What’s new this year is AnitaB.org Town Hall. We have speakers providing informational and inspirational talks. Want to give a lighting talk? We have special hours for open mic as well. See the schedule below.
Town Hall 1
Wednesday, Oct. 14
| 6:00 – 6:40 pm | Where’s my Visa? Vivian Graubard, US Digital Service,
One Woman’s Journey, Laura Downey, TSA |
| 7:00 – 7:40 pm | Qualcomm Hackathon Winners Honey Chawla, Janvi Chawla, Tina Ho, Vicki Shaw |
| 8:00 – 8:40 pm | My First Hackathon Faye Cheng, Mills College |
| 9:00 – 9:40 pm | Ladies Storm Hackathon Amy Chen, Rutgers |
Thursday, Oct. 15
| 10:15 – 10:55 am | Choosing What’s Right For You, Suzanne Mathews, USMA |
| 11:15 – 11:55 am | My Internship with Systers and Systerhood at USMA, Cadet Vanda Niemi,
USMA |
| 12:15 – 12:55 pm | Consumer to Coder: A Journey of Empowerment and Self-Discovery,
Kaya Thomas, Dartmouth College |
| 1:15 – 1:55 pm | Being A Female Patent Examiner, Tamara Y Washington, USPTO |
| 2:30 – 3:10 pm | Project Jupyter, Carol Willing, FabLabs San Diego and Python
Software Foundation and Safia Abdalla, Northwestern and PyLadies Chicago |
| 4:00 – 5:00 pm | Volunteer with 2016 GHC Community, Charna Parkey, Valerie Fenwick,
Gehana Booth, Zaza Soriano, Tamara Y Washington, Yiting Zheng |
Friday, Oct. 16
| 10:30 – 11:10 am | Trust Yourself In Difficult Times Jessica Mong, SurveyMonkey |
| 11:30 – 12:15 pm | Building Your Tech Career Heather Corallo, Groupon |
| 12:45 – 1:45 pm | The Engineer Brain Paulette Penzvalto, Columbia University |
Town Hall 2
Wednesday, Oct. 14
| 6:00 – 7:00 pm | The GHC Effect: How to Become a Badass Rose-Gaelle Belinga,
Maureen Doyle, Sharon Florentine, Rahima Mohammed, Paulina Ramos |
| 7:30 – 8:30 pm | From an Hour of Code to a CS Major. How to entice girls? Alice Steinglass,
VP of Product, Engineering and Marketing at Code.org |
| 9:00 – 9:30 pm | GHC India Carol Gustaveson |
Thursday, Oct. 15
| 10:30 – 11: am | Open Mic |
| 11:30 – 12:15 am | UIC BRAID — aiming for 30% Women from University of Illinois Chicago |
| 12:40 – 1:40 pm | ACM Student Research Competition Undergraduate Finals |
| 2:40 – 4:00 pm | ACM Student Research Competition Graduate Finals |
| 4:30 – 5:00 pm | How can you volunteer for GHC 2016? Stuti Badoni and Rose Robinson |
Friday, Oct. 16
| 10:30 – 11:30 am | SMASHing out the Stereotypes Jennifer Arguello, Kapor Center |
| 12:00 – 1:00 pm | Helping Our Veterans Through Technology Emily Wright-Moore, Veterans Affairs,
Know Before You Owe: Leveraging design and technology to empower mortgage consumers, Catherine Farman, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau |
| 1:20 – 2:00 pm | ABI.Local Robin Patin |