WOMEN IN ICT EVENT

Attracting and Retaining Women in ICT

Presentation by Liz Bacon, British Computer Society 

According to the Digital Agenda for Europe, enabling women to enter ICT jobs will provide a boost to the EU economy. Professor Liz Bacon will present her ideas on how to increase women participation in ICT.

20.03.2015, 17:00-19:00, University of Nicosia

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Agenda

Liz Bacon

Professor Liz Bacon BSc, PhD, CEng, CSci, CITP, FBCS, FHEA, MACM is ex President of the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, and a Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Greenwich in London, with a University wide remit leading the development of technology enhanced learning. She is a past Chair of the BCS Academy of Computing, and the CPHC (Council of Professors and Heads of Computing) national committee. Liz is a Professor of Software Engineering with over a hundred publications and a Co-Director of the eCentre research group. She is an experienced journal and conference reviewer, editorial board member, and PhD supervisor, and has been involved in several EU research projects, including being Principal Investigator and Project Coordinator for two EU FP7 projects in the past four years. She is an experienced systems designer and developer and has applied her research in technology enhanced learning, software engineering, artificial intelligence and cyberterrorism to a range of application areas such as crisis management and health. Within technology enhanced learning her research has focussed on the following areas: smart games-based learning environments; metacognition and learning strategies; and adaptable, adaptive and personalised systems. Liz has been involved in many professional activities during her career which include working with e-skills UK, the Science Council, Parliamentary IT Committee (PITCOM), EQANIE (European Quality Assurance Network for Informatics Education), the National HE STEM programme, EKKA (Estonian Quality Assurance Agency), and the University of Cambridge as an ICT Thought Leader for their International Examinations. She also researches, publishes, and is a regular international speaker, on the supply and demand of e-skills to the IT industry. Liz is passionate about the development of the discipline and keen to inspire more people to choose computing as a career, particularly women.