• IEEE Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference (WIE ILC)

    San Jose Convention Center 150 W San Carlos St, San Jose, CA, United States

    Karen is honored to have been selected as a speaker at the IEEE Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference. Karen will be speaking on "Retaining High Tech Women Once They Are in the Door".

  • UXPA 2017 International Conference

    UXPA 2017 Toronto, Canada

    Mark your calendars! Karen will be presenting at UXPA 2017 in Toronto, Canada.

    Karen's session, "Diversity in High-Tech: Retaining Women Once Hired", is scheduled for Tuesday, June 6, at 3pm.

  • Cloud Foundry Summit Silicon Valley

    Santa Clara, CA Convention Center 5001 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA, United States

    Karen is facilitating a luncheon panel on diversity, at which she'll also share an overview of the Women in Tech research.

  • Capital One SF Design Week

    Capital One Capital One, 201 3rd Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Karen will be speaking on Contextual Design: Design for Life.  She'll be discussing the changing ways technology impacts life and the new data collection, modeling and design techniques now a standard part of Contextual Design. This event is open to public. Go to the event website to learn more and purchase a ticket for only $10. The […]

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  • Pilot Test:
    Career Power Board Game

    Central to the Women in Tech Project is creating interventions to address what we’ve uncovered from the field interviews and quantitative research. Using the research and principles from games for good, a team from University of Maryland is creating a Career Power board game. Intrigued? Help us test it at our next research game night!

  • CHI 2018: Designathon to Support Women in Tech

    Karen is co-leading an exciting new SIG at CHI. To set the stage for the designathon, Karen and co-presenter Nicola Marsden will share the findings from a worldwide survey of women and men that reveal the underlying reasons for low retention. SIG participants will then brainstorm and sketch technology solutions. Let's come together and harnesses our community’s […]

  • Karen Delivering Keynote at the GEWINN
    Gender and IT Conference

    Karen is delighted to be the keynote speaker at the GEWINN conference in Heilbronn, Germany. GEWINN centers on interdisciplinary knowledge regarding gender and IT and is part of the research project Gender. Knowledge. Informatics. Network for Research Transfer of Interdisciplinary Knowledge regarding Gender and IT (GEWINN). Researchers from all over the world will be presenting their work […]

  • International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation

    Stuttgart, Germany

    The International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/IEEE ITMC) is one of the premier conferences from the IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society (IEEE TEMS). A paper co-written by Karen Holtzblattt and Nicola Marsden of Heilbronn University is being presented at the conference. Retaining Women in Technology -- Uncovering and Measuring Key Dimensions of Daily Work Experiences describes […]