Inclusion and diversity. How to sustain them with agility, new ways of working?
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Learn how to harness diversity to boost your agility, productivity, innovation, customer outcomes and business results. We will also explore how some typical agile practices might work against inclusion, thus not achieving the outcomes many practitioners believe they are and discuss ways to turn that around.
We will hear from three speakers covering different perspectives of diversity...
Speakers.
Dr. Zivit Inbar is a People, Culture, Leadership, Ethics and Performance expert in the field of Technology VC’s and Startups An Adj Professor in the MBA Program at Deakin University (Melbourne). She is a graduate of Harvard Kennedy School Executive Program, a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Fellow Certified member of the Australian Human Resources Institute.
She is passionate about gender, invisible disabilities ( i.e. dyslexia), and the impact of non-diversity in tech - in particulare when it comes down to AI implementation
Mark Green - Technology Executive, Consultant and Entrepreneur – After more than 20 years in a technology career, Mark is now exploring ways to fundamentally change the way the world looks at Diversity & Inclusion. He has a visual disability, but strongly believes in holistic inclusion by design and that focusing on one particular facet alone can actually be damaging to the whole outcome for all. As someone he recently met with multiple diverse aspects put it, “It’s not an Olympics of who is more disadvantaged”.
Jack Sussmilch - IT Leadership Professional - Jack has worked with many tier-1 organisations at the product, project and enterprise levels implementing systems which streamline communication. He advocates training and enablement of teams and has worked extensively on establishing neurodiverse teams and ensuring they are supported and able to achieve their potential. Jack leads by example and has a well-established reputation for being able to clearly communicate and effectively apply complex concepts to a wide variety of corporate and technological audiences. He believes that innovation is a byproduct of neurodivergent teams working in psychologically safety.