Hi Terence - I have a concern with this. "Representative" (when applied to a conference, for example) seems to imply that a panel should represent the make-up of the conference or industry. I think that we need to do better than that. One thing I learned from putting together schedules for Over the Air was that when we featured women speakers, we got more women attendees. And conferences and events are part of how people build their careers in our industry, so there is a follow-on effect of making more people feel more included across the board. I think this applies to every under-represented group in technology and it applies to other situations as well (e.g. standards participation). So asking confefences to be "representative" could imply that they they need to do less, whereas I think they need to do more. Conferences and events need to be on the forefront of activism when it comes to inclusion because they are the public face of our industry.