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http://blogs.sun.com/katysblog/date/20070702 Monday July 02, 2007

Sun at 2007 Grace Hopper Conference

The acceptances for The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (October 17-20, 2007 in Orlando, Florida) have been announced. I am still hearing back but Sun will be represented in at least eight panels and Birds of a Feather meetings:

    1. "Girl Geeks in High School – Technical Experiences of Future Inventors" (panel submitted by Katy Dickinson, Director in Sun's CTO group, and daughter Jessica Dickinson Goodman, soon-to-be Freshman at Carnegie Mellon University)
    2. "Successful Latinas Opening Doors to the Future: Advancing Latinas in Computing" (panel submitted by Gilda Garreton, Staff Engineer in Sun Labs; the panel also includes Ivonne Valdes, Sun Director in Global Services)
    3. "Latinas in Computing" (BOF submitted by Gilda Garreton, Staff Engineer in Sun Labs)
    4. "The Road to Executive Leadership" (includes a Sun panelist Kathy Jenks, Director in Sun Software)
    5. "Mentoring Makes MAGIC for Middle and High School Girls” (BOF submitted by Ira Pramanick, Sun Senior Staff Engineer in Software)
    6. "Advancing Your Career, Advancing Your Life" (panel submitted by Robin Wilensky, Architect in Sun Global Sales & Services)
    7. "Innovation Inside Corporations" (includes a Sun panelist Yvonne Wilson, Sun Principal IT Architect)
    8. "Managing your career 2-5 years out of school" (includes a Sun panelist Sukyoung Ryu, Member of the Technical Staff in Sun Labs)

Here is the Hopper web site: http://gracehopper.org/2007/

Posted at 02:42PM Jul 02, 2007 by katysblog in Hopper - Anita Borg Institute  | 

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