[bsilvereagle]

> "Which city are you from?"

Many big tech companies have inclusion training calling this question out as inappropriate on the grounds it provides an opportunity to introduce bias.

[gunsch]

Sure, that's advised in interviews, where you're about to make a decision on someone's livelihood, hence the importance of reducing bias. That's a completely different context than in casual conversation at a social event.

[yard2010]

This is nonsense as there is no such thing as unbiased personal interaction.

[pvtmert]

It's a networking event, not an interview loop.

In the same lines, don't ask anything. Everything is a bias. ie, What do they do? - Also a bias as they are engineer, or product, or sales, or whatever.

[andix]

In most parts of the world this is not true.

[bigstrat2003]

Even in the US it's ridiculous advice, driven by fear rather than a rational assessment of policy. Asking people where they are from is just fine.