{"id":1427,"date":"2024-09-05T09:07:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T09:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2026\/?page_id=1427"},"modified":"2026-04-21T10:59:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:59:02","slug":"invited-speakers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2026\/index.php\/invited-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Invited speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Keynote Speakers<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3>Felienne Hermans<\/h3>\n<div style=\"display: flex; align-items: top; justify-content: center; gap: 20px;\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3118\" src=\"https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/felicienne-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/felicienne-1.png 936w, https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/felicienne-1-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/felicienne-1-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Short Bio<\/h4>\n<p>Felienne Hermans is a professor of Computer Science Education at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She also works as a high-school CS teacher one day a week at Open Schoolgemeenschap Bijlmer.<\/p>\n<p>Felienne is the creator of the Hedy programming language, a gradual and multi-lingual programming language designed for teaching and author of the book &#8220;The Programmer&#8217;s Brain&#8221; a book that helps programmers understand how their brain works and how to use it more effectively. In 2021, Felienne was awarded the Dutch Prize for ICT research.<\/p>\n<p>She writes for Dutch newspaper Volkskrant every month and writes a weekly newsletter on computer science, AI and many other things.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; align-items: top; justify-content: center; gap: 20px;\">\n<div>\n<h4>Keynote Title<\/h4>\n<p>TBD<\/p>\n<h4>Abstract<\/h4>\n<p>Some progress has been made over the last decades to increase women\u2019s participation in science, but in how far has scientific practice changed to accommodate women\u2019s lives, practices, and interests? Has there, in other words, been shifts in the epistemological core of science? In this talk Felienne Hermans, professor of Computer Science Education, will present a history of feminist epistemology and examine the changes in science through that lens.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h4><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keynote Speakers Felienne Hermans Short Bio Felienne Hermans is a professor of Computer Science Education at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She also works as a high-school CS teacher one day a week at Open Schoolgemeenschap Bijlmer. Felienne is the creator of the Hedy programming language, a gradual and multi-lingual programming language designed for teaching and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1427","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2026\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2026\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2026\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2026\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2026\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":77,"href":"https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2026\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3114,"href":"https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2026\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1427\/revisions\/3114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2026\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}