SpringOne Platform 2016 Speaker: Cornelia Davis; Sr. Director of Technology, Pivotal Cornelia Davis talks about how she came to technology, the path many other women face, and how we can be good models and encourage women to pursue computer science.

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6. Sami: “today was a moderately good day”
Friend: “Except math”
Sami: “yeah I know hahaha I just got a
calculator finally and I'm so lost"
“I am too cool for computers”
“I want to be a horse trainer”

7. 10 x = 0
20 print x
30 x = x + 1
40 goto 20

13. 10% 35%

14. said they were not
Initially interested
58%

16. #ILookLikeAnEngineer

18. Unconcious Bias @ Work[1]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLjFTHTgEVU
[2] Disclosure: I sit on the board of GapJumpers
Text analysis
Hiring platform
Blind Auditions[2]

20. Is this how women
appear at tech
conferences?

22. [1] http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/organization/is_there_a_payoff_from_top-team_diversity
[2] http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/women-at-pwc/internationalwomensday/assets/a-new-era-of-talent-report.pdf
Companies with more
diverse executive
boards:[1]
Importance of diversity
policy to candidates:
53%
Return on
Equity
EBIT
14%

23. Watch & Compensate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLjFTHTgEVU
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