the conference and had encouraged the organizers to take additional steps in the future. About 20 of the 87 people at the event were women, she said.

Araujo, whose Twitter post of the roster was widely shared this week, declined to comment but pointed to a smaller Stanford event in January on the intersections of politics and technology. Only white men were on stage. Two were Silicon Valley billionaires: Peter Thiel, chairman of Palantir and a prominent Trump supporter, and Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn founder who says he wants to reinvent the Democratic Party. Ferguson moderated.

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