Conference Leadership

Confirmed Committee Members

General Chair
Heidi Kvinge, Intel

Program Chair
Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines

Local/Volunteer Chair
Suzanne Westbrook, University of Arizona

Scholarship Committee
Nancy Amato, Texas A&M

Publicity Chair

Event Producer
Ruth Stergiou, Planning Dynamics
Thank you Lilis Bumgardner who makes all the details possible.

Industry Advisory Committee
Linda Apsley, Microsoft, Chair
Gaby Silberman, CA
Bill Jennings, Cisco
Lauren Haworth, Genentech
Raquel Romano, Google
Jhilmil Jain, HP
Valentina Salapura, IBM
Ramune Nagisetty, Intel
Kesha Hill, Lockheed Martin
Joanna Karwowska, NetApp
TBD, SAP
Gilda Garreton, Sun
TBD, Symantec
Joanne Ordille, Avaya (CRA-W representative)

Academic Advisory Committee
Lori Pollock, University of Delaware, Chair

Panels and Workshops Committee
Teresa Dahlberg, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Co-Chair
Kathleen Naughton, Hewlett-Packard, Co-Chair

Invited Technical Speakers Committee
S. Revi Sterling, University of Colorado ATLAS Institute, Co-Chair
Carole Dulong, Google, Co-Chair

New Investigators Committee
Radha Nandkumar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Co-Chair
Tessa Lau, IBM, Co-Chair

Birds of a Feather Committee (BOFS)
Mary Anne Egan, Siena College, Co-Chair
Patty Lopez, Intel, Co-Chair

Posters Committee
Bettina Bair, Ohio State University, Co-Chair
Laura Dillon, Michigan State University, Co-Chair

Bio Science Committee
Richard Murray, Cal Tech
TBD, Genentech

Web 2.0 Committee
Kimberly Blessing, Consultant, Chair

Change Agent Awards

Anita Borg Social Impact Award

Anita Borg Technical Leadership Award
Kathy Richardson, Consultant, Chair

Denice Denton Emerging Leader Award
Reza Ghodssi, University of Maryland, Chair