Session 2: 11:10 AM – 12:10 PM
The Real Apprentice: Being a Technical “Chief of Staff” to an Executive, and Why It Just May Be the Perfect Job for You!
Location: Golden West Conference Room
Panel: Lila Ibrahim (Intel Corporation), Monique Hayward (Intel Corporation), Debby Brown (Hewlett-Packard Co.), Rhae-Christie Shaw (Microsoft Corporation)
What is being an apprentice to an executive? A technical advisor, technical assistant, technology operations director… it is basically the Chief of Staff, an invaluable assistant to the executive. The role can vary from assisting the executive in the technical and public aspects of his/her role to managing the day-to-day staff operations, developing speeches and presentations and leading special projects. This panel will share the experience of women in these roles and provide insights into the impact it had on their careers. Wonder if you could be a real Apprentice? The interactive Q&A will provide you the opportunity to ask those still in office and those who have “survived” being an apprentice to an executive.
The STARS Alliance: Experiences in Broadening Participation in Computing
Location: Sunset Conference Room
Panel: Tiffany Barnes (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Teresa Dahlberg (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Cheryl Seals (Auburn University), Laurie Williams (North Carolina State University)
Ten academic partners have established a system of regional partnerships, called the STARS Alliance to recruit and retain underrepresented minorities in computing. The STARS Alliance is structured as five local alliances or “stars,” each including research, minority-serving and women’s institutions, K-12 schools, industry, and community groups. Our central activity, the Students and Technology in Academia, Research, and Service (STARS) Student Leadership Corps, integrates for peer mentoring, research experiences, civic engagement, and professional development into a community building experience. The Alliance will also address systemic curriculum change through replicating best practices, including pair programming, teaching math to visually impaired students and working with students with learning disabilities and AD/HD. In this presentation, we will discuss our progress to date, including early insights into the alliance-building process, kick-off workshop, and project replications.
Anita Borg Award for Social Impact Recipient Talk
Location: Royal Palm 1, 2 & 3
Presenter: Carol Muller, President, MentorNet
Riding the Crest: High-End Cyberinfrastructure Experiences and Opportunities on the NSF TeraGrid
Location: Sunrise Conference Room
Panel: Laura F. McGinnis (Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center), Katherine Vargo (Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center), Radha Nandkumar (National Center for Supercomputing Applications), Nancy Wilkins-Diehr (San Diego Supercomputer Center)
The NSF’s TeraGrid project presents an integrated cyberinfrastructure for high-performance computing resources which advance scientific research across disciplines. TeraGrid is an example of the state-of-the-art in cyberinfrastructure that is touching lives in many ways through the application of grid computing capabilities to science and education. Panelists will share their experiences with TeraGrid infrastructure, scientific applications, and user services and communities. Follow-up discussions aim to encourage women in computer science and computational sciences to consider the cross-disciplinary efforts required to provide leading-edge technologies to the scientific community. The target audience will include computer scientists, system specialists, and applications developers, as well as computational scientists interested in learning about one of the NSF’s major research resources.
Ripple Effects: Increasing the Diversity of Creators and Consumers of Computing Technology
Location: Royal Palm 4, 5 & 6
Panel: M. Bernadine Dias (Carnegie Mellon University), Carol Frieze (Carnegie Mellon University), Joseph S. Mertz, Jr. (Carnegie Mellon University), G. Ayorkor Mills-Tettey (Carnegie Mellon University), Linh Xu (Carnegie Mellon University), Sarah M. Belousov (Carnegie Mellon University), Ariadna Font-Llitjos (Carnegie Mellon University), Vinithra Varadharajan (Carnegie Mellon University)
Despite major advances in computing technology and initial adoptions of this technology around the world, many developing communities have not benefited from computing technology to date. This panel will focus on our newest “wave” of efforts to increase diversity, beyond gender, in the creators and consumers of computing technology so that computing technology becomes relevant and accessible to developing communities. Many of our panelists champion the cause for gender diversity in computing. In this panel we will describe our newest initiative, TechBridgeWorld, which innovates and implements technology solutions to meet sustainable development needs around the world, through strong partnerships with developing communities. Specifically, this panel will focus on our educational initiatives that provide our students and faculty with non-traditional opportunities to learn about and work with developing communities towards relevant and sustainable technology solutions, and to also develop technology tools catered specifically to education in a developing community context.
