Ever since Facebook was a mere twinkle in Mark Zuckberg’s eye, all-white, all-male panels at startup conferences have been the deplorable status quo. On Monday morning, Alan Jones, startup evangelist at the Sydney accelerator BlueChilli, was set to speak on a fintech panel at the CeBIT technology conference in Sydney. That was until he checked out his co-panellists. Their blinding similarity — old, male, white — was dismaying, so he put out the call on…
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White, old man offers tech panel seat to anyone who isn't white, old man