FINAL REPORT
(FULL VERSION)
Table of Contents
To Our Stakeholders ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1
Conference Summary _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2
Key Accomplishments ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3
Financials (US dollars) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4
Impact Evaluation ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6
Organizing Committee ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 9
APPENDIX _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 12
To Our Stakeholders
Our initial goal with LATINITY was to bring a part of what we experienced at Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing
(GHC) year after year to Latin America. Even being very ambitious, we never imagined the impact of bringing this to Latin
America. We started this journey at a Latinas in Computing event at GHC13 and continuing with meetings both virtual and in
person with collaborators from all over Latin America.
We want to thank you the Latinas in Computing Co-Chairs, Gilda Garreton and Patty Lopez for the tireless support, and our
Conference Advisor Luza Jaramillo for helping us with the decisions and critical work when we needed an extra push to reach
the finish line.
Conference Co-Chairs
Jocelyn Simmonds & Natalie Gil
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Conference Summary
LAtINiTY 2015 was a two-day conference where participants had the
opportunity to listen to women leaders from the region and discuss
gender issues in computing and technology. LAtINiTY participants
were able to meet other women in similar fields and presented their
projects while getting new perspectives from their peers. This was the
first time an event of this nature (and size) was hosted in Latin America.
As such, it was a unique opportunity to have access to STEM (Science
Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) students, researchers,
professors and professionals.
With more than 100 conference registrants, and over 400 attendees including a 6% male representation- the conference was held in three
different languages: Spanish, Portuguese and English. LAtINiTY 2015
was organized as part of a larger conference: Jornadas Chilenas de
Computacion, a major annual conference that has been hosted in Chile
for more than 30 years.
LAtINiTY 2015 keynote speakers and panelists included renowned women from Microsoft, Facebook, Oracle and
ThoughtWorks. Conference presentations were organized in three tracks:
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Academic track – talks about a full spectrum of research topics, from core computer science to applications,
Industry track – sessions about technical work in industry, where speakers presented novel projects or
technologies that they helped develop,
Society track - presentation of studies about the situation of women in the area, and showcase of work done during
the past year to promote the participation of women in computing in Latin America.
In parallel, the event hosted other relevant activities:
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Career Talk and Senior Technical Women Panel, presented by experienced women in the technology industry
who provided insightful advise to students and young professionals,
Student Research Talks Competition, where participants presented their academic projects and where evaluated
for the chance to win the competition,
Career Fair, with gold conference sponsors booths,
Entrepreneurship Workshop, co-hosted by two renown entrepreneurs, angel investors and experts in the field
who answered the questions new entrepreneurs usually have at early stages of their projects,
Product Visioning Challenge, where students teamed up to work on mocking up tech solutions to specific
problems that affect Latin American women,
Documentary, with the screening (for the first time in Latin America!) of the documentary "CODE: Debugging the
gender gap" which addresses the gender gap issue in technology.
This event, organized by the Computer Science Department of Universidad de Chile, the School of Computing
Engineering of Universidad Mayor and Latinas in Computing, was held on November 9-10, 2015 in Santiago de Chile.
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Key Accomplishments
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Financials (US dollars)
REVENUE & SUPPORT
Registration Fees
$2,233.00
Sponsorship Fees
$21,500.00
Total
$23,733.00
EXPENSES
Administration
Speakers/Presenters
Scholarships
Marketing
Facilities
Entertainment
Participant Goodies
Materials
Add On
Internals
Total
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Challenge Prizes
$216.00
Lodging and Travel
$3,460.00
Lodging, Travel and Registration
$10,200.00
Logo & Website Design, Domain, Easy Chair platform,
KickOffLabs Lists
$1,155.00
Food, shared costs of facilities, badges, internet
$7,055.00
Movie Screening
$971.00
Tote bags
$1,050.00
Banners and Challenge Materials
$300.00
Blue Ray Player (used for movie screening), Speakers' Gifts
$276.78
Administrative expenses -conference preparation:
transport, local calls, work lunches, wire transfer fees
$147.14
local
$24,830.92
CONFERENCE SPONSORS
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Impact Evaluation
ATTENDANCE
The conference had attendees from countries around the world. Adding 300 from Chile that attended the JCC event and several
of LAtINiTY’s keynotes and sessions.
Country
Count
Other
27
Chile
19
Brasil
10
Argentina
9
United States
7
Perú
7
Colombia
5
Costa Rica
5
United States
3
Ecuador
3
Mexico
2
India
1
Uruguay
1
Cuba
1
Spain
1
Grand Total
101
CONFERENCE SURVEY
A SurveyMonkey survey was sent to LAtINiTY attendees to provide feedback. The following is a summary of these results:
LATINITY 2015 CONFERENCE GENERAL RATING
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POTENTIAL ASSISTANCE TO THE NEXT VERSION OF
LATINITY OR SIMILAR EVENT
Top Rated Sessions
Academic Track
Full Presentations:
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2.
Dengue news reports cluster analysis using text mining – Andrea Villanes
Desarrollo de dispositivo de rastreo ocular como medio de comunicacion para personas con discapacidad motora –
Andrea Tenorio
Student Research Talks
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2.
Paralelizacion del metodo PIC 2D para resolver la ecuaciones de Vlasov-Poisson sobre GPUs - Yensy Helena Gomez
Guía de buenas practicas en el uso de metodologías agiles Scrum/XP orientada a equipos sin experiencia - Giannina
Costa and Romina Torres
Industry Track
Regular talks:
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2.
CSS and Kittens: Tips and tricks to keeping your front-end code DRY, easy to maintain, and adorable! - Pamela Ocampo
Videojuegos, construye tu empresa en 10 pasos - Mara Ares
Extended talks:
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2.
¿Que es un laboratorio de gobierno? - Carolina Hadad
Uma proposta de repositorio de dados para prover informaçoes de Governo Lais Souza, Debora Lima, Yasmim Mello,
Pricilla Chaves, Miriam Chaves and Ana Garcia
Society Track
Panels:
Stephanie Frias, Andrea Villanes, Alicia Chong, Beatriz Astorga and Maira Samary, Formando la siguiente generacion
de mujeres en STEM en Latinoamerica
2. Carolina Hadad, Camila Achutti, Patricia Pena and Maitetxu Larraechea, Lessons Learnt in WiT groups in southern
LATAM
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Talks:
Kemly Camacho, Crisly Gonzalez Sanchez, TICas: creando condiciones y oportunidades para la integracion de mujeres
rurales en el sector de tecnologías de informacion y comunicacion en Costa Rica
2. Camila Gaitan, Ser mujer en tecnología es una cuestion de genero y capacidad
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Special Sessions
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Keynote Speaker Day 1
Career Talk
Entrepreneurship Workshop
Senior Technical Women Panel
Top rated features and feedback
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The environment and people attending
Keynote and Career Talk
Networking opportunities
Project, career opportunities
Lowest rated features and feedback
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2.
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4.
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Coffee Breaks
Registration
Room distributions
Translation
Organizing Committee
Track Committees
Academic Track
Chair
Valeria Herskovic
Pontificia Universidad
Catolica de Chile
Members
Cecilia Aragon, University of Washington
Juliana Borin, University of Campinas
Dilma Da Silva, Texas A&M University
Carolina Galleguillos
Claudia Lopez, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa María
Barbara Poblete, Universidad de Chile
Cindy Rubio-Gonzalez, University of California, Davis
Genoveva Vargas Solar, CNRS-LIG-LAFMIA
Industry Track
Chair
Rosa Enciso
Microsoft
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Members
Rosalva Gallardo, Intel
Luza Jaramillo, Electronic Arts Inc.
Laura Martinez, Prodigious, Colombia
Fanny Nina Paravecino, Northeastern University
Gilda Garreton, Oracle Labs
Society Track
Chair
Cecilia Bastarrica
Universidad de Chile
Members
Monica Caniupan, Universidad del Bio-Bio
Lioubov Dombrovskaia, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa María
Nancy Hitschfeld, Universidad de Chile
Carolina Pinto, Universidad de Vina del Mar
Claudia Pons, Universidad de La Plata
Maira Marques, Universidad de Chile
Jocelyn Simmonds, Universidad de Chile
Entrepreneurship
Workshop
Manish Singhal, Advisor
LetsVenture.com
Jagruti Bhikha, Co-Host
ThoughtWorks
Product Visioning
#LatinityChallenge
Jessica Gonzalez and Gaby Zamudio
Thoughtworks
Scholarship Chair
Carolina Hadad
Girls in Tech Argentina
Conference
Advisory
Committee
Members
Gilda Garreton, Oracle
Juan Pablo Buritica, ride.com
Jagruti Bhikha, Thoughtworks & GHC India
Nayda Santiago, UPR Mayaguez
Patty Lopez, Intel
Student Advisory
Committee
Members
Edith Rivero, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Maira Marques, Universidad de Chile
Carla Luyo, Carnegie Mellon University
Meridangela Gutierrez, Rochester Institute of Technology
Jessica Cotrina, Universidad Privada del Norte
Sponsorship
Support
Andrea Villanes - Jody Mahoney
Jose Yapur - Sorey Garcia
Volunteers
Coordinator
Sarah Chambers
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Twitter
@latinityconf
Email
[email protected]
LinkedIn
http://linkd.in/19PQhF2
Facebook
http://on.fb.me/1J1wlf2
APPENDIX
A. DETAILED SURVEY RESULTS
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B. CONFERENCE IN SOCIAL MEDIA
FACEBOOK
LATINITY participants used Facebook to share their personal experiences during the conference:
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Participant communities posted about their representation at the conference:
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Facebook was also used by some participants to promote their sessions:
Attendees connected through Facebook to share information about the location, transportation, places to eat nearby, etc.:
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After the conference, some attendees used the social media platform just to “Thank you”:
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TWITTER
The social media platform was used by conference organizers to share real time information about sessions and other
interesting facts.
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YOUTUBE
Prior to the conference, organizers held multiple sessions via Skype to promote the event:
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LINKEDIN
Organizers posted on the professional network to share the experience with their contacts:
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INSTAGRAM
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LATINITY IN THE NEWS
The conference was highlighted by different media sites:
http://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2015/november/diversity-in-technology.html
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http://sulabatsu.com/blog/noticias/sula-batsu-represento-a-costa-rica-en-el-latinity-2015/
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http://argentina.girlsintech.org/latinity-conference-oportunidades-y-becas/
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http://jmc.cikeys.com/resources/scholarships/latinity-latin-american-women-in-technology-conference/
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http://www.investigacion.unal.edu.co/index.php/eventos/4535-20150514-latinity
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http://www.cafelinear.com/2015/05/19/technically-speaking.html
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https://www.dcc.uchile.cl/academicas_del_dcc_organizan_primera_conferencia_latinoamericana_de_mujeres_en_computacion
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