Creating local, or global, communities that connect women in tech | #wov16

Technology is growing rapidly globally. Many developing countries are working to create their own equivalent to Silicon Valley. We often hear about challenges facing women in technology in the US. But, in countries where very old fashioned roles for women are still the norm, the challenges are much greater. Luckily, one US organization is working to export the tactics it used to improve conditions at home.Telle Whitney, CEO of the Anita Borg Institute (ABI) for Women in Technology, said that women in technology is a global issue

How do you build an award-winning application with three people? | #wov16

A lot of startups never see the light of day because their would-be founders aren't able to secure funding from VCs. A big chunk of the money they need is to pay the salaries of team members. It would

How role models can spur young techies to success | #wov16

The general public can sometimes view technologists as unrelatable cyborgs with whom they have little in common. They can't imagine that they would ever be able to code or program or do all the other

Paying it forward: Mentoring tomorrow’s IT innovators | #wov16

If the competition to recruit top IT talent is any indication, we're going to need to find ways to get more young people interested in careers in computing. The problem is many kids -- especially fema

Paying it forward: Mentoring tomorrow’s IT innovators | #wov16

If the competition to recruit top IT talent is any indication, we’re going to need to find ways to get more young people interested in careers in computing. The problem is many kids — especially females — view IT as a daunting field that only a handful of genetic wonders are cut out for. To that, Michele D. Guel says phooey. Guel won a 2016 Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision award (also known as an ABIE Award) and is a distinguished engineer and chief security architect at Cisco Systems, Inc.Guel told Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick), cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, that she struggled early in her career

No woman in tech is an island: Harnessing the power of networking | #wov16

With the expanding world of social media, there are more ways than ever for professionals to connect and converse with each other online. And that’s well and good, but some still desire to forge relationships with people in person. The Anita Borg Institute wants to help women in technology take it to the real world, get to know each other and form alliances that will pay off well into the future.Jody Mahoney, VP of Business Development and Corporate Partnerships at the Anita Borg Institute (ABI), said she’s seen magic happen for members of the ABI community

Internet of Everything: Will we all be technologists in the future? | #wov16

It's commonly said these days all companies will have to become technology companies in the future. We're seeing this borne out in fields from automotive to household appliances. So what about employe

Internet of Everything: Will we all be technologists in the future? | #wov16

It’s commonly said these days all companies will have to become technology companies in the future. We’re seeing this borne out in fields from automotive to household appliances. So what about employees? Will they all have to become technologists?Ana Pinczuk, the Anita Borg Institute’s Women of Vision Awards emcee and EVP and chief product officer at Veritas Technologies, LLC, said that technology is bleeding into every part of an organization.She told Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick), cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, the Anita Borg Institute is unique not only for catering exclusively to women, but because women are doing the hardcore computing and engineering work

How role models can spur young techies to success | #wov16

The general public can sometimes view technologists as unrelatable cyborgs with whom they have little in common. They can’t imagine that they would ever be able to code or program or do all the other impressive things they do. And then one day, they meet a chatty, funny, down-to-earth human — who happens to write applications.According to Alyssia Jovellanos, a few years ago, she couldn’t have imagined she’d be a computer science major, let alone the 2016 Student of Vision Award Winner. She had planned on applying to med school until a chance meeting with a fellow female technologist, she explained to Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick), cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team

No woman in tech is an island: Harnessing the power of networking | #wov16

With the expanding world of social media, there are more ways than ever for professionals to connect and converse with each other online. And that's well and good, but some still desire to forge relat

How do you build an award-winning application with three people? | #wov16

A lot of startups never see the light of day because their would-be founders aren’t able to secure funding from VCs. A big chunk of the money they need is to pay the salaries of team members. It would be so much cheaper to launch if there were a way to reduce the manpower needed to produce a product.Maybe there is.Pooja Sankar is the 2016 Technology Entrepreneurship ABIE Award winner (presented during the recent Anita Borg Institute’s Women of Vision Awards 2016 event) and founder and CEO of Piazza Technologies Inc., a real-time communication tool for students, their peers and instructors

Creating local, or global, communities that connect women in tech | #wov16

Technology is growing rapidly globally. Many developing countries are working to create their own equivalent to Silicon Valley. We often hear about challenges facing women in technology in the US. But