How can we shift to the next wave of tech culture?
Much of the tech world still believes that in order to succeed, we must prioritize growth and speed over all else, and we can worry about the consequences later. How can we get past the binary thinking that it’s either move fast and grow or slow down at your bottom line’s expense?
At Betalab, we seek to be part of a shift to the next wave of tech culture. We believe the way companies make decisions on governance, values, and hiring, and how they build products, are all by-products of the company’s culture. Which is why we believe it’s critical to be intentional about creating and living your company culture, from the very beginning.
In this two-part event we'll explore both how we got here, and the way forward. (Click here to RSVP to Day 2)
DAY 1: HOW WE GOT HERE
How can we avoid some of the pitfalls of so-called tech or “start up culture”? Can we learn from past mistakes to help us think through what a positive company culture can look like?
About the speakers:
- Sarah Drinkwater co-leads Omidyar Network's Responsible Technology program, funding and fuelling the responsible tech movement. Grantees include Ethical Explorer, Zebras Unite and #ResponsibleCS. Previously, she led Google's international work designed to democratize access to entrepreneurship, heading up their London space Campus, and built the social layer on Google Maps as the first employee outside the US with "community" in the title. In past lives, she has been a failed entrepreneur & a journalist for the Guardian. She also angel invests through Atomico's program and sits on the boards or mission guardianships of Library of Things, Data4Change and YSYS (Europe's leading effort to diversify tech's talent base).
- Jane Yang was the data analyst at Basecamp. She holds a Bachelors in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University and knows where she is at, though sometimes she's a little ahead of her time. It's all a balancing act... and a work-in-progress.
- Rhett Lindsey is the founder and CEO of Siimee, a social impact company whose mission is to eliminate bias in hiring and transform the way employers connect with job seekers. Prior to launching Siimee, Rhett spent over seven years leading and collaborating with teams at prominent companies including Facebook, Tinder, Microsoft, and The Walt Disney Company, sourcing and hiring talent in the technology and software development sectors. During his time at Tinder, Rhett established and led the tech conglomerate’s first Black History Month series, collaborating with social impact organizations in Los Angeles and surrounding areas. Throughout his time as a recruiter, Rhett continuously dealt with unjust recruitment technologies such as Applicant Tracking Systems, or ATS, that led to unconscious bias in the hiring process.
In December 2020, he left the recruiting industry to create Siimee, an organization committed to reforming the hiring process in U.S. corporations. Siimee is doing this by increasing awareness of the inherent problems in recruiting and hiring, developing training programs, and creating a non-biased hiring tool that is completely unlike the ATS used by more than 90% of large U.S. corporations.
- Sarah Frier is a senior technology reporter for Bloomberg News out of San Francisco. Her award-winning features and breaking stories have earned her a reputation as an expert on how Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter make business decisions that affect their future and our society. Frier is a frequent contributor to Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Television. She’s also the author of No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram, the winner of the 2020 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.
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Learn moreMuch of the tech world still believes that in order to succeed, we must prioritize growth and speed over all else, and we can worry about the consequences later. How can we get past the binary thinking that it’s either move fast and grow or slow down at your bottom line’s expense?
At Betalab, we seek to be part of a shift to the next wave of tech culture. We believe the way companies make decisions on governance, values, and hiring, and how they build products, are all by-products of the company’s culture. Which is why we believe it’s critical to be intentional about creating and living your company culture, from the very beginning.
In this two-part event we'll explore both how we got here, and the way forward. (Click here to RSVP to Day 2)
DAY 1: HOW WE GOT HERE
How can we avoid some of the pitfalls of so-called tech or “start up culture”? Can we learn from past mistakes to help us think through what a positive company culture can look like?
About the speakers:
- Sarah Drinkwater co-leads Omidyar Network's Responsible Technology program, funding and fuelling the responsible tech movement. Grantees include Ethical Explorer, Zebras Unite and #ResponsibleCS. Previously, she led Google's international work designed to democratize access to entrepreneurship, heading up their London space Campus, and built the social layer on Google Maps as the first employee outside the US with "community" in the title. In past lives, she has been a failed entrepreneur & a journalist for the Guardian. She also angel invests through Atomico's program and sits on the boards or mission guardianships of Library of Things, Data4Change and YSYS (Europe's leading effort to diversify tech's talent base).
- Jane Yang was the data analyst at Basecamp. She holds a Bachelors in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University and knows where she is at, though sometimes she's a little ahead of her time. It's all a balancing act... and a work-in-progress.
- Rhett Lindsey is the founder and CEO of Siimee, a social impact company whose mission is to eliminate bias in hiring and transform the way employers connect with job seekers. Prior to launching Siimee, Rhett spent over seven years leading and collaborating with teams at prominent companies including Facebook, Tinder, Microsoft, and The Walt Disney Company, sourcing and hiring talent in the technology and software development sectors. During his time at Tinder, Rhett established and led the tech conglomerate’s first Black History Month series, collaborating with social impact organizations in Los Angeles and surrounding areas. Throughout his time as a recruiter, Rhett continuously dealt with unjust recruitment technologies such as Applicant Tracking Systems, or ATS, that led to unconscious bias in the hiring process.
In December 2020, he left the recruiting industry to create Siimee, an organization committed to reforming the hiring process in U.S. corporations. Siimee is doing this by increasing awareness of the inherent problems in recruiting and hiring, developing training programs, and creating a non-biased hiring tool that is completely unlike the ATS used by more than 90% of large U.S. corporations.
- Sarah Frier is a senior technology reporter for Bloomberg News out of San Francisco. Her award-winning features and breaking stories have earned her a reputation as an expert on how Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter make business decisions that affect their future and our society. Frier is a frequent contributor to Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Television. She’s also the author of No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram, the winner of the 2020 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.
How can we shift to the next wave of tech culture?
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The Wall Street Journal | Barron’s Group and Betaworks Studios bring you Next Wave, an event series for marketers that tackles the post-coronavirus reality and delivers intelligence on how to respond and thrive at this unprecedented time.
With every challenge comes opportunity, and there are plenty of challenges ahead. At Next Wave: Career Transformation for a New Reality, we’ll tackle the new, unique and thorny challenges marketers are facing and talk through tactics to respond and thrive. From pandemic response to distancing, data privacy to radical digitization, our conversations will help give you perspectives on what skillsets you need to build, acquire and own. From intrapreneurship to career pivots, hyper efficient to robustly human, to embracing risk taking, this event will dig in to how to use experience, ability, adaptability, insight and vision to thrive in a new reality.
The Wall Street Journal | Barron’s Group and Betaworks Studios bring you Next Wave, an event series for marketers that tackles the post-Coronavirus reality and delivers intelligence on how to respond and thrive at this unprecedented time.
Much of the tech world still believes that in order to succeed, we must prioritize growth and speed over all else, and we can worry about the consequences later. How can we get past the binary thinking that it’s either move fast and grow or slow down at your bottom line’s expense?
At Betalab, we seek to be part of a shift to the next wave of tech culture. We believe the way companies make decisions on governance, values, and hiring, and how they build products, are all by-products of the company’s culture. Which is why we believe it’s critical to be intentional about creating and living your company culture, from the very beginning.
In this two-part event we'll explore both how we got here, and the way forward. (Click here to RSVP to Day 2)
DAY 1: HOW WE GOT HERE
How can we avoid some of the pitfalls of so-called tech or “start up culture”? Can we learn from past mistakes to help us think through what a positive company culture can look like?
About the speakers:
- Sarah Drinkwater co-leads Omidyar Network's Responsible Technology program, funding and fuelling the responsible tech movement. Grantees include Ethical Explorer, Zebras Unite and #ResponsibleCS. Previously, she led Google's international work designed to democratize access to entrepreneurship, heading up their London space Campus, and built the social layer on Google Maps as the first employee outside the US with "community" in the title. In past lives, she has been a failed entrepreneur & a journalist for the Guardian. She also angel invests through Atomico's program and sits on the boards or mission guardianships of Library of Things, Data4Change and YSYS (Europe's leading effort to diversify tech's talent base).
- Jane Yang was the data analyst at Basecamp. She holds a Bachelors in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University and knows where she is at, though sometimes she's a little ahead of her time. It's all a balancing act... and a work-in-progress.
- Rhett Lindsey is the founder and CEO of Siimee, a social impact company whose mission is to eliminate bias in hiring and transform the way employers connect with job seekers. Prior to launching Siimee, Rhett spent over seven years leading and collaborating with teams at prominent companies including Facebook, Tinder, Microsoft, and The Walt Disney Company, sourcing and hiring talent in the technology and software development sectors. During his time at Tinder, Rhett established and led the tech conglomerate’s first Black History Month series, collaborating with social impact organizations in Los Angeles and surrounding areas. Throughout his time as a recruiter, Rhett continuously dealt with unjust recruitment technologies such as Applicant Tracking Systems, or ATS, that led to unconscious bias in the hiring process.
In December 2020, he left the recruiting industry to create Siimee, an organization committed to reforming the hiring process in U.S. corporations. Siimee is doing this by increasing awareness of the inherent problems in recruiting and hiring, developing training programs, and creating a non-biased hiring tool that is completely unlike the ATS used by more than 90% of large U.S. corporations.
- Sarah Frier is a senior technology reporter for Bloomberg News out of San Francisco. Her award-winning features and breaking stories have earned her a reputation as an expert on how Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter make business decisions that affect their future and our society. Frier is a frequent contributor to Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Television. She’s also the author of No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram, the winner of the 2020 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.
In the new world of virtual everything — communication, connection, entertainment — we find ourselves searching for the best ways to meet our social needs, from working with colleagues to just enjoying a beer with friends.
Solving the problem of isolation has opened up new opportunities for tech brands and founders, and we’ve seen a series of innovations in the past three months which change the way we go about our lives. These new platforms help us remotely continue our routines, like caring for the elderly or attending a comedy show. But they also usher in a new set of concerns: how do we stay in touch with our mental health and decompress with all this screen time?
RENDER: Remote World examined these emerging technologies, the innovations we see on the horizon, and suggested how we can cope and thrive within our newly digitized lives.
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RENDER is Betaworks Studios premier conference series. Every other month, we invite leaders and experts to help us dive deep into emerging industries and frontier technologies.
In today’s information ecosystem, we are overwhelmed with the growing inability to know who to trust, what to believe, how to verify credible sources, and how to engage in reasonable discourse. We are fragmenting our experiences and relationships as data-driven businesses are tracking us, segmenting us, and curating our online experiences to perfect an ad-driven personalization process. These technologies which strive to connect us have also been weaponized to target, fragment, tribalize and disenfranchise citizens. And now we struggle as a society to come to a shared consensus on what is true and what is not.
Join us for our latest (virtual) RENDER sessions in which we’ll discuss how we got into this technological and social quagmire, what the big tech platforms, the government, and start-ups can do about it, see demos from some start-ups tackling the disinformation problem, and discuss how to invest in this category.
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RENDER is Betaworks Studios premier conference series. Every other month, we invite leaders and experts to help us dive deep into emerging industries and frontier technologies.
Crypto is here to stay. It walked the Silk Road, catapulted Bitcoin into popular culture, and cemented itself in mainstream financial conversations. For this edition of RENDER, Betaworks Studio’s frontier tech conference series, we’ll shine light on two quickly emerging areas in the crypto space: non-fungible tokens and decentralized finance.
The first half of the day will focus on Non-fungible tokens (NFTs). NFTs are a type of cryptographic token which represents something unique. Non-fungible tokens can be used to create verifiable digital scarcity. As one of our curators Jake Brukhman, Founder and CEO of Coinfund, puts it “NFTs are not just cat pictures that people trade on blockchains. Today digital art, collectibles, and in-game assets are the most visible use cases for these nifty non-fungibles.”
We’ll finish the day focusing on the broader landscape of DeFi. NFTs are just one element in decentralized finance (DeFi), an umbrella term for a variety of financial applications in cryptocurrency or blockchain geared toward disrupting financial intermediaries. “The core innovation of decentralized finance is that the “trust layer” is now the software and code itself. Without the time and cost associated with a high level of intermediation, the promise of DeFi is wide.” writes Sean Lippel, Principal at FinTech Collective and fellow curator of RENDER: NFTs+DeFi, “broader access to financial products, programmable money, real-time risk transfer, and auditability of financial contracts. Moreover, anyone with a computer or mobile phone with an Internet connection can gain access to more open and transparent financial services”
Join us as we explore the past, present and future of NFTs and DeFi through a day of conversations, demonstrations and explanations. From NFTs gaining prominence and earning millions in revenue as in-game objects and digital collectibles to DeFi’s ability to bring banking-style services to those who lack access to financial systems, we’ll examine the impact of these burgeoning technologies on a variety of industries and sectors throughout RENDER: NFTs & DeFi.
RENDER is Betaworks Studios premier conference series. Every other month, we invite leaders and experts to help us dive deep into emerging industries and frontier technologies.
What can’t you do with Transformers? NLP models can build you a website from a URL and one sentence. It can become Google. It can translate legal jargon to conversational language. It’s tremendously powerful, but simple. Everything from Gpt1 to GPTx to models from the Hugging Face hub have changed Natural Language Understanding and generation in a way that has that feeling of magic and untapped opportunity that inspires us to build. Sounds like the perfect topic for our next RENDER. February 26th, Betaworks Studio’s frontier tech conference series will tackle the ins and outs of natural language processors, natural language understanding, and GPT-3.
If the ultimate goal of a Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT) is for computers to understand the human language, what does that mean for products and businesses of the future? During RENDER: GPT-What? we’ll be exploring the possibilities of this emerging platform through the lens of consumer applications. What consumer tech can developers build on top of to improve natural language processing stacks? Where do the investment opportunities lie in this space? Would they fool Alan Turing? What would the Turing Test of tomorrow look like? (that last one was generated by GPT-3, we’re not going to cover that, but actually not a terrible idea...)
Join us for an afternoon of exploring the past, present and future of NLP and NLU. Whether you’re an investor, a founder, a software developer or just a curious onlooker, we encourage you to dive in and learn what you need to know about these technologies and, more importantly, why you need to know it.
RENDER is Betaworks Studios premier conference series. Every other month, we invite leaders and experts to help us dive deep into emerging industries and frontier technologies.
How can we shift to the next wave of tech culture?
Much of the tech world still believes that in order to succeed, we must prioritize growth and speed over all else, and we can worry about the consequences later. How can we get past the binary thinking that it’s either move fast and grow or slow down at your bottom line’s expense?
At Betalab, we seek to be part of a shift to the next wave of tech culture. We believe the way companies make decisions on governance, values, and hiring, and how they build products, are all by-products of the company’s culture. Which is why we believe it’s critical to be intentional about creating and living your company culture, from the very beginning.
In this two-part event we'll explore both how we got here, and the way forward. (Click here to RSVP to Day 2)
DAY 1: HOW WE GOT HERE
How can we avoid some of the pitfalls of so-called tech or “start up culture”? Can we learn from past mistakes to help us think through what a positive company culture can look like?
About the speakers:
- Sarah Drinkwater co-leads Omidyar Network's Responsible Technology program, funding and fuelling the responsible tech movement. Grantees include Ethical Explorer, Zebras Unite and #ResponsibleCS. Previously, she led Google's international work designed to democratize access to entrepreneurship, heading up their London space Campus, and built the social layer on Google Maps as the first employee outside the US with "community" in the title. In past lives, she has been a failed entrepreneur & a journalist for the Guardian. She also angel invests through Atomico's program and sits on the boards or mission guardianships of Library of Things, Data4Change and YSYS (Europe's leading effort to diversify tech's talent base).
- Jane Yang was the data analyst at Basecamp. She holds a Bachelors in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University and knows where she is at, though sometimes she's a little ahead of her time. It's all a balancing act... and a work-in-progress.
- Rhett Lindsey is the founder and CEO of Siimee, a social impact company whose mission is to eliminate bias in hiring and transform the way employers connect with job seekers. Prior to launching Siimee, Rhett spent over seven years leading and collaborating with teams at prominent companies including Facebook, Tinder, Microsoft, and The Walt Disney Company, sourcing and hiring talent in the technology and software development sectors. During his time at Tinder, Rhett established and led the tech conglomerate’s first Black History Month series, collaborating with social impact organizations in Los Angeles and surrounding areas. Throughout his time as a recruiter, Rhett continuously dealt with unjust recruitment technologies such as Applicant Tracking Systems, or ATS, that led to unconscious bias in the hiring process.
In December 2020, he left the recruiting industry to create Siimee, an organization committed to reforming the hiring process in U.S. corporations. Siimee is doing this by increasing awareness of the inherent problems in recruiting and hiring, developing training programs, and creating a non-biased hiring tool that is completely unlike the ATS used by more than 90% of large U.S. corporations.
- Sarah Frier is a senior technology reporter for Bloomberg News out of San Francisco. Her award-winning features and breaking stories have earned her a reputation as an expert on how Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter make business decisions that affect their future and our society. Frier is a frequent contributor to Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Television. She’s also the author of No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram, the winner of the 2020 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.
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How can we shift to the next wave of tech culture?
Much of the tech world still believes that in order to succeed, we must prioritize growth and speed over all else, and we can worry about the consequences later. How can we get past the binary thinking that it’s either move fast and grow or slow down at your bottom line’s expense?
At Betalab, we seek to be part of a shift to the next wave of tech culture. We believe the way companies make decisions on governance, values, and hiring, and how they build products, are all by-products of the company’s culture. Which is why we believe it’s critical to be intentional about creating and living your company culture, from the very beginning.
In this two-part event we'll explore both how we got here, and the way forward. (Click here to RSVP to Day 2)
DAY 1: HOW WE GOT HERE
How can we avoid some of the pitfalls of so-called tech or “start up culture”? Can we learn from past mistakes to help us think through what a positive company culture can look like?
About the speakers:
- Sarah Drinkwater co-leads Omidyar Network's Responsible Technology program, funding and fuelling the responsible tech movement. Grantees include Ethical Explorer, Zebras Unite and #ResponsibleCS. Previously, she led Google's international work designed to democratize access to entrepreneurship, heading up their London space Campus, and built the social layer on Google Maps as the first employee outside the US with "community" in the title. In past lives, she has been a failed entrepreneur & a journalist for the Guardian. She also angel invests through Atomico's program and sits on the boards or mission guardianships of Library of Things, Data4Change and YSYS (Europe's leading effort to diversify tech's talent base).
- Jane Yang was the data analyst at Basecamp. She holds a Bachelors in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University and knows where she is at, though sometimes she's a little ahead of her time. It's all a balancing act... and a work-in-progress.
- Rhett Lindsey is the founder and CEO of Siimee, a social impact company whose mission is to eliminate bias in hiring and transform the way employers connect with job seekers. Prior to launching Siimee, Rhett spent over seven years leading and collaborating with teams at prominent companies including Facebook, Tinder, Microsoft, and The Walt Disney Company, sourcing and hiring talent in the technology and software development sectors. During his time at Tinder, Rhett established and led the tech conglomerate’s first Black History Month series, collaborating with social impact organizations in Los Angeles and surrounding areas. Throughout his time as a recruiter, Rhett continuously dealt with unjust recruitment technologies such as Applicant Tracking Systems, or ATS, that led to unconscious bias in the hiring process.
In December 2020, he left the recruiting industry to create Siimee, an organization committed to reforming the hiring process in U.S. corporations. Siimee is doing this by increasing awareness of the inherent problems in recruiting and hiring, developing training programs, and creating a non-biased hiring tool that is completely unlike the ATS used by more than 90% of large U.S. corporations.
- Sarah Frier is a senior technology reporter for Bloomberg News out of San Francisco. Her award-winning features and breaking stories have earned her a reputation as an expert on how Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter make business decisions that affect their future and our society. Frier is a frequent contributor to Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Television. She’s also the author of No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram, the winner of the 2020 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.
A safe place to have real conversations, solving the real human and business challenges founders are facing navigating the ups and downs of taking their companies to the next level.
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How can we shift to the next wave of tech culture?
Much of the tech world still believes that in order to succeed, we must prioritize growth and speed over all else, and we can worry about the consequences later. How can we get past the binary thinking that it’s either move fast and grow or slow down at your bottom line’s expense?
At Betalab, we seek to be part of a shift to the next wave of tech culture. We believe the way companies make decisions on governance, values, and hiring, and how they build products, are all by-products of the company’s culture. Which is why we believe it’s critical to be intentional about creating and living your company culture, from the very beginning.
In this two-part event we'll explore both how we got here, and the way forward. (Click here to RSVP to Day 2)
DAY 1: HOW WE GOT HERE
How can we avoid some of the pitfalls of so-called tech or “start up culture”? Can we learn from past mistakes to help us think through what a positive company culture can look like?
About the speakers:
- Sarah Drinkwater co-leads Omidyar Network's Responsible Technology program, funding and fuelling the responsible tech movement. Grantees include Ethical Explorer, Zebras Unite and #ResponsibleCS. Previously, she led Google's international work designed to democratize access to entrepreneurship, heading up their London space Campus, and built the social layer on Google Maps as the first employee outside the US with "community" in the title. In past lives, she has been a failed entrepreneur & a journalist for the Guardian. She also angel invests through Atomico's program and sits on the boards or mission guardianships of Library of Things, Data4Change and YSYS (Europe's leading effort to diversify tech's talent base).
- Jane Yang was the data analyst at Basecamp. She holds a Bachelors in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University and knows where she is at, though sometimes she's a little ahead of her time. It's all a balancing act... and a work-in-progress.
- Rhett Lindsey is the founder and CEO of Siimee, a social impact company whose mission is to eliminate bias in hiring and transform the way employers connect with job seekers. Prior to launching Siimee, Rhett spent over seven years leading and collaborating with teams at prominent companies including Facebook, Tinder, Microsoft, and The Walt Disney Company, sourcing and hiring talent in the technology and software development sectors. During his time at Tinder, Rhett established and led the tech conglomerate’s first Black History Month series, collaborating with social impact organizations in Los Angeles and surrounding areas. Throughout his time as a recruiter, Rhett continuously dealt with unjust recruitment technologies such as Applicant Tracking Systems, or ATS, that led to unconscious bias in the hiring process.
In December 2020, he left the recruiting industry to create Siimee, an organization committed to reforming the hiring process in U.S. corporations. Siimee is doing this by increasing awareness of the inherent problems in recruiting and hiring, developing training programs, and creating a non-biased hiring tool that is completely unlike the ATS used by more than 90% of large U.S. corporations.
- Sarah Frier is a senior technology reporter for Bloomberg News out of San Francisco. Her award-winning features and breaking stories have earned her a reputation as an expert on how Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter make business decisions that affect their future and our society. Frier is a frequent contributor to Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Television. She’s also the author of No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram, the winner of the 2020 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.
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Much of the tech world still believes that in order to succeed, we must prioritize growth and speed over all else, and we can worry about the consequences later. How can we get past the binary thinking that it’s either move fast and grow or slow down at your bottom line’s expense?
At Betalab, we seek to be part of a shift to the next wave of tech culture. We believe the way companies make decisions on governance, values, and hiring, and how they build products, are all by-products of the company’s culture. Which is why we believe it’s critical to be intentional about creating and living your company culture, from the very beginning.
In this two-part event we'll explore both how we got here, and the way forward. (Click here to RSVP to Day 2)
DAY 1: HOW WE GOT HERE
How can we avoid some of the pitfalls of so-called tech or “start up culture”? Can we learn from past mistakes to help us think through what a positive company culture can look like?
About the speakers:
- Sarah Drinkwater co-leads Omidyar Network's Responsible Technology program, funding and fuelling the responsible tech movement. Grantees include Ethical Explorer, Zebras Unite and #ResponsibleCS. Previously, she led Google's international work designed to democratize access to entrepreneurship, heading up their London space Campus, and built the social layer on Google Maps as the first employee outside the US with "community" in the title. In past lives, she has been a failed entrepreneur & a journalist for the Guardian. She also angel invests through Atomico's program and sits on the boards or mission guardianships of Library of Things, Data4Change and YSYS (Europe's leading effort to diversify tech's talent base).
- Jane Yang was the data analyst at Basecamp. She holds a Bachelors in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University and knows where she is at, though sometimes she's a little ahead of her time. It's all a balancing act... and a work-in-progress.
- Rhett Lindsey is the founder and CEO of Siimee, a social impact company whose mission is to eliminate bias in hiring and transform the way employers connect with job seekers. Prior to launching Siimee, Rhett spent over seven years leading and collaborating with teams at prominent companies including Facebook, Tinder, Microsoft, and The Walt Disney Company, sourcing and hiring talent in the technology and software development sectors. During his time at Tinder, Rhett established and led the tech conglomerate’s first Black History Month series, collaborating with social impact organizations in Los Angeles and surrounding areas. Throughout his time as a recruiter, Rhett continuously dealt with unjust recruitment technologies such as Applicant Tracking Systems, or ATS, that led to unconscious bias in the hiring process.
In December 2020, he left the recruiting industry to create Siimee, an organization committed to reforming the hiring process in U.S. corporations. Siimee is doing this by increasing awareness of the inherent problems in recruiting and hiring, developing training programs, and creating a non-biased hiring tool that is completely unlike the ATS used by more than 90% of large U.S. corporations.
- Sarah Frier is a senior technology reporter for Bloomberg News out of San Francisco. Her award-winning features and breaking stories have earned her a reputation as an expert on how Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter make business decisions that affect their future and our society. Frier is a frequent contributor to Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Television. She’s also the author of No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram, the winner of the 2020 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.
A safe place to have real conversations, solving the real human and business challenges founders are facing navigating the ups and downs of taking their companies to the next level.
Learn moreHow can we shift to the next wave of tech culture?
Much of the tech world still believes that in order to succeed, we must prioritize growth and speed over all else, and we can worry about the consequences later. How can we get past the binary thinking that it’s either move fast and grow or slow down at your bottom line’s expense?
At Betalab, we seek to be part of a shift to the next wave of tech culture. We believe the way companies make decisions on governance, values, and hiring, and how they build products, are all by-products of the company’s culture. Which is why we believe it’s critical to be intentional about creating and living your company culture, from the very beginning.
In this two-part event we'll explore both how we got here, and the way forward. (Click here to RSVP to Day 2)
DAY 1: HOW WE GOT HERE
How can we avoid some of the pitfalls of so-called tech or “start up culture”? Can we learn from past mistakes to help us think through what a positive company culture can look like?
About the speakers:
- Sarah Drinkwater co-leads Omidyar Network's Responsible Technology program, funding and fuelling the responsible tech movement. Grantees include Ethical Explorer, Zebras Unite and #ResponsibleCS. Previously, she led Google's international work designed to democratize access to entrepreneurship, heading up their London space Campus, and built the social layer on Google Maps as the first employee outside the US with "community" in the title. In past lives, she has been a failed entrepreneur & a journalist for the Guardian. She also angel invests through Atomico's program and sits on the boards or mission guardianships of Library of Things, Data4Change and YSYS (Europe's leading effort to diversify tech's talent base).
- Jane Yang was the data analyst at Basecamp. She holds a Bachelors in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University and knows where she is at, though sometimes she's a little ahead of her time. It's all a balancing act... and a work-in-progress.
- Rhett Lindsey is the founder and CEO of Siimee, a social impact company whose mission is to eliminate bias in hiring and transform the way employers connect with job seekers. Prior to launching Siimee, Rhett spent over seven years leading and collaborating with teams at prominent companies including Facebook, Tinder, Microsoft, and The Walt Disney Company, sourcing and hiring talent in the technology and software development sectors. During his time at Tinder, Rhett established and led the tech conglomerate’s first Black History Month series, collaborating with social impact organizations in Los Angeles and surrounding areas. Throughout his time as a recruiter, Rhett continuously dealt with unjust recruitment technologies such as Applicant Tracking Systems, or ATS, that led to unconscious bias in the hiring process.
In December 2020, he left the recruiting industry to create Siimee, an organization committed to reforming the hiring process in U.S. corporations. Siimee is doing this by increasing awareness of the inherent problems in recruiting and hiring, developing training programs, and creating a non-biased hiring tool that is completely unlike the ATS used by more than 90% of large U.S. corporations.
- Sarah Frier is a senior technology reporter for Bloomberg News out of San Francisco. Her award-winning features and breaking stories have earned her a reputation as an expert on how Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter make business decisions that affect their future and our society. Frier is a frequent contributor to Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Television. She’s also the author of No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram, the winner of the 2020 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.
A safe place to have real conversations, solving the real human and business challenges founders are facing navigating the ups and downs of taking their companies to the next level.
Learn moreHow can we shift to the next wave of tech culture?
Much of the tech world still believes that in order to succeed, we must prioritize growth and speed over all else, and we can worry about the consequences later. How can we get past the binary thinking that it’s either move fast and grow or slow down at your bottom line’s expense?
At Betalab, we seek to be part of a shift to the next wave of tech culture. We believe the way companies make decisions on governance, values, and hiring, and how they build products, are all by-products of the company’s culture. Which is why we believe it’s critical to be intentional about creating and living your company culture, from the very beginning.
In this two-part event we'll explore both how we got here, and the way forward. (Click here to RSVP to Day 2)
DAY 1: HOW WE GOT HERE
How can we avoid some of the pitfalls of so-called tech or “start up culture”? Can we learn from past mistakes to help us think through what a positive company culture can look like?
About the speakers:
- Sarah Drinkwater co-leads Omidyar Network's Responsible Technology program, funding and fuelling the responsible tech movement. Grantees include Ethical Explorer, Zebras Unite and #ResponsibleCS. Previously, she led Google's international work designed to democratize access to entrepreneurship, heading up their London space Campus, and built the social layer on Google Maps as the first employee outside the US with "community" in the title. In past lives, she has been a failed entrepreneur & a journalist for the Guardian. She also angel invests through Atomico's program and sits on the boards or mission guardianships of Library of Things, Data4Change and YSYS (Europe's leading effort to diversify tech's talent base).
- Jane Yang was the data analyst at Basecamp. She holds a Bachelors in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University and knows where she is at, though sometimes she's a little ahead of her time. It's all a balancing act... and a work-in-progress.
- Rhett Lindsey is the founder and CEO of Siimee, a social impact company whose mission is to eliminate bias in hiring and transform the way employers connect with job seekers. Prior to launching Siimee, Rhett spent over seven years leading and collaborating with teams at prominent companies including Facebook, Tinder, Microsoft, and The Walt Disney Company, sourcing and hiring talent in the technology and software development sectors. During his time at Tinder, Rhett established and led the tech conglomerate’s first Black History Month series, collaborating with social impact organizations in Los Angeles and surrounding areas. Throughout his time as a recruiter, Rhett continuously dealt with unjust recruitment technologies such as Applicant Tracking Systems, or ATS, that led to unconscious bias in the hiring process.
In December 2020, he left the recruiting industry to create Siimee, an organization committed to reforming the hiring process in U.S. corporations. Siimee is doing this by increasing awareness of the inherent problems in recruiting and hiring, developing training programs, and creating a non-biased hiring tool that is completely unlike the ATS used by more than 90% of large U.S. corporations.
- Sarah Frier is a senior technology reporter for Bloomberg News out of San Francisco. Her award-winning features and breaking stories have earned her a reputation as an expert on how Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter make business decisions that affect their future and our society. Frier is a frequent contributor to Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Television. She’s also the author of No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram, the winner of the 2020 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.
A safe place to have real conversations, solving the real human and business challenges founders are facing navigating the ups and downs of taking their companies to the next level.
Learn moreMuch of the tech world still believes that in order to succeed, we must prioritize growth and speed over all else, and we can worry about the consequences later. How can we get past the binary thinking that it’s either move fast and grow or slow down at your bottom line’s expense?
At Betalab, we seek to be part of a shift to the next wave of tech culture. We believe the way companies make decisions on governance, values, and hiring, and how they build products, are all by-products of the company’s culture. Which is why we believe it’s critical to be intentional about creating and living your company culture, from the very beginning.
In this two-part event we'll explore both how we got here, and the way forward. (Click here to RSVP to Day 2)
DAY 1: HOW WE GOT HERE
How can we avoid some of the pitfalls of so-called tech or “start up culture”? Can we learn from past mistakes to help us think through what a positive company culture can look like?
About the speakers:
- Sarah Drinkwater co-leads Omidyar Network's Responsible Technology program, funding and fuelling the responsible tech movement. Grantees include Ethical Explorer, Zebras Unite and #ResponsibleCS. Previously, she led Google's international work designed to democratize access to entrepreneurship, heading up their London space Campus, and built the social layer on Google Maps as the first employee outside the US with "community" in the title. In past lives, she has been a failed entrepreneur & a journalist for the Guardian. She also angel invests through Atomico's program and sits on the boards or mission guardianships of Library of Things, Data4Change and YSYS (Europe's leading effort to diversify tech's talent base).
- Jane Yang was the data analyst at Basecamp. She holds a Bachelors in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University and knows where she is at, though sometimes she's a little ahead of her time. It's all a balancing act... and a work-in-progress.
- Rhett Lindsey is the founder and CEO of Siimee, a social impact company whose mission is to eliminate bias in hiring and transform the way employers connect with job seekers. Prior to launching Siimee, Rhett spent over seven years leading and collaborating with teams at prominent companies including Facebook, Tinder, Microsoft, and The Walt Disney Company, sourcing and hiring talent in the technology and software development sectors. During his time at Tinder, Rhett established and led the tech conglomerate’s first Black History Month series, collaborating with social impact organizations in Los Angeles and surrounding areas. Throughout his time as a recruiter, Rhett continuously dealt with unjust recruitment technologies such as Applicant Tracking Systems, or ATS, that led to unconscious bias in the hiring process.
In December 2020, he left the recruiting industry to create Siimee, an organization committed to reforming the hiring process in U.S. corporations. Siimee is doing this by increasing awareness of the inherent problems in recruiting and hiring, developing training programs, and creating a non-biased hiring tool that is completely unlike the ATS used by more than 90% of large U.S. corporations.
- Sarah Frier is a senior technology reporter for Bloomberg News out of San Francisco. Her award-winning features and breaking stories have earned her a reputation as an expert on how Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter make business decisions that affect their future and our society. Frier is a frequent contributor to Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Television. She’s also the author of No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram, the winner of the 2020 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.