This year's Usenix LISA conference has two exciting events about Women and Computing:
Sunday, Nov 3, 2013:
- 9am-5pm:
- Workshop: Women in Advanced Computing (WiAC): Recognizing and Overcoming Bias-Ways to Make Your Workplace More Successful and Welcoming
- Leslie Hawthorn, Red Hat; Sheeri Cabral, Mozilla
- Format: Half Day Workshop (mixture of presentations and discussion)
Thursday, Nov 7, 2013:
- 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
- Panel: Women in Advanced Computing
- Moderator: Rikki Endsley, USENIX Association; Panelists: Amy Rich, Mozilla Corporation; Deanna McNeil, Learning Tree International; Amy Forinash
- Format: Panel
Participation by women at this year's conference is impressive. Here is a list of talks (I may be missing some, I'm going by first name which is an imperfect algorithm.)