
Women in Tech Conference 2024 — An ACM Celebration, with Microsoft, GDSC, GDG, WTM
Join us for a two-day event on Saturday March 23rd and Sunday March 24th in Toronto, Canada, featuring various women in tech who are experts in their fields, sharing knowledge and expertise with students, as well as their insight to getting a tech internship! Celebrate the achievements of women in technology, and empower the future generation of […]

ACM-W OCWiC Speaker Series – Kathleen Lewarchick
ACM-W OCWiC Speaker Series presents, Kathleen Lewarchick of Xngage LLC, March 28, 2023, 12pm – 1pm EDT. Learn about what B2B and B2C companies do and how women in computing are shaking up the industry. Whether you are a developer or a seasoned business leader, you will walk away with insights about how technology is being applied […]

ACM-W NA Celebrates the International Day of Women and Girls in Science
ACM-W North America is delighted to celebrate all women and girls for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science!

ACM-W NA Profiles: Wendy Powley
Wendy Powley is an Associate Professor at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She worked for 24 years as a Research Associate at Queen’s from 1992-2016 with a focus on autonomic systems and workload management for database systems. She teaches undergraduate courses in Database Management Systems, Web Development, Ethics and Introduction to Programming courses. She […]

ACM-W NA Profiles: Blanche Pinto
Blanche Pinto is a Tools and Automation engineer at Apple on the macOS Bluetooth Quality team. She writes code and scripts for automation testing for Bluetooth and wifi connections within the Mac side of Apple. Blanche completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of South Florida.

ACM-W NA Profile: Dr. Casey Fiesler
Dr. Casey Fiesler, assistant professor and founding faculty member in the Department of Information Science and Computer Science (by courtesy) at the University of Colorado Boulder talks about how she uses her TikTok to mentor PhD candidates, how we can use social media to find community, and using education to build up a more ethical technological future.

ACM-W NA Profiles: Akila Prayaga
Akila Prayaga is an Account Manager at Microsoft, working in Customer Success in the Microsoft PromoteIQ team. She graduated Cornell in May 2018 with a bachelor’s degree in Applied Economics and management. She worked as a technology consultant at Ernst & Young primarily working on Digital & Data Analytics consulting.
Outside of work, she’s on the NYC Leadership team for Out in Tech, a nonprofit that organizes events and programming for LGBTQ+ technology professionals, and is involved with Out for Undergrad and Open Finance. She started a website, NewNorms.org, to post professional opportunities for diverse students who are interested in careers in finance.

ACM-W NA Profiles: Bishakha Upadhyaya
Bishakha is a Senior at Knox College, majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Neuroscience. She was the president of ACM-W chapter at Knox College for 2019-2020 school year and is involved in Nepali Women in Computing. After interning at Bank of America as a Global Technology intern in 2020, she looks forward to joining the bank as a full time employee.