Sg200dba:Proposed Sessions

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This page is for proposed topics - women are asked when they register the three questions listed on this page. It allows everyone attending to express their interest ahead of time and to give those thinking about coming a sense of what kinds of things will be put forward on the agenda.

The AGENDA will be created live between 9am and 10am each day of the conference. It is a critical part of the day and we encourage those coming to be there for that first hour.

Someone asked - can we break these down into different streams - biz, tech, social media, Web, career etc.? Might be useful so there's not duplication, and also for organizing a schedule.

Our thought - It would be great to organize these topics more on this page but this list is not used as part of the live agenda creation

What are some topics you would like to present at the conference?

• hopes/dreams/aspirations/frustrations in radical technology development
• experiences of parenting geeks/parenting as a geek
• Pair programming, how-to and also hands-on (a few of us are thinking of doing this Sat.)
• Intelligent Transportation - opportunities for social networks and smart phones to revolutionize transportation
• Tech Talk and Geek Speaking: Translating Expertise for Others
• Establishing a web presence for digital immigrants.
• Information about youth job training project in East Palo Alto
• Organizing an unconference: lessons from the field
• Singularity University
• Disability Rights and Social Media: How people with disABILITIES are creating online community
• Gadgets for Moms, How Moms/families Are Using Technology, Career 2.0 for TechMoms
• I've been using a tool to psyche myself up when I lose confidence. I would like to present it andsee if others find it useful.
• How to engage young girls in embracing and loving STEM skills and an education that willprepare them for being movers and shakers in the tech industry
• Pervasive games, distributed art, public play, locative media
• My experience is perhaps broad and shallow. I work in database and website management and design, as well as training adults and children to use computers. I also tutor math students from middle school to adult on occasion. I am a huge fan of FileMaker and am desperately tryingto learn SQL/MySQL. Oh, and then there is PhotoShop and I'm trying to learn Inkscape too.
• social media strategies and web development with drupal
• Talk about the Global Fund's Women's Media and Technology Fund, which provides grants to grassroots, women-led organizations worldwide using media and technology to advance women's rights.
• "I will help introduce the Social Mania Game (companion to ""Designing Social Interfaces"")with colleagues Robyn Tippins and Erin Malone"
• Collaboration and Innovation Leadership in the new paradigm Entrepreneurs: Getting and staying inspired Resilience- how to bounce back
• Geek girl storytelling
• I am a manager of virtual web development teams, with an interest in finding/developing women engineers, young people, etc.
• brainstorm or discuss ideas of how to make linkages with women in the global south on tech use and access
• How to Self-publish a book to enhance your career, by Carla King, Self-Publishing Boot Camp
• Augmented reality art projects
• the future of voice development on the web and the Voice 3.0 emerging tech
• Co-working workshop
• Lessons learned on starting a business
• Linux, command-line, GIMP, programming, public speaking
• How to fix a bug in open-source software (even if you're not a programmer)
• Command line tips (brief talk, then round the room for everyone's tips) (Liz Henry)
• Women entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley: creating an ongoing dialog 2010: a year formeaningful dialog on social networks
• The Digital Game Museum is a startup dedicated to preserving the artifacts and ephemera of digital games. We'd like to have discussions with women about gaming and what they imagine a gaming museum will be. We'd also love to find some volunteers!
• Genomics, future of intelligence, organize session for marketing experts to evaluate websites of attendees on-demand
• Ruby programming, Rails, ways to get more women into programming, teaching programming to kids
• I'd be happy to talk about social media, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, blogs, etc.
• Looking to bring conversation involving security for network based consumer products, what other companies are doing in that space, what independent groups are doing in that space, what is the growing responsibility there or the gap
• The challenges of introducing a disruptive technology to a regulated, conservative and emotion-driven industry.
• Beyond the hype: how are you using design thinking in your work?
• MentorNet: E-Mentoring Network for diversity in engineering and science
• Usability Engineering at Large Corporations
• iPhone games for kids - lessons learned
• How to engage young girls in embracing and loving STEM skills and an education that will prepare them for being movers and shakers in the tech industry
• Being a Vibrant Body in Virtual Spaces - how using playful imagination connects us, buildstrust and helps us work together
• Podcasting real time at the event.
• Community Management Strategies
• mobile, content strategy
• How to use CSS frameworks
• Do a startup boot camp or how to get more women into hardware electronics.
• Hmm. I might present about co-working spaces (e.g. HackerDojo). Or maybe a Linux presentation. Or maybe something else.
• How Words Work
• Open source sensing, life extension, nanotechnology
• What is your personal "elevation pitch"? Get ahead of the crowd with a great personal slide deck or portfolio to interview with.
• Anything Python
• Screen scraping
• Arduino!
• electronics - soldering workshop, hands on
• problem-solving skills for IT/technology professionals (Strata)
• real-world experiences adapting SCRUM to non-homogenous development projects (Strata)
• Why web developers need a debugger that helps them follow distributed message flow across process and machine boundaries.
• Teleos: Widgets that adapt to their display area. Teleos participate in an iterative, negotiated layout and present themselves effectively on large desktop monitors as well as small mobile devices.
• Contextures: Compact expressive views that present abstract or statistical information around the periphery, while showing detail at the focus of attention.
• Technical Women's Networks: Got One? Want One? share best practices & lessons learned; connect the dots between various groups; brainstorm ideas for creating change by working together

What are you hoping to learn at She's Geeky?

• Women collaborating on the next big thing in tech
• hoping to meet cool folx
• How to get my daughters the geeky resources and mentoring I can't provide myself
• How to increase participation of women in the Tech fields, along with attendance and participation at Tech events.
• Collaboration with other techie women.
• More about resources available in the technology community, ways to apply them to youth technology social change project, exposure to fun and interesting technology-based projects
• New fields. Work life balance solutions
• What other women in the field are doing
• Best practices on implementing and syndicating UGC video online
• How new web technologies can help me create communities for collaborative learning. I'd liketo run an internet training/team-building business and stop travelling so much.
• Syndication of content; affiliations/funding & sponsorship sources (both CSRunderwriting and/or funding a social enterprise model) Also weighing pros/cons of new mediaalliances for sponsorship...competitions & crowdsourcing realities (e.g.Ideablob/Chase/NGO-NPs/Ashoka/Hope Lab etc.)
• Opportunities to help high school students find mentors.
• How to use the power of technology to build equality, justice and peace
• I hope to meet like-minded women; those with an interest in tech/socialmedia/entertainment/entrepreneurship. I am new to the Bay area and have also recently transitioned to an internet tech/entertainment company having previously run a startup non-profit in NYC.
• How/why women become interested in STEM fields
• all things tech
• Rising out of a burned-out rut
• Anything to do with BioInformatics/BioTech
• Good communication skills with co-workers and management
• I'm hoping to learn more about what women in technology are focused on in the Bay Area. What are all the industries tech savvy women work in?
• Learn more about everything techy! I am not a tech person really, but because my job involves raising funds and advocating for tech groups, I am really excited about learning more.
• I hope to have conversations about how we can use technology to advance human rights and social justice goals in general.
• Ways to diversify our conference speaker rosters and attendees in general.
• Field beta testing of Bleam.
• I'm hoping to learn more about clean and compact web development, back-end solutions, future trends. Mainly I just want to meet other women with start-ups or tech-oriented charity projects in the Bay Area.
• Meet like minded people, how to get started if I wanted to open a brick-and-mortar, using analytics
• I am hoping to find resources for encouraging the girls in my schools district (Preschool through sixth grade) to explore the STEM fields. I am also really hoping to befriend some Cognos geniuses ;)
• Can anyone discuss the education applications of the Cognos BI with me?
• More about social media, what women in tech need to be inspired, Current issues
• Software applications for non-profit management
• Paths to being an awesome girl geek: opportunities before and after college, etc.
• Networking and learn about other businesses - i.e. biotech industry
• Develop a network with other women interested in math and engineer
• CSS standards-based programming Dealing with biased expectations
• Technical info on Django and Python.
• what developers need to help their customers be sucessful, learn more of what i don't know i don't know
• General knowledge of what women in tech are working on.
• Discover new tools to help me connect with community members.
• mapping, data visualization, science, Linux,
• public speaking
• I would love to learn about video games and hopefully make some interesting contacts.
• I want to learn what it is like to be in a place where everyone is a girl geek.
• latest trends, tech & culture projects
• Does using social media tools make sense for me personally and in my nonprofit work?
• Ruby, iPhone, and current trends.
• More about social networking, entrepreneurship, female gaming patterns and interests.
• New trends in gaming.
• new technologies
• feedback/brainstorming on my current projects
• interesting challenges — and benefits — of being a woman in tech any concrete tech skills Ican add to my repertoire design strategies
• Hardware hacking.
• How do I jailbreak my iPhone?
• I'm wanting to get more of a view of the industry at large and get out of my corporate box.
• To meet like-minded women in technology.
• How other women have overcome various challenges.
• Would like to connect with other women experience designers, business strategists workingin on/offline community development + social enterprise.
• Where today's women are going next
• best practices for teaching girls about technology
• Learn about other diversity/women organizations, and networking.
• sustainable usability engineering throughout the development lifecycle
• Networking with other female tech leaders, trading stories and techniques for managing atthe executive level.
• more about programming/dev, meet with fellow content strategists
• "How to present as a programmer and not get stereotyped as a ""designer.""
• Need to learn new software skills. maybe iphone dev, or other skill
• Meet cool women with common interests.
• "I don't know yet! I'm very excited to see what an ""unconference"" is like. :)"
• hoping to meet great coders, thinkers, entrepreneurs ...
• Networking with other female tech leaders, trading stories and techniques for managing at the executive level.
• Mainly meeting women who would be good candidates for the TechnoGirlTalk podcast. Hoping to learn a great deal from all of them!
• What resources do people need more of?
• What is going on in the tech world of women and business owners!
• hoping to meet mentors, get my small business started
• Web marketing, video production
• I'd like to meet with entrepreneurial women technologists to share thoughts around a startup I'm bootstrapping.
• Science and science programming topics
• Mapping and geospatial programming/technology
• Electronics and hardware.
• Finding a revenue model when working with open source software.
• Advice for making the transition from technologist/software developer to entrepreneur.
• I would love to connect with other IBM Cognos BI 8.4 users

can we break these down into different streams - biz, tech, social media, Web, career etc.? Might be useful so there's not duplication, and also for organizing a schedule.

What issues and topics would you like to discuss with women working in technology.

• Environmental Technologies
• Prevalence of geeky women in the workplace. Very interested in hearing about other peopleswork.
• mentoring geeky girls, supporting STEM exploration as an avocation, not just a career path
• using smart phones and web 2.0 to develop applications for social good (sharing of health information; increasing access to education; international development), new forms of web and smart phone enabled engagement in charity projects and international development
• Accelerating Technology, Software Applications, Sustainable Transportation
• How can we increase interest among middle school / high school girls in STEM subjects.
• How to encourage younger women in technology.
• Cutting edge business technologies and approaches, creative applications of open source platforms,
• Work life balance solutions
• Leadership issues - how to deal with male geek types
• Online Video
• Ideally, I'd like build on my blogging platform which is Wordpress, rather than changing technologies. So I'm also looking to meet people who might be able to help me with that.
• Bringing STEM to Africa; mentoring a WLW delegate from Zambia, & beyond (e.g.http://www.scu.edu/business/gwln/programs/upload/WLW09-minibiosintros-gwln-web.pdf)
• Mentoring young people
• Entrepreneurial ideas. Methods of excelling in all male environments. Not being afraid of women.
• I'd like to find out about projects for girls and women. Tech camps, conferences, and other learning opportunities.
• How to do better in a job interview, networking
• How cultural norms influence likes/dislikes in STEM fields, which predisposes girls to underperform and/or not choose STEM fields-- from my experience I think this trend is more prominent in the U.S. than in European countries.
• Entrepreneurial ideas. Methods of excelling in all male environments. Not being afraid of women.
• How/why women become interested in STEM fields
• BioInformatics, BioTech, Statistics, Python, Perl
• Technology, Engineering, Science, Math
• As a sponsor we will not be in attendance.
• Dealing with female stereotypes in executive meetings.
• I'm a self-taught web scripter, among other things, but I want to learn how to acquire more solid programming skills in my spare time.

analytics and metrics

• I just want to get a warm, fuzzy, geeky vibe going on. OK seriously, I don't have a clue what to expect. I am just excited about the concept and have high hopes that the issues and topics that come up will spark something in my head.
• how to develop opps for young women in technology, particularly those from low income comms.
• web based applications, esp for nonprofit management, cloud computing for non- profits
• How to engage young girls in embracing and loving STEM skills and an education that will prepare them for being movers and shakers in the tech industry
• Communication of scientific research/concepts with the general public.
• How to allow women to be women, AND be appreciated in these fields.
• Getting and keeping adults engaged in STEM.
• Computer Science
• No preferences as of now.
• How gaming pertains to women
• Augmented reality, collaboration, arts projects
• Ways to be role models for girls
• How do you use Facebook? How/why do you use Twitter? How much time do you spend using these andemail?
• Almost anything.
• Python, Flash, gaming, philosophy.
• let's make some cool tech
• social media/new media strategies for getting started in this field
• How do we get more of us?
• How to mentor or recruit more women at the company you work at,
• Network/Product Security,
• Work/life balance
• Making our perspective heard
• educating K-12 girls in technology
• Networking, Website development, mentoring, how other women's careers developed.
• progressive education, learning design technology, distance and self-directed learning,quantified self, whatever else is interesting
• What unique opportunities are there for women in tech as leaders? - What role does Masters,PHD level education play for female leaders in technology? - Creative strategies for women to achieve success in technology.
• Starting companies, bringing ideas to market
• work/life balance, mentoring, IP issues
• How to handle and combat subtle sexist/homophobic comments in the workplace
• Sounds superficial, but how should women in tech dress at work? And can it get me ahead?
• Social entrepreneurship, user experience, technology in emerging economies.
• encouraging women to make stuff and be involved in tech
• What unique opportunities are there for women in tech as leaders?
• What role does Masters, Ph.D. level education play for female leaders in technology?
• Creative strategies for women to achieve success in technology.
• How women manage life in tech, IT, etc. Balance of work-life, sexism/male dominance, etc.
• How can those of us who are independent consultants form a more professionally supportive community? (yes me too)
• the future of women in technology
• career direction, mentors, entrepreneurship
• web design, keeping up with technology, best places/ways to learn, freelance work right after babies, marketing...
• how to find a company/paying work that shares your values/would be a good place to work
• how to get girls and adult women past a fear of math and tech

What are some concerns you might have about the conference?