Inclusivity at Kiwi PyCon 

While inclusivity has been part of the NZPUG ethos since the beginning, it wasn’t until this Kiwi PyCon that we deliberately made a raft of changes and additions to the conference with that aim. 

This year we focused on making the conference a more welcoming space and as a result more inclusive:

• a sticker on the badge for attendees to indicate their chosen pronouns;
• a sticker on the badge so attendees could indicate their wishes with regards to when and how to initiate social interactions with others; 
• a red lanyard for an attendee to signal when they did not want to have their picture taken;
• a low sensory stimuli space (“sensory room”) for attendees to rest and decompress from the noisy conference environment;
• and we provided on-premise free childcare.