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Learn Supporting Women Inwards Tech At Ghc 16

The 2016 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women inwards Computing (GHC) begins today, as well as we’re thrilled to bring together the 15,000 women as well as allies convening inwards Houston for 3 days of learning, inspiration as well as community building. Thousands of women at Google are edifice tools as well as products that organize the world’s information, assistance businesses acquire online as well as prosper, as well as forge connections across a growing digital community of 3.5 billion people. So it solely makes feel that Google would endure business office of the world's largest gathering of women technologists. We reckon GHC every bit a critical means to connect women inwards tech as well as assistance clear hurdles to their professional person development.


We know that there’s much to a greater extent than function to do to assistance degree the playing plain — as well as that’s why the mission of the Grace Hopper Celebration is as well as then important. Just yesterday nosotros reported novel the U.S.A. query from Gallup as well as Google that suggests girls are less probable than boys to endure told yesteryear parents as well as teachers that they would endure practiced at calculator science. We also flora that girls are less probable than boys to endure aware of calculator scientific discipline learning opportunities exterior of school.

We’ve worked difficult to recruit as well as back upwardly amazing women leaders since the rattling commencement of Google, merely nosotros also desire to back upwardly efforts to amend women’s representation across the entire tech ecosystem. That's why we've been business office of of GHC since 2004. For the yesteryear 12 years, we’ve also worked alongside the Anita Borg Institute (ABI), which produces GHC, to select to a greater extent than women into calculator scientific discipline careers. Google’s Alan Eustace is a founding fellow member of the ABI Board of Trustees, as well as his friendship alongside Anita Borg herself gave ascension to the Women Techmakers Scholars Program (formerly known every bit the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship Program). To date, the programme has awarded to a greater extent than than 1,000 scholarships globally, as well as we've been rattling happy to hire many of them to come upwardly function here.

If you’re planning to attend the conference, don’t endure a stranger. If you lot reckon i of us sporting a Google T-shirt, we’d dearest to run across you. Stop yesteryear our booth (#1730), or come upwardly to i of our 25 presentations. Some of the highlights include our VP of Engineering as well as Machine Learning Anna Patterson, who volition deliver a keynote on entrepreneurism as well as have the 2016 ABI Excellence Award; as well as Captain of Moonshots Astro Teller, who volition verbalize over how to encompass failure inwards the mention of breakthrough. Follow us on Twitter for updates from the demonstrate flooring as well as definitely view our Careers site to notice your house alongside us.

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