The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing

The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women conference is a technical conference presenting talks by many of the most successful women in the computing field as well as panels, workshops and birds-of-a-feather sessions. The speakers are leaders in their fields and represent the major technical computing disciplines, and the academic, government and industrial communities.

Attendees will be informed of the latest advances in the rapidly changing computing field. In addition to focusing on and celebrating women's achievements, the conference will encourage collaboration across the subfields of computing. The Technical talks will cover significant work in many of the computing disciplines given by some of the field's most respected researchers and practitioners. Attendees will leave with up to date information about their own and other areas.

Anita Borg, General Chair
Network Systems Laboratory
Digital Equipment Corporation

Telle Whitney, Program Chair
Actel Corporation

Collaboration and information exchange

Speakers will be asked to describe their vision of the future of their field. They will comment on open problems with emphasis on possibilities for significant advances which appear to require collaboration within and across areas of expertise. Informal sessions will give attendees the opportunity to discuss these possibilities and make contacts.

Panel Discussion on "The Management Option"

Journalist Bronwyn Fryer will moderate a panel discussion among senior women who have moved from technical roles into management. Within the many fields and companies that together comprise the computing industry, much of the power lies in the hands of management. Panel participants will talk about the choices that led them into management, and will present their views of the future of the industry. The panel will include:

A Celebration of Women's Achievements

Women's significant achievements in computing have rarely been recognized en masse. This conference gives them recognition by the community of women, the computing community, and the world. The synergy we will far exceed the sum of the individual contributions.

Role Models, Mentors and Networking

By gathering a large number of professional technical women together in a single forum, attendees will make contact with more successful role models and potential mentors than has ever been possible. We will foster lasting relationships that will help to reverse the trend of women dropping out of computing. Scholarships and travel grants will ensure participation by students and others less able to afford the cost of attending.

Conference Format

The conference will be held in the center of Washington D.C. at the Loew's L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, on June 9-11, 1994. It is a three day event. The first two days, featuring speakers in a common session, are followed by a single day of concurrent panels, workshops, and bird-of-a-feather sessions on a broader range of topics.

On the evening of June 9 we will gather at a gala banquet at the hotel. On June 10, conference attendees will be bussed to a reception at the fabulous Nation Museum of Women in the Art for a buffet reception and a program by women using computers in their art.

The registration fees will be $350 ($150 students) and will include a gala banquet on June 9, a reception at the National Museum of Women's Art on June 10, as well as lunches and continental breakfasts.

Conference Organization

Warner