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The NAB Education Foundation (NABEF) announced the 2018 Broadcast Leadership Training (BLT) class graduated this month following a 10-month Executive MBA-style program that teaches the fundamentals of purchasing, owning, operating and managing radio and television stations. The program targets senior level broadcast executives who aspire to advance as group executives or station owners. To encourage diversity in broadcasting, NABEF …

How can minorities and women get fair treatment in the traditional business world? It’s a sometimes uncomfortable and complex question to answer, but a recent panel on diversity did just that. The May 15 gathering also was an opportunity to introduce the most diverse cohort to date at Tampa Bay Wave, a nonprofit dedicated to building, …

Tampa Bay Wave is a leading tech accelerator in the southeast, that supported over 150 tech startups and 250 entrepreneurs, and a proud member of the Global Accelerator Network. Their coworking space is designed to help tech companies of all sizes, and they recently launched a Tech Diversity Accelerator program with the Nielsen Foundation. “Having …

Increased access and opportunity — not quotas — are what’s needed to level the playing field for minorities, women and LGBT technology founders. That was the consensus of a panel of thought leaders gathered for Tampa Bay Wave’s kickoff of its TechDiversity Accelerator program, an initiative supported by The Nielsen Foundation to foster the growth of diverse …

Tampa Bay Wave and the Nielsen Foundation are teaming up to bring diversity to the startup world. Their partnership is a first-of-its-kind initiative to specifically target diverse startups for accelerators services. To kick off their accelerator, Tampa Bay Wave hosted a Tech Diversity Panel Tuesday at Rooftop 220 in Tampa. Tampa Bay Wave defines diverse startups as 51 percent …

To grow an innovative and competitive economy — the model the Tampa Bay area is aiming for — companies need both inclusive teams and the smarts to turn massive amounts of data to their advantage. Near downtown, about 60 people turned out for a Tampa Bay Wave panel discussion on diversity and inclusion in the tech …

Growing the technology industry will lift the economy of Tampa Bay, says Rep. Kathy Castor. Castor, D-Tampa, was among those on hand for the kickoff of the Tampa Bay Wave’s latest TechDiversity accelerator, a 90-day program designed for early-stage companies owned, controlled and operated by a minority, woman, veteran, or lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender person. …

New tech support group for Tampa Bay gets a heavy-hitter to help them springboard their efforts. Hear more about Tampa Bay Wave on Spectrum Bay News 9’s INDEPTH segment with Alex Sink, Tampa Bay Wave’s board chair-elect. View clip here >

Today, the Future of Privacy Forum announced the launch of a new fellowship in memory of Elise Berkower. Elise was a senior privacy executive at global measurement and data analytics company Nielsen for nearly a decade and was a valued, longtime member of the FPF Advisory Board. FPF graciously acknowledges the Berkower Family and the Nielsen Foundation as …

View a segment from Great Day Tampa Bay with Julie MacGregor & Rich Hersuka about Tampa Bay Wave and the TechDiversity Accelerator. View clip here >