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Thamar Solorio

2014 Winner of the Grace Hopper Celebration Denice Denton Emerging Leader ABIE Award Thamar Solorio is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Alabama at...

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Ayanna Howard

2014 Winner of the Grace Hopper Celebration A. Richard Newton Educator ABIE Award Dr. Howard is a gifted robotics researcher, teacher, mentor, and community leader, who has inspired and encouraged...

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Durdana Habib

2014 Winner of the Grace Hopper Celebration Change Agent ABIE Award In 1983, Durdana Habib became the first Pakistani woman to receive a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of...

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Ruthe Farmer

2014 Winner of the Grace Hopper Celebration Social Impact ABIE Award Ruthe Farmer has focused her efforts on increasing girls’ participation in technology and engineering since 2001. She is Chief...

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Anne Condon

2014 Winner of the Grace Hopper Celebration Technical Leadership ABIE Award Dr. Anne Condon is a professor and the head of the Department of Computer Science at University of British Columbia. She...

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Barbara Birungi

2014 Winner of the Grace Hopper Celebration Change Agent ABIE Award Barbara Birungi founded WITU (Women in Technology Uganda) in 2010.  WITU encourages, inspires, and trains women in tech through...

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Arati Prabhakar

Arati Prabhakar is the Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Dr. Prabhakar has spent her career investing in world-class engineers and scientists to create new technologies...

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Satya Nadella

Satya Nadella is Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft. Before being named CEO in February 2014, Nadella held leadership roles in both enterprise and consumer businesses across the company. Joining...

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Maria Klawe

Maria Klawe began her tenure as Harvey Mudd College’s fifth president in 2006. A renowned computer scientist and scholar, President Klawe is the first woman to lead the College since it’s founding in...

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Shafi Goldwasser

Shafi Goldwasser is the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. She is also a professor of computer science and applied mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in...

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Rayid Ghani

Rayid Ghani is a Research Director and Senior Fellow at the Computation Institute and the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. He is also the co-founder of Edgeflip, an...

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Lorrie Faith Cranor

Lorrie Faith Cranor (http://lorrie.cranor.org) is a professor of Computer Science and of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University where she is director of the CyLab Usable Privacy...

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Elizabeth Churchill

Elizabeth Churchill (http://elizabethchurchill.com/) is director of human computer interaction at eBay Research Labs. Originally a psychologist by training, for the last 20 years she has worked on the...

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Denise Brosseau

Denise Brosseau is a speaker, coach and thought leadership consultant at the Thought Leadership Lab. She is the author of Ready to Be a Thought Leader? and has presented her dynamic and engaging...

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Megan Smith

Megan Smith is the United States Chief Technology Officer in the Office of Science and Technology Policy. In this role, she serves as an Assistant to the President. As U.S. CTO, Megan focuses on how...

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Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Sandberg is chief operating officer at Facebook, overseeing the firm’s business operations. Prior to Facebook, Sheryl was vice president of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google, chief of...

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Miral Kotb

Miral Kotb is the director, producer, choreographer and playwright for iLuminate. A native of Houston, Texas, she pursued degrees in dance and computer science simultaneously at Barnard College and...

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Blake Irving

Blake Irving is the CEO and Board Director of GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name provider and web host. Under Mr. Irving’s direction, the company has sharpened its focus on helping the world’s...

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Moira Forbes

Moira Forbes is the President and Publisher of ForbesWoman, a multi-media platform dedicated to successful women in business and leadership. She is also the Executive Vice President of Forbes Media...

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Isis Anchalee

Isis is a passionate autodidact and platform engineer at OneLogin, an enterprise identity management company. Founder of the global #iLookLikeAnEngineer movement and on the advisory board for Women Who...

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