Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering II
Thursday March 13 and Friday March 14, 2008.
Room 101, David Packard Building, 350 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305.
Pay parking is available at the Clark Building on Campus Drive.
Also on Panama Mall and next to the White Plaza. Parking is free after 4:00pm.
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Confirmed schedule:
Thursday March 13, 2008
- 10:00 am Welcome: Fixing the Knowledge (What is a "gendered innovation"?)
Introducing the new GISE volume. (Professor Londa Schiebinger, Director of the Clayman Institute, Stanford) - 10:30am-12:30pm: Women in Gaming and Virtual Worlds (Moderator: Professor Terry Winograd, Department of Computer Science, Stanford)
Confirmed panelists:
Sheri Graner Ray, Executive Chair, Women in Gaming International
Vladlen Koltun, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Stanford
Nick Yee, Research Staff, Palo Alto Research Center. - 12:30pm-1:30pm lunch break
- 1:30-3:30pm: Gendered Innovation in Engineering (Moderator: Professor Sheri Sheppard, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford)
Confirmed panelists:
Michelle Zawadzki, Senior Director, Global Knee Development, Zimmer Inc.
Deborah Kilgore, Research Scientist, University of Washington - 3:30-4:00pm break
- 4:00pm-5:30pm Women's Role in the Future of Science (Moderator: Professor Londa Schiebinger)
Confirmed panelists:
James E. Batterson, Executive Director, Women's Health at Stanford
Cynthia Friend, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
Nancy Hopkins, Professor of Biology, M.I.T.
Sue V. Rosser, Dean, Ivan Allen College, Georgia Institute of Technology - 5:30pm Brief closing remarks and thanks for day one (Londa Schiebinger)
End of Day One
Friday, March 14, 2008
- 10:30-12:00 Gender and the Environment (Moderator: Louise Fortmann, Professor of Forestry and Sustainable Development, University of California-Berkeley)
Confirmed panelists:
Kavita Philip, Associate Professor of Women's Studies, University of California, Irvine
Michelle Murphy, Associate Professor of History, University of Toronto
Sibongile Van Damme, General Manager, South African National Parks - 12:00-1:00pm lunch break
- 1:00pm-1:30pm Keynote address by Professor Myra Hart, Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School
- 1:30-3:00pm Women in Silicon Valley’s Entrepreneurial Culture: panel of women business leaders and VCs (Moderator: Professor Myra Hart).
Confirmed panelists:
Joyce Chung, Garage Technology Ventures
Diane Greene, CEO, VMware
Ann Winblad, Hummer Winblad - 3:00 Closing Remarks (Londa Schiebinger)
End of Conference
Conference Sponsors The Clayman Institute is grateful for generous support of this conference by the following groups: BioX, Department of Biology, Department of Chemistry, School of Earth Sciences, School of Engineering, Feminist Studies Program, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford, Department of Physics, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford Technology Ventures Program, Faculty Women’s Forum, and Stanford’s Office of Science Outreach.
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