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UC Berkeley I School. Diversity in tech.

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How to #win A Hackathon by I School Social Innovation Hackathon. Do you have concerns about doing hackathons? Other people have them too.

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UC Berkeley I School does Grace Hopper, Day 2! We began the day with Megan Smith and Satya Nadella, Elizabeth Churchill. We ended the day (and began the next one) with a healthy round of karaoke😊

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HCI is really an advocacy project. We represent the people who do not have all of the information that technical experts have.

Elizabeth Churchill, Director of User Experience @ Google

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Good things evolve. Digital information is agile material. An interface is always more than a screen. All technologies and technological practices are sociotechnical. Multidisciplinarity is key to creative thinking.

Elizabeth Churchill, Director of User Experience @ Google

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Later in life I realized the difference between mentorship and sponsorship. You need someone who gives you great feedback and mentorship and is willing to take bets on you.

paraphrase of conversation between Maria Klawe, President of Harvey Mudd and Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft

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Success starts with being comfortable in your own skin and having your confidence, your excellence will shine through.

paraphrase of conversation between Maria Klawe, President of Harvey Mudd and Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft

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..if you start with any innovation agenda as non-zero sum you will be better off. There is no winner take all, because humans are more complicated than that.

paraphrase of conversation between Maria Klawe, President of Harvey Mudd and Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft

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Technology is driving everything, every economy, and software is the most malleable piece, so to be a part of it is to touch all of these lives. It’s not about the mobility of a single device, it’s the mobility of the human.

paraphrase of conversation between Maria Klawe, President of Harvey Mudd and Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft

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Got our first-time GHC stickers 👍#ghc #ghc14 (at Phoenix Convention Center)

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Day One of Grace Hopper down! Lots of great talks and more brilliant women in one place than we've ever seen before!

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When you’re an entrepreneur, you have to collect no’s like a bouquet of flowers…if I take a no as a stopping point, I’ll never move forward.

Denise Brousseau, Communicating for Leadership and Impact

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(via Brag!: The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn without Blowing It: Peggy Klaus: 9780446692786: Amazon.com: Books) Recommended by Denise Brousseau in Communicating for Leadership and Impact

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Ask.

Denise Brousseau, Communicating for Leadership and Impact

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Every person needs to be playing at their highest and best use

Denise Brousseau, Communicating for Leadership and Impact

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Companies who have more diversity have a better return on their investment.

Communicating for Leadership and Impact, Denise Brousseau

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We want to communicate better to share the vision of something we believe in.

Denise Brousseau, Communicating for Leadership and Impact

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The next time you witness a woman in technology doing something great, tell her. Or tell others about her.

Ruthe Farmer at Grace Hopper Conference opening keynote