Abstract
Session Theme: Can You Hear Me? Being heard: the I in DEI
At RIPE 91 this session looked at diversity: who is in the room. At RIPE 92 we turned to equity: who can get to the room, and what stands in their way. At RIPE 93 we reach the last letter of DEI, and perhaps the hardest to see.
Inclusion is not just being present. It is being heard. Do you feel you belong? Does anyone listen when you speak? Can you shape what happens next, including who leads? Diversity you can count. Inclusion you mostly feel… and the people who feel it least are often the ones we rarely hear from.
As before, we start with human stories. Two short talks look at whose voices go unheard in our community. One raises a need many people quietly share but seldom speak about. The other asks who gets heard once they are here, and who gets trusted to lead. Then the floor is yours. Bring an experience, an idea or a question… and be heard.
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Speaker
Denesh Bhabuta
Denesh Bhabuta has spent more than 30 years working where people and the Internet meet, not just technically but as communities.
He is known across the Internet infrastructure community for his work at UKNOF, where he spent two decades helping shape it into the central forum for UK network operators, and at DNS-OARC, where he led the global conference programme and community engagement for over a decade. He founded PTNOG, served on the programme committees of LINX and UKNOF, and co-chaired the former RIPE LIR Working Group.
He has seen boards from both sides: as an executive director at UKNOF, LONAP and the UK ENUM Consortium, and as a non-executive director at Nominet. He has also been a trustee of Usurp, an arts and community charity, for over 20 years. Today he consults independently, including with Quad9, and Star London.
He curates the RIPE DEI session series, and believes the most valuable asset any organisation, community or industry has is its people.
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