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2019 CA Women in Tech Conference
2019 CA Women in Tech Conference
In 2019, a team of CA students hosted the first Women in Technology Conference at Concord Academy, featuring Keynote Speaker Alesia Tringale of Dell-EMC, and numerous workshops presented by both Concord Academy students and the conference's corporate affiliates.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Alesia Tringale
Alesia Tringale
Alesia Tringale is a Director of Software Engineering and one of the only 74 Distinguished Engineers at Dell-EMC, where she leads a high performance global software team in the VMAX Enterprise Storage Organization within Dell Corporation, developing embedded scaling fabric interconnects, global cache services, networking, data reduction and Secure Host protocol subsystems.
Alesia received her undergraduate degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and graduate degree in Systems Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Alesia started her career working in the Semiconductor field, but later took an opportunity to join EMC in 1998 as a Senior Hardware Engineer. Alesia currently holds 12 patents and she continues to expand her role in influencing the architecture, design and development of VMAX’s next generation, industry-leading Enterprise Storage product.
Workshops
Workshops
A selection of workshops offered, presented by our affiliates as well as WiT team members:
Advice to a Younger Me: Jenny Wilkes of Raytheon shared her experience and offered advice on becoming a successful woman in technology.
Mission Critical Systems: Julie Zhivich and Qin Wang of Dell-EMC taught participants how to design and execute mission critical systems, which must be able to recover from any malfunction.
How to Start a Company and Fundraise from the Best VC's: Kendall Tucker (CA '10) of Polis shared how she worked with a team to build her company from scratch, as well as advice on building sustainable technology and businesses.
Lie Detection and Credibility: Andrea Webb of Draper taught participants about polygraph machines and lie detection--what questions to ask, how to gather data, and how to read the measurements.
The Hackathon at CA: Ben Stumpf, the Head of the Computer Science Department of CA ran a Hackathon, in which students coded a solution to a given task or mission.
Blogging 101: Shreya Patel CA '21 taught students the basics of blogging, using her experience as a book blogger to underscore fundamentals of web design, marketing, and communications.
Coding 101: Rachel Hu (CA '21) and Haley Wixom (CA '20) of Concord Academy gave students an introduction to Java, guiding students toward a basic understanding of the language.
For more information
For more information
Check out this article Concord Academy wrote about the 2019 conference, including more on our workshops, statements from organizers, and quotes from Alesia Tringale's keynote.
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