Women Designing the Future Conference – “Game Changers!”

We’ve got an exciting and timely new WDF conference coming up on March 29, 2019– Game Changers! Technological Innovations that Will Transform Our Lives–and we hope you will be able join us. The conference runs from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm on the NJIT campus in Newark and includes a continental breakfast
(8:30), buffet lunch, and complimentary onsite parking. You’ll have an opportunity to interact with key women thought leaders as they explore how game-changing technological innovations will both disrupt and improve our lives over the next ten years. Topics include including new applications of artificial intelligence, robotics and the future of work, next generation genomics, and break-through personalized medical technologies. The conference also includes a special Leadership Workshop on the power of personal branding—“What Makes You Stand Out.”

Speakers include:

Jane Oates, President, WorkingNation & former Asst. Secretary of Labor under President Obama

Chitra Dorai, CEO, Amicus Brain & former IBM Fellow (A.I.)

Rochelle Hendricks, former NJ Secretary of Higher Education

Aisha Glover, President & CEO, the Newark Alliance

Sally J. Nadler, Asst. Dean & Director, the Douglass Project for Rutgers Women in STEM

Gilda Barabino, Dean, the Grove School of Engineering, CCNY

Camilia Prodan, Associate Professor, NJIT Department of Physics

Varsha Waishampayan, CEO & Lead Founder, WINGS for Growth

Amy Liao, President, GENEWIZ

Tara Alvarez, Professor, NJIT Department of Biomedical Engineering

Colleen Riley, Vice President, Science & Technology, Stryker

Amy Hoover, Assistant Professor, NJIT Department of Informatics

Lydia Wood, Campaigner Coordinator, NuclearBan.US