Rihanna Kedir is co-lead of Google Developer Group (GDG) in Rome, and ambassador of Women Techmakers, a Google’s program that provides visibility, community, and resources for women in technology. We interviewed her to learn more about the experience … Read more
GrUSP, a Community of Web Developers
Giulia Tosato has a great experience in organising events and managing tech communities. She is also part of GrUSP, a community of web developers based in Italy. We interviewed her to learn more about her experience, and to share her knowledge with … Read more
Community Management: the experience of Natalie Pistunovich
If you want to learn more about community management, Natalie Pistunovich is probably one of the most informed person out there. She has a strong experience as a backend developer, and she's a passionate Gopher. It's worth to mention her involvement … Read more
HackMadrid%27: A Community of Hackers
Daniel Mery has quite a bit of experience with the GNU/Linux world and free software. He is an experienced developer, and also a member and community manager of HackMadrid%27, a community that counts almost 4000 members, all passionate about the … Read more
FemDevs: Putting Together Videogame Development and Diversity
Andrea Sacchi is a rare example of a developer with a nice background in design - she studied design and development of interactive environments, as well as 3D arts and video game design. Today, she enjoys developing mobile and virtual reality … Read more
Agile Talks Community: Interview With Massimo Sarti
Massimo Sarti is a business agility coach and trainer, focused on helping individuals, teams and businesses to adopt new ways of working on realising business value. He has a strong technical background, having worked for over … Read more
Madrid Groovy User Group: Interview with Iván López
Iván López is a software engineer and systems administrator with 14 years of experience. He is a member of the Grails and Micronaut teams at Object Computing Inc (OCI). Eight years ago, Iván discovered Grails. Since then, he has been developing … Read more
PyRoma and Django Girls communities: interview with Fiorella de Luca
Fiorella de Luca is community leader of the PyRoma community. She began as a participant and later coach and organizer for the Italian Django Girls community. She also took part in the Google Summer of Code 2017 with the OpenWISP community, and was a … Read more
Reactive Amsterdam Community: interview with Fabio Tiriticco
Fabio Tiriticco is a software engineer, conference speaker and community leader of Reactive Amsterdam (check its page on Codemotion's platform). While building his own startup, Fabio fell in love – with Akka, Scala and Reactive systems, so much so … Read more
Disability tech is booming – but where are the disabled leaders?
Designing for disability, producing new products to help disabled people, is a growing trend in the tech industry. European startups making tech products to help disabled people are entering a booming global assistive technology market worth $26bn by … Read more
Tech’s BAME heroes
Look at the faces on the boards and senior management teams of most tech companies. What do you notice? These faces represent the brain of the organisation: what keeps it moving forward, driving innovation, looking to the future. If they consist … Read more
How can businesses attract more women into leadership positions?
Leaders within the tech industry have been keen to pat their own backs recently for the work they’re doing to encourage women into the workplace. But the latest figures still highlight a huge gap between men and women, particularly in terms of … Read more
Unconscious bias training: what is it and how effective is it in increasing diversity?
A company can begin with a genius idea, solid finances and a clear pathway to success. But no organisation can truly survive and thrive without good staff. Recruitment, therefore, is an essential process in sourcing staff who will strengthen company … Read more
How do we make tech less male, pale and stale?
Tech tends to focus on the new, whether this is in emerging zeitgeist trends or in discovering how to make processes simpler, quicker and better. But the industry itself seems to be stuck in its own time warp, with a reputation for being male, pale … Read more
This week’s top tech news stories
Happy Friday! Welcome to our roundup of the biggest tech stories in the news this week.We're going to find aliens, say scientistsThe search for extraterrestrial lifeforms has ramped up as space agencies launched ambitious programmes to answer … Read more
An ode to the Commodore 64 – Chiara Russo
This is my Commodore 64 and it's because of this that my passion for IT was born. With this I wrote my first lines of code. Who of you started in the same way, with a Commodore 64? Many, I'm sure! The Commodore 64 was the protagonist of an era, … Read more
Election technology: making voting great again?
Boris in No. 10, Putin in the Kremlin, Trump in the White House. Our voting decisions in national elections have an enormous impact, for better or for worse.But how to vote in an election is changing across the world, thanks to digital … Read more
Because we’re worth it: tech’s top women
The troubling lack of women working in the tech industry, as well as their relatively short career spans compared with their male colleagues, is well-documented. But there are some strong female figures who have not only succeeded but dominated in … Read more
Free coding lessons tackling women’s “imposter syndrome” in tech
Anna Brailsford, CEO at Code First: Girls, is training an army of coding women to infiltrate the "boys' club" of tech.Coding the future: Anna Brailsford What is Code First: Girls? Code First: Girls is one of the largest communities of … Read more
Jobs in artificial intelligence and robotics top LinkedIn list for 2020
Artificial intelligence specialist and robotics engineer are the fastest-growing jobs in the US, according to LinkedIn.The annual Emerging Jobs Report highlights the skills associated with these roles and the cities and industries in which … Read more