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Welcome to our free one-day workshop for celebrating women studying and working in computing! Alice & Eve aims to bring together talents in the field of computing. The fifth edition of this workshop will be hosted on 25 October 2024 by the Leiden University.

Alice and Eve event is inspired by the BCS Lovelace Colloquium that started in 2008. For more details about earlier editions of Alice & Eve, see the websites of 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.

The event is held during a single day, and features:

Join us, and participate to our poster contest on the topic of your choice!

Date:

Alice & Eve will take place on October 25th, 2024.

Venue:

The workshop will be held at PLNT, Leiden.

Registration:

The registration is free and includes coffee breaks, lunch and drinks. We welcome everyone of all genders, from bachelor students to full professors, to attend the event.

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Program

Time  
09:30 - 10:00 Welcome coffee
10:00 - 10:10 Opening
10:10 - 10:40 Talk: Suzan Verberne (Leiden University) - The role of truth in Large Language Models
10:40 - 11:10 Talk: Niki van Steen (Leiden University)- Explainable Artificial Intelligence, Identifying the Dimensions that Matter
11:10 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:00 Talk: Anna Sperotto (University of Twente) - Title
12:00 - 12:30 Talk: Gabriele Keller (University of Utrecht) - A pragmatic approach to verified compilation
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch & Exhibition
14:00 - 14:30 Computing in Industry: Lightning Talks
14:30 - 15:00 Talk: Katja Tuma (Vrije University Amsterdam) - Gender in Security Decision Making: Research and Impact
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00 Talk: Anna Wilbik (University of Maastricht) - Federated learning – a hype or a trend?
16:00 - 16:15 Poster Awards
16:15 - 17:00 Panel: Ethics in Computing: How can we design algorithms that are more fair, transparent and explainable? speakers: Francien Deshesne (Leiden University), Christine Utz (Radboud University), Hugo Jonker (Open University)
17:00 - 18:00 Goodbye Drinks

Poster Contest

We are thrilled to announce the Alice & Eve 2024 poster contest with exciting prizes awaiting the winners! We invite all female students (Bachelor/Master/PhD) and early career researchers of computing and related subjects (in the broadest sense) to submit a poster.

To enter the poster contest, please write a half-page abstract (word limit for abstract is set to 250 words) on the topic of your poster and submit it by 1 October 2024 through EasyChair

Your poster can be on any computing topic you like: from social networking to quantum computing and from medical image processing to formal verification. If it involves computers, we are interested. We welcome you to reuse any existing/published work or poster, no need to print it again.

Notifications will be sent out by 11 October 2024. Selected participants are expected to bring the poster (up to size A0 portrait or A1 landscape) described by their abstract with them to Leiden to present during the poster session. At the end of the day, prizes will be awarded for the winning posters in each category.

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to get in touch. We look forward to seeing you in Leiden!

Exhibition

In addition to the keynote talks and the posters, there will be an exhibition which portrays thirty women in computing and their most important contributions.

Some highlights of the exhibition:

More information can be found at the exhibition booklet.

Fantastic coding games and media - which include videos and podcasts related to women in computing - are also offered.

Speakers

We have invited some inspiring women working on the cutting edge of computing. Confirmed speakers include:

Jobs Board

During the conference, there will be the possibility for attendees to advertise open positions in their university/company. Furthermore, participants looking for jobs are also welcome to post their credentials and type of job/internship they are looking for. Job postings are under the following rules:

Organizing Committee

Advisory Committee

Details regarding the advisory committee will update soon.

Steering committee

Details regarding the steering committee will update soon.

Code of Conduct

Alice and Eve is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form. Conference participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the conference at the discretion of the conference organizers. Harassment includes, but is not limited to:

Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately. If someone makes you or anyone else feel unsafe or unwelcome, please report it as soon as possible by contacting us ether in person or via email. This Code of Conduct was adapted from the Geek Feminism Wiki anti-harassment policy.

Our Sponsors

We are currently looking for sponsors. Contact Eleftheria Makri for more information and a discussion on how your organization could support the 5th Alice and Eve workshop.

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Contact Us

For questions regarding the workshop, please contact the organizers!