A Look At Our 2024 Pride Summit was originally published on Power to Fly.
Here at PowerToFly, we believe in celebrating Pride all year long but that doesn’t stop us from going all out each June with our annual Pride: Championing LGBTQIA+ Leaders & Allies summit!
We were thrilled that over 11,000 people registered to attend this year’s Diversity Reboot event which featured two days worth for workshops, fireside chats and panel discussions highlighting LGBTQIA+ leaders across the worlds of business, tech, media, policy and beyond including this year’s special keynote address from the award winning actor and author Alan Cumming!
Some other highlights include our conversations with Adam Powell on co-founding the online bookstore Allstora with RuPaul, Ben Garcia on launching The American LGBTQ+ Museum, RebelMouse founder Andrea Breanna on working remote while trans on PowerToFly’s own CEO Milena Berry on queering the C-Suite.
We closed out the week with a two day virtual job fair that provided plenty of networking time plus access to 7,000 open roles.
You can re-live the entire event HERE! (Scroll down the page and click on the talks in the Schedule)
Thank you to our amazing sponsors:
Featured Talks:
- Making an Impact as a Queer Leader: Meet Salesforce Heroku’s Chief Technology Officer
- Looking Through the Prism: Talking to Esri’s Jenna DeWitt on Founding an LGBTQIA+ ERG
- Beyond Diversity: Strategies for Genuine LGBTQIA+ Representation in Leadership
- Navigating Identity in a Corporate Setting
- Finding Purpose + Confidence in Work and Life: A conversation with leaders from Autodesk
- Unity in Diversity: Intersectional Insights on LGBTQ+ Inclusion in the Workplace
Author Corner:
Spanning the globe and thousands of years, Queer Mythology highlights the legends and tales of LGBTQIA+ gods, heroes, spirits and more. Author Guido A. Sanchez’s Queer Mythologyoffers fresh retellings, paired with beautiful illustrations, to give new life and celebrate the inspirational and resilient LGBTQIA+ community in some of humanity’s earliest tales. We were thrilled to sit down with Guido to talk about his new book which comes out this October 2024.
Purchase Queer Mythology here or on Allstora.
More Amazing Resources:
- Pilot – an award-winning employee development program designed to help HR, DEI, L&D, and talent management leaders retain and develop employees.
- COWRIE Initiative – a groundbreaking non-profit organization that empowers Black communities through innovative, culturally-tailored financial literacy programs, addressing economic inequality and driving transformative change towards a more equitable future.
- Out in Tech – the world’s largest non-profit community of LGBTQ+ tech leaders.
- TransTech Social – an incubator for LGBTQ Talent with a focus on economically empowering the T, transgender people, in our community.
- Diversity Continuum – Promoting DEIB in the workplace and beyond
