DrupalCon Nashville 2018: Empowering Speakers: A Journey to Encourage Women and Diverse Groups

This talk explores the benefits of increasing representation of underrepresented groups in open source tech events, specifically focusing on WordPress at WordCamp Vancouver. The speaker shares the journey of promoting women speakers, detailing the efforts that led to a threefold increase in applications and achieving gender parity among selected speakers within a year. The session discusses the positive community impact of these changes, lessons learned throughout the process, and strategies for others to replicate this success in their own tech events.