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ACM womENcourage Europe
01 March 2014, Manchester, UK
Programme
Friday, 28 February 2014
18:00 - 20:00 Career Fair
Saturday, 01 March 2014
08:30 - 17:00 womENcourage conference
Detailed Programme
| 8:30 |
Registration |
| 9:00 | Welcome and Opening by Eva Navarro Lopez, University of Manchester |
| 9:15 | Keynote Address by Professor Dame Wendy Hall, University of Southampton
"How to Enjoy a Career as a Woman in Computing: The Power of Networks"
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| 10:15 |
About Us
ACM Introduction by Vicki Hanson, ACM Treasurer,
ACM Europe Introduction by Mashhuda Glencross, ACM Europe Treasurer,
ACM-W Introduction by Valerie Barr, ACM-W Chair
ACM-W Europe by Reyyan Ayfer, ACM-W Europe Chair
ACM Europe Chapters by George Eleftherakis, ACM Europe Chapters Leader
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| 10:45 | Coffee Break, Poster Session |
| 11:15 | Panel "What are the career opportunities? What is the future?"
Chair: Beryl Nelson, Google Panelists:
Claire Vishik, Intel, UK Cornelia Boldyreff, University of Greenwich, UK Philip Su, Facebook, UK Christine Flounders, Bloomberg UK |
| 12:15 | Lunch |
| 13:15 | Technical Talk by Carole Goble, University of Manchester
"Helping Scientists do Science: Confessions of an Applied Computer Scientist."
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| 13:55 | Technical Talk by Yasemin Altun, Google
"Automatic Text Summarization and its Applications"
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| 14:35 | Unconference Sessions Chair: Beryl Nelson, Google |
| 15:35 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 | Panel: “What can you do to change the world?”
Chair: |
| 16:45 | Closing Remarks by Eva Navarro Lopez |
| 17:00 | Finish |
