Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2007

I know of at least five women in Engineering here at Sun who
are preparing proposals to submit to the
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2007. The submission deadline was just extended to 9 June.
Hopper 2007 will be held October 17-20 in Orlando, Florida.

Starting this year, Hopper is an annual event and will be held together with the Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing. As the web site
says: “Past Grace Hopper Celebrations have resulted in collaborative proposals, networking, mentoring, and increased visibility for the contributions of women in computing. This year’s theme is I Invent the Future“.

The Anita Borg Institute for
Women and Technology (ABI) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) present the Hopper conference. 2007 is the 7th Hopper, will be the
4th I have attended, and the 3rd to which I have submitted a
proposal. I had panels on mentoring at the last two Hopper conferences.

I am on the Advisory Board for the ABI. Sun hosted the ABI Ambassadors meeting here in Menlo Park yesterday. We discussed best practices in networking groups of women in Engineering at
Sun, Cisco, and HP. Sun’s group is called SASWE (“Succeeding @ Sun As a Woman Engineer”) and has been working since 1995. The ABI Ambassadors
also heard an update on Hopper 2007. The plans sound exciting!

More than 30 Sun women attended and worked at the Hopper conference in San Diego in 2006. (See my
blog entries for 2006 photos and commentary.) The flash of energy and
delight that resulted from their participation was exhilarating.

Greg Papadopoulos (Sun CTO and Executive VP) took the opportunity of Hopper 2006 to write a piece in CNET called “Perspective: Engineering field must have diversity”. I am
very much looking forward to Hopper 2007.

Error Correction!:

I got the date wrong on my 23 March posting, the Hopper submissions
deadlines are now:

• Ph.D. Forum – April 29
• Panels, Workshops, and Presentations – April 15
• Technical Posters – April 29
• ACM SRC – April 29
• BOFs – April 29
• New Investigator Technical Papers – April 29

Hopper Registration opens June 1

More information:
http://gracehopper.org/2007/