Speaker - Kevin Wang

Kevin Wang is the founder of Mentors in Tech, a program that helps overlooked tech students at smaller, less well known, accessible and affordable colleges navigate and launch their careers through structured industry mentorships, integrated open source capstone projects, and tailored recruitment. Mentors in Tech’s work has been recognized as one of the 20 Promising Practices to Advance Quality, Equity, and Success in Community College Baccalaureate Degree Programs by the Community College Baccalaureate Association. MinT has also been featured on the Clayton Christensen Institute blog as well as Microsoft Alumni News. MinT is the recipient of the 2023 GeekWire Geeks Give Back Award and MinT’s work with partner community colleges was published at ACM SIGCSE 2024. Prior to MinT, Kevin founded the Microsoft TEALS Program that has helped over 1,000 high schools in the US, Canada, and Mexico build successful, diverse, equitable, inclusive, and sustainable CS programs. Kevin’s work in TEALS has been featured in the New York Times, CNN, Geekwire, and Univision. The founding and growth of TEALS is the subject of a Yale School of Management case study. Kevin has a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley, and a graduate degree in education from Harvard.