Our schedule is subject to change. Please check back for a full list of speakers and workshops!
FRIDAY, 10/16 3 PM - 6 PM
3:00 - 6:00 PM - RECRUITING FAIR
Recruiting fair with companies, departments, startups, and NGOs from across STEM disciplines & career-related workshops
5:00-6:00 PM - INDUSTRY TRACK PANEL What is it like to work in industry? Hear from women who are leveraging their STEM backgrounds in different industries! Speakers: Linda Cuerton, PhD, Founder & CEO - Muse Technologies Robin Berzin, MD, Founder & CEO - Parsley Health Jane Demianenko, Associate, Project Controls Solutions - Enstoa Tessandra Sage, Software Engineer - Northrop Grumman Corporation Miki Hayano, PhD, Life Sciences Consultant - Navigant
Moderator: Marissa Fayer, President & Founder - Fayer Consulting
SATURDAY, 10/17 9 AM - 5 PM
8:00-10:00 AM POSTER JUDGING *Private poster judging with presenters and judges. Open poster viewing will take place during lunch
9:00-10:00 AM BREAKFAST & GENERAL REGISTRATION
10:00-10:15 AM WELCOME REMARKS Julia Tartaglia, Co-Founder & Executive Director - The Scientista Foundation
10:15-10:45 AM TALK: SEXISM IN STEM Speaker: Mercy Davidson, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, Columbia University Medical Center
10:45-11:30 AM HEALTHCARE INNOVATIONS
Panelists: Shiri Azenkot, PhD, Assistant Professor - Cornell Tech Lauren Foundos, Founder & CEO - Forte Camilla Hermann, Founder & Executive Director - Odisi Carrie Ann Mantha, MD,President, Aporia Advisors
Moderator: Zoe Barry, Founder and CEO - ZappRx
11:30-12:30 PM - WORKSHOPS (Attendees will be able to attend two)
[A] Leadership Workshop Yaihara Fortis-Santiago, PhD, Science Alliance Manager - New York Academy of Sciences
[B] How to Publish a Paper Workshop | Ines Chen, PhD, Chief Editor - Nature, Structural and Molecular Biology
[C] Augmented Reality Workshop Perry Moa, Software Development Manager, Northrop Grumman
[D] Bold, Brave, and Assured: Confidence Workshop Mackenzie Lowry, Co-Founder - Oasys, Student Advisor - Harvard University
[E] Study Abroad Workshop with Stefanie Grupp-Clasby, Executive Director - The University of Cologne New York
12:30-2:00PM NETWORKING LUNCH AND POSTER VIEWING
Have lunch with the other attendees and speakers and browse the undergraduate & graduate student poster fair.
2:00-2:45PM BIG DATA: USING DATA TO SOLVE THE WORLD'S LARGEST PROBLEMS
Panelists: Deborah Berebichez, PhD TV Host - Discovery Channel, Principal Scientist - ThoughtWorks Maria Nagagga, Tech Evangelist - Microsoft Jennifer Lopez, Commercial Innovation Technology Development Lead - CASIS, Datanaut Corps Founding Member - NASA
2:45-3:15 PM DELIVERING BETTER HEALTH CARE WITH BIG DATA Speaker: Sherry Gao, Software Developer, athenahealth
Do you like big data? athenaHealth does. We have more than 100,000,000 doctors’ appointments and 1,000,000,000 clinical procedures on record, and we are constantly finding new ways to leverage this data.
Our Epocrates Bugs & Drugs app recommends appropriate antibiotics to fight drug resistant infections by mining clinical lab data from across the athena network. With athenaCommunicator, it takes a doctor only a few clicks to remind every one of his or her patients to get their flu vaccine. Using our Quality Management Engine, a doctor can instantaneously locate all female patients due for a mammogram. Join us to hear about how Athena is using its data to help doctors deliver better care. What questions would you ask if you had access to an industry-leading 10,000,000+ medical records?
3:15-3:30 PM COFFEE BREAK
3:30-4:15 PM ALTERNATIVE CAREERS PANEL Speakers: Liza Daly, CTO - Safari, an O'Reilly Media company Lauren Celano, CEO - Propel Careers Rebecca Searles, Editorial Product Manager - Sonr, (previous) Editorial Director - Experiment, (previous) Science Editor - The Huffington Post Marissa Fayer, President & Founder - Fayer Consulting 4:15-5:00 PM NASA PANEL - INNOVATIONS IN SPACE
Moderator: Deanne Bell - Founder, Future Engineers; TV Host, CNBC Make Me A Millionaire Inventor
Panelists: Jennifer Lopez, Commercial Innovation Technology Development Lead - CASIS & Datanaut Corps Founding Member - NASA Matthew Pearce - Education Program Specialist - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center-GSFC, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies-GISS Christina Ciardullo - Ann Kalla Professor of Architecture - Carnegie Mellon University & Designer/Co-Founder - SEArch (Space Exploration Architecture)
SUN, OCTOBER 18 9AM - 3 PM
9:00-10:00 AM - GENERAL REGISTRATION
10:00-10:45 AM - ENTREPRENEURSHIP PANEL Speakers: Shioulin Sam, PhD, MS, Managing Director - Golden Seeds Sarah Chipps, CEO & Founder - Jewelbots Tiffany Pham, Founder & CEO - Mogul Liz Entin, Founder & CEO, Runway Passport
10:45-11:30 AM - RESEARCH PANEL Speakers: Marian Mellen, PhD,Research Associate - The Rockefeller University Katerina Mantzavinou,PhD Student, Harvard-MIT HST Sandra Batista,PhD,Lecturer - Computer Science Department, Princeton University Yaihara Fortis-Santiago, PhD, Science Alliance Manager - New York Academy of Sciences
11:30-12:30 PM - WORKSHOPS
Creating Your Personal Board of Directors Workshop withThea Zimnicki, Patent Attorney, Ferdinand IP, LLC. Intro to HTML/CSS Workshop with Rebecca Garcia, Co-Founder - CoderDojo NYC Intro to Databases Workshop with Maria Nagagga, Tech Evangelist - Microsoft Reverse Software Engineering Workshop with Collin Krepps,Software Engineer, Northrop Grumman
12:30-1:30 PM - NETWORKING LUNCH AND OPEN POSTER VIEWING
