The launch of DiGENet marked the beginning of a long-term, interdisciplinary collaboration between over 100 Berlin-based researchers and practitioners across disciplines and institutions. As part of the Berlin University Alliance, DiGENet seeks to strengthen diversity and gender equity in research, teaching, and institutional structures through evidence-based strategies and inclusive practices. The inaugural event featured keynote contributions, a participant survey, and ten working groups that explored core challenges such as intersectionality, inclusive methodologies, structural inequalities, and knowledge transfer to civil society. Participants called for institutional change, stronger integration of marginalized perspectives, participatory research, and critical engagement with diversity concepts. A series of follow-up working groups were initiated to translate insights into action - focusing on measures like diversity-sensitive teaching, data tools, terminology work, and structural reform.