2015 NCWIT Summit on Women and IT
The 2015 NCWIT Summit on Women and IT: practices and ideas to revolutionize computing took place on May 19-21, 2015 in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Hundreds of change leaders from our community of educators, entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and social scientists received research, ideas, and action items for increasing girls’ and women’s participation in computing.
2015 Summit Highlights
- Learning from experts. Notable guests and inspirational plenary speakers included Mayim Bialik, PhD, Actress and Activist; Karen Ashcraft, Professor of Communication, University of Colorado Boulder; Benjamin Todd Jealous, Partner, Kapor Capital; Maggie Johnson, Director of Education and University Relations, Google; and Joan C. Williams, Center for WorkLife Law, Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Hastings Foundation Chair and Director.
- Taking action. NCWIT Empower Hours are interactive sessions that prepare members to take action at the individual, organizational, and community levels. Attendees learned about research and evidence-based practices from experts in the field, as well as from the experiences of their peers and colleagues, and walked away with strategies they can use.
- Celebrating. Distinguished honorees included the 2015 NCWIT Pioneer Award Winners Katherine Johnson and Dr. Christine Darden. We also honored recipients of several academic awards that recognize remarkable mentoring, research, recruiting, and retaining efforts in academia. Additionally, we recognized the inaugural winner for the first-ever SET Award for Portrayal of a Female in Technology!
"I am often frustrated by the lack of innovative thinking and new insights from many conferences. This was not my experience at NCWIT. I left Hilton Head inspired and invigorated."
Speakers
Lucy Sanders
Lucy Sanders is CEO and Co-founder of the National Center...
Cathy Hawley
Cathy Hawley is a Sr. Director of People Development at...
Amy Gurley
Amy Gurley is the global program lead for Bank of...
Jill Denner, Ph.D.
Jill Denner, PhD, is a senior research scientist at Education,...
Linda Ott, PhD
Dr. Linda M. Ott received her PhD in computer science...
Bobby Schnabel
Bobby Schnabel is a Professor of Computer Science at University...
Kimberly Bryant
Kimberly Bryant is the Founder and Executive Director of Black...
Jeffrey Forbes
Jeff Forbes is a Program Director for the Education and...
Maggie Johnson
Maggie Johnson is Director of Education and University Relations for...
Karen Ashcraft
Karen Lee Ashcraft is a Professor of Organizational Communication at...
Janice Zdankus
Janice Zdankus is Vice President of Quality in Hewlett Packard...
Alberto I. Roca, PhD
Dr. Alberto I. Roca is Founder and Executive Director of...
Mayim Bialik, PhD
Actress and Activist Mayim Hoya Bialik currently stars as Amy...
Renée Smith
A New York native, Renée Felice Smith moved across the...
Amy P. Abernethy, MD PhD
Amy P. Abernethy, MD PhD, a hematologist/oncologist and palliative care...
Owen Astrachan
Owen Astrachan is Professor of the Practice of Computer Science...
Colin Bodell
Colin Bodell serves as the vice president of engineering for Shopify...
Thandeka K. Chapman, PhD
Dr. Thandeka K. Chapman is an Associate Professor in the...
Christine Mann Darden
Christine Mann Darden is a native of Monroe, North Carolina....
Catherine Good, PhD
Dr. Catherine Good is an associate professor of psychology at...
Janet Hyde
Janet Hyde is the Helen Thompson Woolley Professor of Psychology...
Benjamin Todd Jealous
Benjamin Todd Jealous is a Partner at Kapor Capital, where...
Katherine Johnson
As a NASA mathematician, Katherine Johnson’s calculations include the trajectory...
Peggy Johnson
As executive vice president of business development at Microsoft, Peggy...
Yasmin Kafai
Yasmin Kafai is Professor of Learning Sciences at the University...
Rane Johnson-Stempson
Rane Johnson-Stempson is a certified partnership broker and Principal Research...
Lucy Mendel
Lucy Mendel holds two Computer Science degrees from MIT and...
Amanda Neuf
Amanda Neuf is a Director within AT&T’s Technology Development organization....
Katie Orenstein
Katie Orenstein, Founder and CEO of the OpEd Project, writes...
Lourdes Ramírez
Lourdes M. Castro Ramírez serves as the Principal Deputy Assistant...
Miranda Reeves
Before becoming Director of Product Management at Return Path, Miranda...
Ileana M. Rivera
Ileana Rivera is the Senior Director of IT for Computing...
Kimberly A. Scott, EdD
Kimberly A. Scott is a professor of women and gender...
Jeremy Sonnenburg
Jeremy L. Sonnenburg is a Managing Director in RBC’s Capital...
Randy Stoecker
Randy Stoecker is a Professor in the Department of Community...
Linda Werner
Dr. Linda Werner is an Adjunct Professor in the Computer...
Joan C. Williams
Joan C. Williams Williams is Distinguished Professor of Law and...
Janice Zdankus
Janice Zdankus is Vice President of Quality in Hewlett Packard...
Slides
2015 NCWIT Summit — “Advocacy” Empower Hour
Learn strategies to effectively raise awareness about issues related to...
Read More2015 NCWIT Summit — “Data Transparency/Cultural Change” Empower Hour
Gathering and releasing data about the diversity of your employees...
Read More2015 NCWIT Summit — “Latinas in Technology” Empower Hour
Latinas in Technology brings together community leaders, policy makers, researchers,...
Read More2015 NCWIT Summit — “Male Advocacy” Empower Hour
Most research over the past two decades has focused on...
Read More2015 NCWIT Summit — “NCWIT Aspirations in Computing” Empower Hour
NCWIT Aspirations in Computing (AiC) is a sweeping national talent...
Read More2015 NCWIT Summit — “NCWIT EngageCSEdu” Empower Hour
NCWIT EngageCSEdu encourages the development of more inclusive learning environments...
Read More2015 NCWIT Summit — “NCWIT Extension Services: Client Showcase” Empower Hour
NCWIT Extension Services for Undergraduate Programs (ES-UP) provides customized consultation...
Read More2015 NCWIT Summit — “NCWIT Pacesetters” Empower Hour
NCWIT Pacesetters work together across corporate and academic boundaries to...
Read MoreVideos
We greatly appreciate our Media Partners JupiterReturn, Microsoft, and FabLab for production and making the livestream possible.
2015 NCWIT Summit – Closing Remarks
LUCY SANDERS: Thank you, everybody for coming and learning and...
2015 NCWIT Summit – Collegiate Award
[applause] LUCY SANDERS: With that, let’s get to it. I...
2015 NCWIT Summit – NCWIT Flash Tank
JEFFREY FORBES: Morning. [audience applauding] Come on in. So good...
2015 NCWIT Summit – Pioneer Award
LUCY SANDERS: So now we’re going to move from the...
2015 NCWIT Summit – Plenary I, The Glass Slipper: Leaning In… to the Evidence of Gender and Professions by Karen Ashcraft
[upbeat music] BOBBY SCHNABEL: Hi. As that picture says,...
2015 NCWIT Summit – Plenary II, Collective Action by Benjamin Todd Jealous
JEFFREY FORBES: So collective impact refers to commitment of a...
2015 NCWIT Summit – Plenary III, Hacking Bias by Joan C. Williams
[upbeat pop-rock music] BOBBY SCHNABEL: So, welcome back. We’ll give...
2015 NCWIT Summit – Q&A with Peggy Johnson
BOBBY SCHNABEL: And now we’ll continue on the theme of...
2015 NCWIT Summit Program
Download the printed program, containing detailed information about speakers, 2015 Community Award recipients, featured new resources, and more.
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2015 Book Club
It’s NCWIT FlashTalks … in the Shark Tank.
For over ten years, NCWIT has depended on members’ ideas in order to create the most useful research, tools, and platforms to support their efforts to increase the meaningful participation of girls and women in computing. Here’s a fun way to tell us about your idea — something NCWIT should prioritize in the areas of diversity, education, image, innovation, social movements, and more.
We gave five members of the NCWIT community five minutes each to give a FlashTalk on new ways that NCWIT can continue to empower you as a change leader for women in technology. This was their opportunity to tell us about that item on their wish list — “I really wish NCWIT had research on this,” or “It’d be awesome if NCWIT ran a campaign focused on this.”
Congratulations to Dr. Linda Ott, the winning Flash Tank presenter who received a Surface Pro 3, courtesy of Microsoft, and whose idea will be considered for ideation and possible implementation by NCWIT. View the entire FlashTank in our archive.
The 2015 NCWIT FlashTank is sponsored by the Royal Bank of Canada and the NCWIT Board of Directors.
What is a FlashTalk?
If you’ve heard of Ignite® or Pecha Kucha or lightning talks, then you know what we’re talking about. An NCWIT FlashTalk is a short, thought-provoking PowerPoint presentation, delivered in a fixed format:
20 slides that automatically advance every
15 seconds for a total talk time of
5 minutes.
Check out FlashTalk videos from previous NCWIT Summits.
Two Twists: FlashTalks in the Shark Tank
- A panel of experts will moderate a brief discussion after each FlashTalk to help expand upon your idea. Convince them that they cannot afford to miss out on capitalizing on your idea.
- At least one innovative idea will be considered for ideation and possible implementation by NCWIT.
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