Building on our success as an internationally recognised organization that is actively addressing gender inclusion in the HPC/AI/Big Data workforce worldwide, the Summit is designed to celebrate the contributions, careers and leadership of women in High Performance Computing. We are bringing together HPC leaders and innovators with career women in corporate organizations, research institutions, academia, and business for networking, mentoring, and sharing of knowledge in ways that challenge and change existing norms and culture in the technology world. 

Together with our supporters and leaders in the community, create unique opportunities for women to network, learn, and build connections and identify opportunities, whether they be for their next career step, training, education or skills. 

The WHPC Summit will provide a broadened scope and it will be a dedicated event for women in the field of advanced computing. The first WHPC Summit will be a 3-day event, held in downtown Vancouver in Spring 2020 (April 30 - May 1st). The event will include: 

• Technical presentations from professionals in the community;

• Career skill-building sessions;

• Strategies for workforce inclusion, and engagement of under-represented groups;

• Tutorials.

Submission Guidelines

Paper Submission

        Authors are invited to submit their work with a maximum of 4 pages (excluding references) in IEEE conference format. The papers will not be published in proceedings therefore they do not have to be original research, although this will be viewed more favourably. Opinion and white paper talks are invited as well, this should be set in appropriate context and made clear when it is an opinion piece.

Poster Submission

       A poster submission should have two main components: title and a two-page extended abstract in the ACM format,

Tutorial Submission

      Tutorials may be proposed for either a full day (six hours) or a half day (three hours). Tutorials must last for the full three or six hours. If your topic can be covered in less than three hours you can combine multiple related subjects into a  single “themed” submission.

     Your information will be submitted via a web form and file upload. Submitting samples of visual aids is strongly encouraged, either via a file upload or via a URL.

    The file you upload should contain the following sections, each beginning on a separate page:

1. Abstract in text format (200-word maximum).

2. A detailed description of the proposed tutorial (two pages maximum) with the following sections:

   1. Tutorial goals – specifically how attendees will benefit

   2. Why the topic is relevant to conference attendees

   3. Clearly describe the target audience (researchers, students, developers, practitioners, etc.) and what they will learn

   4. Content level (% beginner, % intermediate, % advanced)

   5. Audience prerequisites

   6. Description of tutorial content – discuss in detail the tutorial content, schedule, and organization

   7. If your presenters are from different institutions, how you will ensure cohesive tutorial content (not just a disparate set of talks).

3. Résumé or Curriculum Vitae for each presenter (six presenters maximum, two pages maximum each). Make sure this includes a list of short courses each presenter has taught.

List of Topics

Papers, tutorials and posters are solicited on a diverse range of technical topics including but not limited to:

• Programming models and applications for High Performance Computing (HPC), Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• Architectures and accelerators on high performance platforms

• Computational Models and Algorithms for HPC, Big Data and AI

• Addressing cyber security issues in HPC, Big Data and AI

• Large-scale data analytics and machine learning trends

• Using machine learning to analyze large-scale system 

• Performance modeling, analysis and benchmarking of HPC, AI and Big Data applications/architectures

• Intersection of cloud and HPC

• System software to accelerate the performance of data-intensive applications

In addition to technical topics, we also solicit submissions on topics related to diversity, inclusion and leadership:

• Methods and techniques to create a diverse workforce 

• Inclusive leadership and retention strategies

• Building diversity advocates and allies

• Dealing with unconscious bias and sexism in the workplace

• Achieving the right work/life balance

• Fostering creativity through diversity

• Statistics about women's representation in HPC community

Important Deadline

• Paper Submission Deadline: January 10th, 2020 AOE
• Tutorial Submission Deadline: December 13th, 2019 AOE
• Poster Submission Deadline: February 10th, 2020 AOE

Committees

Organizing committee

• General Chair: Trish Damkroger, Intel corporation, USA
• Summit co-chair: Toni Collis, Women-in-HPC
• Summit co-chair: Kelly Nolan, Talent Strategies & Women-in-HPC
• Program Committee Chair: Misbah Mubarak, Amazon Web Services, USA
• Organization Committee Chair: Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh, University of Sheffield, UK
• Submissions Chair: Gokcen Kestor, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
• Papers chair: Mariam Umar, Intel corporation, USA
• Posters chair: Weronika Filinger, EPCC UK
• Mentoring chair: Elsa Gonsiowarski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
• Website Chair: Caitlin Ross, Kitware Inc., USA

Venue

The conference will be held in downtown Vancouver in Spring 2020 (April 30 - May 1st)

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to info@womeninhpc.org