What We Have Done

Our diversity program’s objective is to help groups that are under-represented in technology to attend, either as an attendee or a speaker, and lower the barriers for them. We intend to fight for equality regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), or technological choices.

The organizers of DEVWorld Conference have been partnering for the last 5 years with many organizations that have an impact on diversity.

We can proudly say that we have long-lasting relationships sponsoring communities that are in a clear disadvantage:

Concatenate Conf: A free conference for African developers with speakers from around the world.
Patreon: we love giving back to the community, and that is why we are supporting Patreon, a website where you can financially support Open Source Developers or Projects.

Additionally to the sponsorships, we like to stimulate the diversity market, in general, giving away free tickets and supporting Good Causes like:

Startup Amsterdam, special thank you for helping us out dividing our Diversity Scholarships over various programs in the City of Amsterdam.
Codam, a peer-to-peer free full time programming course in the heart of Amsterdam.
Women Who Code, an international organization that provides services for women pursuing technology careers.
Hogeschool van Amsterdam, providing them with free access tickets to our conference and a table booth!
Codaisseur, whose mission is to close the tech talent gap by making coding education accessible to everyone.
WINC Academy: a remote trainer whose mission is to provide skills and new opportunities, making programming fun and accessible to everyone.
Le Wagon: a coding bootcamp that teaches the skills and entrepreneurial mindset you need to thrive now and in the future.
TechGrounds a school without teachers that trains IT professionals with a focus on women and cultural diversity.
Codam, a peer to peer learning school where the only thing you need is your motivation and a computer, no high school diploma or background in coding of any kind. Their motto is “if you want to learn programming, it should not matter what you have done before”
CodeYourFuture,provides free coding and programming education to refugees and disadvantaged individuals, helping them gain the skills and support needed to start a career in the tech industry.
HackYourFuture, a coding school for talented refugees and other disadvantaged people with limited access to education and the labour market. We gave away free tickets & speakers slots at Vuejs Amsterdam. Sima Milli, and ex-student from this school and Noer Paanakker, the education director of the organizations shared their stories during Frontend Love 2020.

We are also getting involved, creating collaborations and giving opportunities to refugees and other under-represented groups:

Frontend Love has been organising Frontend Developer Meetups for the Javascript Community for FREE since November 2014: Several groups in third-world areas are getting free access to our Conferences.
Free live stream during Vuejs Amsterdam 2020 for the Iranian Community.
AngularNL Online 2020 gave free access to various Meetup Groups such as Angular Oslo, Angular Belgium, and Framsia, Angular Medeellin, Angular, Bogota, NgConfCo, Angular Nigeria, Angular da Bahia, Dominicode, ngSpain, Angular Malag and Angular Chennai.
DEVWorld 2024, Providing Refugees and underrepresented students free access to the full conference. .

During all of our Conferences, we aim for a diverse group of Speakers in our Line up. This provides attendees with the best possible value, offering fascinating and original viewpoints and research from a wider range of areas of expertise.