News from ACM-W Celebrations

The Canadian Celebration of Women in Computing (CAN-CWIC) took place on November 3/4th in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The event was chaired by Dr. Naouel Moha from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). The event was attended by nearly 600 from across Canada including some attendees who came from New York to attend the event. The event featured a programming competition, a video welcome from our newly appointed Governor General, Julie Payette, keynotes given by Margaret-Ann Armour from the University of Alberta and Joëlle Pineau from McGill University, a poster session, graduate presentations, tech talks and numerous other panels and workshops. Our career fair with over 30 companies present was a huge hit and hopefully resulted in many job offers!

Although this was only the 2nd Canada-wide Celebration, this Celebration is in its 7th year. For 5 years, the Celebration was an Ontario-centric event and was run at 5 different universities across Ontario. We are excited to watch CAN-CWIC grow! CAN-CWIC 2018 will be held in Halifax on November 2/3rd, 2018 – to coincide with Dalhousie University’s 200th birthday as well as their initiative to double the number of women in their Computer Science program in the next year!

If you are interested in organizing a Celebration in your region, please contact the Chair of the Celebrations Committee, Wendy Powley for more information. International Celebrations are encouraged and welcomed!

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