This year’s Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference was attended by a record-breaking 34 Oracle employees, making Oracle the top 7th organization by registration, ahead of Facebook, IBM and SAP. In total almost 3000 people from 34 countries attended the conference, which was held Nov. 9 - 11 in Portland, OR. Oracle was a Silver Sponsor and Oracle employees were organizers, speakers and committee members of the conference.

Keynote speakers at the conference were Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, and the Honorable Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, who currently serves on the President’s Council of …

I attended a wonderful leadership development workshop by Jo Miller, called ‘Building your brand’ at Grace Hopper Conference . It was attended by 850 women! I was unsure how a workshop with so many participants would turn out to be. It was thought provoking. I spoke to a lot of other women who like it too. I will write notes about it in the next weeks. But here is what stuck with me:

- Key to finding your brand/career? Knowing where your passion, skills & value to others meet.
- Consider brands that evolve as your career does - entry level, …

Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing is an annual event bringing together thousands of technical women in computing and at different stages of their career. Attendees include women in the industry, professors, researchers, recruiters, undergraduates in Computer Science or considering CS as a major, graduate students choosing their research topic, recent graduates looking for a job. It is a diverse, exciting, inspiring, and nurturing environment of two thousand women, all of whom are smart, brilliant, beautiful, and unique in their own right

This is my fifth time at the Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing, the first …