The SXSW Panel Picker goes live June 25 until July 20, so if you want to submit a panel to the Music, Film or Interactive festivals, get going. Here’s what the SXSW page had to say about it:

…if you have a great idea for an innovative, forward-thinking panel or a solo session at SXSW 2013, then we want to hear this idea via the PanelPicker online interface.

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Also, remember that submitting your programming idea to all three events (SXSW Interactive, SXSW Film and SXSW Music) improves your chances of being selected to speak!

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In 2008 Microsoft started the Law Firm Diversity Program, which provides tech law firms financial incentives for recruiting a diverse workforce of attorneys. Since, according to this post by Broadband And Social Justice, 15 law firms have taken advantage of the program. The post continues:

 Boosting employment diversity seems like a difficult feat for our nation’s rapidly growing technology industry and noble law profession. With minorities representing 35 percent of the country’s population, at 12.7 percent, the representation of minority attorneys andAfrican American and Latino tech industry workers is more than 23 percentage points below that of the total population.

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