Best Tech Work Culture (Los Angeles) | Factual has smart people, strong data, and a seriously amazing culture. Crucial to the company is its tech team, which develops cutting-edge technologies and scalable data solutions in an environment that continually pushes for creativity.

Best Tech Manager (San Francisco) | Roman Kisin is Parley Pro’s CTO and leads the product development team. He is a great tech leader not only because he has the technical chops, but because he truly believes that everyone on his team is great. Roman come to work every day with a positive outlook and passes his contagious attitude to his team.

Best Tech Manager (San Francisco) | When looking at prospective candidates the #1 thing Ilan looks when interviewing is that they are a "nice, good and genuine person". Ilan cares more them being a nice, pleasant person to work with because he wants everyone to work together harmoniously.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Toronto) | Having recognized that diversity is a pillar of this success, CMiC actively participates in global hiring practices by sourcing talent from all over the world to find the essential competencies, professional experience and demonstrated success necessary to fuel the company’s ‘innovation engine.’ CMiC believes that by leveraging Canada’s growing pool of highly skilled immigrants, it can leverage the fresh perspectives they bring to enhance our approach to creating new products, bringing them to market and deploying them in partnership with hundreds of customers.

Best Tech Work Culture (Philadelphia) | As an experience design firm, Think Company works hard to design a great employee experience and overall culture for everyone on the team—including their technology discipline. Their Technology leaders intentionally address creativity, innovation, learning, and rewarding a job well done among other initiatives.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Boston) | Avrio AI is one of the most collaborative companies that I have ever worked for. This collaboration is fostered by the diversity of the team. With two women on the executive team and team members from all different countries you don't have to look far to find diversity at Avrio AI.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Los Angeles) | The team is diverse, with more than half of the team comprised of female employees, and many other team members hailing from different cultures and backgrounds and countries around the world. This unique mix of people has given Sidebench a completely unique identity that adds to their collective genius and overall methodologies.

Best Tech Manager (San Francisco) | Over the past five years, Miriam has been an invaluable presence at Skillz. As the company’s Senior Vice President of Engineering, dozens of employees rely on her knowledge and leadership on a daily basis. Both inside and outside of the office, Miriam is known as an advocate for women, people of color, and the LGBTQ+ community in the larger tech industry.

Best Tech Startup (Silicon Valley) | Petuum is a combined team of industry veterans and mission-driven AI scientists from the world's leading AI institute, Carnegie Mellon University. We witnessed the problems with existing AI solutions: specialized machined learning experts hand craft a one-off models, a process that is slow, expensive and not scalable. We've made it our mission to change this! We are making AI accessible to all businesses by turning AI from an artisan-craft into a standardized, industrial-grade enterprise tool. This enables the fast development and deployment of AI solutions without an in-house team of specialized AI talent, allowing any organization to unlock the value of AI "fast and fuss-free." With $108 million in investor funding led by SoftBank, Petuum is one of the highest-funded Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning startups. Petuum enables and orchestrates AI for enterprise with our software platform as well as vertical industry solutions. Our AI platform allows enterprises to design, build, experiment, customize, operate and own vertical AI solutions in a wide range of industries and areas. Our vertical industry solutions provide end-to-end AI functions for a variety of industry verticals, starting with Healthcare and Manufacturing / IoT

Best Tech Work Culture (Philadelphia) | ShopRunner creates an environment for employees to grow, learn and collaborate with team members. The culture is centered on seven core values: boldness, inclusion, grit, candor, accountability, spirit and hustle. The company believes great ideas should not solely come from senior leadership but from employees at any level.

Best Tech Startup (Philadelphia) | MVP Interactive is a team-first organization which has allowed them to remain nimble while taking on large projects and ultimately keeping customer satisfaction paramount. The company has broken through the divide of what sporting fans, teams, and brands are known to experience. By using cutting-edge technology, such as virtual reality, augmented reality, and facial recognition, MVPI is helping sports stadiums and teams as well as sponsoring brands better engage and market to their consumers.

Best Tech Work Culture (San Francisco) | The fundamentals of a great tech culture are baked into the essence of Zendrive as a company. Zendrive works on solving massive problems, and touches millions of lives every day with their mission to make roads safer with data and analytics. Every department supports this mission, but none more so than their Tech Team.

Best Work Culture (Orange County) | We encourage our team members to step away from their everyday work mindset and refresh and recharge by focusing on others in the community Collaboration and team building are promoted through our participation in various community service projects and fundraisers such as Habitat for Humanity and the American Cancer Society (ACS). Each office has an allocated budget and "fun committee" to plan monthly events and activities with their office coworkers and visiting remote team members.

Best Tech Manager (Toronto) | Hima, Lead, Quality Assurance at Climax sees an opportunities and jumps at them, constantly pushing boundaries and trying to improve. Hima believes in the good kind of failure, the small but significant mistakes; the kind she and her team can learn from. This alone inspires innovation across her team; encouraging team members to speak up, share ideas, and ask questions. Hima consistently goes above and beyond for her team. She is a wonderful role model for young women getting into the technology industry.

Best Tech Workplace For Diversity (Los Angeles) | Evite fosters a best-in-class environment in which all employees can excel, regardless of gender, race or belief. While Evite does not set a specific quota for the diversity mix for any team or the company overall, Evite's hiring process strives to find the best candidate possible and that is achieved by its unique hiring criteria. Candidates are evaluated based on three core measures: required capabilities, energy accretive and real output. By looking at each candidate holistically, Evite boasts a leadership team comprised of 54% women, and across the organization, women account for 55% of all employees. Diversity and inclusion play a critical role in employee development. Whether it be through our monthly "Lunch and Learn" highlighting International Women’s Day, guest speakers from various backgrounds or a men's bake off, embracing and celebrating diversity is a key reason for Evite's growth.

Best Workplace for Diversity (Orange County) | Koder's founder is from Guatemala and immigrated to the U.S. Despite his humble beginnings, he pursued his goals and took it upon himself to learn code by reading 400+ page programming books on nights and weekends. He ensures all hires are considered regardless of education and background and instills these same practices in his employees.

Best Tech Work Culture (Washington DC) | Social Tables is proud to exemplify its core value: Every Day is a School Day! We believe the key to innovation and a meaningful career experience is the opportunity to continuously grow and develop. Since we are only as strong as the team we build and the products we create, we have built an environment that encourages and rewards ongoing opportunities and flexibility to ensure the creative juices keep flowing and skills and talents evolve.

Best Tech Startup (Chicago) | ShoppingGives exists to create social impact with every purchase, having built a community of retailers and nonprofits that give back to one another through their customers and supporters. The community is created through two unique technologies: an intuitive online fundraising platform and our newest technology, Change CommerceⓇ; this technology solves three core problems facing retailers today: (1) loyalty and customer engagement, (2) creating an impact through corporate social responsibility, and (3) finding a value-add platform that enhances retailers’ ability to compete with Amazon.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Boston) | Payfactors is working hard to promote and encourage diversity of backgrounds and diversity of thought. We have grown our monthly "Women Talk Tech" lunches from a small group of 5 or 6 to a group of over 20 women in tech. It has been amazing to watch the program grow to include women of all ages and backgrounds, coming together to discuss the industry we all support.

Best Tech Startup (San Francisco) | Fleetsmith was founded by a team of former IT admins who were frustrated by the IT management solutions that already existed on the market. Using powerful automation and user-focused product design chops they honed at companies like Dropbox and Fandom, they’ve built a management system that makes it easy for anyone to ensure their entire fleet of devices is properly managed, secure, and compliant.

Best Tech Startup (Orange County) | Reinventing the way shoppers’ behave, retailers operate, and brands collect in-store shopper insights, AWM Smart Shelf lights up the retail shelf with engaging digital displays that change and add more detail as the shopper moves closer and closer to the product. AWM Smart Shelf is the first ever company to bring custom digital retail display systems, automated inventory intelligence, retail data capture & analytics, consumer recognition, and ad exchange all to one single eco-system. The products AWM Smart Shelf offers are not only a disruption in the retail space, but in the tech world as a whole.

Best Tech Manager (Philadelphia) | Mitko has created an environment in which everyone is free to use their imagination to come up with strategies and figure out how they want to do things. He encourages everyone to look at the big picture, not just focus on one application, but how upcoming projects will be tested. He promotes experimentation, trying new things, and even failing, as part of the job.

Best Tech Startup (Philadelphia) | Asset-Map remains a visually engaging DOL-compliant sales tool for advisors, going above and beyond the recently outlined regulations. The platform visually facilitates meaningful financial conversations and illustrates a client’s complete financial landscape in a simple, 1-page snapshot.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Orange County) | Brandify is and will always be the voice, pulse and work of one diverse and dynamic spirit. This can be seen within the surveys we run, customizable working arrangements we create, platforms we utilize and explorative sessions “brain dates” we implement and share with one another. At Brandify we believe in celebrating the differences of our ideas, influences and needs by utilizing tools and resources that cohesively bring us closer together.

Best Tech Manager (Los Angeles) | With over 10 years of B2B and B2C custom software experience, RJ has developed noteworthy expertise in tech. Her impressive background working with esteemed companies such as Google, AB InBev, and DuPont coupled with her unique management style make her a beloved leader. RJ is a compassionate mentor, a fiercely efficient manager, and an incredible female role model. She directs her attention not just to senior leadership but also to junior employees. RJ takes the time to mold junior employees -- taking them under her wing to help them recognize their strengths and become the best versions of themselves.

Best Tech Work Culture (Philadelphia) | Red Spark values the individual, not just the work they do. Making sure their employees are happy and healthy is a top priority; ranging from catered lunches and a fully stocked kitchen along with 25 PTO days help to ensure this healthy bunch. Their team enjoys spending time in and out of the office together, whether an office event, internal lunch and learn, volunteering or a happy hour.

Best Tech Manager (NYC) | Tom Johnell has made “people management” a thing, by investing in defining what it means to excel in managing people at Handy, and measuring against that. He has helped Handy build ‘upward’ feedback into our quarterly 1:1s and get detailed feedback on all of the managers at the company.

Best Tech Startup (Silicon Valley) | SWIM.AI is an edge intelligence software company. Our software platform processes streaming data, enabling real-time analytics, object modeling, and machine learning at the edge. Previously having led Sensity Systems (acquired by Verizon in 2016), founders Rusty Cumpston and Chris Sachs have built a team with a deep understanding of application and networking software stacks. This has led to the creation of SWIM EDX, a unique take on the distributed actor model, which autonomously manages message and service distribution for distributed applications. Unlike most IoT software platforms, SWIM EDX makes use of no open source database technologies (MongoDB, Cassandra, Akka, Kafka, Spark, etc.), and instead opted to implement a completely proprietary software stack in order to optimize for interoperability and efficiency. The SWIM EDX software stack kernel can be compressed to 2MB in size, enabling the deployment of SWIM EDX into a variety of hardware environments. SWIM EDX dynamically composes heterogeneous objects in a distributed system into a single cohesive application, which can be uniformly addressed by application developers. This drastically simplifies the creation and scaling of real-time AR/VR, industrial, autonomous vehicles, Smart City, artificial intelligence, and other applications.

Best Tech Work Culture (Boston) | Talla employees have the opportunity to help change how businesses engage with their employees. The best ideas come from individuals who feel challenged and free to stretch their creative muscles.

Best Tech Manager (Los Angeles) | Ken focuses on developing individuals of all ages, backgrounds, and cultures into the business executives and technical engineers he envisions them to be. He sees the good in people and helps them build out the future they had always hoped to create.

Best Tech Manager (Orange County) | Bill Cunningham always takes time to listen to his employee’s ideas, questions and concerns. He is always looking for ways to support and develop his team. He shows a great deal of compassion and is always asking what he can do to help. At the end of the day, Bill has managed to perfectly balance his roles and become a business partner, mentor, and friend to all.

Best Work Culture (Orange County) | Every day we work to stand out from the ranks of other IT companies by providing exceptional insight, innovative solutions, and unparalleled service. In addition to fostering an environment that promotes creativity and learning, Sidepath has created a culture that embodies a feeling of family. The founders truly care about the people who work here, and it’s evident in every aspect of the business, from employee engagement, to the benefits package which includes 100% covered health care, and other smaller perks like bringing in lunch for the team on an almost weekly basis.

Best Tech Startup (Los Angeles) | For the past 100 years the neurologists standard toolbox has consisted of a stethoscope, a hammer, and a tuning fork to qualitatively asses patients. By combining machining learning with robotics, Neural Analytics is poised to transform neurological care by providing low-cost and objective patient diagnostic information.

Best Tech Manager (Silicon Valley) | Dani created the Engineer LifeCycle project at Mercari that looks into each engineer's career goals and creates a concrete plan to make it happen by providing special support to individuals.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Chicago) | Digital Authority Partners brings next-gen digital transformation to healthcare, financial services and government organizations. Through bold insights and innovative problem solving, we help these organizations reimagine their business and adapt for the Digital Age. Innovation lies at the core of DAP — from how we approach problems to how we hire. We go beyond the resume to find employees that are as diverse in their thinking as they are in their backgrounds, all with the singular goal of building a world-class team that delivers game-changing solutions for our clients. To us, diversity is more than race, gender or age. It’s about different backgrounds. Different skills. Different ways of solving problems. It’s about hiring people who don’t necessarily think or act like us, but who have the passion, potential and drive to help our company think differently, and deliver exceptional results.

Best Tech Manager (Toronto) | Mark, Director, Interface Development to Symbility Intersect is incredibly passionate about every project and goal he immerses himself into. He inspires innovation by keeping an open line of communication to all employees. He stays up to date in modern technology and processes and is able to contribute and provide support to all departments within the organization. He is collaborative and encourages innovative thinking and participation from all individuals. Mark also spearheads many of INTERSECT's community initiatives with a focus on empowerment and making technology available and accessible to everyone regardless of geographic or social circumstances. Beyond this, Mark's is a respected and passionate voice in the tech community, delivering workshops and lectures across the globe covering a wide spectrum of topics like Web Development, Infrastructure, Product Development, Workplace Culture

Best Tech Manager (Orange County) | Tim Sullivan is dedicated to bettering the careers and personal lives of his team. He prioritizes learning and growth and ensures that his team has the proper tools to be more efficient and grow along with the tech industry. Tim is also a philanthropist who loves to give back to the community and sets an inspiring example for his team and colleagues.

Best Tech Startup (Toronto) | Shorcan requires top tech talent to operate on the cutting edge since their hybrid model allows traders to access the marketplace via voice or electronically. It is a known fact that cryptocurrency is tied tightly to technology so without seeking the best talent it would nearly be impossible to maintain competitive in the market. As a startup, it is vital to remain competitive by demonstrating cutting edge talent and understanding the technological needs of what the market requires especially since traders would have access to our marketplace electronically.

Best Tech Manager (Chicago) | ShopRunner’s Chief Technology Officer, Greg Ball, is an accessible, supportive and forward-thinking leader. Under his leadership, Ball’s team transforms raw data into a value proposition tool that helps retail partners strengthen their business strategies and compete in the marketplace. This aspect is unique to ShopRunner as other ecommerce players typically withhold this type of data from partners. Ball’s work positions ShopRunner as an appealing partner to retailers and contributes significantly to the company’s growth.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Toronto) | Destiny Solutions hire employees based on skills and qualifications and are not biased against gender and/or ethnicity. During our hiring process, we focus on the candidate’s cultural fit and their alignment with our core values, which allows us to build a diverse team. Our team composition is 40% female and 60% male and our employees also come from different cultural and social backgrounds which cultivates different opinions and views. We also actively hire students and new graduates to help evolve our company with new ideas.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Chicago) | Brad’s Deals publicly celebrates our women employees to attract more female tech talent, most visibly in the literature about the Women’s Tech Accelerator. Human resources leverages organizations like Tech Ladies and Noirefy for hiring and recruitment. We also support the annual Chicago Women in Tech Event event as one of their sponsors.

Best Tech Work Culture (Los Angeles) | At SnackNation we have environment in which employees are empowered to entrepreneurial in their roles, regardless of whether they’re an executive, manager, or individual contributor. All ideas are judged on their merits, and team members are encouraged to create solutions – campaigns, programs, or even whole departments – that didn’t previously exist.

Best Tech Startup (Washington DC) | As a bootstrapped startup, our products are a direct reflection of the feedback we receive from clients—something that is just an idea today could be a new feature tomorrow or a new product later this year. We employ forward-thinking tech leadership by giving every engineer a chance to learn new ways of doing things and apply them to the product immediately. Our engineers are leaders in the charge of building software for public affairs professionals. Before these professionals were often stuck using tools that were built with someone else in mind, like Salesforce or Hubspot, but now they have tools built specifically for them

Best Tech Startup (Los Angeles) | AuditBoard is the first platform built upon the latest web technology and integrated with leading platforms like Microsoft Power BI, LucidChart, and the Microsoft Office Suite. The platform is powerful, intuitive, and easy to use, which is why companies such as Lululemon, Intel, Express Scripts, Lionsgate, Activision, Tripadvisor, and Pandora have adopted our solutions, and also why companies have continued to switch off other platforms.

Best Tech Work Culture (Orange County) | Teletrac Navman invests in their engineers. This investment ensures the developers are always up to date with the latest tech in the industry, benefitting both the company and individuals’ professional development. Unlike many other companies, Teletrac Navman encourages using the best tool for the job and is rarely bound by the status quo. Innovation is built into the culture, incentivization and performance structure and management supports the flow of free-form ideas to further that innovation.

Best Tech Manager (Chicago) | Jessica DeJong is an incredibly deserving recipient of the Best Tech Manager award, not only because of her own professional accomplishments, but also because of the way she leads and cultivates her team of front-end developers and designers at One North. As One North has grown and evolved, a need emerged to bridge the gap between creative and strategic services and technology teams internally. Jessica took a leap of faith and dove into the role of managing a team of front-end developers and designers, creating a new team, interaction design, that has become an incredible source of innovation, creativity and a driver of culture and collaboration.

Best Tech Work Culture (Washington DC) | Upskill proudly fosters innovation by creating an environment where everyone has a voice -- solutions and ideas can come from anyone, anywhere within the organization. Ou recent move to an open office space (“town hall” format) is a testament to our commitment to teamwork and collaboration. We have always believed in providing employees with rich benefits and a flexible environment that empowers them to make their own decisions for how they do work. The operative word here is “flexible.”

Best Tech Work Culture (Boston) | Carbon Black is proud of its many high-performance teams. These teams are interconnected networks of talented, driven people. Our teams are inspired by our leaders who chart a clear course for our mission and create an environment where teams and individuals are given the resources, support, and freedom to pioneer new ideas and ways to work in order to keep our customers safe from cyberattacks.

Best Workplace for Diversity (Orange County) | Jabil Inc is a global company which promotes and understand the added value of diversity and inclusion. In an industry dominated by man, Jabil is proud to present a year over year growth of women representation in manufacturing, management and support roles. Our engineering teams consist a mix if genders, nationalities and religions. Those teams are the main reason why Jabil Inc is considered as one the global leaders in manufacturing automation, especially for custom applications.

Best Tech Startup (NYC) | Before goodLinc, nonprofits usually renewed product and service contracts without performing adequate due diligence to ensure they had the best value for their needs. goodLinc built a no cost, supportive bridge connecting nonprofit organizations and businesses that serve the sector. Free memberships are provided to support sustainability and financial health of the nonprofit community. Members are encouraged to build connections and engage with others to collaborate, share ideas and best practices.

Best Tech Startup (San Francisco) | HomeLight was created in 2012 by its founder after having a terrible buying experience in the Bay Area. He realized there was a need to streamline and optimize what is for some the biggest investment they will make in their lives, buying a home. The company doubled in size in 2014 and is continuing to grow.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (NYC) | Since its inception, VirtualHealth has been dedicated to nurturing an employee-centric culture that places a high value on diversity. Notably, women comprise 50 percent of the company’s leadership team and 45 percent of its total employees. Based on Inc. magazine’s 2018 Best Workplaces employee survey, 90 percent of VirtualHealth’s female employees see professional growth and career development with the company. VirtualHealth was also listed as 2018 Best Place to Work in Healthcare by Modern Healthcare.

Best Tech Manager (Chicago) |CTO Perry Moutzouros’ top focus at Oranj is providing a great team culture, as well as promoting career growth. He prides himself on his ability to evaluate talent that doesn’t fit in a box, and while each engineer is originally hired to fill a specific role, Perry also realizes that roles change as fast as technology and encourages taking on new roles to promote growth – not just technical growth as programmers, but also social and professional growth as humans and leaders.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Toronto) | TWG is committed to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. We follow hiring best practices and have launched initiatives designed to ensure that workforce is diverse. In May of 2015, TechGirls Canada and TWG launched a year-long pilot project to explore, test and report on a set of strategies for boosting gender and racial diversity, equity and inclusion. We are also huge supporters of the LGBTQ+ community, sponsoring such events as Venture Out. TWG had a booth at this year’s conference and supported one of our employees, who spoke. In the area of recruitment, we have developed a close working relationship with Global Skills, a company dedicated to pairing the world’s top technical talent with Canadian companies using the new federal Global Skills Strategy.

Best Tech Startup (NYC) |Vydia is an Inc. 500 video technology company that empowers over 200,000 creators worldwide to sync, store, and secure their content. Behind Vydia’s innovative platform is a team of engineers, data scientists, product specialists and more dedicated to cultivating a diverse workforce.

Best Tech Startup (Philadelphia) | One of NeuroFlow's core company values is "have a healthy disregard for the impossible". They are disrupting the health care space, adding immense social value, and delivering great experiences to their users. The company was founded on the belief that owning your own data can drive needed behavioral change. As such, Neuroflow will help users gather and analyze data from any source they can - from cutting edge wearables in body monitoring to encouraging habit-forming self-reporting.

Best Tech Work Culture (San Francisco) | Matterport allows their engineers and key players to decide their own creative direction and the company makes a point to stay out of their way. Their executive team knows good things happen when you allow your best thinkers to sit around, scratch their head, and come up with new and innovative ideas while management stays out of their way.

Best Tech Work Culture (NYC) | TAPAD makes Hackathons come to life, with their most recent one on cutting their carbon footprint. They test and experiment with cutting edge tools and open-source software (GCP, Flink, AutoML, etc.), and encourage innovation upwards from engineering/data science up rather than from the top down.

Best Tech Work Culture (NYC) |AgilityIO has expert knowledge of the latest design tools and keeps up-to-date on the latest social impact news from around the globe. Through Slack, AgilityIO shares new products and tools with each other that might streamline their workflow. For each client, they host an individual, innovative product discovery workshop to develop the MVP. Through market research and defining the end goal, AgilityIO has been able to find that niche market that will push a successful product launch.

Best Work Culture (Orange County) | Kareo has a team of engineers who love innovation, collaboration, and helping others. Our team hosts quarterly hackathons where engineers are encouraged to use new technologies, solve complex problems, and work with their teammates to innovate something that they think needs work. As a team we promote new ideas by allowing engineers of any level to bring ideas to the table - whether that be product ideas, solutions, or new technologies they think we should be using.

Best Workplace for Diversity (Orange County) | We are a global brand with a multinational team of 12 awesome employees and advisers located in the U.S., New Zealand, Israel, Belgium, and India. Founded by women and employing team members from various races, religions, ethnicity and backgrounds, our tech startup provides the best workplace for diversity. Our Founder, Saritta Hines entered the world of technology more than 13 years ago, in a day and age where she was often the only woman in the room. Further, she was often the only Black woman in the room for much of her career. We are seeing this trend shift as the field of technology becomes more diverse and TrustaBit is leading the charge!

Best Tech Manager (Washington DC) | After being named CIO in 2015, Amy Doherty focused on continuing the evolution of IT into a value creator and innovator within AARP. She has creatively built bonds and lines of communications with the ITS team through regular meetings to better understand how things are progressing. Shortly after, delivery of projects were up ninety-six percent and there were thirty-four percent fewer outages.

Best Tech Manager (Silicon Valley) | Roman Kisin is Parley Pro’s CTO and leads the product development team. He is a great tech leader not only because he has the technical chops, but because he truly believes that everyone on his team is great. Roman come to work every day with a positive outlook and passes his contagious attitude to his team.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (NYC) | Smartling has so many people from different backgrounds, but what makes them uniquely diverse is the degree to how well the staff and teams collaborates. Smartling has people from different continents and countries that all work together so closely and seamlessly, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between any of their backgrounds.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Philadelphia) | The growing team at Vea fitness maintains a diverse ethnic background. They have always been open to diverse hiring processes and believe that keeping a balance to the team structure helps them succeed in many ways. The team recognizes that all of their various beliefs and practices in and outside of the workplace helps them to work close with one another and bridge the gap.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (NYC) | Qrypt implements diverse hiring practices by utilizing various sources for potential talent instead of focusing on the few traditional ones. For example, in addition to LinkedIn and recruiting agencies, Qrypt is actively seeking out conferences and events related to diversity in technology for another potential source of engineering candidates.

GrandPad Inc. is an easy-to-use tablet computer and cloud curation service made to help seniors connect and communicate with family and friends. The GrandPad experience is both secure and simple, offering the easiest way for seniors to connect with family and friends through digital technology. This tablet is designed for the absolute beginner and includes everything, right down to curated music delivered from the cloud. The icons are easy to read and content is preloaded into the device with no setup or configuration required. The tablet is connected to the cloud via 4G LTE connectivity. This device allows seniors to send voice emails, view pictures and videos, listen to music, play games, and make video calls.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Silicon Valley)| HP has long been committed to diversity and creating an inclusive environment where all voices and perspectives are heard, valued, and respected. It’s embedded in our values and our culture – The HP Way. Innovation at HP springs from teams of individuals collaborating and contributing varied perspectives, knowledge, and experience to advance how the world works and lives. We are driven to create products that work for everyone, everywhere. Diverse teams create transformative solutions that better serve our customers and the communities where we work and live. To find, develop, and keep the very best people, we embrace and celebrate difference. Leadership: When Hewlett-Packard Co. separated into two new independent, publicly traded companies in November 2015 (creating Hewlett Packard Enterprise and HP Inc.), Chief Human Resources Officer Tracy Keogh saw an opportunity to model HP’s commitment to diversity and inclusion at the highest levels of the company. This started with creating one of the most diverse Board of Directors in the tech industry, an intentional, nine-month process that required a commitment from both CEOs and existing board members, pressure on the search firm to look broadly for diverse candidates, and strategic partnerships with affinity groups to reach a more diverse pool of candidates. It continued with assembling an Executive Leadership Team representing different genders, nationalities, and experiences. HP’s executive leadership team is 27% minority and 27% women. Women hold the roles of Chief Human Resources Officer, Chief Legal Officer & General Counsel, Chief Communications Officer, and interim Chief Operating Officer. In June 2017, Dion Weisler, HP President and CEO, took a pledge as part of the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion on behalf of HP. This sign of public support has set the tone of our values and priorities for our leadership, employees, partners and customers. We operate a Global Diversity Advisory Board with senior leaders from across our regions, functions, and lines of business. These executives are diveristy thought leaders and advocates who are establishing strategic priorities and building teams at the business and local levels to drive progress. Across the company, diversity oversight spans our business groups who manage this via diversity councils, task force efforts and PMO’s. Strategy: Through our BIG strategy (Belong, Innovate, Grow), we are seeding the importance of diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences across the company and working to minimize bias in our systems, processes, and programs – from the talent we seek to hire, to the ways we develop and grow our talent, to how we engage, communicate, and reward.

Best Tech Manager (Boston) | Jonah Lopin co-founded Crayon, the market and competitive intelligence platform company, in 2015, and he’s making noise in the market with something remarkable.