She++ is Stanford's first conference for women in technology

ORIGINAL: She++

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Keynote Speaker

Maria Klawe is the President of Harvey Mudd College and a former Dean of Engineering at Princeton University. 

Maria Klawe, President, Harvey Mudd College

She has a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Alberta and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto. She also served as a research scientist at IBM, and is currently on the Microsoft Board of Directors. She is a Fellow at the Association for Computing Machinery. Klawe has done extensive work in recruiting women to STEM fields, and it is under her leadership that Harvey Mudd has become the institution with the highest percentage of computer science majors (40 percent) who are female in the country. 

Keynote Address: Increasing the Number of Females in Tech Careers

Over the past decade the participation of females in the tech industry has declined rather than advanced. This is unfortunate for young women because of the incredible career opportunities, and for the tech industry because of the loss of incoming talent. I will talk about my own experiences becoming a female technologist, and how Harvey Mudd College dramatically increased the number of females majoring in computer science, from 10% of the majors to 40% over a three year period.

Guy Kawasaki, Founding Partner, Garage Technology Ventures

Guy Kawasaki is the co-founder of Alltop.com, an “online magazine rack” of popular topics on the web, and a founding partner at Garage Technology Ventures. Previously, he was the chief evangelist of Apple. When he saw what a Macintosh could do, “the clouds parted and the angels started singing. For four years I evangelized Macintosh to software and hardware developers and led the charge against world-wide domination by IBM.” Kawasaki is the author of ten books including Enchantment, Reality Check, The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way. Kawasaki has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College. Read more on his website.

Irene Au, Head of User Experience, Google

Irene Au is dedicated to raising the strategic value of design and user research within software companies through better methods and practices, processes, leadership, and quality. She is Director of User Experience at Google, where her team is responsible for design and user research for Google’s products worldwide. Prior to Google, she spent eight years at Yahoo! where she was Vice President of User Experience and Design. At Yahoo!, Irene established the interaction design and user research practice, and led product and platform design efforts worldwide. Irene also headed up the Product Practices team which coached teams on Agile development practices and developed product operations programs to help business units deliver on corporate strategy.

Prior to Yahoo!, Irene was at Netscape Communications, where she was an interaction designer and led cross-product design efforts on Netscape’s browser, mail/news client, and page editor. Irene hold an M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction through the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, birthplace of the first popular graphical Web browser, NCSA Mosaic.

–Anita Borg Institute

Tracy Chou, Software Engineer, Pinterest

Tracy Chou is currently a software engineer at Pinterest. Previously, she held positions as a Software Engineer at Quora, a Rocket Scientist Intern at Rocket Fuel Inc., and Software Development Intern at Facebook. She holds an M.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, both from Stanford University. Her interests range from entrepreneurship and sustainability to photography and fashion.

Jocelyn Goldfein, Director of Engineering, Facebook

Jocelyn Goldfein is a Director of Engineering at Facebook, where she drives new product design and architecture and helps scale the engineering organization. Her teams are responsible for key Facebook product features like news feed, search, and photos. Prior to joining Facebook, Jocelyn was Vice President and General Manager at VMware, where she ran the engineering and product teams for VMware’s desktop products. She previously was Director of Engineering at e-mail management start-up MessageOne. Jocelyn holds a bachelors degree in computer science from Stanford University.

–Anita Borg Institute

Diane Greene, Co-Founder, VMWare; Board Member, Google and Intuit

Diane Greene has served as a member of Google’s board of directors since January 2012. Diane has also been a member of the board of directors of Intuit Inc., a provider of business and financial management solutions, since August 2006 and serves on its Audit and Risk Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Diane co-founded VMware, Inc., a provider of virtualization and virtualization-based cloud infrastructure solutions, in 1998 and took the company public in 2007. She served as Chief Executive Officer and President of VMware from 1998 to 2008, as a member of the board of directors of VMware from 2007 to 2008, and as an Executive Vice President of EMC Corporation, a provider of information infrastructure and virtual infrastructure technologies, solutions and services, from 2005 to 2008. Prior to VMware, Diane held technical leadership positions at Silicon Graphics Inc., a provider of technical computing, storage and data center solutions, Tandem Computers, Inc., a manufacturer of computer systems, and Sybase Inc., a global enterprise software and services company, and was Chief Executive Officer of VXtreme, Inc., a developer of streaming media solutions. Diane is also a member of The MIT Corporation, the governing body of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Diane holds a Master of Science degree in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley, a Master of Science degree in naval architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Vermont.

–Google

Ruchi Sanghvi, Co-Founder, Cove

Ruchi Sanghvi was the first female engineer at Facebook and is currently the co-founder of Cove. An avid fan of Facebook since her college years, she rose as an engineer to Product Manager at the company, where she was responsible for the launch of the News Feed we are now so familiar with; as well as Platform, an update that allowed third-party developers to build apps on Facebook; and Connect, which made it possible to connect Facebook with almost any site on the web. Sanghvi received both a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Julia Hartz, CEO and Co-Founder, Eventbrite

Julia spends her day focusing on the happiness, productivity, and growth of the team at Eventbrite (aka the Britelings). She strives to foster the culture that has defined Eventbrite, and that has placed the company among the Top 5 Best Places to Work in the Bay Area two years in a row, according to the SF Business Times. Prior to co-founding Eventbrite with her husband, Kevin Hartz, Julia enjoyed a career in Television Development at MTV Networks and FX Networks. She was fortunate enough to be a part of acclaimed shows such as Jackass, Nip/Tuck, The Shield, Rescue Me, and Morgan Spurlock’s 30 Days. Julia graduated from Pepperdine University with a B.A. in Telecommunications. She has served on the board of The Village Well, a non-profit organization that supports slow parenting, and has been active in The Full Circle Fund. Julia has participated in several keynotes and panels to discuss ticketing, social commerce, and entrepreneurship including 2011 SF MusicTech, 2010 SXSW, 2011 Women in Business Conference, 2010 Girls in Tech Catalyst Conference, and 2010 Women 2.0 Founders Lab and Pitch Night. Julia lives in San Francisco with her handsome husband, adorable daughter, and a pretend dog

–Eventbrite

Kimber Lockhart, Software Engineer, Box

Kimber Lockhart is a Senior Manager at Box. Previously, she co-founded Increo, which created Backboard, a Web-based service that allows users to share and review documents in a secure space. She holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Poornima Vijayashanker, CEO and Founder, BizeeBee 

Visit Poornima at Femgineer.

Poornima Vijayashanker is the writer of Femgineer, an blog targeted at women in engineering. She is the founder and CEO of BizeeBee, an online platform for yoga studios. Previously, she was the second employee at Mint.com, which was later acquired by Intuit. She advises various other startups, and frequently writes for other blogs such as Women 2.0. Ms. Vijayashanker graduated from Duke with a double major in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science. When she’s not writing code, she writes about coding and software architecture, and engages in her passion for yoga.

Telle Whitney, CEO, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology

Dr. Telle Whitney has served as President and CEO of ABI since 2002. Whitney has 20 years experience in the semiconductor and telecommunications industries. She has held senior technical management positions with Malleable Technologies (now PMC-Sierra) and Actel Corporation, and is a co-founder of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference.

Dr. Whitney served as the ACM Secretary/Treasurer in 2003-2004, and is currently co-chair of the ACM Distinguished member committee. She was a member of the National Science Foundation CEOSE and CISE advisory committees, and is a co-founder of the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT). She serves on the advisory boards of Caltech’s Information Science and Technology (IST), California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CalIT2), and Illuminate Ventures.

Telle has received numerous awards including the ACM Distinguished Service Award, the Marie Pistilli Women in EDA Achievement Award, the Women’s Venture Fund Highest Leaf Award, and the San Jose Business Journal Top100 Women of Influence.

Dr. Whitney received her Ph.D. from Caltech, and her bachelor’s degree at the University of Utah both in Computer Science.

Telle is a runner, and lives in the Santa Cruz mountains. She makes jewelry in her not so spare time.

–Anita Borg Institute

Denise Burchell, Principal Interaction Designer, IDEO

Denise is a principal interaction designer and project lead at IDEO in San Francisco. With a focus in digital experiences for consumers and brand, Denise is passionate about making the world’s products stronger, smarter, and more fun to use.

Denise has over 14 years of experience in user-centered design for the web, and has contributed on the strategy and implementation of websites, software, kiosks, and devices. Her work has included collaborations with Nike, Target, HP, Yellow Pages, Sun, Microsoft, CNET and more large and small brands.

She holds a bachelor's degree in Sociology from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and has taught User Experience at the Miami Ad School in San Francisco. In her spare time, Denise enjoys cooking, traveling, hiking, and reading novels set in South Florida.

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Also featuring student panelists 

Sophia Westwood and Molly Mackinlay, CS106 Section Leaders, Stanford University

Lynn Cuthriell, CS198 Coordinator, Stanford University