Call Out: 2012 Grace Hopper Celebration of #Women in #Computing #geekgirl

The 12th annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) has opened its Call for Participation. The annual conference, presented by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, is the world’s largest gathering of women in computing. The Grace Hopper Celebration will take place from October 3 – 6, 2012 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland. This year’s theme “Are We There Yet?” recognizes that technology and the culture of technology are continuously evolving but there are also concrete goals we are striving to achieve.

At the Grace Hopper Celebration, leading researchers present their current work while special sessions focus on the role of women in today’s technology fields, including computer science, information technology, research and engineering. The technical conference features well known keynote speakers and invited technical speakers, panels, workshops, new investigator technical papers, PhD forums, technical posters, birds of a feather sessions, the ACM Student Research Competition and an Awards Celebration. The attendees who range from students to executives use this global platform to get inspired, stay on top of emerging trends, learn and network.

http://gracehopper.org/2012/participate/call-for-participation/

The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is a program of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.
http://anitaborg.org/

“Impostor Syndrome” hampers women’s rise to top of IT tree

A keynote speaker at the Connecting Up conference in Sydney, May 11-12, 2009 will present a case for the “Impostor Syndrome” as a key reason women do not embrace success in IT careers.

Jody Mahoney, Vice President, Business Development, at the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology: http://www.anitaborg.org, will discuss the syndrome reported by many successful women that they often feel as if their achievements are a fluke. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_Syndrome

Jody will also explore in another presentation “tools to engage in the dynamic, fun, unpredictable, and always interesting world of raising money on behalf of NGOs”.

The 3rd annual Australian Community Technology Awards will be presented at a gala dinner on Monday May 11.

Tracey Fellows, managing director of Microsoft; Google Australia’s head of engineering, Alan Noble; and Martin Stewart-Weeks, Chair of the Australia Social Innovation Exchange, join the international speaker lineup, which also includes:

Cheryl Kernot – Centre for Social Impact, University of NSW
Mark Pesce – Social network guru, writer, New Inventors panelist
Monique Potts – Digital Media Project Manager at the ABC
Peter Deitz – founder and Executive Director of www.socialactions.com
Allen Gunn – Executive Director Aspiration www.aspirationtech.org

A full program of workshops and breakout sessions is available at http://www.connectingup.org/conference/program.

The conference will be held at the Novotel Brighton Le Sands, Sydney, Australia from May 11-12.

About Connecting Up Australia
Connecting Up Australia is a community-based nonprofit organisation. It operates the Donortec technology donation program for nonprofits (http://www.donortec.com.au),which has channelled over $40m in technology donations to nonprofits in the past two years, the annual Connecting Up conference on nonprofit technology issues and the annual Australian Community Technology Awards. In 2008 its CEO, Doug Jacquier, received the Innovator of the Year award in the Equity Trustees Nonprofit CEO Awards.

Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship is now open

The 2009 Google Australia and New Zealand Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship is now open. This is available to female students at an Australian or New Zealand university studying Computer Science, Software Engineering, Informatics, or a closely related technical field.

A major part of winning or being a finalist is the opportunity to go on the Finalist’s Retreat at the Google Sydney offices. http://www.google.com.au/anitaborg/

Applications close June 1, 2009.