Cristina
Mancini
CEO at Black Girls Code
"The Cost of Inaction: Who is Coding Our Future?"
"The Cost of Inaction: Who is Coding Our Future?"
Tue May 20 - 6:00 PM EDT/New York (See in local time)
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Session: The Cost of Inaction: Who is Coding Our Future?
Consider this: women hold only 27% of tech roles in the U.S., and for Black women, that figure is less than 2%. At a time when AI is reshaping all aspects of our lives, entire demographics are missing from the rooms where technologies are created. When diverse voices are absent from the tech industry, innovation suffers and systemic biases are perpetuated, leading to irreparable harm.Cristina believes that technology is for everyone, that we can build a technological industry – and future – that is created by us, for everyone. In this session, Cristina will share practical steps for how, as individuals and as an industry, we can address the systematic barriers in place that are limiting opportunities and reinforcing existing inequalities in technology.
Key Takeaways
- An equitable future challenges not only who is building our technology, but who is funding, legislating and marketing it.
- The price of inaction is too steep. We must ensure girls and women of color assume their rightful places as innovators, leaders and creators in the tech industry.
- One way we achieve this is by redefining and reshifting the narrative around who belongs in technology, showing young Black girls that their talent and perspective are not only additive, but necessary to this technological revolution.
Bio
Cristina Mancini is the CEO of Black Girls Code (BGC), which aims to inspire, educate, and launch Black girls into tech by equipping them with the skills and confidence to lead in a field where they’ve historically been underrepresented. Cristina joined the organization a little over a year ago after over 15 years as an executive at companies including Salesforce and Twentieth Century Fox. When she joined BGC, Cristina was driven by the question: What is the cost of inaction? In the midst of a technological revolution where AI is reshaping all aspects of our lives, Cristina has seen firsthand that too often, the people creating technologies don't look like the communities they're supposed to serve. When entire demographics are missing from the rooms where technologies are conceived, we leave room for bias and harm and miss out on extraordinary opportunities for innovation and creativity.