OMG Diversity & Inclusion Roundtable
Q1 Member Meeting
Reston, VA
Reston, VA
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
9am EST
9am EST
Object Management Group® (OMG®) will host a roundtable discussion on Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) with members from across our consortia who will discuss D&I from their unique perspectives.
Speakers
![Erin Bournival](/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2023/02/Erin-Bournival.jpg)
![Melvin Greer](/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2023/02/Melvin-Greer.jpg)
![Nadine Alameh](/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2023/02/Nadine-Alameh.jpg)
![Elisa Kendall](/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2023/02/Elisa-Kendall.jpg)
Agenda
- Erin Bournival, Distinguished Engineer, Office of the Corporate CTO at Dell Technologies, IIC Vocabulary Task Group Chair, and DTC Healthcare & Life Sciences Chair
Topic: The use of inclusive language within standards development. Erin will also moderate the roundtable. - Melvin Greer, Ph.D., Intel Fellow, Chief Data Scientist, U.S. Enterprise - Topic: The Impact of Web 3.0 technologies on DEI initiatives.
- Nadine Alameh, Ph.D., CEO, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
Topic: Accelerating D&I by bridging domains and disciplines that digital twins pull from, such as the geospatial domain. - Elisa Kendall, Thematix Partners LLC, Lead Ontologist, EDM Council, OMG Board of Directors, and Architecture Board Member
Topic: EDM’s work to advocate for gender equality, inclusivity, and women. She’ll also talk about her own mentoring work for women in computing.