Women in Advanced Computing Summit Program Announced

The first Women in Advanced Computing Summit (WiAC'12) program is now available. Here's an overview, a nutshell:

Program co-chairs, Nicole Forsgren Velasquez (Utah State University) and Carolyn Rowland (National Institute of Standards and Technology) will kick off the event at 9am and introduce the first speaker, Leslie Lambert (CISO Juniper). After a brief break, Emily Gladstone Cole (lead Operations Architect for Cloud Security Applications and Email Security back-end functionality at Cisco) will give a talk, followed by Lisa Martinez (Storage Architect at IBM).

After the Federated Conferences Week luncheon and WiAC Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, we dive into the panel discussion: Strategies for a Successful Career in Computing. I'll moderate the panel, which includes: Jennifer Ash-Pole, NASA; Jessica McKellar, Project lead; Ksplice group at Oracle; Sherry Moore, Software Engineer, Oracle; Margo Seltzer, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. This should be interesting!

Then we get an hour-long break to soak it all in before diving into a workshop led by Google's Cat Allman. In the workshop, we'll focus on answering the question:

How can we support the up-and-comers, change the landscape to reduce or remove barriers to women, and engage the other gender to aid in improving the culture?

The final invited talk will be presented by Sabrina Farmer (Gmail SRE Manager, Google Inc.), and then the co-chairs will return to give some closing remarks before we head out to evening birds-of-a-feather sessions.

Please join us for the Women in Advanced Computing Summit at USENIX Federated Conferences Week, June 12-15 in Boston, Massachusetts. Register now!

Federated Conferences Week early bird registration (and the hotel discount) ends Monday, May 21!