Conference
Steering Committee
Honorary Chair: Ambassador Ellen Sauerbrey, United Sates Representative
to the United Nations Commission for Women
General
Chair: Ms. Claudia Morrell, Executive Director of the Center for Women and
Information Technology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).
Academic Chair: Dr. Yelena
Yesha, Professor of Computer Science at UMBC, General Chair, Association of Computing
Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) 2005.
Academic Co-Chair: Ms. Jo Sanders, independent consultant, author, gender
equity specialist.
Business Chair: Ms. Shirley Collier, CEO, Optemax
Business Co-Chair: Ms. Deborah Kielty, President and Executive Director,
World Trade Center Institute
Business Co-Chair: Beth Perlman, CIO Constellation Energy Group
International Chair: Dr. Sophia Huyer, Executive Director of the Gender
Advisory Board of the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development (UNSCD) and
Executive Director of the Women in Global Science and Technology program (WIGSAT).
International Co-Chair: Dr. Kelly Lyons, Director of IBM Center for
Advanced Studies, Toronto, Canada
Committee Members
Dr. Tulay Adali is a Professor of Computer and Electrical Engineering at UMBC. She also serves as Chair of IEEE MLSP Technical
Committee. Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Conference Board.
Dr. Jennifer
Preece, Professor of Information Studies and Human Computer Interactions, College of
Information Studies, University of Maryland, College Park.
Dr. Anita Komlodi, Assistant Professor and Director of Research in the Department of
Information Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Ms. Lea King, Vice President, Consulting, Cisco Greater China
Ms. Paula Koda, AT&T China
Dr. Jane Long, Dean of Undergraduate Studies, University of Western Australia is a
researcher in gender and cybercultures.
Dr. Maria Palasik, Historian of Science, Women in Technology, Budapest University of
Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
Dr. Celine Shen, Deputy Director, Peking University eBusiness Center
Ms. Ban Saraf, Civil Society Specialist, Iraq; Vice President and Co-Founder of Saraf
Software Solutions
Executive Steering Committee
Chair: Ms. Claudia Morrell, Executive Director of the Center for Women
and Information Technology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).
Co-Chair: Dr. Yelena Yesha,
Professor of Computer Science at UMBC, General Chair, Association of Computing Machinery
(ACM) Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) 2005.
Co-Chair: Ms. Shirley Collier, CEO, Optemax
Academic Co-Chair: Ms. Jo Sanders, independent consultant, author, gender
equity specialist.
Committee Members
Dr. Sophia Huyer is the Executive Director of the Gender Advisory Board of the UN
Commission on Science and Technology for Development (UNSCD) and Executive Director of the
Women in Global Science and Technology program (WIGSAT).
Dr. Kelly Lyons, Director of IBM Center for Advanced Studies, Toronto, Canada
Dr. Jane Long, Dean of Undergraduate Studies, University of Western Australia is a
researcher in gender and cybercultures.
Raj Kumar Prasad, CEO, Commonwealth Centre for e-Governance India
Founder-Institute for Electronic Governance & Development Editor India first
e0commerce magazine
Ms. Jo Sanders is an independent consultant. She
has conducted national and statewide projects, primarily funded by NSF, for 30 years on
gender equity in computing, mathematics and science from elementary school to
post-secondary teacher education. She has
published dozens of books, articles, and chapters, and has given hundreds of speeches and
workshops for teachers here and abroad.
Dr.
Celine Shen, Deputy Director, Peking University eBusiness Center
Ms. Sarah Revi Sterling, Program Manager, Microsoft Research