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Join us for The Future of Diversity!

Lindsey LaMont

Oct 20, 20152 min readEdited on Feb 26, 2016

Tickets are going fast, so if you are in the Stockholm area on October 27th, go forth and sign up!


We are proud to follow our CTO, Umut Alp, to the lairs of Spotify for an event discussing The Future of Diversity! Umut will be speaking about how Truecaller has built a very diverse team of more than 40 nationalities.

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Tickets are going fast, so if you are in the Stockholm area on October 27th, go forth and sign up!

Agenda
Event Topic: The Future of Diversity

Silicon Valley taught Sweden how to build unicorn companies. What can Silicon Valley learn from Sweden about building diverse teams? How do we export our best practices and how do we make diversity and gender equality our greatest asset? Join us for an exciting evening as we gather some of the most passionate people in this area to discuss one of the most important challenges of our time.

Schedule & speakers

18.00-18.30 Food, drinks & mingle

18.30-18.40 Intro from Silicon Vikings

18.40 Olga Stern, Founder Genews
Genews challenge the way corporate media operate by providing real time data concerning the gender balance in Sweden’s major news publications.

19.00 Dajana Vlajic, Project Manager Womengineer
Womengineer is a non-profit organization working to increase the amount of female engineering graduates in Sweden with the goal to achieve equal numbers by 2030.

19.10 Umut Alp, CTO Truecaller
Truecaller has recently emerged as one of Stockholm’s most expansive start-ups. CTO Umut Alp will explain how they were able to create the company’s technical platform with a team represented by over 40 nationalities from all over the world.

19.30 Sofia Falk, Founder and Creative Director, We Are The Story Doers (formerly Wiminvest)
We Are The Story Doers is focused on hacking the system of undiversified corporate culture and helping companies make meaningful changes that get more women into operative management positions.

19.50-21.00 More mingle & drinks!

Lindsey LaMont

Oct 20, 20152 min read

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