NVIDIA Community Advisor Program – deadline June 15th 2016 – seeking more diverse candidates!

NVIDIA has a good record on corporate diversity metrics

NVIDIA recently announced an Enterprise Community Advisor program (initially focused on the GRID and virtualized products). Applications for this remain open until Midnight (UK time) on 15^th June 2016. So still plenty of time to apply! You can read the program announcement and details on how to apply here: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/04/04/nvidia-grid/

To date we have over 30 applications of which 1 is female and 2 not from North America or _Northern_ EMEA (Scandinavia, UK, Germany, Netherlands, etc)….While applications will only be assessed on pure technical merit/experience to the criteria on the application form (see here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/15EZEfjrR28ofHd8FU7lWWoiR_KETx-0mzy6an_ng424/viewform), I had hoped we’d have a more diverse gender and geographical set of candidates and I’m not sure why we don’t.

Oooh… I’ve been nominated for an award!

• “Congratulations! You have made it to the shortlist for the Unsung Hero award.”

A few months ago a strange email appeared in my inbox, that I almost skipped over along with those entitled “You’ve won an iPod”, “Make $$$ a day, working from home”….. I never win anything in raffles or even bingo and so my skepticism levels are usually high!

“Too small to see over the podium“ – Best thing on the internet for years! #FoC2015

http://www.yrs.io/

This last week (27^th July – 2^nd August 2015) in the UK saw the Festival of Code 2015 for Young Rewired State, culminating in an awards conference in my home town of Birmingham (the one in the UK not Alabama!). If you weren’t aware of this event, I’d recommend you check out the twitter feed for the event #FoC2015. There is a fantastic article already available reviewing the event that I’d recommend reading over on Tech Crunch.