Funding (registration, lodging, and airfare, a value of over $1,000) is available for five ECE students to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing - the world’s largest gathering of women technologists. While conference registrations sold out almost immediately, ECE has five reserved spots.

The three-day conference combines technical sessions with career sessions and includes a poster session, a career fair, and an awards ceremony. This year, GHC will take place at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas October 19-21, 2016.

To apply, please complete the survey (will require a 300 word essay and an updated resume) at https://purdue.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0wGlHU9ONA4l7x3 by Wednesday, September 7. If you have questions, email Linda Owen at lmowen@prf.org.

Looking for ways to begin your career in the tech field? This is a great opportunity- tech companies including Amazon, Apple, Cisco, GE, Google, Intel, Microsoft and many more recruit at the career fair.  See a full list of sponsoring companies here.

Keynote speakers at this year’s conference include:

Ginni Rometty

President and CEO, IBM

Latanya Sweeney

Professor, Harvard University

Editor-­in-­Chief, Technology Science

Director and founder, Data Privacy Lab

Marc Benioff

Chairman and CEO, Salesforce

Dr. Deborah Berebichez

TV host, Outrageous Acts of Science

Megan Smith

Chief Technology Officer, United States of America