About womENcourage
womENcourage is an ACM Europe Celebration of Women in Computing, aimed at connecting women from diverse technical disciplines and encouraging them pursue their education and profession in computing.
womENcourage brings together undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, academics and practitioners to present and share their achievements and experiences and discuss pressing issues of women in the computing profession. WomENcourage 2018 is organized by the ACM-W Europe Chapter in Belgrade.
womENcourage is organized annually. If you would like to organize the next womENcourage Celebration, please submit the proposal by 25 September, 2018 by using this this .doc template or PDF template. The proposal should be sent to the womENcourage Steering Committee: ACMWE_SC@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG. The decision will be made by 1 October, 2018.
Previous womENcourage conferences were in Barcelona, Spain (2017), Linz, Germany (2016), Uppsala, Sweden (2015), and Manchester, United Kingdom (2014).
Organizing Committee
| Conference Chairs | Bojana Milasinovic, Serbia |
| Sandra Tomic, Serbia | |
| Posters Chairs | Adriana Wilde, University of St Andrews and University of Southampton, UK |
| Duygu Bektik, The Open University, UK | |
| Registrations Chair | Rukiye Altin, Middle East Technical University, Turkey |
| Program Chair | Manik Gupta, London Southbank University, UK |
| Supporters Chair | Bev Bachmayer, Austria |
| Scholarships Chair | Ruth Lennon, Letterkenny Institute of Technology (LYIT), Ireland |
| Workshops and Tutorials Chair | Lipika Deka, De Montfort University , UK |
| Hackathon Chair | Dorota Filipczuk, University of Southampton, UK |
| Evaluations Chair | Alexandra Dediu, University of Nottingham, UK |
| Webmaster | Alexandra Dediu, University of Nottingham, UK |
Steering Committee
| ACM-WE Chair – Natasa Milic-Frayling, University of Nottingham, UK |
| ACM-WE Past Chair – Reyyan Ayfer, Bilkent University, Turkey |
| Ruth Lennon, Letterkenny Institute of Technology (LYIT), Ireland |
| Bev Bachmayer, Austria |
| Núria Castell Ariño, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain |
| Adriana Wilde, University of St Andrews and University of Southampton, UK |
Poster Evaluation Committee
| Adriana Wilde, University of St Andrews and University of Southampton, UK |
| Duygu Bektik, The Open University, UK |
| Aaron Quigley, University of St Andrews, UK |
| Aida Vosoughi, Oracle Corporation, UK |
| Alessia Milani, LaBRI University of Bordeaux 1, France |
| Alev Elci, Aksaray University, Turkey |
| Anna Puig, University of Barcelona, Spain |
| Antinisca Di Marco, University of L’Aquila, Italy |
| Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria, Italy |
| Bilha Mendelson, Optitura Consulting, Israel |
| Carlo Mastroianni, ICAR-CNR Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), Italy |
| Carmela Comito, ICAR-CNR Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), Italy |
| Christi Symeonidou, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH) Institute of Computer Science, Greece |
| Clara Mancini, The Open University, UK |
| Clare J. Hooper, University of Southampton, UK |
| Colette Johnen, University of Bordeaux LaBRI, France |
| Danica Porobic, Oracle Corporation, US |
| Despoina Pavlidi, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH) Institute of Computer Science, Greece |
| Eleni Kanellou, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH) Institute of Computer Science, Greece |
| Ernesto Santana-Díaz, TMES, Denmark |
| Ester Zumpano, University of Calabria, Italy |
| Euripides Markou, University of Thessaly, Greece |
| Evangelia Kavakli, University Hill Lesvos (Λόφος Πανεπιστημίου), Greece |
| Florina M. Ciorba, University of Basel, Switzerland |
| Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus |
| Irini Fundulaki, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH) Institute of Computer Science, Greece |
| Javier Bustos-Jiménez, NIC Chile Research Labs – Universidad de Chile, Chile |
| Jo Iacovides, University of York, UK |
| Laurence Pilard, Laboratoire PRiSM – UVSQ, France |
| Maria Serna, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain |
| Maria Markaki, University of Crete, Greece |
| Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, The Netherlands |
| Marina Papatriantafilou, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden |
| Olja Rastic-Dulborough, IBM, UK |
| Panagiota Fatourou, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH) Institute of Computer Science, Greece |
| Paola Inverardi, Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienze dell’informazione Università dell’Aquila, Italy |
| Paraskevi Fragopoulou, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH) Institute of Computer Science, Greece |
| Renata Borovica-Gajic, The University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK |
| Sarah Hewitt, University of Southampton, UK |
| Vassilis Papaefstathiou, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH) Institute of Computer Science, Greece |
Participation Scholarship Evaluation Committee
| Bev Bachmayer, ACM |
| Mariana Bocoi, Mobililty Center Volvo |
| Michael Carey, Letterkenny Institute of Technology |
| Andrea Carlin, Letterkenny Institute of Technology |
| Nuria Castell, Universirtat Politècnica de Catalunya |
| Brigid Crowley, Institute of Technology Tralee |
| Sharon Greene, Pramerica |
| Maria Griffin, Letterkenny Institute of Technology |
| Sarah Hewitt, University of Southampton |
| Marieke Huisman, University of Twente |
| Gabriele Kotsis, JKU Linz |
| Beverly Lau, Klarna |
| Patrick Lennon, Letterkenny Institute of Technology |
| Catherine Mooney, University College Dublin |
| Marion Palmer, Consultant |
| Angela Sweeney, Letterkenny Institute of Technology |
| Gertie Taggart, Letterkenny Institute of Technology |
| Mei Tang, Klarna |
| Mary Tuite, Pramerica |
| Victoria Wagman, Consultant |
| Leslie Wittig Quintanilla, Klarna |