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I'm a Hopper, You're a Hopper (Angela Dalton)

Innovation Inside Corporations
Some of the greatest innovations in technology come out of large, powerful corporations. You just can’t match the resources of those organizations in terms of money and technical prowess. The question this session tried to answer was how to get involved in the innovation within a large corporation, where it seems so easy [...]

Brit @ GHC 2007 (Brittany McCullar)

Innovation Strategies: Finding the Next Big Idea
Sadness.. It's my last session at my first GHC!

The presenter founded a company called Rubicon in 1999. It's a
high-tech consulting firm that has big-name clients such as Logitech.

Innovation is critical! She said that we should consider ourselves as
innovators, which is interesting to think about. I had never thought
of myself as an innovator before. I suppose I could look at our work
with WiCS as innovation!

The speaker brought up an interesting story about the CEO of FedEx,
Fred Smith. He wrote an undergrad paper about his applied idea from
telecommunications and banking industries to transportation He got a
C on it! His classmates and professor did not like his idea at all.
This is so inspiring to me since I have received less-than-stellar
grades on essays in my undergraduate study, and that can be so
discouraging. It's nice to realize that even some of the most
successful people in industry have not always done as well as they
would like!

She told us another story about the inventor of Post-It notes, Art
Fry. As a college student, I can attest that Post-It notes are pretty
much the best invention ever. :)

One of Apple's inventions, the first mouse for a Macintosh, was a
"reinvented" invention that was originally debuted in 1968. Twenty
years later, it became a successful Apple product.

Some innovation lessons:
-Build on existing concepts.
-Do more elegant solutions.
-Serve the new demand.
-Serve exising customers with more.

Five part framework for innovation:
-Map it -> compare to competitors and benchmarks
-Listen and knit -> research methodology
-Seek out new minds -> find other good thinkers, be curious, and ask questions
-Seek the wand -> ask powerful questions, find solutions for problems
-Plot out options -> develop alternative scenarios, work on scenarios
with industry leaders

This was a very interesting, thought-provoking session. What a great
way to conclude GHC!

Meandering streams of consciousness (Anna Martelli Ravenscroft)

Too tired to post

Diane's space (Diane Curtis)

Technical to Management: Expect the Unexpected - A Synopsis of Two Women’s First Year Experiences

This would be one of the harder panels to prepare for. Do you cover best practices of being a manager? Anecdotal evidence of things that have worked well for you?

This presentation gave a good overview of some pros/cons of moving to management, some challenges they had and best practices. Overall, I liked it as an overview. I was expecting more examples of "unexpected" things. But many of the things discussed worked whether one is a leader in the organization or a manager. For instance, asking for feedback. Everyone should be asking for feedback from peers/managers. It helps anyone get better! And get a mentor or support system!! Again, I think mentorship is a great best practice for anyone. I was happy they reinforced that.

Diane Curtis Official GHC 2007 Blogger You may comment on this blog by visiting the GHC Forum You can find me at http://dianecu.spaces.live.com

FeelingElephant's Weblog (Jessica Dickinson Goodman)

Mentoring Makes MAGIC for Middle and High School Girls (part 2)
Hey all, Just as I promised, here’s more info on MAGIC. I was very impressed by the women on this panel. But the facts of the MAGIC project are just as interesting (and potentially motivational). As a quick note, I just finished watching part of Randy Pausch’s presentation on Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, and it [...]

Katy Dickinson's Blog (Katy Dickinson)

Sun Presentations at Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
The Hopper conference announced its acceptances yesterday. I just finished collecting review results from Sun's submitters. Sun staff submitted or were part of groups which submitted 19 proposals to Hopper 2009 and 13 were accepted (69%) - Sun's best acceptance rate ever! This includes Susan Landau's invited technical talk. The 2009 Sun presenters are from a very broad range of Engineering disciplines: Microelectronics, Software, Storage, Sun Labs, and the Systems group.

GHC 2009 will be held:

Tucson, Arizona
September 30 - October 3, 2009

Sun will be a Platinum Corporate Sponsor for the Hopper conference again this year.

Also, my daughter Jessica sent in two GHC 2009 submissions, both of which were accepted. This is Jessica's third Hopper conference and her second as an accepted presenter (she started out on my Girl Geeks panel in 2007). Jessica has just finished her Sophomore year at Carnegie Mellon University.

Sun's accepted submissions are:

1. "Bits and Bites: Explaining Communications Security (and Insecurity) to Washington and Brussels" invited technical talk by Susan Landau
2. "3D Collaborative Environments for Social Good" (Sun Proposal - accepted as a poster), Gilda Garreton and Nicole Yankelovich
3. "Designing for the 100+ Year Archive" (Sun Proposal - accepted as a poster), with Cathleen Wharton
4. "Developing sustainable technologies for an improved future" (panel submitted by Intel), includes Sudesna Dash
5. "Formal verification on leading edge microprocessor design" (Sun Proposal - accepted as a poster) by Catherine Ahlschlager, Pamela Parish, and Shrenik Mehta
6. "From Spec. to Silicon: Successful Validation of a Server-class SoC Microprocessor" (Sun Proposed Presentation), with Manisha Hardikar
7. "Open Source Community Development" (Sun Proposed Panel), includes Valerie Fenwick, Teresa Giacomini, and others
8. "Solving the Two Body Problem: Creating Technology While Maintaining Your Social Life" (NASA Proposed Panel), includes Katy Dickinson
9. "Speed Mentoring for Latinas in Computing" (IBM Proposed BOF), includes Gilda Garreton
10. "Technical Mentorship and Sponsorship: Why You Need It and How to Find It" (Google Proposed Panel), includes Cathleen Wharton
11. "The Value of Awards & How to Get Them" (Sun Proposed Panel), includes Katy Dickinson
12. Video blogging (Sun Proposal - accepted as a poster), includes Deirdre Straughan
13. "Women and the Flat Connected World" (Sun Proposed Panel), includes Meenakshi Kaul-Basu

Some Hopper 2008 Photos:

Jessica's Poster

Sun Reception

M Kaul-Basu

Susan Landau interview

Images Copyright 2008 Katy Dickinson

Thoughts from a software engineer (Valerie Fenwick)

GHC: goodbye

It's about time to go and finish packing and head to the airport.  I'm in Innovation Strategies: Finding the Big Idea, but I have to leave early and the session started late, so I'm not going to write anything up on this session - but Brittany is blogging this session right next to me, so it'll be covered :-)

Sponsor Night last night was incredible - got to talk to so many amazing women, meeting new people, reconnecting with friends and even bumped into a woman, Heather, that I went to Snider High School with in Fort Wayne, IN. Small world! 

This was such an amazing conference - I've got so many things to take away from this. So much to think about.  I'll try to write more thoughts on all of this later - but for now, I need to pack!

Valerie Fenwick

Official GHC 2007 Blogger. You may comment on this blog by visiting the GHC Forum.

life is beautiful (Tulika Agrawal)

"approved" laptop bags
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1829687,00.html?cnn=yes

To qualify as "checkpoint friendly," a bag must have a designated laptop-only section that unfolds to lie flat on the X-ray machine belt and contains no metal snaps, zippers or buckles and no pockets.

Obviously the security people are not going to look at each laptop bag and tell you to either take the laptop out or leave it in. That would totally defeat the purpose. So in the end it will boil down to are you carrying the laptop bag with approval seal. One more way for manufacturers to charge an insane amount for their "authority approved" merchandise, like the ziplock bags. What's next, approved shoes, approved shampoo and conditioner, approved knife, gun ......

Eventyr (Johanna Hunt)

Intrapreneurship
Intrapreneurism is working from within; "internalising the mission of an organization, absorbing your customer's problem, and driving a creative solution that matters." Organisations rely on intrapreneurism and always have. No one tells you to do it but they appreciate the...

Gilda en Espa�ol (Gilda Garreton)

A Arizona Los Pasajes!, Conferencia Grace Hopper 2009

Salieron los resultados de los trabajos que fueron aceptados en la próxima conferencia Grace Hopper 2009 y las cosas anduvieron bastante bien. La conferencia es en Tucson Arizona, en el JW Marriot Starr Pass Resort. En GHC8 nos mostraron un video y por lo que me acuerdo queda en el medio del desierto!!

Por el lado de Sun, el 69% de los trabajos fueron aceptado ya sea como paneles, sesiones BoF o posters. Katy bloggeó sobre eso así que lean aquí esos resultados. No vale la pena repetir la información dado que ella hizo un buen trabajo

Por el lado de LiC, los siguientes trabajos aceptados incluyen miembros de nuestra comunidad. Según yo tuvimos un 100% de aceptación o me equivocó? Espero que nadie se me haya quedado en el tintero..

1. "Speed Mentoring for Latinas in Computing", Anguiano-Wende, Aragon, Castillo, Da Silva, Garreton, Lopez, Silva
2. ""Cross-Cultural Communication Challenges Faced by Women in Computing", Rubio, Abreu, Enciso, Koufakou, Simmonds.
3. "Empowering Immigrant Communities Through Technology", un trabajo conjunto de CAMINOS y THREAD (THRough Education and Active Dialogue) de Google
4. "Baby Loading, Please Wait: Pregnancy, Graduate School, & Computing", Vega, Silva

Desde hace un par de años, también tenemos un almuerzo para Latinas participando en la conferencia y este año será el Viernes 2 de Octubre. Y quizás este año se nos ocurre algo nuevo... entonces esten atentas

En mi caso, también me aceptaron el trabajo sobre Wonderland como poster así que me tocará preparar algunas demos.


Yeah, A Arizona los pasajes!!!