Infographic : Offer to fund a place at Encode conference

The Encode conference is taking place in London on 19th and 20th September. As I previously posted, this is a brand new two-day conference that aims to ‘bring the creative community together to debate, share and explore the future of data-driven stories’.

I know from speaking with the organisers, that one of the key aims of this conference is diversity, in both the representation of speakers and attendees as well as the topics being discussed. I’m fortunate to be both a speaker and attendee but my only positive contribution towards diversity is to be a Yorkshireman with green eyes, which doesn’t really count. I therefore want to try contribute, in a small way, to widening access to this event, inspired by a gesture made by Rasagy Sharma.

If you know of anyone potentially interested in attending from a typically-under-represented community in data visualisation, and/or perhaps somebody who doesn’t have the means to justify the outlay to attend a conference event, let me know via email and I’ll fund the registration costs for one attendee. If I receive multiple suggestions I’ll do a random pick, rather than make a subjective judgment of who ‘deserves it most’, which is not for me to determine.

(ps. I tweeted about this two-days ago and have not received any suggestions yet, so if you’re hesitating because you think there might too many others coming forward, don’t!)