The STEM Diversity Summit Connecting Communities of Color to the Innovation and Tech-Economy

USA Science & Engineering Festival

Friday, April 25, 2014

Rm 152a (8:30 am – 3 pm)

Washington DC Convention Center

PRESENTING

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Mission

The mission of the STEM Diversity Summit is to address the challenges and opportunities facing underrepresented minorities (URM) in the STEM fields.

Theme

“Connecting Communities of Color to the Innovation and Tech-Economy”

Background

At a time when the innovation and tech-economy are increasingly the source of economic opportunities – including job and wealth creation – African-Americans, Hispanics, Latinos and Native Americans are woefully underrepresented across all STEM fields and disciplines.

Distressing Data

Recent data show URM represent <1% of tech-entrepreneurs and approximately 5% of the STEM workforce.

Challenge

Given the challenges presented by the broken K12 STEM system and misaligned priorities and expectations between K-12, Higher Education and Industry, there is a need to re-envision and better align federal STEM and innovation policies with community-based approaches that will yield more STEM talent, entrepreneurs and innovation across underrepresented minority (URM) communities.

Summit Focus The STEM Diversity Summit will explore current trends in federal policies that impact URM STEM yield as well as innovative community-based approaches that are being implemented by STEM professional societies and associations, nonprofits and intermediary organizations to address the challenge of connecting the URM STEM pipeline to the innovation and tech-economy.

EDUCATION

STEM EDUCATION is the entry point to

two pipelines of productivity:

High-wage,

tech-based workforce

High-growth, tech-driven

entrepreneurship

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The STEM Diversity Summit is Co-hosted by the UNCF, DC Innovates and ScaleUp America in partnership with the Coalition of Hispanics, African and Native-Americans for the Next Generation of Engineers and Sciences (CHANGES).

Summit Organizers

Summit Partners

CHANGES

White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities

STEMconnector

Time Session Sponsor/Partner Speakers

9 – 9:30 Welcome & Intro Remarks Chad Womack – Director, UNCF STEM Initiatives 9:30 – 10:15 Session I: URM STEM programs and

initiatives, best practices and exemplars CHANGES DC Innovates UNCF

Antonio Tijerino – Founder & CEO, Hispanic Heritage Foundation

Sondra Lancaster- Director of External Relations/Program Manager, NASA OSSI for PBIs Institute for Broadening Participation (IBP)

Victor McCrary - Senior VP, Morgan State University and Co-Founder, CHANGES

Talmesha Richards – Program Director, STEMconnector

Dwayne Johnson – Executive Director, TAO Foundation

10:15 – 10:30 Q & A 10:30 – 10:45 Break 10:45 – 11:30 Session II: URM STEM programs and

initiatives, best practices and exemplars CHANGES DC Innovates UNCF

Knox Tull, CEO of Jackson and Tull Chartered Engineers (NTA)

Representative from NOMA Talitha Hampton, NOBCChE Young

Entrepreneurs Program Annie Whatley – U.S. Department of

Energy/Minorities in Engineering Barry Nagle – Senior Research Associate, Gates

Millenium Scholars Program, UNCF 11:30 – 11:45 Q & A 11:45 – 1 pm LUNCH 1 – 1:15 pm

KEYNOTE: (STEM & Tech Inclusion) Johnathan Holifield – Vice President of Inclusive Competitiveness, NorTech

1:15 – 1:30 Q & A

1:30 – 2:40 Session III: Diversity & Inclusion in Innovation Ecosystems and Tech-Entrepreneurship

ScaleUp America DC Innovates

Chad Womack – UNCF/HBCU STEM ICE Jenifer Boss – Director, Business Development

and Strategy, Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development (DMPED), District of Columbia

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Kimberly Marcus, Associated Director, Minority Business Development Agency

Claudia Rankins – Program Director, HBCU-UP and CREST, National Science Foundation

George Cooper – Executive Director, White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Chris Ford – Technical Advisor to the Director, U.S. Department of Energy

2:40 – 3:00 Q & A

Close of STEM Diversity Summit

“The United States will not, indeed cannot, achieve its highest economic competitiveness goals without more Americans contributing more to the nation’s economic productivity.” Johnathan Holifield (STEM Diversity Summit Keynote Speaker) Vice President of Inclusive Competitiveness NorTech