Welcome to ONCWIC 2012!

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The 2012 Ontario Celebration of Women in Computing (ONCWIC 2012) took place on October 12/13, 2012 in London, Ontario, hosted by the University of Western Ontario.   The conference chair was Dr. Hanan Lutfiyya and was organized by the faculty, staff and students of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Western Ontario.  

The conference was held at the London Hilton Hotel in downtown London, ON.  The conference was attended by more than 120 students, faculty and professionals from across Ontario. 

Highlights included:
  • a talk on communication tips by the NSERC Chair, Women in Science and Engineering
  • an amazing keynote by Kelly Irwin from TD Bank on IT management and development in the financial industry
  • useful information from Morgan Stanley about resume writing and job interviews
  • an interesting talk on the technology trends by IBM
  • student posters and presentations (Queen’s was well represented with 6 posters)
  • a cool social media contest that had attendees climbing under dessert tables, yelling random things and even proposing to the lone male attendee to win prizes
  • the Morgan Stanley programming competition
  • a career/industrial fair with cool give-aways, on-site recruiting/interviews and tons of information
  • great food and door prizes
  • and plenty of opportunity to connect and network with other technical women in Ontario

Full Program 2012

Sponsors -- thank you to all of our sponsors; without you, this would not be possible!

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