Regardless of where you started,
welcome home.
August 17 – 19, 2021
Not yet a Bostonian? Let us introduce you to future teammates.
Submit by June 15, 2021 for priority decision | Regular decision deadline: July 16, 2021
Belonging in Boston Tech starts here.
Tech.Trek is a 3-day virtual summit designed to immerse underrepresented technologists — currently residing OUTSIDE of MA — into the vibrant Hack.Community, to experience the culture, scale, and career prospects of the Boston innovation economy.
We are excited to select 50 students from underrepresented communities across the nation, who have ~2 years of coding exposure, to engage with leaders in the Hack.Community — cornerstone companies, startups, venture capitalists, technologists, and community leaders — who are shaping the future of tech through the lens of racial equity, diversity, and inclusion.
There is no cost to students to participate, but the experience will be priceless. Join us to meet your future teammates.
Regardless of where you started, welcome home.
If you're a COMPANY ⊕
An opportunity to show, not tell, your REDI* values
REDI = Racial Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
We want to design an experience with you to authentically capture the hearts and minds of underrepresented technologists, and inspire such talent to build their future here, and with you. If you're interested to convert your thoughtful solidarity statement into action and impact, partner with us. Let's demonstrate how racial equity is at the forefront of your decisions to grow teams, scale business, and shape an inclusive, innovative, and prosperous Boston.
Here’s how we’ll do it.
- Hack.Diversity collaborates with YOU to showcase your holistic leadership position within the industry including: organization racial equity, diversity, inclusion values, technological developments, and business approach.
- Hack.Diversity receives applications from across the nation from high-potential software engineering candidates from communities underrepresented in tech, including: Black, Latinx, indigenous people, female, LGBTQIA+, and veteran.
- Hack.Diversity selects a Cohort of 50 finalists — our Trekkies — and invite them to engage with you throughout virtual Tech.Trek August 17 - 19, 2021.
Get Involved
Questions
Please reach out to Alexa Goldman, Senior Manager of Strategic Partner Initiatives, at agoldman@hackdiversity.com.
If you're a STUDENT ⊕
Regardless of where you started,
welcome home.
Tech.Trek is a 3-day, immersive, virtual experience, designed to provide maximum exposure to and with Boston's notable players, all in a vibrant innovation ecosystem to which you will be able to contribute. You will engage in topics including: business growth guided by equitable values, tech builds, office tours, and product demos. With high-energy company spotlights, transparent discussions, and authentic get-to-know-yous — belonging in Boston tech starts here.
Just who are these notable players? We'll be name-dropping as sponsors are confirmed — cornerstone companies, startups, venture capitalists, technologists, and community leaders.
There is no cost to students to participate, but the experience will be priceless.
The Trekkie Profile:
- Aspiring to be a software engineer or related technical field
- Graduating by 2023, or a recent alumnus, with a computer science degree or related technical field
- You observe your community and/or lived perspectives to be underrepresented in tech — including that of Black, Latinx, indigenous people, women, LGBTQIA+, Veteran, and first-generation college students OR first-generation in tech communities
- Values racial equity, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace and society at large
PLEASE NOTE:
- Preference will go to candidates currently living OUTSIDE of MA. If you’re in school in the Greater Boston area, check out our 2022 Hack.Diversity Fellowship!
- If this opportunity excites you but you're not sure if you're eligible, we're happy to clear things up for you!
Please reach out to Angela Liu, Director, at aliu@hackdiversity.com.
Time Commitment
If selected to be a Trekkie to participate in Tech.Trek, your time commitment will be:
- ~10 hours between July 17 - August 4, 2021 to complete onboarding
- Onboarding will include registration onto our virtual platform, submitting information to introduce self to Trekkie community and audience, and preview of happenings and people at Tech.Trek.
- 12:00 - 3:30pm EST on each day of Tech.Trek August 17 - 19, 2021
Key Dates
- June 15, 2021: Priority deadline to submit application to be a Trekkie
- Hack.Diversity will invite a selection of candidates to next conversations to get to you know you better!
- June 30, 2021: Regular deadline to submit application to be a Trekkie
- Hack.Diversity will invite a selection of candidates to next conversations to get to you know you better!
- June 30, 2021 - July 9, 2021: Invitations to participate in Tech.Trek go out
- Trekkie finalists will receive emails inviting them to participate in Tech.Trek. Waitlist candidates will also receive notifications on their status.
- July 17 - August 4, 2021: Trekkies complete onboarding to participate in Tech.Trek
- August 17 - 19, 2021: Tech.Trek is LIVE!
- Each day will run virtually from 12pm - 3:30pm EST
Questions
Please reach out to Angela Liu, Director, at aliu@hackdiversity.com.
Preview of Tech.Trek outcomes: ⊕
Sponsors will leave with...
- Talent bank of at least 50 high-potential software engineers for hire between 2021 - 2022
- Brand visibility with a cross-section of underrepresented talent communities across the nation
- Experience demonstrating how to authentically implement your REDI values as you grow your teams and scale your business
- Leadership in shaping the future of tech in Boston
Trekkies will leave with...
- Interview opportunities with up to 15 companies
- Insight into company culture and strategy — including equity and inclusion values guiding business growth, how the tech is built, product demos, and ideas in incubation
- A vast and powerful community and a network — relationships with values-aligned peers from across the country in addition to a collaborative Hack.Community currently consisting of 500+ underrepresented technologists and allies across all seniority levels working within the innovation ecosystem, from startup CEOs and venture capitalists to engineers and product leads at tech giants
- Influencing industry hiring practices — Hack.Diversity works to evolve hiring, retention, and growth practices to secure a diversity of representation to shape the future of tech.
Experience the vibrancy of life in Boston — Tech.Trek showcases life outside work because we understand that while we might move for a job, we stay for the community that makes a place home
FAQ ⊕
Stay tuned: we'll be updating
with answers to your FAQs
General Questions
Please reach out to info@hackdiversity.com .
“When I applied to Hack.Diversity it was because of Hack’s commitment to providing professional opportunities to underrepresented technologists, but what I didn’t realize was how much Hack.Diversity would become a community and family, especially given the events of the past year. I like to say that I’m a self-taught engineer, but Hack.Diversity made me a community-taught engineer. I was never short of people I could reach out to from Hack.Diversity who would lend an ear or support.”
— Jasmine Rose-Olesco, 2020 Hack.Diversity Fellow
by way of Resilient Coders, current software engineer at Rapid7
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