![]() ![]() Hosted by the Computer Science Teachers Association and the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, the K-12 Computing Teachers Workshop is a two-day event for K-12 teachers, covering challenges and ways to involve more girls in computer science. Sessions cover topics such as applying to graduate school, publishing papers, networking, work-life balance, and more. The Computing Research Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) sponsors a series of sessions at the Grace Hopper Celebration aimed at undergraduates, graduates, and early career researchers. Past Abie Award winners include Ruzena Bajcsy, BlogHer, Elaine Weyuker and Unoma Ndili Okorafor.ĬRA-W Career Mentoring Workshops Neha Narkhede (Menlo Park, California) - Technology Entrepreneurship Award Winner.Paula Coto (Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina) - Change Agent Award Winner.Katherine Vergara (Santiago, Chile) - Student of Vision Award Winner.Kris Dorsey (Boston, Massachusetts) - Emerging Leader Award in Honor of Denice Denton Award Winner.Daphne Koller (San Francisco, California) - Technical Leadership Award Winner.The Abie Awards honor women technologists and those who support women in tech. Presenters can choose to have their posters considered for the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) at the Grace Hopper Celebration, the largest SRC of any technical conference. The Grace Hopper Celebration features one of the largest technical poster sessions of any conference, with over 175 posters. Poster Session and ACM Student Research Competition Speaker presentations are available to watch online after the conference. Graham, Melinda Gates, and Fernanda Viegas. Allen, Mary Lou Jepsen, Barbara Liskov, Susan Landau, Jennifer Mankoff, Vivienne Ming, Susan L. Past keynote speakers included Sheryl Sandberg, Shirley Jackson, Carol Bartz, Duy-Loan Le, Kathy Pham, Megan Smith, Ginni Rometty, Nonny de la Peña, Maria Klawe, Frances E. Anita Hill, Megan Rapinoe, Anne Neuberger and Frances Haugen. Keynote speakers at Grace Hopper Celebration 2022 included Daphe Koller, Dr. The Grace Hopper Celebration features prominent women in technology. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging.The Grace Hopper Celebration 2022 featured content in 14 tracks: Potential presenters submit proposals for panels, workshops, presentations, Birds of a Feather sessions, New Investigators papers, PhD Forum, and Poster Session, including ACM Student Research Competition. The Grace Hopper Celebration consists of a combination of technical sessions and career sessions and includes a poster session, career fair, awards ceremony, and more. Beginning in 2011, the conference has been held in a convention center to accommodate its growing size. The sold-out 2010 conference attracted 2,147 attendees from 29 countries. More than a dozen conferences have been held from 1994 to the present the second was held in 1997 and the conference has been held annually since 2006. The first Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing was held in Washington, D.C., in June 1994, and brought together 500 technical women. With the initial idea of creating a conference by and for women computer scientists, Borg and Whitney met over dinner, with a blank sheet of paper, having no idea how to start a conference, and started to plan out their vision. ![]() In 1994, Anita Borg and Telle Whitney founded the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. GHC 2022 conference was held hybrid in Orlando and virtually at the end of September 2022. ![]() The celebration, named after computer scientist Grace Hopper, is organized by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology. It is the world's largest gathering of women in computing. The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing ( GHC) is a series of conferences designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. American conference for women in computing Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in ComputingĪnita Borg Institute for Women and Technology and Association for Computing Machinery ![]()
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