The 10th Grace Hopper Conference Expanded to Five Days
PALO ALTO, Calif. — June 1, 2010 — The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI) announced today that registration is now open for the 10th annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference, which will be held September 28 – October 2, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, Georgia. The full program for the event is also now available online at www.gracehopper.org.
The world’s largest gathering of women in computing in industry, academia, and government, the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) is now a five day technical conference designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. Over 600 speakers will include leading researchers and industry experts discussing their current work, while special sessions focus on the role of women in today’s technology fields, including computer science, information technology, research, and engineering. Co-presented by the Anita Borg Institute and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the conference has expanded this year to feature more than 110 sessions (panels, workshops, technical papers, Ph.D. forum, technical posters, “birds of a feather” sessions) across ten tracks, invited technical speakers, and the ACM Student Research Competition.
Collaborating Across Boundaries – Conference Program
This year’s conference theme, “Collaborating Across Boundaries”, recognizes the significant role women play in using technology to work together across various borders including gender, scientific, discipline, social, geographical, racial or political. More than 1800 women and men from over 23 countries in industry, academia, and government are expected to turn out for this year’s event. In addition, recipients of the prestigious Anita Borg Social Impact and Technical Leadership Awards, the Anita Borg Change Agent Awards and the Denice Denton Emerging Leader Award will be announced at an Awards Ceremony on September 30th.
Sessions at this year’s GHC cover a broad range of topics. The Conference has expanded to include Tuesday September 28th, which will include a Career Fair with over 70 high tech companies, government labs and universities participating as well as a resume clinic and a Women of Color Workshop. Day 2 includes programs put on by the Computer Research Association (CRA-W) providing career mentoring workshops for undergraduate, graduate and early career researchers; career development sessions for women seeking employment in industry and government; a workshop for industry technical women on “Collaborative Risk Taking”, New Investigators and PhD forum sessions. Day 3 includes an Open Source Track designed to provide a variety of offerings involving Open Source and for different audiences, culminating at the end of day with a Hack-for-Good session. Day 4 includes a track on Human Computer Interaction put on by ABI and CHI culminating with a field trip to the GVU Center at Georgia Tech as well as a track on Technical Research Papers. Day 5 will feature the second annual K-12 Computing Teachers Workshop put on by the Anita Borg Institute and the Computer Science Teachers Association and sponsored by IBM.
The 2010 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing will feature leading women in technology: Carol Bartz, CEO of Yahoo, Duy-Loan T. Le, Senior Fellow, Texas Instruments and Barbara Liskov, Institute Professor Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT as keynote speakers.
For more information visitt:
Anita Borg Institute Announces Keynote Speakers for the 10th Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Press Release.
Registration is now open, with super early bird discounts in effect through July 6, 2010. For more information, visit www.gracehopper.org.
Sponsors to-date of the 2010 Grace Hopper Celebration include Platinum Corporate Sponsors Amazon, CA, Cisco, Google, IBM, Intel, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft and NetApp. Platinum Government Patrons include NSA. Silver Corporate Sponsors include Facebook, Intuit, SAP, Symantec, ThoughtWorks and Yahoo. Silver Government Patrons includes the United States Navy. Bronze Corporate Sponsors include MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
About the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI)
The Anita Borg Institute provides resources and programs to help industry, academia, and government recruit, retain, and develop women leaders in high-tech fields, resulting in higher levels of technological innovation. ABI programs serve high-tech women by creating a community and providing tools to help them develop their careers. ABI is a not-for-profit 501(c) 3 charitable organization. ABI Partners include: Google, Microsoft, HP, CA, Cisco, First Republic Bank, IBM, Intel, Lockheed Martin, National Science Foundation, NetApp, SAP, Sun/Oracle, Symantec, , Thomson Reuters, Wilson Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, Intuit, Yahoo, Amazon, Facebook, Raytheon and ABI Government Patron NSA. For more information, visit www.anitaborg.org.
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