It has been a week since my attendance to Grace Hopper Celebration
of Women in Computing 2012 in Baltimore, MD. It was "as
always" an amazing experience. This year, there were about 3,600
technical women in attendance, another breaking record for GHC!
The conference was full of great sessions and activities. Some of my
favorite sessions were: Senior Women's Summit, Finding your Career Sweet Spot, Coping and Mentoring Mechanisms for Women
from Underrepresented Groups, Speed Mentoring, Juggling Our Different Worlds, and others. I had the opportunity to facilitate the Speed Mentoring session with Dilma Da Silva. We had about 100 people in the session. This was a success thanks to the mentors and mentees who participated in the session.
This year, I volunteered at the community table for Latinas in Computing (LiC) where I had the chance to speak to Latinas about the group and what LiC does. I also shared the community table with other groups such as Black Women in Computing, Systers, WURG, and others.
On Thursday, the keynote speaker, Nora Denzel, gave us an amazing and
inspiring talk. Take a look at the video and see for yourself ...
The conference ended with an amazing party, sponsored by Google and Microsoft, at the Maryland Science Center at Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
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