PROGRAM 2013 (Subject to Change)
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Friday, November 8
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17:30-18:30
18:30-Onwards |
Registration and Informal Socializing
Dinner Keynote: Carol Leaman, CEO of Axonify Inc |
The Tannery
Charles St W, Kitchener |
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Saturday, November 9
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07:30-08:30
08:30-09:00 09:00-10:00 10:15-11:15 11:15-11:30 11:30-12:30 12:30-14:30 14:30-15:30 15:30-15:45 15:45-16:45 16:45-17:00 |
Registration and Breakfast
Welcome Keynote: Maria Klawe, President of Harvey Mudd College Getting More Women into Tech Careers and Why It Matters Technical Session A: Susan Ibach, Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Canada Building an App: Dream it, Build it, Live it Technical Session B: Sandy Graham, University of Waterloo How to Reach Out to Younger Students Coffee Break Keynote: Kelley Irwin, VP Technology Solutions, TD Bank Group You're Hired, Now What? Lunch, Career Fair, Research Poster Competition Session C: Zeina Awedikan, Morgan Stanley Why We Embraced Agile: Solving the Curious Case of User Requirements Technical Session D: Jerie Shaw, University of Ottawa, Hosted by the NSERC/Pratt & Whitney Canada Chair for Women in Science and Technology Negotiation and Communication Skills Training for Women in STEM Coffee Break Career Panel
Closing Remarks |
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Maria Klawe
President of Harvey Mudd College
Harvey Mudd College is led by Maria Klawe, HMC’s fifth president, who began her tenure in 2006. A renowned computer scientist and scholar, President Klawe is the first woman to lead the College since its founding in 1955. Prior to joining HMC, she served as dean of engineering and professor of computer science at Princeton University. During her time at Princeton, Klawe led the School of Engineering and Applied Science through a strategic planning exercise that created an exciting and widely embraced vision for the school. At Harvey Mudd College, she led a similarly ambitious strategic planning initiative, "HMC 2020: Envisioning the Future."
Klawe joined Princeton from the University of British Columbia where she served as dean of science from 1998 to 2002, vice president of student and academic services from 1995 to 1998 and head of the Department of Computer Science from 1988 to 1995. Prior to UBC, Klawe spent eight years with IBM Research in California, and two years at the University of Toronto. She received her Ph.D. (1977) and B.Sc. (1973) in mathematics from the University of Alberta.
Klawe has made significant research contributions in several areas of mathematics and computer science, including functional analysis, discrete mathematics, theoretical computer science, human-computer interaction, gender issues in information technology and interactive-multimedia for mathematics education. Her current research focuses on discrete mathematics.
Klawe is one of the ten members of the board of Microsoft Corporation, a board member of Broadcom Corporation and the nonprofit Math for America, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a trustee for the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley and a member of both the Stanford Engineering Advisory Council and the Advisory Council for the Computer Science Teachers Association. She was elected as a fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery in 1996 and as a founding fellow of the Canadian Information Processing Society in 2006.
President of Harvey Mudd College
Harvey Mudd College is led by Maria Klawe, HMC’s fifth president, who began her tenure in 2006. A renowned computer scientist and scholar, President Klawe is the first woman to lead the College since its founding in 1955. Prior to joining HMC, she served as dean of engineering and professor of computer science at Princeton University. During her time at Princeton, Klawe led the School of Engineering and Applied Science through a strategic planning exercise that created an exciting and widely embraced vision for the school. At Harvey Mudd College, she led a similarly ambitious strategic planning initiative, "HMC 2020: Envisioning the Future."
Klawe joined Princeton from the University of British Columbia where she served as dean of science from 1998 to 2002, vice president of student and academic services from 1995 to 1998 and head of the Department of Computer Science from 1988 to 1995. Prior to UBC, Klawe spent eight years with IBM Research in California, and two years at the University of Toronto. She received her Ph.D. (1977) and B.Sc. (1973) in mathematics from the University of Alberta.
Klawe has made significant research contributions in several areas of mathematics and computer science, including functional analysis, discrete mathematics, theoretical computer science, human-computer interaction, gender issues in information technology and interactive-multimedia for mathematics education. Her current research focuses on discrete mathematics.
Klawe is one of the ten members of the board of Microsoft Corporation, a board member of Broadcom Corporation and the nonprofit Math for America, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a trustee for the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley and a member of both the Stanford Engineering Advisory Council and the Advisory Council for the Computer Science Teachers Association. She was elected as a fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery in 1996 and as a founding fellow of the Canadian Information Processing Society in 2006.
Carol Leaman
CEO, Axonify Inc
Carol Leaman is the CEO of Axonify (www.axonify.com), a next generation eLearning platform that combines brain science with gamification in order to improve employee learning through digital media.
Carol has over fifteen years of experience in tech entrepreneurship, including having been CEO of PostRank which was bought by Google in 2011, RSS Solutions and FakeSpace. She was the 2010 winner of the Sarah Kirke Award for Canada's leading female entrepreneur, and the 2011 winner of the Waterloo Region Intrepid Award for Entrepreneurship.
CEO, Axonify Inc
Carol Leaman is the CEO of Axonify (www.axonify.com), a next generation eLearning platform that combines brain science with gamification in order to improve employee learning through digital media.
Carol has over fifteen years of experience in tech entrepreneurship, including having been CEO of PostRank which was bought by Google in 2011, RSS Solutions and FakeSpace. She was the 2010 winner of the Sarah Kirke Award for Canada's leading female entrepreneur, and the 2011 winner of the Waterloo Region Intrepid Award for Entrepreneurship.
Kelley Irwin
Vice President, Technology Solutions
TD Bank Group
Kelley Irwin is Vice President, Technology Solutions at TD Bank Group. She leads a team of over 700 people in Canada (Toronto, Mississauga, London) and India (Bangalore, Chennai, and Pune) and manages an annual project development budget of $95 million. Her team includes employees and global delivery partners focused on application development and testing to support Retail and Business customers of the bank. TD has more than 19 million customers worldwide and 82,000 employees. Prior to TD Bank, Kelley was Senior Vice President of Application Services at Symcor processing 200 million customer payments and 675 million statements annually. Before Symcor, Kelley was Vice President of Global IT Services at Sun Life Financial where she led technology teams across Canada and five countries in Asia. Kelley started her career as a developer, loves technology and technologists, and has expertise in building teams from the ground up focused on quality delivery and employee engagement.
She recently traveled to India to visit five technology companies and participate in roundtable discussions - one with Executive women and four with new Computer Science graduates.
Check out her blog at workingtechmom.wordpress.com
Vice President, Technology Solutions
TD Bank Group
Kelley Irwin is Vice President, Technology Solutions at TD Bank Group. She leads a team of over 700 people in Canada (Toronto, Mississauga, London) and India (Bangalore, Chennai, and Pune) and manages an annual project development budget of $95 million. Her team includes employees and global delivery partners focused on application development and testing to support Retail and Business customers of the bank. TD has more than 19 million customers worldwide and 82,000 employees. Prior to TD Bank, Kelley was Senior Vice President of Application Services at Symcor processing 200 million customer payments and 675 million statements annually. Before Symcor, Kelley was Vice President of Global IT Services at Sun Life Financial where she led technology teams across Canada and five countries in Asia. Kelley started her career as a developer, loves technology and technologists, and has expertise in building teams from the ground up focused on quality delivery and employee engagement.
She recently traveled to India to visit five technology companies and participate in roundtable discussions - one with Executive women and four with new Computer Science graduates.
Check out her blog at workingtechmom.wordpress.com
Sessions
Building an App: Dream it, Build it, Live it
Susan Ibach (www.godevmental.com)
Senior Technology Evangelist
Microsoft
Do you have a phone or tablet? Take a look at all those apps you have installed. Did you know that YOU can build an app and publish it? In fact, if you sat down for one afternoon, you could build an app that was good enough to publish. In this session we’ll not only look at how to get started building an app but we’ll also talk about the full potential of apps. The reach of phones and tablets gives you the ability of any developer to make an impact on the world! Could you build an app that makes a difference? By the time this session is done you’ll know how to start and we’ll hopefully get your brain buzzing thinking about what you could build!
Bio: Susan Ibach is a technical evangelist at Microsoft Canada, that means she loves to talk about the latest developer trends at Microsoft. That includes Windows Phone, Windows 8, Visual Studio, HTML5 and the cloud. Susan also has the privilege of working with students and professors across Canada supporting programs such as DreamSpark which provides free software for students, and Imagine Cup, Microsoft’s worldwide technology competition for students. Although she started out as an Electrical Engineer, she soon discovered that her passion for software was stronger than her passion for hardware. Her love of code has led to a variety of roles in software development over the years including development, testing, releasing, and teaching. When she is not staring at an LCD screen, she is probably out running, or enjoying her husband's cooking
Susan Ibach (www.godevmental.com)
Senior Technology Evangelist
Microsoft
Do you have a phone or tablet? Take a look at all those apps you have installed. Did you know that YOU can build an app and publish it? In fact, if you sat down for one afternoon, you could build an app that was good enough to publish. In this session we’ll not only look at how to get started building an app but we’ll also talk about the full potential of apps. The reach of phones and tablets gives you the ability of any developer to make an impact on the world! Could you build an app that makes a difference? By the time this session is done you’ll know how to start and we’ll hopefully get your brain buzzing thinking about what you could build!
Bio: Susan Ibach is a technical evangelist at Microsoft Canada, that means she loves to talk about the latest developer trends at Microsoft. That includes Windows Phone, Windows 8, Visual Studio, HTML5 and the cloud. Susan also has the privilege of working with students and professors across Canada supporting programs such as DreamSpark which provides free software for students, and Imagine Cup, Microsoft’s worldwide technology competition for students. Although she started out as an Electrical Engineer, she soon discovered that her passion for software was stronger than her passion for hardware. Her love of code has led to a variety of roles in software development over the years including development, testing, releasing, and teaching. When she is not staring at an LCD screen, she is probably out running, or enjoying her husband's cooking
How to Reach Out to Younger Students
Sandy Graham
University of Waterloo
Research has shown that outreach to female students in high school and elementary school, can encourage female students to consider Computer Science as a future area of study and career path. Most of us, have had little opportunity to interact with younger students since we were in high school ourselves. This session will present strategies for designing outreach activities for high school students. We will discuss some general principles for creating these activities as well as some specific examples of activities that have been successfully presented to students in a variety of venues. The second half of the session will be an opportunity to brainstorm with other people in the session about activities aimed at elementary school students. We will also discuss ways of sharing ideas in the future.
Bio: Sandy Graham is a lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. She is also a member of the Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing (CEMC). The CEMC (cemc.uwaterloo.ca) is "Canada's largest and most recognized outreach organization for promoting and creating activities and materials in mathematics and computer science". As part of her duties in the CEMC, Sandy has been the director of the CEMC Workshop in Computer Science for Young Women for over 10 years. This week long workshop has students from across Canada come to the University of Waterloo to learn about Computer Science and help debunk the myths of the field. Before joining the Faculty of Mathematics, Sandy was a high school teacher in northwestern Ontario.
Sandy Graham
University of Waterloo
Research has shown that outreach to female students in high school and elementary school, can encourage female students to consider Computer Science as a future area of study and career path. Most of us, have had little opportunity to interact with younger students since we were in high school ourselves. This session will present strategies for designing outreach activities for high school students. We will discuss some general principles for creating these activities as well as some specific examples of activities that have been successfully presented to students in a variety of venues. The second half of the session will be an opportunity to brainstorm with other people in the session about activities aimed at elementary school students. We will also discuss ways of sharing ideas in the future.
Bio: Sandy Graham is a lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. She is also a member of the Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing (CEMC). The CEMC (cemc.uwaterloo.ca) is "Canada's largest and most recognized outreach organization for promoting and creating activities and materials in mathematics and computer science". As part of her duties in the CEMC, Sandy has been the director of the CEMC Workshop in Computer Science for Young Women for over 10 years. This week long workshop has students from across Canada come to the University of Waterloo to learn about Computer Science and help debunk the myths of the field. Before joining the Faculty of Mathematics, Sandy was a high school teacher in northwestern Ontario.
Why We Embraced Agile: Solving the Curious Case of User Requirements
Zeina Awedikan
Morgan Stanley
Please join Zeina as she shares her team’s experience in adopting the Agile methodology and learn how it helped solve problems facing real life projects.
Bio: Zeina Awedikian is the Development Manager of the Official Confirmation System for Cash Equity and Fixed Income Trades at Morgan Stanley Technology. Zeina joined the team four years ago through the Technology Analyst Program and is now the team lead, managing employees in Montreal, Mumbai and London. Zeina holds a Master’s degree in Software Engineering and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering.
Zeina Awedikan
Morgan Stanley
Please join Zeina as she shares her team’s experience in adopting the Agile methodology and learn how it helped solve problems facing real life projects.
Bio: Zeina Awedikian is the Development Manager of the Official Confirmation System for Cash Equity and Fixed Income Trades at Morgan Stanley Technology. Zeina joined the team four years ago through the Technology Analyst Program and is now the team lead, managing employees in Montreal, Mumbai and London. Zeina holds a Master’s degree in Software Engineering and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering.
Negotiation and Communication Skills Training for Women in STEM
Jerie Shaw
Hosted by the NSERC / Pratt & Whitney Canada Chair for Women in Science and Engineering
We engage in negotiation every day without even being aware of it. When you compromise with your spouse, divvy up tasks in a working group, or debate which movie to see with your friend tonight, you're engaging in negotiation.
Studies find that women are significantly less likely than men to negotiate and/or to vigorously defend their position in negotiations (Babcock & Laschever, 2007). The results of this are quite dramatic: women who always negotiate their salary earn at least $1 million more over the course of their careers than women who don't. This workshop is designed to introduce early- to mid-career women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) to the basics of negotiation in a business context. Communication skills will be stressed as a particularly important aspect of developing increased negotiation competency. The emphasis of this session will be on collaborative learning, sharing previous negotiation experiences, and expanding on existing skills. Examples from computer science and information technology will be used in order to make the workshop particularly relevant and useful for women attending ONCWIC 2013.
Bio: Jerie Shaw is a Master's student at the University of Ottawa with six years of experience studying and working in the communications field. For the past two years Jerie Shaw has conducted research on differences between male and female communication on behalf of the NSERC / Pratt & Whitney Canada Chair for Women in Science and Engineering. As part of this endeavour, she has provided negotiation skills training workshops in Ottawa to both students and professionals in STEM.
About the Chair: The NSERC / Pratt & Whitney Chair for Women in Science and Engineering for Ontario is a five-year program to advance women in the fields of science and engineering, supported by NSERC (the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada), Pratt & Whitney Canada and the University of Ottawa. The Chair is held by Dr. Catherine Mavriplis, associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ottawa. The Chair program aims to address issues for the entire spectrum of women from early interest in schools, through university studies and professional lives, in particular at the mid-career stage and on to leadership. The program will be comprehensive in its approach to advancing women in science and engineering (S&E) professions addressing:
Jerie Shaw
Hosted by the NSERC / Pratt & Whitney Canada Chair for Women in Science and Engineering
We engage in negotiation every day without even being aware of it. When you compromise with your spouse, divvy up tasks in a working group, or debate which movie to see with your friend tonight, you're engaging in negotiation.
Studies find that women are significantly less likely than men to negotiate and/or to vigorously defend their position in negotiations (Babcock & Laschever, 2007). The results of this are quite dramatic: women who always negotiate their salary earn at least $1 million more over the course of their careers than women who don't. This workshop is designed to introduce early- to mid-career women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) to the basics of negotiation in a business context. Communication skills will be stressed as a particularly important aspect of developing increased negotiation competency. The emphasis of this session will be on collaborative learning, sharing previous negotiation experiences, and expanding on existing skills. Examples from computer science and information technology will be used in order to make the workshop particularly relevant and useful for women attending ONCWIC 2013.
Bio: Jerie Shaw is a Master's student at the University of Ottawa with six years of experience studying and working in the communications field. For the past two years Jerie Shaw has conducted research on differences between male and female communication on behalf of the NSERC / Pratt & Whitney Canada Chair for Women in Science and Engineering. As part of this endeavour, she has provided negotiation skills training workshops in Ottawa to both students and professionals in STEM.
About the Chair: The NSERC / Pratt & Whitney Chair for Women in Science and Engineering for Ontario is a five-year program to advance women in the fields of science and engineering, supported by NSERC (the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada), Pratt & Whitney Canada and the University of Ottawa. The Chair is held by Dr. Catherine Mavriplis, associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ottawa. The Chair program aims to address issues for the entire spectrum of women from early interest in schools, through university studies and professional lives, in particular at the mid-career stage and on to leadership. The program will be comprehensive in its approach to advancing women in science and engineering (S&E) professions addressing:
- recruitment to the professions
- retention and advancement of those professionals already employed in S & E sectors
- a study of the status of women and the S&E environment through a research program.