related subjects. “She was her own person and refused to be defined by others and their expectations of her.”Kesha Williams, AWS ML Hero, Alexa Champion, and Technical Instructor at A Cloud Guru, believes that GHC can be defined in one word: “empowering.”“Where else can you find so many women software engineers, technical leads, and senior executives coming together to talk about what we do with technology and sharing our lessons learned? Jenna Sargent is an Online and Social Media Editor for SD Times.


According to Williams, who will be a mentor this year, these allow attendees to get “one-on-one advice with an industry expert in small groups of 10.” There are 66 mentors this year corresponding to a particular topic, she explained. In the meantime, at least there’s The event is named for Grace Hopper, a rear admiral in the US Navy who invented the first compiler in 1952. I know the basics Contact us at welcome, including trans women & non-binary folk.

Nowhere! Recently, I have been asked by Amazon Web Services leadership to foster more D&I initiatives, and this will be a great forum for me to gain best practices from other corporate leaders.”The presenters ranged from college students, career beginners, seasoned professions, tech leaders to mom entrepreneurs. hardware. Follow her on Twitter at Ready for your SD Times magazine? Whether it’s sharing what I learned about accessibility on the web, or how Google Safe Browsing is helping protect us, or even how to transform self-criticism into self-encouragement, the Grace Hopper Celebration has greatly impacted both my career and my life.”The mathematical equation for Power is Energy divided by Time (P = E/T); GHC creates a space for us to bring together the energy (E) from thousands of remarkable women, and packing it into a dense time (T) and place, giving us collectively more power (P) than we could ever have alone. I noticed these women came from very similar background as I did and were breaking barriers and leading the world in technology. course for women where you only pay tuition once you secure a job. She likes tabletop gaming and knitting. Set Your Skill I resolved to try harder at work and made a goal to become a GHC presenter in 2019.”At both work and my daily tech life, I often think back to something I have learned at GHC. It's just a click away! Die ACM vergibt den nach ihr benannten „Grace Murray Hopper Award“. I can build basic sites and apps Grace Murray Hopper Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Murray Hopper was a remarkable woman who grandly rose to the challenges of programming the first computers. Achievement. “Spending four days soaking in educational sessions on both career issues and technology, and mingling with other talented technologists will leave you inspired and empowered. Just starting on my coding journey Two years ago, Lin Classon was attending a tech conference when she discovered the one perk of gender inequality in the tech industry: empty bathrooms. She covers Microsoft, data, programming languages, and UI frameworks and libraries. I'm intermediate David and Nimit created the Grace Hopper Program as part of Fullstack’s continued efforts to improve diversity in tech with a mission that is two-fold: to close the gender gap in engineering jobs and to provide accessible education for women.If you are interested in supporting this mission, please visit our The Grace Hopper Program at Fullstack Academy is an immersive software engineering GHC is structured to enable women to gain career guidance, technical knowledge and application of that knowledge in the real world, and to build and foster professional networks,” said Williams.According to Williams, Grace Hopper Celebration will be a four day event this year, making it longer than it was in previous years. They inspired me to do more and speak louder.

During her lifetime as a leader in the field of software development concepts, she contributed to the transition from primitive programming techniques to the use of sophisticated compilers. First day events included the First Timer’s Orientation, Career Fair Hall Crawl, and the keynote session and other sessions, she explained.The event also features mentoring circles. It’s sort of like ‘speed dating’ but for technology concepts!”Williams recommends that anyone in a STEM field who has “ever felt alone, isolated, or like you are the minority in your classes, office meetings, or software teams,” should attend as there will be thousands of women there with those same experiences.“Women/non-binary technologists should attend GHC because it is the largest gathering of its kind in the world and there is no other experience quite like it,” said Parsons. This led to the creation of the COBOL programming language, which was one of the first high-level programming languages.Without Grace Hopper’s contributions, programming as we know it today wouldn’t exist.