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[peppy music] LUCY SANDERS: I’m Lucy Sanders. I’m the CEO and co-founder of NCWIT. [cheering and applause] Whoo! And I’d like to welcome you to the 2016 NCWIT Members Summit. […]

PAT RUSSO: And now, I’d like to turn the mic over to Susie Armstrong, who will present our final award for this afternoon, the NCWIT Pioneer Award. Susie? [applause] SUSIE

[applauding] [energetic music] MAGGIE: Thank you, Avis. Good morning. AUDIENCE: Good morning. MAGGIE: So on behalf of Google, I really appreciate the opportunity to present these awards today. It is

MAGGIE JOHNSON: Now it’s time for me to share the stage with some outstanding NCWIT change leaders. Being honored today for their significant contributions to the retention and recruitment of

[upbeat music]    BOBBY SCHNABEL: Hi. As that picture says, I’m Bobby Schnabel. I’m one of the three co-founders of the National Center for Women and Information Technology, along with

LUCY SANDERS: So now we’re going to move from the future of technology to really honor those who have helped us shape the discipline. And helping me with that we

[upbeat pop-rock music] BOBBY SCHNABEL: So, welcome back. We’ll give people a minute or so to find their seats. I hope you all had a great day of workshops. You

JEFFREY FORBES: So collective impact refers to commitment of a group of important actors in different sectors to a common agenda for solving a specific social problem. And NCWIT is

JEFFREY FORBES: Morning. [audience applauding] Come on in. So good morning, hi, I’m Jeff Forbes. I teach computer science at Duke University and I also, previously, worked at the National

[audience applauds] [upbeat music] DONNA BRAZILE: Thank you, thank you. I have to tell you, Bobby, that was a very kind and gracious introduction, and thank you so much. As

LUCY SANDERS: I am extremely excited to introduce our special guest, Chelsea Clinton. She’s the vice-chair of the Clinton Foundation, and in that role she’s also very active with the

[upbeat guitar music] LUCY SANDERS: Hello, please come in, we’re about ready to get started. Please come in and take a seat. Whoa, that quieted everybody down. Hi, I’m Lucy

[applause] LUCY SANDERS: With that, let’s get to it. I mentioned all those awards and we’re gonna open and close the summit this year with some award ceremonies because we

[upbeat music with applause] PAT RUSSO: It’s a pleasure to be here with all of you. Can you hear me? Is this mic working? And thank you, Lucy for that

LUCY SANDERS: I’m so jazzed. One last thing to say, may the force be with you, and we’ll see you in Tucson next year. Thanks for coming! [crowd applauding]

MO PHONG: And we’re not done yet, so it was a great reminder for all of us that we also have a role to play and we are in the

LUCY SANDERS: And now I’m gonna hand the reigns over to the wonderful Mo Fong, she’s going to MC the final plenary session. Mo is a director for K-12 education

[upbeat music] LUCY SANDERS: All right, welcome back to our final plannery session, for the 2016 NCWIT Summit. I’d also like to welcome back those who are viewing the live

[upbeat music] AVIS YATES RIVERS: How is everyone today? Did you get a good night’s sleep? I tried, but these three hours are messing with me. [laughter] I love coming

LUCY SANDERS: Okay, here comes the next plenary. I was told that yesterday when I Opened the summit, I actually said something like, “And at this summit we’re going to

LUCY SANDERS: Our final award before the plenary session is the NCWIT undergraduate research mentoring award sponsored by AT&T and as we all know mentoring is just so important this

[upbeat music] [audience chatter] LUCY SANDERS: Shhh. [laughs] Good afternoon everybody. Welcome back. This a little loud? Is this too loud? Is it good? Welcome back and also welcome to

[applause] AVIS YATES RIVERS: Thank you, Maggie. Congratulations again to all of our awardees. You know your work is so inspirational to us. You are preparing our next generation of