
🇩🇪 Berlin: 150 D&I champions come together at Zalando for Vessy.com’s last event for 2019
(With video recordings from the event!)
After publishing an independent internatonal Diversity & Inclusion Report covering 10 companies from 10 countries called “2019 Diversity in the Workplace Report”, I naturally wanted to show the report and give it a well deserved.. 🗺️world tour of sorts!
Dublin ✈ ️Sofia ✈ Berlin
While the launch of the event was on a rainy January evening in Dublin, in April we had a 2-day event in Sofia, it was high time for the third one in Berlin about a month ago. [Pssst, next event is in London 🇬🇧 on Feb 19th, 2020]
On September 26th, in a partnership with Culture Amo and Zalando, we had an invite-only event for 150 passionate Diversity & Inclusion champions: CEOs, GMs, COOs, VPs of Talent, HR, D&I experts, representatives of underrepresented groups and minorities, community leaders, and investors.
✅Some of the attendees: Porsche, Axel Springer, Deutsche Bahn, Wayfair, GetYourGuide, SoundCloud, Mozilla, Delivery Hero, Tandemploy, BCG Digital Ventures, SumUp, LHBS, Volkswagen, Scout24, Trifork, HelloFresh, Bosch, Philips, Coca Cola, Blinkist, Taledo, Uniper, TOTAL, & more
The agenda focused on:
- Trends & Predictions in D&I
- D&I Challenges and How We Tackle Them
- How We Measure D&I
Zainab Boladale, RTÉ TV Presenter & Reporter, was our MC and the event was kicked off by welcome notes by Thibaut Pugin, Zalando’s VP People Products, and Maeve Von Heynitz, Deputy Head of Mission at the Irish Embassy in Berlin.
Trends & Predictions
Together with the audience, we looked into the Trends & Predictions in Diversity & Inclusion across 10 countries that I had identified while working on “2019 Diversity in the Workplace Report”.
Most common D&I challenges?
We continued with a panel discussion on D&I Challenges, moderated by Sarah Cordivano, Zalando’s Diversity & Inclusion Officer, with participants from a wide range of roles and industries:
- Larissa Leienbach, Governmental Relations & D&I Champion, Uniper
- Celine Bordin, Senior Patent Attorney and Diversity & Inclusion Champion at Bayer, Queer Staff Network_Berlin co-founder
- Constanze Osei, Manager Public Policy at Facebook
- Julia Carloff-Winkelmann, VP People & Workplace at Soundcloud
- Mark Ivan Serunjogi, Employer Brand Strategist at GetYourGuide
Measuring D&I
Together with Jessica Brook, Senior People Scientist at Culture Amp, we spoke on the importance of measuring and where to start.
Check out the video:
The official launch of the Global D&I Knowledge Community
At the end of the event and after 4 months in beta, it was time to announce the global community for D&I champions to the world:
What’s next?
London! 🇬🇧
Join us on February 19th for the launch of the brand new 2020 Report at its invite-only event in a partnership with IBM and Applied. Request to join
About Vessy.com:
Vessy Tasheva is the founder of Vessy.com and author of “2019 Diversity in the Workplace Report”. Recently she launched a global D&I knowledge community with members from 10 countries. As a D&I consultant, Vessy works with the likes of Zalando, Soundcloud, Mozilla, Experian, Looker, Contentful, Heineken, EY & others.
