Speaker Profile: Neem Serra (@TeamNeem)
Neem Serra is a Ruby and iOS developer in the St. Louis area. She teaches and mentors at a variety of non-profit organizations such as Software Carpentry and the Roy Clay Senior Tech Impact web development workshop. As the lead of the Google Women Techmakers group in St. Louis, she started the St. Louis Techies Project to highlight the diversity of technical people in St. Louis, and she started Technigals Anonymous to help women create a board of directors for their professional lives. Neem loves to bake, read comics, and host craft nights.
Neem will be presenting “Battling Unconscious Bias” at 2:00PM Saturday (2/4) in Room 100. Unconscious biases affect our perceptions, decisions, and interactions every day. How do we address biases if we don’t know about them? Even the most enlightened person will learn about some biases they didn’t know they had and how to counter them.
Sponsor Profile: Revolution Systems (@revsys)
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