Last week, the Diversity Atlas team attended the TechDiversity Awards, an event bringing together DEI practitioners and professionals to celebrate, support and reflect on the impact of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) on the Tech Industry.

Once again, our survey tool mapped the event live and in real-time, sharing the remarkable diversity and cultural vibrancy of the audience. The results were presented by our Senior Cultural Ambassador Getrude Matshe and Cultural Attache Quincy Hall.

For the second year running, it was awesome to present to the TechDiversity Awards audience their own cultural diversity map and measure. There is a clue in the name of the night – tech diversity – that it was going to be, ethno-culturally, linguistically and demographically, a pretty diverse mob, and it was. Sadly though, not one person selected Klingon as a language spoken at any proficiency, which is something we often see in tech company results, but we were compensated with one ‘intermediate’ user of, get this, Esperanto!

In all seriousness, the tech industry itself, from what we experience, are leaders in not just technical innovation (because that’s their job) but also, well, everything else, including DEI. This is presumably because they understand more acutely that diversity and inclusion leads to greater innovation and therefore productivity. The TechDiversity team, Soozer, Luli, Stacey and the crew put on a great night, it’s an awesome program, and we hope to be involved for years to come.

Quincy Hall

We are honoured to be part of this transformative event that showcases the tech industry’s commitment to advancing vital DEI initiatives, and we look forward to continuing our involvement in the years to come.