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FRIDAY, MARCH 11 12:30 PM JW Marriott: Room 303-304 Female Engineers and Intrapreneurial Opportunity Monique Morrow, trailblazer for women in tech and CTO/Evangelist for New Frontiers at Cisco joins IEEE Women in Engineering's Nita Patel. Learn how Monique's efforts to create an "intrapreneurial" culture helped her attract and engage some of the best and brightest engineering minds. Part of the IEEE Tech for Humanity Series. Monique Morrow, Nita Patel Dual • Beginner H Convergence 12:30 PM JW Marriott: Salon C Social Activism: How to Ignite a Movement Effective social movements don't arise by accident. People don't spontaneously come together and effect real change. What does it take to transform an idea into a viral movement for social good? Feldmann has interviewed leaders behind some of the big- gest social movements. He'll share their secrets to help you make your cause go viral. Derrick Feldmann Solo • Advanced H Convergence 3:30 PM JW Marriott: Room 303-304 Fighting Injustice with Trickle-Up Innovation Four legal technology entrepreneurs share their vision for fighting injustice through trickle-up innovation directed at the legal industry. By first targeting social justice is- sues – the least profitable legal markets – and purposefully designing for grassroots, trickle-up innovation, we can drive deep structural change within and beyond the law. Jennifer Gonzalez, Joseph Wheeler, Rafael Baca, Tony Lai Panel • Intermediate H Convergence 3:30 PM JW Marriott: Salon C Hustler to Entrepreneur: Tech and Disconnected Youth There's a tech boom all around, but low-income areas rarely benefit. Young people drop out and depend on "the hustle" – creative, quick-turnaround ways to make money which can evolve into entrepreneurship with the right training. TechTank is a youth tech education incubator that fosters local entrepreneurship. Hear how disconnected Bronx youth became tech savvy entrepreneurs. Deepthi Welaratna, Jerelyn J. Rodriguez, Uchenna Moka Panel • Beginner H Convergence 5:00 PM JW Marriott: Room 303-304 Cracking the Codes: Why Black and Latino Boys Matter What are the consequences of a diversity debt within a startup? This session's in- teractive panel will take the audience through the exciting movement of closing the opportunity gap for Black and Latino boys across the US, soon to be roughly 25 percent of people entering the workforce, with a focus on tech sector gaps and solutions. Christina Lewis Halpern, Marisa Lee, Marcus Mitchell Panel • Intermediate H Convergence 5:00 PM JW Marriott: Salon C Turning the Tide of Corruption: Mexico and Guatemala Mexicans and Guatemalans are increasingly turning to technology to fight their coun- tries' history of corruption, tainted elections and governance. National political scenes have been plagued by electoral fraud, dirty money and backroom deals. Panelists will showcase recent information technology efforts to create transparency and account- ability, as well as the dark side of using these technologies. Benjamin Cokelet, Enrique Naveda, Luisa Ortiz Pérez, Kara Andrade Panel • Beginner H Convergence SATURDAY, MARCH 12 9:30 AM JW Marriott: Room 303-304 Designing Collective Action for Global Development Thousands of volunteers use Wikipedia-style platforms to help save lives worldwide. How do highly collaborative tools allow online volunteers to leverage their collective brain to be a force in global development operations? Panelists will discuss the advan- tages of public collaborations in peacekeeping, development and emergencies as well as perils surrounding data privacy and data sensitivity. Tyler Radford, Luis Capelo, Brent Dixon, Alexis Bonnell Panel • Advanced H Convergence 9:30 AM JW Marriott: Salon C How Shattering a Stereotype Will Save Tech By 2020, there will be one million unfilled tech jobs. Why? Because girls and people of color don't fit the tech stereotype. We can avert this looming crisis. Greater diversity drives innovation that improves profitability and creates better products. Robin Hauser Reynolds (CODE documentary), Blake Irving (GoDaddy), Jane Margolis (UCLA) and Ce- dric Brown (Kapor Center) discuss what diversity can do for tech. Robin Hauser Reynolds, Jane Margolis, Blake Irving, Cedric Brown Panel • Advanced H Convergence 11:00 AM JW Marriott: Room 303-304 Women Byte Back: Tech and Disempowerment When a woman crosses the border in Saudi Arabia, a text message is sent to her male guardian. While we celebrate progress, we forget that technology can serve markedly different agendas. Restricted access means women are excluded from education and information. Panelists will discuss how tech can support female empowerment and give disenfranchised women a powerful voice as well as the means to shape change. Rachel Pashley, Chhavi Rajawat, Nishma Robb Panel • Advanced H Convergence 11:00 AM JW Marriott: Salon C #Movements: When a Hashtag Breaks the News Hashtags are a critical component of learning what is driving the news conversations around the globe. Reporters and editors are now battling millions of social media users to break the news and report accurate content in a fast moving media cycle. Learn how news agencies are coping and capitalizing. Shadi Rahimi, Jade Floyd, Amy Mitchell, Jean Cowgill Panel • Intermediate H Convergence 12:30 PM JW Marriott: Room 303-304 Scalable Innovation for Social Good Although technology is seemingly ubiquitous, there are still millions of people around the world without access to basic services. Thanks to visionary engineers, designers and businesses, wearable and sensor-based connected devices are overcoming barri- ers. We'll explore how simple innovations can have a profound impact when designed with a user's local context and social relativity in mind. Erica Kochi, Ian Ferguson, Fabio Sergio Panel • Intermediate H Convergence 12:30 PM JW Marriott: Salon C Why Diversity Can't Be Built in a Day Explore the real challenges of introducing diversity into growing organizations and building a diversity program from scratch. This session dissects significant barriers to successful diversity efforts and presents strategies to combat them. Panelists will get real about the long-term investment and commitment required to build a diverse organization and provide actionable information on what works. Abby Maldonado, Dominique DeGuzman, Joelle Emerson, Rachel Williams Panel • Intermediate H Convergence 3:30 PM JW Marriott: Room 303-304 The Next Three Billion People on Social From Google's armada of giant balloons in the stratosphere to Facebook's Internet.org project, massive efforts are underway to break down the world's connectivity barriers. In a matter of years, three BILLION people will be experiencing a socially connected, mobile-friendly Internet for the first time, driving transformation from politics to pop culture. This panel is about what happens next. David Godsall, Ebele Okobi, Jonathan Donner, Alex Kantrowitz Panel • Intermediate H Convergence 3:30 PM JW Marriott: Salon C Traditional Charity Is Dead This session will be a conversation on the idea that traditional charity is dead. The future is a reimagined version of relief where business is the driver of social impact – a new model where charity is no longer only for the weekend but incorporated into our 9 to 5. Explore ways we can accomplish that vision and discuss how business can be used to make the world more just, verdant and peaceful. Leila Janah, Matt Taylor, Soraya Darabi Panel • Intermediate H Convergence SXGOOD JW MARRIOTT; PALM DOOR ON SIXTH FESTIVAL SESSIONS 1 8 2 S X G O O D S X S W. C O M