Growing up in Australia came with a sense that we were lagging behind our bigger, 'cooler' brother of the USA - movies, pop music, concert tours all took weeks or months to get to us - if at all. But Silicon Valley doesn't always lead the way. Mistakes were made in the 'early' days of diversity and inclusion: centering men at Women in Tech events, a focus on women first instead of race, and the victim-blamey rhetoric of women needing to change their behaviour. And perhaps the biggest mistake of all is that despite a decade since the first D&I efforts - not much has changed.

How can the tech industry in Australia avoid the same and chart a different course for the future?