**** Women in HPC at SC19: Diversifying the HPC Community and Engaging Male Allies **** Sunday, 17th November, 9AM – 5:30PM Room 601, Colorodo Convention Center, Denver, Colorodo, USA https://womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc19/workshop/
The eleventh international Women in HPC workshop will take place at Supercomputing conference, Denver, USA. Once again Women in HPC, our advocates, allies, supporters, and anyone interested in improving diversity across the HPC community is welcome to join us to discuss the challenges the community faces, and how to improve the opportunities provided to women. Previous Women in HPC workshops at SC have been great successes, with over 100 attendees in the past two workshops, and over 25 submissions from early/mid-career women at SC18.
This year, our keynote talk will be about butterfly effect of inclusive leadership by Bev Crair, Vice President of Development and Quality at Lenovo. Additionally, we will focus on the following topics:
Pointers on making and engaging male allies at workplace Mentoring: why we need it, best practices and business case for good mentoring programs. Surviving difficult events and how to minimize the impact on your career Managing and resolving imposter syndrome Behaviors for inclusion: coping strategies for unconscious bias Being a parent, guardian and caregiver: dealing with the guilt
The workshop agenda is as follows:
09:00 – 10:00 Keynote: The Butterfly Effect of Inclusive Leadership. Bev Crair, Vice President of Development and Quality at Lenovo
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:30 Short Talks Session - Surviving difficult events & minimizing the impact on your career -- Hai Ah Nam, Los Alamos National Laboratory - Managing and resolving imposter syndrome -- Todd Gamblin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Coping strategies for unconscious bias -- Elizabeth Bautista, NERSC - Being a parent, guardian & caregiver: dealing with guilt -- Jo Adegbola, Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Dealing with sexism in the workplace -- AJ Lauer, NCAR
11:30 – 12:30 Panel Discussion: Engaging Male Allies Panel Moderator Misbah Mubarak, Amazon Web Services Panelist 1 Cory Snavely, NERSC Panelist 2 Ian Foster, U-Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory Panelist 4 Patty Lopez, Intel corporation Panelist 5 Brendan Bouffler, Amazon Web Services
1:00 – 2:00 Lunch Break
2:00 – 3:00 Early Career Lightning Talks Session
3:00 – 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 – 5:00 Panel Discussion: Mentoring, why we need it, best practices and business case for great mentoring programs Panel Moderator Toni Collis, Women in HPC Panelist 1 Mariam Umar, Intel corporation Panelist 2 Zhe Bai (WHPC fellow), Raksha Roy (WHPC fellow), Priyanka Ghosh (WHPC fellow) Panelist 3 Sarvani Chadalapaka, Univ. of California, Merced Panelist 4 Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
05:00 – 05:15 Workshop closing and outcomes