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Greek companies take a concrete step into diversity and inclusion supporting talented refugee women enter the workforce at Sistech networking event

Dataconomy

This will be the second Sistech Networking event in Greece, celebrating refugee women talents and the companies who do support their professional inclusion & hire them. Sistech offers free and holistic support based on three pillars: mentoring and training follow-up by volunteer professionals and networking events.

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BIPOC students gain web design skills while building sites for Black-owned businesses

GeekWire

A student with the Youth Web Design program working on her website. Image from Youth Web Design video). If it wasn’t for this program and this beautiful site, we would have had to shut down,” said Honey Mohammed. The idea for the program came from the Office of Economic Development. “We

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IT leaders turn to HBCUs for future IT talent

CIO Business Intelligence

So NCDIT officials took action, creating an internship program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) students, a move that would open up for the organization a new pipeline for talent traditionally underrepresented in the IT industry. The HBCU internship program launched in 2023.

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DEI that works: 5 companies reaping the benefits of IT diversity strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

Through internship programs, apprenticeships, returnships, and other unique talent and upskilling programs, these examples can help inspire the right DEI strategy for your organization. The company also recently launched an HBCU Scholars Program, providing up to 20 students with scholarships after completing a 9-week summer internship.

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How Blacks in Technology Foundation is ‘stomping the divide’

CIO Business Intelligence

When Greg Greenlee joined the IT industry in 2008, the lack of representation of Black IT professionals among attendees and speakers at tech conferences and events was readily apparent. “It So, he launched a blog to connect with and create a community for Black technologists.

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Meet Our Mayhem Heroes: Bailey Capuano

ForAllSecure

During the Spring 2022 semester, ForAllSecure hosted a day-long hackathon at Arizona State University where 181 students participated as part of the Mayhem Heroes program. Bailey Capuano recognized the value of cybersecurity and joined us for the event. How did you first get into software development? ” Mayhem Heroes.

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Discount Code for Strata and Hadoop World NYC is 28-30 Oct 2013

CTOvision

Plenty of events and networking opportunities to meet other business leaders, data professionals, designers, and developers. One of the most valuable events to advance my career.”. Web Analyst. Web Applications Developer / Web Developer. Amazon Web Services. Program Chairs.

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