Thursday, Aug 8, 2019
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Registration Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center Lobby (1st Floor) Meet the organizers and pick up your conference badge, ribbons, and swag bag! | ||||
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | Welcome Plenary and Dinner Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center Club Room (1st Floor) “Welcome to NSBC: Gaining Social Capital and Logistics” Official opening session for the conference. Come eat dinner, mingle, and meet the other attendees. | ||||
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM | The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Dessert Social Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center Conference Room A (2nd Floor) Networking event for Women in IT and advocates of women in IT. Meet representatives from NCWIT and become more familiar with their programming and resources for Black women in technology. | ||||
Friday, Aug 9, 2019
Undergraduate Track (Conference Room E) | Graduate Track (Main Ballroom) | Future Faculty (Conference Room C) | Current Faculty Track (Conference Room 4) | Entrepreneurship & Industry Track (Conference Room D) | |
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM | Breakfast and Plenary Main Ballroom “Diversity and Visualization” Associate Professor and Assistant Dean of Diversity and Special Initiatives University of Notre Dame | ||||
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM | Capture the Flag Coding Challenge | NWB - Navigating While Black: How to Survive Graduate School as a Black Student | Real Strategies For Getting Your Grants Funded (Conference Room 4) Dr. Adriane Randolph, Dr. Kyla McMullen, Dr. Kinnis Gosha, Dr. Elodie Billionniere, Dr. Jeff Forbes | Creating a Path for Black Tech Entrepreneurship James Faison | |
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM | Networking Break | ||||
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM | Research 101 Dr. Monica Anderson, Simeon Babatunde, Jasmine Bouges, Marie Jarrell, Yvone Kamegne | The Art of Networking/ Navigating a Technical Conference Dr. Anderson Prewitt, Dr. Kinnis Gosha, Dr. Wanda Eugene | Writing your Research and Teaching Statements Dr. Edward Dillon, Dr. Tyrone Toland | Teaching While Black Dr. Cheryl Swanier, Dr. Jaye Nias, Dr. Urban Wiggins, Dr. Ron Metoyer, Dr. Raquel Hill | Recharge Your Life: Beating Burnout and Maintaining Balance |
12:30 PM - 2:15 PM | Lunch and Plenary Sponsored by the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Conference Dining Room) “To Gauss and Beyond: Deep Learning in Radiology and Medical Imagery” (transition to Main Ballroom @ 1:15) Assistant Professor University of Maryland, Baltimore County | ||||
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM | NCWIT Resources for Black Women in Computing (** All are Welcome **) (Main Ballroom) Sponsored by the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Dr. JeffriAnne Wilder Research Scientist NCWIT | ||||
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM | Group Picture(Courtyard outside of the Dining Room)
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3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Tools For Navigating the Grad School Process Dr. Kyla McMullen, Dr. Jeremy Waisome | Stacks on Stacks on Stacks: Funding Graduate School | Administrative vs Research Career Paths in Academia (Conference Room 4) Dr. Elva Jones, Dr. Cheryl Seals, Dr. Cheryl Swanier, Dr. Urban Wiggins, Dr. Ron Metoyer | Career Trajectory/Panel Discussion on Diversity in STEM Dr. Wanda Eugene, Dr. Nwokedi Idika | |
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Vendor Fair (2nd Floor Hallway) Visit the booths and talk with representatives from all our sponsors and vendors & University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Hospitality Suite Meet with representatives from UMBC and learn more about opportunities at the University | ||||
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | Dinner and Plenary (Main Ballroom) “Branding Yourself as a Computer Scientist” Coach, Influencer, Creator of Life and Laughter This is Art., LLC | ||||
Saturday, Aug 10, 2019
Undergraduate Track (Conference Room E) | Graduate Track (Main Ballroom) | Future Faculty (Conference Room C) | Current Faculty Track (Conference Room 4) | Entrepreneurship & Industry Track (Conference Room D) | |
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM | Breakfast and Plenary (Main Ballroom) “Get Your Mind Right: Mental Health and Wellness for Black People In Tech” | ||||
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM | Graduate School Round Table Aliyah Carter, Sarah Mbiki, Imani Sherman, Zaire Ali | Writing and Publishing Earl Huff, Naja Mack, Angelique Taylor | The Tenure-Track Application Process | Innovations in Computer Science Teaching | What Type of Entrepreneur are You? How to Grow a Business that Fits Your Lifestyle |
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM | Networking Break | ||||
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM | “Oh no baby, what is you doing?”: A Real Resume Workshop Antonio Porch, Whitney Nelson Kiante’ Brantley, Jasmine Bouges | Identifying a Topic & Writing your Dissertation Proposal Dr. Sanethia Thomas, Cazembe Kennedy , Dr. Jerome McClendon | Ease on Down the Road to Tenure (Conference Room 4) | Turning Your Side Hustle into Your Main Hustle | |
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM | Lunch and Plenary Sponsored by Google (Main Ballroom) “Securing the Bag: Financial Hacks for Everyone” Senior Software Engineer | ||||
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM | Internship Experience Panel Joseph Isaac, Jr., Emanuel Perez, Zora Moore, Kevin Womack | Building a Competitive CV for Academia or Industry Dr. Aquesha Martin-Hammond, Dr. Andrea Johnson, Antonio Porch | The Art of Negotiation | Stronger Together: Building Partnerships for Collaboration | Planning your career path/Nontraditional Career Options Joaquin Gentry, Yanika Daniels |
3:45 PM - 5:30 PM | Break to Rest, Network, Decompress, and Change | ||||
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM | Finale: Gala and Closing Plenary Closing Address: The State of Blacks in Computer Science University of Florida Computer and Information Science and Engineering Department Chair, iAAMCS Principal Investigator | ||||
