RSSABM Spring Meeting Needs More Speaker Program Diversity
According to the ABM Spring Meeting program, 39 of the registered speakers are men, and 10 are women. Minorities also seemed to be barely represented.
“I’ve been coming here for a number of years and I’d like to see more women and more diversity in the speaker program,” says Alix Raine, spokesperson for CMP Technology.
In fairness to ABM, compared to the average attendee, the speaker program was fairly diverse. Also, as a content provider, ABM wants to present the best speakers possible, regardless of their sex or any other non-business related characteristic.
Nevertheless, as a leading community organization, I think that it is important for ABM to show those that are in the minority in the audience that people from their specific peer groups are industry leaders, too, as they undoubtedly are.
Great spring meeting, ABM. Just something to think about for next year.
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I wanted to point out that at ABM’s Top Management Meeting in Chicago last November, every panel moderator was a woman. ABM consciously looks to balance its speakers and panels to represent its membership - gender, company size, public vs. private, etc.
I also wanted to set the record straight regarding ABM’s board. I am not the sole woman on the board - Anthea Stratigos, CEO of Outsell Inc., has recently been elected to the board.
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