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Thursday 7 October 2004
10:15-11:45am GETTING AHEAD IN YOUR CAREER: MYTHS AND REALITIES
Shelagh Callahan, Staff Architect, Intel Corporation
Carolyn Crandall, Director of U.S. Channel Operations, Cisco Systems
Barbara Fox, Software Architect, Microsoft
Robin Jeffries, Distinguished Engineer, Sun
Lilian Wu, Program Executive for University Relations, IBM
Janice Zdankus, Director of Research and Development, Hewlett-Packard


INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND TRAINING: OPPORTUNITIES AND IMPACTS
Nancy Wiegand, Scientist, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Michele Ng, Special Programs Coordinator, Department of Computer Science, UBC
Paul Carter, Instructor, Department of Computer Science, UBC
Sylvia Spengler, Program Director Science and Engineering Informatics, National Science Foundation
Victoria Interrante, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
Carole Palmer, Associate Professor, Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


LEADERSHIP AND CREATING CULTURAL CHANGE
Moderator: Jan Cuny, Professor, University of Oregon
Jen Fitzpatrick, Engineering Director, Google
Melanie Loots, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Illinois
Debra Richardson, Dean of Information and Computer Science, Univ. of California, Irvine
Einat Yogev, Director of Engineering, Routing Technology Group, Cisco Systems


WOMEN IN OPEN SOURCE: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Moderator: Danese Cooper, Sun Microsystems and Open Source Initiative
Leslie Proctor, Director of Marketing, GNOME
Mitchell Baker, Chief Lizard Wrangler, Mozilla.org
Justyna Horwat, Sr. Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Stormy Peters, Manager Open Source Programs Office, HP
Alolita Sharma, CEO, Technetra
1:30-2:25pm TECHNICAL CARRERS, REACHING THE TOP
Telle Whitney - President & CEO, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
Lucy Sanders - retired CTO, Avaya, Executive in Residence, ATLAS, Unviersity of Colorado at Boulder
Marcia Balestrino - Senior VP and CIO, Girl Scouts of the USA
Mar Hershenson - CTO & Founder, Barcelona Design, CEO & Founder, Sabio Labs


SUMMER UNIVERSITIES FOR WOMEN IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
Veronika Oechtering, researcher, University of Bremen, Germany
Simone Alder, student, University of Bremen, Germany
Annika Hinze, assistant professor, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Friederike Jolk, student, University of Bremen, Germany
Renate Klempien-Hinrichs, researcher, University of Bremen, Germany
Alexandra Kreuzeder, projekt manager, University of Salzburg, Austria


DIGITAL DIVIDE AND WOMEN IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Naseem Bhatti - Director, Computer Training Centre, Pakistan
Dilma M Da Silva - Research Scientist, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Vashti Galpin - Lecturer, School of Computer Science, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa


DESIGNING NEXT GENERATION WEB UI IN A DECLARATIVE XML FRAMEWORK
Sarah Allen - Software Architect, Laszlo Systems
2:35-3:30pm FINDING OUR PLACE IN HISTORY: SIX DECADES OF WOMEN IN COMPUTING
Janet Abbate, Assistant Professor, Science & Technology Studies, Virginia Polytechnic Institute

ICT INNOVATION FOR EMERGING ECOMONIES
Gita Gopal - Research Director, HP Labs India, HP Labs

COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION RESEARCH AS A SCIENTIFIC ENDEAVOR
Vicki Almstrum, Senior Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin
Sally Fincher, Lecturer, University of Kent - Canterbury
Renee McCauley, Associate Professor, College of Charleston
Suzanne Westbrook, Senior Lecturer and Associate Department Chair, University of Arizona


ELECTRONIC VOTING: WHO OR WHAT WILL ELECT THE NEXT PRESIDENT?
Amy Pearl, Consultant, Software Innovations
Barbara Simons, Independent Technical Consultant, former ACM President and
      founder and co-chair of ACM's US Public Policy Committee (USACM), ACM
Ellen Theisen, Founder and Executive Director, VotersUnite! (www.votersunite.org)
4:00-5:30pm BIT BY BIT: MENTORING & PRACTICAL APPROACHES TO ADVANCING WOMEN IN HIGH TECH
Katy Dickinson, Director, Sun Microsystems, Business Process Architecture
Nicole Smentek, Senior Assoicate, Research, Catalyst
Margaret Ashida, Director, IBM, Corporate University Relations
Susan Hailey, Entertainment Vice President, Harrah's
Stans Kleijnen, Consultant, former Sun Vice President, Engineering
Barbara Waugh, Co-founder, e-inclusion, HP, HP Labs


CHICTECH, GIRLTECH, AND OTHERS: GENDER EQUITY INITIATIVES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AND RICE UNIVERSITY
Michael Sirois, Program Manager, CEEE, Rice University
Susan Boone, Teacher, Westside High School, Houston ISD
Karen Buras, Teacher, St. Thomas Episcopal School, Houston TX
Christy Beatty, Student, Rice University, Rice CS-ters President
Deb Israel, Alumni Coordinator, Siebel Center for Computer Science, UIUC
Jean Phillips, Academy Math Instructor, Bartlett High School, Bartlett, IL


DISMANTLING BARRIERS FOR WOMEN IN COMPUTING INTERNATIONALLY
Annemieke Craig - Lecturer, Deakin Univeristy , Australia
Margit Pohl - Senior Lecturer, University of Technology, Vienna
Veronika Oechtering - Lecturer, oechteri@informatik.uni-bremen.de
M. Suriya - Professor, Annamalai University
Jehan Ara - CEO, Enabling Technologies
Vashti Galpin - Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
4:00-4:45pm NANOMETER CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES TO MICROPROCESSOR DESIGN
Kelin Kuhn, 45 nm Device Manager, Portland Technology Development, Intel Corp
Linda Rankin, Principal Engineer, Performance Networking Lab, Intel Corp
4:45-5:30pm VOICE & DATA NETWORKING TRANSFORMATION IN THE SERVICE PROVIDER ENVIRONMENT
Margaret Chiosi, Director of Optical Networking, AT&T Labs
Ana Pinczuk, Senior Director of Engineering, Cisco
Friday 8 October 2004
1:30-2:25pm CHILLY CLIMATE, ENGROSSING PUZZLE? RESEARCH RESULTS ON THE EXPERIENCE OF WORK IN COMPUTING WORKPLACES
Joyce Davis, Doctoral Candidate, Harvard University
Sarah Kuhn, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Lowell


NATIONAL LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Susan Landau, Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems Inc.
Helen Gill, Program Director, National Science Foundation
Catherine McGeoch, Professor, Amherst College
Jennifer Rexford, Technology Leader, AT&T Research Labs
Barbara Simons, Co-Chair, USACM


NATIONAL CENTER FOR WOMEN IN TECHNOLOGY (OLD PROBLEM, NEW SOLUTION)
Lucy Sanders, Executive in Residence, University of Colorado at Boulder
Bobby Schnabel, Vice Provost, University of Colorado at Boulder
Andy Bernat, Executive Director, Computing Research Association (CRA)
Mary Jean Harrold, NSF ADVANCE Professor of Computing & Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Sharon Hussey, Senior Vice President, Girl Scouts of the USA
Debra Richardson, Ted and Janice Smith Family Foundation Dean of the School of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine


TECHNOLOGY AND FUTURE TRENDS IN OIL AND GAS (EVANS)
Francine Evans, Project Lead, Schlumberger
2:35-3:30pm ENTRY LEVEL MENTORING
Sung-Eun Choi - Technical Staff Member, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Tina Eliassi-Rad - Computer Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Tessa Lau - Research Staff Member, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Nuria Oliver - Researcher, Microsoft Research


WOMEN@IT: GRADUATE EDUCATION, THE NEXT BIG THING
Lenore Blum, Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Carol Frieze, Director, Women@SCS, Carnegie Mellon University
Ariadna Font-Llitjos, PhD student, LTI, Carnegie Mellon University
Tina Bennett, PhD student, LTI, Carnegie Mellon University
Jing Chen, PhD student, CSD, Carnegie Mellon University
Gita Sukthankar, PhD student, RI, Carnegie Mellon University


ACM-W CHAPTERS: COMMUNITIES FOR STUDENTS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
Paula Gabbert - Associate Professor, Furman University
Vicki Allan - Associate Professor, Utah State University
Bettina Bair - Instructor, Ohio State University
Lilly Irani - Student, Stanford University
Fatma Mili - Associate Professor, Oakland University


THE GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGE
Leader: Moira Gunn, CEO, TechNation
Telle Whitney, CEO and President, Anita Borg Institute for Woman and Technology
Nancy Levitt, Director of Strategy and Development for The Tech Nation Group & Development ABI Linda Bernardi, CEO, ConnecTerra
4:00-5:30pm NON-ACADEMIC RESEARCHER TRACK: MANAGING CAREER CHANGE
Kathleen Fisher - Principal Technical Staff Member, AT&T
Evelyn Duesterwald - Research Staff Member, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Joan Feigenbaum - Professor, Yale University
Susan Landau - Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems Laboratory
Sharon Perl - Staff Engineer, Google
4:00-5:30pm THE ROLE OF MENTORING IN RECRUITING AND RETAINING FEMALE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
Nancy Amato - Associate Professor, Texas A & M University
Michele Ng - Special Programs Coordinator, University of British Columbia
Sheila Humphreys - Academic Coordinator, University of California at Berkeley
Katrina Ligett - Ph.D Student, Carnegie Mellon University
Sarah Solter - WICS Mentoring Coordinator, Stanford University
Rachel Weinstein - Ph.D Student, Stanford University


BEING AN EFFECTIVE TEACHER
Faith Ellen Fich - Professor, University of Toronto
Ruth Anderson - Lecturer, University of Virginia
Sheila Castaneda - Associate Professor and Chair, Clarke College
Susan Horwitz - Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Susan Rodger - Associate Professor of the Practice, Duke University
Beth Simon - Assistan Professor, University of San Diego
4:00-4:45pm UNDERSTANDING, MANAGING AND SECURING UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS
Raquel Hill, Post-Doc, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Roy Campbell, Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
4:45-5:30pm UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING FOR PROACTIVE HEALTH
Margaret Morris, Senior Researcher, Intel Corporation
Monique Lambert, Senior Research Scientist, Intel Corporation/Stanford University