Close to 100 SaaS sector leaders, including business, technical, and diversity and inclusion leaders, gathered at the SAAS-E[quality] Unconference in December 2018 in Toronto. The event, which was designed and delivered by equality strategy firm Women’s Work Institute, was a provocative, solution-focused, working session intended to build greater equality in the SaaS ecosystem.

SAAS-E included a session called an equality #solveathon. A #solveathon is a unique strategic design methodology created by Women’s Work Institute to support stakeholders in identifying the nexus between business challenges and equality
challenges. Ultimately, a #solveathon enables stakeholders to design actionable solutions to their highest priority equality challenge in alignment with business goals and constraints. The SAAS-E #solveathon included a pre-#solveathon survey (completed by SAAS-E attendees and members of the broader SaaS ecosystem), pre-event analysis, and the #solveathon session itself, which is designed based on survey results. 

The Insights Report captures this work.