SoCal Women’s Event Links Data, Diversity
A pair of breakout sessions at the Nov. 10 SoCal Women’s Leadership Summit, presented by Women in Technology Hollywood (WiTH), will look at the industry’s need for data to ensure diversity of content and inclusivity and accessibility.
Diverse representation in entertainment programming matters more than ever before, and content creators and distributors are constantly on the lookout for new tools to help answer pressing questions that impact their businesses, including to what degree are different identity groups including gender, race/ethnicity and sexual orientation featured in content? In the breakout session “A Data-Driven Approach to Assessing Diversity in Content,” Halleh Kianfar, director of product management for Gracenote, will share new approaches to assessing diversity in content via her company’s Gracenote Inclusion Analytics.
Additionally, in the breakout session “Co-Creating an Inclusive and Accessible Future,” Alexia Clayborne, director of inclusion and accessibility for Microsoft’s events, studios and marketing community, will look at the definitions of inclusion and accessibility when it comes to using a shared language, examine Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) accessibility standards, and highlight why it’s key to co-create the end to end design of these standards with the accessibility community.
The SoCal Women’s Leadership Summit is designed to inform, engage, and inspire attendees, with a focus on diversity, leadership, and technology issues, especially as it relates to the effects of the pandemic.
The half-day, closed-door event runs from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. PT, and will feature presentations and breakout sessions tackling the impact of bias, both human and algorithmic. The 2020 edition of the SoCal Women’s Leadership Summit saw more than 250 attendees, with more than 70 percent representing the media and entertainment industry and tech-adjacent companies. The event is sponsored by Sutherland, Premiere Digital, Solliance and Converge Technology Solutions.
For regular program updates, visit the event website here. To register, click here.
To sponsor SoCal Women’s Leadership Summit 2020, contact Evie Silvers at [email protected], or Garrett Finley at [email protected].