Present at a conference

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Nonbinary in a Binary World

• You are sought out as a leader in your industry, company, but have you human goodness?
• How many people in the tech industry, how many are women, how many are members of LGBT+, who many are nonbinary?

Story

I just recently come out as nonbinary. Imagine being in a marriage for the past 30 years and then finally realizing you’ve stayed with it only because society has been telling you to... every single day. From which bathroom you use, your pronouns, how family members and your partner refer to you, even down to how you are supposed to dress and act.

Now that you are divorced, imagine trying to get people to start referring to you as Miss and your maiden name... usually no one blinks an eye and really tried to make this happen since they understand that you don’t want to think of that past every time someone is referring to you.

Visuals

Share the Male and Female spectrum Share the gay spectrum

Things to consider

• What do I want to get out of the session?
• What are the rules of the session?

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Graduate your Startup IT team to an Enterprise IT team

Do a capabilities assessment for your department

• Do you have the right projects in the pipeline?
• Do you have the right roles to do the projects?
• Do you have the right people in the roles to do the projects?

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How to create Diversity in technology

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How to say no in a yes world and vise verse

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Rethink Efficiency

Point of this session

• make you think about how you can make anything more efficient (elastic sports laces versus regular shoelaces)
• provide steps to help the process

What is efficiency?

Examples

• Moving a neon straw on a fishing wire across the room
  • air can with long burst or short bursts
• video of library books being organized

Steps to think through

• what is the end goal?
• what about the current process is taking the longest?
• this may not be resolved/perfect the first time. (As tech gets more advanced processes may be updated)
• craft
• break the project down to sections

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How to rock the boat and keep it afloat