[ie-announce] womENcourage 2019 “Diversity Drives Societal Change”

[Cristina Pereira]

Dear Colleagues,

Please find below a call for the womENcourage 2019, event aimed at 
Informatics female students from European Universities. Informatics 
Europe is one of the  supporters of the event, and we kindly ask you to 
forward the call to relevant students mailing lists in your department.

Best regards,

Cristina

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*womENcourage 2019 – “Diversity Drives Societal Change”**
**ACM Celebration of Women in Computing: womENcourage 2019**
**Rome, Italy, September 16 – 18, 2019**
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WomENcourage brings together women in the computing profession and 
related technical fields to exchange knowledge and experience and 
provide special support for women who are pursuing their academic 
degrees and starting their careers in computing.

Join us for the 6th ACM Celebration of Women in Computing: *womENcourage 
2019 in the beautiful city of Rome, Italy on September 16-18 2019.*

Through a programme packed with insightful topics and engaging 
educational and networking activities, womENcourage provides a unique 
experience of the collective energy, drive, and excellence that 
professional women share to support each other.

*2019 Theme: */*Diversity Drives Societal Change*/

Computer science is an ideal career choice for women who want to impact 
on their future world. Through the ICT revolution, women can influence 
the major developments that are changing virtually all aspects of our 
everyday lives. ACM womENcourage 2019 will focus on ideas and research 
that deal with applications of Computer Science which impact the grand 
challenges in society and the environment. Participants will be 
encouraged to participate through posters, workshops, panel discussions 
as well as inspiring keynote talks. A call for participation will 
include computing designs, algorithms, techniques, systems, tools, 
evaluations and methodologies on the following non-exclusive list of 
topics and applications: Education and life-long learning, e-Health and 
wellbeing, Inclusive societies (equality, diversity and inclusion), 
Civic engagement and participation, Energy saving and climate change, 
Sustainability and humanitarian actions, Ethical markets, Security and 
safety, Transport systems optimization, Urban environment and smart cities.

*Posters*

Posters provide womENcourage participants with an opportunity to present 
their work, receive feedback, exchange knowledge and establish 
collaborations with others who share the same interests. We welcome 
poster submissions that present original ideas and research in any of 
the conference themes outlined above.   Authors may submit ongoing, new 
work or versions of their previously published work.

*Submission guidelines:*

One-page extended-abstract of the poster should be prepared using the 
SIGCONF template from the packages available here (ACM conference 
publication format 
<https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template>) and must be 
submitted as a PDF file through EasyChair 
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=womencourage2019>
Submissions should emphasize the importance of the research and the 
author’s contributions. More detailed guidelines can be found in the 
Guide to a Successful Poster Submission. 
<https://womencourage.acm.org/2018/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Guide-to-a-Successful-Poster-Submission.pdf>
Examples of submissions from all the previous years’ editions of 
womENcourage are available at: 
https://womencourage.acm.org/2019/call-for-participation
Poster submissions can have multiple authors (of any gender). At least 
one author of each accepted poster is expected to attend the event and 
present the poster. Authors of accepted posters can apply for 
womENcourage scholarships (guidelines soon to be announced)
For more information please contact acm_w_europe_posters at acm.org.

*Important Dates: *

  * Poster abstracts due: *April 15th, 2019*
  * Notification of accepted posters: *May 20th*
  * Final poster abstracts due: *June 17th*
  * Poster PDF due: *July 15th*

For more information please visit the conference website: 
https://womencourage.acm.org/2019
For further information please contact local organizers Prof. Tiziana 
Catarci, General Chair (catarci at diag.uniroma1.it) and Prof. Paola 
Velardi, Program Chair (velardi at di.uniroma1.it).

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Dr. Cristina Pereira
Executive Director
Informatics Europe
Binzmühlestrasse 14/54
8050 Zurich
Switzerland
+41 77 455 2370
+41 44 635 4354
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