ONCWIC 2014Information &

Communications Technology (ICT)

ICT Innovation through Diversity

Ontario Celebration of Women in Computing Conference

University of GuelphOct. 24-25, 2014

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Connect with us!Twitter: @WomenInICT_UofG

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Keynote Speakers

Bonnie Schmidt, Ph.D.Founder and President, Let’s Talk Science

Dr. Bonnie Schmidt is the founder and President of Let’s Talk Science, an award-winning, national charitable organization that she started while completing a PhD in Physiology.

Liz SandalsMinister of Education

Premier Wynne appointed Liz Sandals as Minister of Education on February 11, 2013. Liz Sandals has served as the Parliamentary Assistant to the Ministers of Health and Long-Term Care, Transportation, Education, Government Services, and Community Safety and Correctional Services. She led the government’s Safe Schools Action Team and served on the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, the Select Committee on Mental Health and Addictions and Treasury Board/Management Board of Cabinet.

Serge DesmaraisActing Provost and Vice-President (Academic)

The Provost and Vice-President (Academic) is the chief academic officer of the institution and the principal advisor to the President on all academic affairs, serving as highest ranking officer after the President and the Acting President in the President’s absence.

Mr. Han DongParliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Training Colleges and Universities

Han Dong has lived in Trinity-Spadina for over 13 years and has been an active member of this community. Before his involvement in government, Han was a Marketing Director for Chianti Foods, responsible for planning, development and implementation of all of Chianti’s marketing strategies, communications, and public relations activities. After improving the company’s overall structure Han oversaw the development and implementation of the company’s overseas functions.

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Friday Oct. 24Location: Delta Guelph Hotel

5:00 pm Registration

6:00 pm Reception

6:30 pm Banquet Dinner and Keynote talkMr. Han Dong, Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Training Colleges and UniversitiesThe Honorable Liz Sandals, Minister of Education

8:30 pm Networking and Programming Contest

Saturday Oct. 25Location: University of Guelph Campus

7:30 - 8:25 am Registration and Breakfast

Welcome Message:Dr. Serge Desmarais, Acting Provost and Vice-President , University of GuelphLocation: Alexander Hall (ALEX) 200

9:00 - 10:00 am Keynote Speaker:Dr. Bonnie Schmidt, Founder and President Let’s Talk Science

Title: Nation Builders: a critical role for women in ICT

Location: Alexander Hall (ALEX) 200

8:30 - 9:00 am

The organizers would like to thank ACM-W for the first place poster prize (trip to the Grace Hopper) as well as

IEEE WIE and SHARCNET for the other prizes.

ProgramSaturday October 25, 2014, Location: University of Guelph

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Concurrent Session 1, Morning Session10:00 -10:45 am Microsoft, Susan Ibach, Senior Technical Evangelist

Title: What's in the cloud for me?Location: Alexander Hall (ALEX) 200

10:45 - 11:00 am Break # 1Location: Alexander Hall (ALEX) 200 and Summerlee Science Complex (SSC)

11:00-11:45 am CISCO, Trina Alexanderson, Director, Advanced ServicesTitle: High Availability NetworksLocation: Alexander Hall (ALEX) 200

11:45 am - 12:30 pm IBM, Kelly Ryan, Director of Development in B2BTitle: A Software DevelopmentLocation: Alexander Hall (ALEX) 200

12:30 -2:30 pm Lunch, Poster Session, Career Fair

Location: Summerlee Science Complex (SSC)

Session Locations

The sessions will be held at the following buildings:

· Summerlee Science Complex (SSC) Access: North Wing: ramp and auto doors at main/north entrance off Alumni Walk; auto door entrance near libraryAtrium Wing: via North Wing main entrance; Atrium Wing straight ahead from main entrance; auto door near middle of wing off Reynolds WalkWest Wing: ramp and auto door off Reynolds by crosswalk on Gordon St.

· Alexander Hall (ALEX) Access: ramp and auto door access in parking lot/loading dock area at rear of building off Christie Lane; auto door access to Room 100 inside accessible entrance

· Albert A. Thornbrough Building (THRN) Access: auto wood at west entrance across from University Centre; auto doors on north entrance; auto door at east entrance across from P10 lot

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Alexander Hall (ALEX)

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Concurrent Session 1, Afternoon Session2:30 - 3:15 pm Morgan Stanley, Dony Meng, Vice President,

Technology & Data CenterTalk: How to build high-quality software faster and cheaperLocation: Alexander Hall (ALEX) 200

3:15 - 4:15 pm Workshop 3:Google, Olya Irzak, Google EngineerTitle: How to Rock a Technical InterviewLocation: Alexander Hall (ALEX) 200

4:00 - 4:15 pm Break #2Location: Alexander Hall (ALEX) 200 and Summerlee Science Complex (SSC)

4:15 - 5:00 pm Panel Session:Location: Alexander Hall (ALEX) 200

Moderator: Dr. Judi McCuaig, University of GuelphPanel: Dr. Susan Brown (University of Guelph), Kelley Irwin (TD Bank), Carla Morawicz (Morgan Stanley), Dinah Davis (D2L), and Kate Wilhelm

5:00 - 5:30 pm Closing

The following parking lots are available for your use:

· Parking P59Access: take South Ring Rd. W. off of Gordon St. and follow to end. Reynolds walk may be used to cross Gordon St. in order to access main campus.

· Parking P31 Access: take South Ring Rd. E. off of Gordon St. for easiest access. The parking lot will be the first on your right.Option: Take first left off of Stone Rd. E. when heading East on Stone Road away from Gordon, Turn left onto South Ring Rd. E. The parking lot will be the first on your left.

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Delta Guelph Hotel and Conference Centre Reynolds Walk

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Saturday October 25, 2014, Location: University of Guelph

Concurrent Session 2, Morning Session

10:00 - 10:45 am Workshop 1: Resume WritingModerators: Dr. Luiza Antonie & Laura GattoLocation: Summerlee Science Complex (SSC) 1511

10:45 - 11:00 am Break 1Location: Alexander Hall (ALEX) and Summerlee Science Complex (SSC)

11:00 - 11:45 am Palantir, Aakriti Agarwal, Forward Deployed Title: Work in ProgressLocation: Thornbrough Building (THRN) 1307

11:45 am - 12:30 pm TD Bank, Kelley Irwin, Vice President, Technology SolutionsTitle: Creating Your List of 10Location: Thornbrough Building (THRN) 1307

12:30 - 2:30pm Lunch, Poster Session, Career Fair

Workshop 2 [1:30-2:30]:Nathalie Vallieres, Liaison and Communications Officer, U of OttawaTitle: Engineering, Marketing and Women: A perfect matchLocation: Summerlee Science Complex (SSC) 1511

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Kelley IrwinVice President, TD Bank

Kelley Irwin is a Senior Technology Executive focused on people and delivery excellence. She has a track record of consistently achieving business value by implementing technology solutions. She has expertise in bringing the right talent and capabilities together to form high performance, business-focused technology teams that produce tangible financial and speed to market results and consistently achieves high employee engagement results.

Laurie PezzenteSenior Vice President Technology, RBC

Laurie Pezzente currently holds the position of Senior Vice President, Technology Risk within Technology & Operations where she is responsible for providing governance and independent oversight of IT risk management for RBC. She is an IT professional with over 25 years of IT experience, managing budgets in excess of $500 MM, with a solid track record of building strong relationships and excellence. Laurie has extensive experience in IT application development, Information Security, and process improvement.

Dony MengVice President, Technology & Data, Morgan Stanley

Dony is a Vice President at Morgan Stanley's Technology & Data Center in Montreal. She works in the Wealth Management division as the Development Manager of the Fixed Income Offerings Search system; she and her team are responsible for building the next generation Offerings Search platform that supports approximately 18,000 Financial Advisors. Dony has been with Morgan Stanley for 9 years. Dony holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.

Nathalie VallièresLiaison and Communications Officer, University of Ottawa

Nathalie Vallières is a graduate of the University of Ottawa, B.Soc.Sc. (1993) and is currently the Liaison and Communications Officer for the Faculty of Engineering, at the University of Ottawa. She has spent her career providing coaching and leadership training to teens and young adults. Her ability to motivate & seek out talent is proven to be an asset in building partnerships with organizations such as ONWIE and NSERC as she currently founded Go Code Girl, a coding workshop for girls.She believes in empowering women and fostering the female alliance.

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Concurrent Session 2, Afternoon Session

2:30 - 3:15 pm RBC Technology & Operations, Laurie Pezzente, Senior Vice President Technology RiskTitle: Technology Risk: The hottest, in-demand career field!Location: Alexander 100

4:00 - 4:15 pm Break # 2Location: Alexander Hall (ALEX)

Technology Challenge SessionAll held in Summerlee Science Complex (SSC) 130510:00 - 11:00 am Roboti-can

Lego Mindstorms Robot programming

11:00 am - 12:00 pm Pi-craftRaspbery Pi and Minecraft

12:00 - 1:30 pm Box CamerasExploring the connection between computing and photography

1:30 - 3:00 pm Physical Computing with the Raspberry Pi

3:00 - 4:00 pm Robot competitionMaze and Freestyle

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Trina AlexsonDirector: Advanced Services, Cisco Systems

Trina Alexson is the head of Advanced Services for Cisco Canada. In her role, she leads engineering teams that work directly with Cisco customers to help them plan, build and operate their networks. Trina has over 25 years experience in the information technology industry and has been with Cisco since 1996. Trina is co-author of “Bit by Bit” a career guide for young women 15-25 who are considering technology careers.

Kelly RyanDirector of Development in B2B, IBM

Kelly has more than 25 years experience in software development. After graduating from the University of Western Ontario, Kelly joined IBM in 1984 as a developer in databases (DB2 for Linux, UNIX, Windows). Kelly moved into management, managing several teams over the years from quality assurance, information development, development and release management covering most aspects of software development. Kelly is working on product line development as the Director of WebSphere Commerce development in Smarter Commerce.

Aakriti AgarwalForward Deployed Engineer, Palantir Technologies

Aakriti Agarwal is a Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir Technologies. She did her undergrad in Computer Science from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She is passionate about creating social impact using technology and is an enthusiastic advocate of women in STEM.

Presenters & SpeakersSusan IbachSenior Technical Evangelist, Microsoft

Susan Ibach is a senior technical evangelist at Microsoft Canada, that means she loves to talk about Visual Studio, app development, and the cloud. She has worked as a consultant doing programming, testing, data conversions, roll-outs and also as a trainer teaching Oracle, SQL Server, SQL Server BI, and .NET programming. When she is not staring at an LCD screen, she is probably doing martial arts with her kids, out running, or enjoying her husband's cooking.