Summit General

[upbeat music] [crowd chatter] LUCY SANDERS: Alright everybody, we’re gonna get started. Alright, please take your seats, come in from the outside. Get all your friends to come back from […]

[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

[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.

LUCY SANDERS: Thank you, everybody for coming and learning and sharing with each other and just incredible spirit you have. I hope you take it back, spread it all around,

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

BOBBY SCHNABEL: And now we’ll continue on the theme of change leadership and in this case the next session is about corporate change leadership which is a topic that we’ve

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

[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 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

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

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

[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

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

LUCY SANDERS: Alright, well good afternoon everybody, welcome back. I hope you had a very busy and informative time. Lots of different discussions going on, I’ve heard the sessions went

BRAD McLAIN: We’re gonna kick off starting on the basic level. But if you’re already familiar with male allies and advocate work, you’re gonna get some interesting and new practical

LUCY SANDERS: The first segment, the Collegiate Award, the NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Collegiate Award. I have two people who will come on stage and help us with that, Janice

LUCY SANDERS: Well, good morning, everybody. Yeah, yeah. I’m Lucy Sanders, I’m the CEO and Co-founder of NCWIT, and along with my other two co-founders, Bobby Schnabel and Telle Whitney,

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]

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

[upbeat music] [audience clapping and cheering] LUCY SANDERS: All right, time for one of our favorite sessions of the whole summit, the NCWIT Flash Shark Tank. So I’m really looking

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