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CAREER ARTIFICIAL WEDNESDAY INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY OCTOBER 4 COMPUTER SYSTEMS CRA-W ENGINEERING STUDENT DATA SCIENCE OPPORTUNITY LAB HUMAN COMPUTER ACM RESEARCH INTERACTION COMPETITION INTERACTIVE MEDIA GENERAL POSTER SESSION SECURITY/PRIVACY GENERAL SESSION SOFTWARE ENGINEERING LUNCHES & RECEPTIONS OPEN SOURCE SPECIAL SESSIONS ORGANIZATION IOT / WEARABLE TECH TRANSFORMATION PRODUCTS A TO Z //////////////////////////////////////////////// TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3 / 5 - 6 p.m. GENERAL SESSION PRESENTATION First Timers Orientation OCCC W230C All NOTE: OCCC stands for the Orange County Convention Center #GHC17 DAY 1: WEDNESDAY #GHC17 DAY 1: WEDNESDAY //////////////////////////////////////////////// //////////////////////////////////////////////// 9 - 10:30 a.m. 11 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. GENERAL SESSION CAREER Wednesday Keynote Interviews OCCC WA2 Melinda Gates OCCC WB3/4 (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), Fei-Fei Li //////////////////////////////////////////////// (Stanford University; Google Cloud) 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PRESENTATIONS //////////////////////////////////////////////// 10:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Presentations: AI for Social Good OCCC W304C Jennifer Marsman (Microsoft), CAREER EXPO Neelima Kumar (Oracle) Beginner/Intermediate Career Fair CAREER PANEL OCCC WA3/4 & WB1/2 All For Good and For Profit: Exploring Careers in SPECIAL SESSIONS Social Enterprise Speaker Lounge OCCC W305 All Hyatt Regency Ballroom V Hannah SPECIAL SESSIONS Calhoon (Blue Ridge Labs@Robin Hood), Kamla Kasichainula (Change.org), Erin Mote Faculty Lounge OCCC W209C Faculty (InnovateEDU), Morgan Berman (MilkCrate), Donnovan Andrews (Overture) All //////////////////////////////////////////////// 10:30 a.m. - 6 p.m. CAREER PANEL Women in Tech: Get a Seat @ the Table! SPECIAL SESSIONS Hyatt Regency Ballroom S Monique Student Lounge sponsored by D.E. Shaw & Co. and Shivanandan (Aviva), Pamela Rice (Capital One), New York Life Insurance Julie Iskow (Medidata Solutions), Pragati Mathur OCCC W206 Student/Early Career (Staples) Mid-career #GHC17 DAY 1: WEDNESDAY #GHC17 DAY 1: WEDNESDAY //////////////////////////////////////////////// //////////////////////////////////////////////// 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CAREER PRESENTATIONS COMPUTER SYSTEMS ENGINEERING PRESENTATIONS Presentations: Students - Growing Yourself Presentations: Chip Design, Hardware, and Data Hyatt Regency Ballroom R Hope Bear (AWeber Processing Communications), Renée St. Amant (ARM), Shobhna OCCC W312C Pranjali Bakeri (Oracle), Aida Upadhyaya (LinkedIn) Student/Early Career Vosoughi (Oracle), Maria Gorlatova (Princeton CAREER WORKSHOP University) Beginner/Intermediate Find Your Inner Tech Talk Topic in 60 Minutes CRA-W WORKSHOP Hyatt Regency Ballroom O Vedika Dalmia Graduate School Survival Skills (Bloomberg), Katerina Domenikou (Bloomberg) Hyatt Regency Ballroom Q Kathryn Student/Early Career McKinley (Google), Maria Gini (University of CAREER WORKSHOP Minnesota) Student/Early Career Nail Your Promotion DATA SCIENCE PRESENTATIONS Hyatt Orlando Ballroom L Catherine Presentations: Data Science Research Courage (Google), Ritika Kapadia (Microsoft) OCCC W315B Jane Huang (Amazon), Nikan Senior/Executive Chavoshi (University of New Mexico), Hima Patel COMMUNITY PRESENTATION (Visa) Advanced National-scale Committees: The Process and the HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION PANEL Workload from a Diverse Perspective Accessibility in the Digital Age and Cognitive Era Hyatt Plaza International Ballroom G All OCCC W314B Amy Doherty (AARP), Ruoyi COMMUNITY SOCIAL Zhou (IBM), Katie Siek (Indiana University), Jenny Systers Social Lay-Flurrie (Microsoft), Cathy Bodine (University Hyatt Plaza International Ballroom H All of Colorado) Beginner/Intermediate #GHC17 DAY 1: WEDNESDAY #GHC17 DAY 1: WEDNESDAY //////////////////////////////////////////////// //////////////////////////////////////////////// 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. INTERACTIVE MEDIA PRESENTATION ORGANIZATION TRANSFORMATION PRESENTATIONS Leveraging Mobile AR/VR and the Learnings from Presentations: History & Global Learnings Gaming OCCC W224H Anicia Peters (Namibia OCCC W230C Laura Teclemariam University of Science and Technology), Marie (Electronic Arts) Beginner/Intermediate Hicks (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Unoma INTERACTIVE MEDIA WORKSHOP Okorafor (WAAW Foundation), Kishau Rogers (Websmith Studio Inc) All Expressive Electronics for Computer Scientists: An Introduction to Paper Circuits PRODUCTS A TO Z PRESENTATIONS OCCC W307C Andrew "Bunnie" Huang Presentations: Product Market Opportunities (Chibitronics), Jie Qi (Chibitronics), Natalie Freed OCCC W224F Anat Levin (Intuit), Sneha Beginner/Intermediate Keshwani (LinkedIn), Kristine Song (LinkedIn) IOT / WEARABLE TECH PANEL Beginner/Intermediate IoT for Social Good: the Good, the Bad, the Ugly SECURITY/PRIVACY PRESENTATIONS OCCC W414A Meena Palaniappan (Atma Connect), Beena Ammanath (GE), Lama Nachman Presentations: Privacy (Intel), Molly Gavin (Qualcomm), Saidah Nash Carter OCCC W311C Xinru Page (Bentley (Thomson Reuters) Beginner/Intermediate University), Carolina Alonso (BakerHostetler) OPEN SOURCE WORKSHOP Beginner/Intermediate The Firefox Nightly Branch: Where the Magic SOFTWARE ENGINEERING WORKSHOP Happens! Think Like a Software Engineer OCCC W208B Yekaterina Glazko, Liz Henry OCCC W308C Erin Bailie (Palantir Technologies), (Mozilla), Marcia Knous (Mozilla) Beginner/ Andrew Dorne (Palantir Technologies), Tushar Narayan Intermediate (Palantir Technologies) Beginner/Intermediate #GHC17 DAY 1: WEDNESDAY #GHC17 DAY 1: WEDNESDAY //////////////////////////////////////////////// //////////////////////////////////////////////// 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. SPECIAL SESSIONS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PRESENTATIONS So You Want to be an Entrepreneur? Presentations: Core AI OCCC Valencia Ballroom Laura Mather OCCC W304C Yixuan Li (Cornell (Talent Sonar), Brian Dixon (Kapor Capital), University), Morgana Carter (Intel), Alexandra Gené Teare (Crunchbase, TechCrunch), Aileen Johnson (SigOpt) Beginner/Intermediate Lee (Cowboy Ventures), Natalia Oberti Noguera CAREER PANEL (Pipeline Angels) All An Inside Perspective from the Hillary for America //////////////////////////////////////////////// Tech Team 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Hyatt Regency Ballroom V Lauren Pully, SPECIAL SESSIONS WORKSHOP Alex Berke (Pioneer Works), Krista Davis (Solidarity Company), Jackie Chang (Stripe), Amy Hailes (The Become a Person of Influence Democratic National Committee) All OCCC WF4 Jo Miller (Women's Leadership Coaching Inc.) All CAREER PANEL The Engineer's Journey: Choose Your Own Adventure Hyatt Regency Ballroom O Cindy Burns (Dell Technologies), Mary Dang (Electronic Arts), Nadyne Richmond (Genentech), Pi-Chuan Chang (Google), What are Top Companies for women Leor Chechik (Oracle) Student/Early Career CAREER PANEL technologists doing differently? Navigating Change: Ride the Waves of Change FIND OUT AT 1:30 P.M. Without Feeling Underwater Benchmarking Culture: Hyatt Regency Ballroom S Vanessa Looking at the Voice Behind the Numbers Hernandez (Aon Hewitt), Indu Khosla (GoDaddy), Ariel Aguilar (Microsoft), Alex Riccomini (Reddit), #TOPCOS An Bui (RiskIQ) Mid-career #GHC17 DAY 1: WEDNESDAY #GHC17 DAY 1: WEDNESDAY //////////////////////////////////////////////// //////////////////////////////////////////////// 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. CAREER PRESENTATIONS COMPUTER SYSTEMS ENGINEERING WORKSHOP Presentations: Students - Growing Your Career WHAT do BANKSY and MICROCHIPS HAVE in Hyatt Regency Ballroom R Anneka Gupta COMMON? (LiveRamp, An Acxiom Company), Emily Leones OCCC W307C Ishika Batra (Synopsys), (ThoughtWorks), Kristi Jaska (ViaSat) Student/ Ron Duncan (Synopsys), Raewadee Parnmukh Early Career (Synopsys) Beginner/Intermediate CAREER WORKSHOP CRA-W WORKSHOP Five Ways to Tap Into Your Power: Take The Lead! Building Your Academic Professional Network Hyatt Orlando Ballroom L Sarah Hyatt Regency Ballroom Q Susan Rodger Hagerman (SHAMBAUGH), Rebecca Shambaugh (Duke University), Ayanna Howard (Georgia (SHAMBAUGH) Senior/Executive Institute of Technology) Student/Early Career COMMUNITY PANEL DATA SCIENCE PANEL The Myth of the Unicorn: Perspectives of Native How to Turn Data Science into Dollars American Women in Computing OCCC W311C Kristen Burton (Cisco Systems Hyatt Plaza International Ballroom G Squiggy Inc.), Kala Ramaswamy (eBay), Christina Clark (GE), Rubio (Electronic Frontier Foundation), Amanda Sarmila Basu (Microsoft), Barbara Wixom (MIT - Sharp (Intel), Nicole Archambault (La Vie En Code), Center for IS Research) Beginner/Intermediate Kylie Bemis (Northeastern University) All HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION PRESENTATIONS COMMUNITY SOCIAL Presentations: HCI Social Celebrating Asian Women in Technical Roles OCCC W314B Charlotte Hill (Apple), Franca Hyatt Plaza International Ballroom H All Garzotto (DEIB-Politecnico di Milano), Poonam Tathavadkar (Intuit) Beginner/Intermediate #GHC17 DAY 1: WEDNESDAY #GHC17 DAY 1: WEDNESDAY //////////////////////////////////////////////// //////////////////////////////////////////////// 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. INTERACTIVE MEDIA PRESENTATIONS ORGANIZATION TRANSFORMATION WORKSHOP Presentations: Interactive Media Research The Power of Difference: Women's Networks— OCCC W308C Zoe Wood (Cal Poly, Growing Talent. 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