How CIOs Can Accelerate Innovation through Diversity

More diverse organizations are also more adept at innovation. CIOs who can build and foster a diverse IT workforce will also being laying the foundation for more effective and innovative uses of technology at their institutions. Three CIOs will discuss their efforts at advancing diversity within their IT organizations and the impact this has had on innovation.

This session is part of the Diana G. Oblinger Innovation forum. The 2020 Diana G. Oblinger Innovation forum will explore the ways in which diversity accelerates and improves innovation and how to remove impediments to more diverse, equitable, and inclusive environments in higher education technology. Experts from industry and academia will explore how to reduce bias, build diverse and inclusive teams, and move beyond impediments to diversity, such as racism and ageism. Higher education technology leaders will reflect on their efforts to advance DEI in their organizations and institutions and higher education at large. The forum will provide you with new insights, new techniques, new allies, and new reasons to participate in advancing diversity.

Understand why diversity accelerates innovation * Get new ideas for increasing diversity within your IT workforce * Learn how to break through resistance and other impediments to great diversity and innovation