The BCSWomen Undergraduate Lovelace Colloquium

Preliminary Program, 2009

10:00Coffee, Registration, etc.  
10:25Welcome Alan Pollard FBCS CITP, President of the British Computer Society
10:30BCSWomen talk Dr Karen Petrie, BCSWomen chair
10:40KeynoteGillian Arnold, IBM
11:10InterludeA short break
11:20 CODEX: Collaborative Development for the XO laptop (and UROS: Undergraduate Research Opportunities) Prof. Cornelia Boldyreff, Lincoln
12:00Are we having fun yet? Emotion discrimination on extreme fairground rides Dr Julie Greensmith, Nottingham
12:40Lunch(will merge seamlessly into following event...)
13:00Poster competition (1)Final year students
13:40Poster competition (2)Second and first years
14:20InterludeA short break
14:30Unify your communicationsEileen Brown, Microsoft
15:15Mobile user experience design at GoogleKaren Groenink, Google
16:00Prizes awarded£100 first prize each contest
16:10Working in computing: Panel sessionVicky Greaves, Google; Maggie Berry, womenintechnology.co.uk; Miki Burgess, Cardiff University and 1 other to be announced - this will be a question-and-answer session on careers in computing for women, covering questions like "Is it any different?" "What should you look out for?" and anything else the audience wants to ask.
17:15Social With cake
19:00End of the official day