Jakob Bradford, Jon Skeet, Chris O’Dell and I have exchanged a number of emails, Google Hangouts, and suggestions in the past few months that could be used to improve diversity at NDC conferences. I was a speaker at NDC Sydney, and it was one of the most heavily gender skewed events I had attended in years.

Ultimately, NDC London 2017 ended up at 23% female speakers. That’s a great result compared to the gender diversity numbers at the Sydney NDC conference. I am keen to see if the attendee ratio changes as a result. NDC have also promised a blog post on the history of their diversity numbers, and what their plans are for the future to continue to improve.

For other reasons, I’m not involved with NDC any more, but I wanted to say congrats to the London committee, and especially to Chris O’Dell, my ex 7digital colleague and friend, who helped to shape that agenda. She’ll be speaking on How to get your submission accepted at NDC London.

The Agenda is out – NDC London 2017 from NDC Conferences on Vimeo.