Focus areas of the event:

• gender 😎
• ethnicities 🏳️
• people of colour 👧🏾
• LGBTQI+ 🌈

Agenda

• 6.30pm Registration & welcome drink
• 7pm Official Launch of 2019 Diversity in the Workplace Report by Zainab Boladale, TV Presenter at RTÉ
• 7.10pm D&I Trends & Predictions: insights from the 2019 report by Vessy Tasheva, Founder of Vessy.com
• 7.30pm D&I Lessons learned from Africa applied across 5 continents keynote by Konstantin Kunev, Software Group
• 7.50pm Discussion: Creating and Maintaining an Inclusive Workplace
• 8:20pm Closing by Zainab Boladale

About the 2019 Diversity in the Workplace Report

The goal of the report:

1. To be a platform for the companies who take D&I seriously so they can tell their stories of how they've created this open & accepting culture in their companies

2. To inspire other companies to reflect on their values and give them the courage to start making a change by seeing a wide range of approaches.

3. To show companies of various sizes, of various geographies and with various approaches to D&I, so companies who are new to D&I or struggle with D&I can relate to and learn from the ones who are more similar to them.

The report features a wide range of companies in terms of:

• size: between 20 and 16,000 employees
• geography: UK, Ireland, US, India, Mexico, Bulgaria, South Africa, Australia, Malta, Sweden, Germany, and more
• maturity: created between 1820 and 2017
• a sample of interviewed companies: Atlassian, Software Group, ThoughtWorks, TechStars, SwedBank, TransferWise, Hotjar, and more
• areas addressed in the report: Gender, Sexual orientation, People with Disabilities, Race, Nationality, Ethnicity, Religion, Cognitive diversity, Generational diversity, Contingent or gig worker diversity, Military/veteran, People from socio-economically disadvantaged areas