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JEFFREY FORBES: So finally, let’s welcome Dr. David Notkin, who’s the Bradley Chair in Computer Science at University of Washington, with a talk on increasing flexibility. DR. DAVID NOTKIN: So […]

[upbeat music] JEFFREY FORBES: So, we’re going to go through each of the speakers. As I invite each of our speakers up to the stage, please hold your applause until

[bright music] JEFFREY FORBES: Our last speaker is Herb Morreale who is the CEO of 6kites, an Entrepreneurial Alliant member company. Give him a round of applause for that, [applause]

[upbeat music] JEFF FORBES: We’re here at NCWIT. We couldn’t do anything without highlighting one of our illustrious national aspirations winners. So next up we have Emily Peed-Brown who’s going

[upbeat music] JEFFREY FORBES: Next we’re going to hear from some of our younger speakers Courtney Besaw and Daysha Edgerton are going to speak about COMPUGIRLS. [audience clapping] So, they’re

Jeffrey Forbes:  We’re very lucky to have Avis Yates Rivers, who’s the founder of Technology Concepts Incorporated, as well as being an NCWIT board member. She’s going to tell us

JEFFREY FORBES: I’m going to ask our first speaker to come up on the stage. So, Jinisha Patel is a winner of the NCWIT award for aspirations in computing and

JEFFREY FORBES: Our next speaker is the Honorable Robin Kelly, former Illinois State Representative, and her talk is “Increasing Women’s Leadership: “The 2012 Project.” ROBIN KELLY: Good afternoon. When you

JEFFREY FORBES: Next up is Sylvia Martinez the president of Generation YES who will be speaking about the needle in the haystack. SYLVIA MARTINEZ: Well thank you. My name is

JEFFREY FORBES: Our next speaker is Dr. Sarah Kuhn. A member of NCWIT’s Social Science Advisory Board, a professor in the University of Massachusetts Lowell Department of Psychology, and a

JEFFREY FORBES: Next let’s welcome Dr. W. Brett McKenzie. So Dr. McKenzie is a professor of computer information systems at Roger Williams University. And he’ll be giving us a talk

JEFFREY FORBES: So up next we have Doctor Carol Frieze. Doctor Frieze is director of the Women at SCS program for the school of computer science at Carnegie Mellon university.

JEFFREY FORBES: So next, we have my colleague, Dr. Jan Cuny. So Jan’s a Program Officer at NSF and she’ll be giving a talk that in my admittedly biased opinion

[indistinct chatter] [upbeat music] [indistinct chatter] JEFFREY FORBES: Alright welcome back. Alright have a seat so welcome back to this year’s edition, the third edition of Flash Talks. Flash Talks