An ACM Celebration of Women in Computing
MINK WIC
Community, Computing, Connections
October 27-28, 2023
Hyatt Place Kansas City/Lenexa City Center
8741 Ryckert Street, Lenexa, KS 66219
ABOUT
MINK WIC is a regional tech conference that celebrates women in computing. We invite students and faculty to join us for two days of tech talks, workshops, networking and a career fair.
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Helen Gebre-Amlak
Helen Gebre-Amlak works at BlackHawk Network as a Principal Software Engineer. Prior to that, she was at T-Mobile as a Lead Software Engineer in OSS DevOps for 3 years and at Level 3/Century Link as Lead Full Stack Developer for 8 years. In her previous two employment, she was a key player in successfully consolidating several legacy applications into a unified Cloud Based Solution. Helen completed her Ph.D. in computer science from University of Missouri - Kansas City in 2018. She lives in Kansas, and is a mother to three children. In her free time, Helen likes to travel, read books and play board games with her family.
Keynote Speaker
Ms. Teresa Cain
Teresa Cain is an award-winning entrepreneur, educator, speaker and author. She is the Director of Product Management, User Experience and Design for TreviPay, a global FinTech organization. She is also the founder of Lucid Startup Consulting, a training firm focused on research, strategy, and vision for product managers, UX teams, businesses and entrepreneurs. She has over 15 years experience in the field of product management, innovation and design thinking methods and is the bestselling author of Solving Problems in 2 Hours: How to Brainstorm and Create Solutions with Two Hour Design Sprints released in April 2023. The full description of Ms. Cain can be found here.
Your Registration Includes
FULL ACCESS TO
ALL SESSIONS
FREE HOTEL
ROOM
FREE FOOD
CAREER FAIR
AND
NETWORKING
Participating
Schools
and their respective school organizers. Don't see your school? Contact us!
Coe College
Stephen Hughes
Doane University
Tess Durham Brooks, Erin Doyle
Grinnell College
Samuel Rebelsky, Priscilla Jimenez
Hannibal-LaGrange University
Michelle Todd
Iowa State University
Nicole Lewis
Kansas State University - Manhatta
Nikita Gautam
Kansas State University - Salina
Annie Hoekman
Northwest Missouri State University
Cindy Tu
Ozark Technical College
Tiffany Ford, Kirsten Markley
Park University
Wen Hsin
Simpson College
Carolyn Brodie
Southwest Baptist University
Meilani Conley
University of Iowa
Elizabeth Kleiman, Denise Szecsie
University of Kansas
Katie Hrenchir, Annette Tetmeyer
University of Missouri - KC
Rafida Zaman
University of Nebraska - Kearney
Sherri Harms
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Quiming Yao
University of Nebraska - Omaha
Sandy Graham Vlasnik