequities and injustices.
How do we use data and analytics to make things better? How do we ensure that technologies use to promote equality and fairness and not to enable injustice and discrimination?
Join our distinguished panel of experts as we discuss how data and technologies have been used for injustice and inequality, but how they can be powerful tools for change, equity, and progress.
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Janice Omadeke is the CEO and Founder of The Mentor Method, an enterprise platform helping companies keep and develop their diverse talent using the proven power of mentorship. Using a double-blind algorithm, The Mentor Method is closing the opportunity equity gap in the workplace.
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Meme (mee-mee) Styles, is the President and Founder of the award winning nonprofit MEASURE, a public education & advocacy organization that empowers people to use data to tell their own story. MEASURE is building an ecosystem whereby advocates can share social justice research and data.
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Eunice Chendjou is VP of Partners at OpenTeams, a B2B marketplace that helps connect a company's need for open source services, training, and support with a network of partners who can meet those needs.She's a SputnikATX Accelerator alumnus and a Founder Institute graduate.
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Austin Forum Event Agenda:
6:00 pm – Log in to Zoom
6:15 -7:30 pm – Presentation
7:30-8:15 pm – Extended Q&A
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See you August 4th online at the Austin Forum!
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The Austin Forum on Technology & Society team
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Thank you to our generous Partners:
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