Last night’s Academy Awards and Chris Rock’s biting monologue continued to shed light on an ongoing problem in Hollywood. But as the Hollywood film industry had its rude awakening about its lack of diverse nominees up for awards, a few weeks earlier a group of techies seemed to embrace diversity in a surprising way at an annual awards ceremony. For nine years, TechCrunch has hosted the Crunchies Awards to honor the coolest tech launches of the year and other tech-related categories. And this year’s event in San Francisco was no different. It wasn’t a surprise to see Uber Technologies Inc. snatch Best Overall Startup honors, and with the buzz around all things virtual and the frenzy around the latest movie in the “Star Wars” franchise, it wasn’t shocking when Samsung Gear took home the Hardware of the Year award with the Sphero BB-8 Droid coming in a close second. Read more of Cavanaugh's article that was featured in Workforce Magazine.
