These two posts from actual successes building more gender balanced tech conferences will give a better perspective on the core issue (gender and ethnic diversi

These two posts from actual successes building more gender balanced tech conferences will give a better perspective on the core issue (gender and ethnic diversity): "Beating the Odds — How We got 25% Women Speakers for JSConf EU 2012" http://2012.jsconf.eu/2012/09/17/beating-the-odds-how-we-got-25-percent-women-speakers.html http://2012.jsconf.eu/2012/09/17/beating-the-odds-how-we-got... They were themselves inspired by: "How I Got 50% Women Speakers at My Tech Conference" http://geekfeminism.org/2012/05/21/how-i-got-50-women-speakers-at-my-tech-conference/ http://geekfeminism.org/2012/05/21/how-i-got-50-women-speake... To summarize, it takes lot of effort and thought. But it's totally doable with outreach + anonymization.