Welcome to the devcom 2017 schedule
including devcom developer conference, RESPAWN - Gathering of Game Developers, devcom Master Classes & Tutorials, devcom Summits and the gamescom Business & Public Keynotes!
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Diversity is getting an increasingly large part of our industry’s mindshare when we talk about workplace improvements we can make, but there are aspects to improving and creating a more diverse work environment that are still not getting a lot of attention. These hidden aspects include differences and diversity in our thinking process, and how we work with mental illness and mental disability. For example, physical-labor intensive industries take proactive steps to prevent physical injuries. What are we as an intellectual-capital intensive industry dong to prevent mental illness? Also, while we are just starting to address diversity in externally identifiable aspects (race, gender, age, physical disability), we are not having many meaningful discussions about hidden diversity (mindset, life experiences, outlook). If every person we hire thinks the same way that we do, are we really getting the full benefit of diversity?
This panel will look at how we identify and recognize some of these more hidden aspects of our work environments, what advantages we miss and what the risks are if we don’t address these issues, and what we can do about them now as individuals, as leaders, and as an industry.
