**11th International Women in HPC Workshop: Diversifying the HPC Community and Engaging Male Allies** Sunday November 17th 2019 Denver, Colorado, USA https://womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc19/workshop
# Call for Lightning Talks Women-in-HPC will once again attend the Supercomputing conference to discuss diversity and inclusivity topics. Activities will bring together women and male allies from across the international HPC community, provide opportunities to network, showcase the work of inspiring women, and discuss how we can all work towards improving the under-representation of women in supercomputing.
The 11th International Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) workshop at SC19 in Denver brings together the HPC community to discuss the growing importance of increasing diversity in the workplace. This workshop will recognize and discuss the challenges of improving the proportion of women in the HPC community, and is relevant for employers and employees throughout the supercomputing workforce who are interested in addressing diversity.
## Sessions will focus on the following areas: - Surviving difficult events and how to minimize the impact on your career - Managing and resolving imposter syndrome - Building an effective professional network - How to get a new job or promotion - Behaviors for inclusion: coping strategies for unconscious bias and micro-aggression - Dealing with the guilt while being a parent, guardian and caregiver - Pointers on making and engaging male allies at workplace
**Call for Lightning Talks: Now Open!** Deadline for submissions: August 30th 2019 AOE
As part of the workshop, we invite submissions from women in industry and academia to present their work as a lightning talk. This will promote the engagement of women in HPC research and applications, provide opportunities for peer to peer networking, and the opportunity to interact with female role models and employers. Submissions are invited on all topics relating to HPC from users and developers. All abstracts should emphasize the computational aspects of the work, such as the facilities used, the challenges that HPC can help address and any remaining challenges etc.
For details please see: https://womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc19/submit/
# Workshop Committee - Workshop Chair: Misbah Mubarak, Amazon Web Services, USA - Co-chair: Gokcen Kestor, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA - General Chair: Toni Collis, Women-in-HPC co-founder and director - Invited Talks Chair: Kaoutar El Maghraoui, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA - Poster and Lightning Talks Chair: Mariam Umar, Intel Corporation, USA - Posters & Lightning Talks Vice Chair: Weronika Filinger, EPCC, University of Edinburgh,UK - Mentoring chair: Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh, University of Sheffield, UK
# Program Committee (for Early Career Lightning Talks) - Elsa Gonsioworski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Raquell Holmes, Improvscience, USA - Elizabeth Bautista, NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA - Jo Adegbola, Amazon Web Services, USA - Mozghan Kabiri, University of Sheffield, UK - Karen Divine, Sandia National Laboratory, USA - Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA - Hadia Ahmed, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA - Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA - Debbie Bard, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA - Rosa Filgueira, EPCC, UK -Mahwish Arif, CAM, UK - Baiou Shi, PSU, USA - Neelofer Banglawala, EPCC, UK