ISC 2016 WHPC Networking Lunch

We invite you to join in a special networking event to celebrate the role of women in high performance computing careers. We are bringing together women leaders and young career women in corporate organizations, research institutions, academia, and business for networking, mentoring, and sharing of knowledge.  Together with our supporters and leaders in the community we are creating opportunities for women to network, learn, and build connections.

Event Details

Learn more from our founder and inspirational women leaders in HPC. Enhance your understanding of the compelling need for better representation of women in HPC. We are encouraging members from the European HPC community to add their voices and join the Women in HPC global community. We will celebrate our women leaders, early career women and enjoy a lunch with like-minded partners, from all parts of the community, as part of a growing coalition for improved gender diversity.

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• KEYNOTE: MARIE-CHRISTINE SAWLEY, INTEL

  Marie-Christine Sawley has been the Intel Director of the Exascale Lab in Paris since its opening at the end of 2010. Prior to this, she worked for 3 years as a senior scientist for the ETH Zurich in the CMS computing team at CERN. Between 2003 and 2008, she was the director of the CSCS, the Swiss national supercomputing centre, boosting significantly the development of the centre during this period. During her career at EPFL, between 1988 and 2003, she managed a number of high profile HPC projects across a variety of disciplines. Over the last 20 years, she has built expertise as HPC technology manager to serve the advancements of world-class science, mission-critical computing, extreme sporting competition or industrial partnerships.

  Marie-Christine holds a degree in Physic and a PhD in Plasma Physics (1985) from EPFL. She spent two periods in Australia: for a postdoc at Sydney Uni in 1987-88 and for a sabbatical leave in 1999. Marie-Christine is a Swiss and French national.

Last year at ISC16, we held our first luncheon and networking event. We are doing it again this year to provide the opportunity to network with industry leaders, talk tech, and meet new industry contacts. We are brainstorming the difficulties, the challenges, and the opportunities to improve diversity and inclusivity for everyone, and in particular women.

We want everyone to attend:

• Women and Men
• Any Career Stage: Early, mid, and established
• Any Level in the Organization: Junior, Managers, and Leaders
• Any type of Organization: Corporations, research institutions, and academia

We all coming together to bring about positive change.

By attending this event, you will get the opportunity to talk with inspirational leaders in high-performance computing, meet the up and coming who are changing the face of HPC, particularly the women who inspire us in HPC and leading the next generation into a more diverse workforce.

It’s about networking, learning, and building connections. Oh – and the Science!

Event Details

The event starts at 12:30pm. Lunch served at 12:45pm. We’ll have a few words from our Keynote sponsor Lenovo. And then maybe a surprise from our Founder Dr. Toni Collis.