JOPRO to Host Innovation Panel at ACM's NYCWiC 2025

Innovation Panel @ ACM’s NYCWiC 2025

We are pleased to announce that JOPRO Director Jesse Parent will be organizing and moderating a featured panel at the Association for Computing Machinery’s New York Celebration of Women in Computing (NYCWiC) 2025. The panel, titled “Navigating Innovation Spaces: A Discussion on Finding Your Way When Building & Creating across Industry, Academia, and Startup Environments,” will bring together early-career researchers and professionals to share insights from their diverse experiences across innovation ecosystems.

“Innovation spaces are vital to our future, but also somewhat complicated, and everyone’s initial exposure to them can be quite different,” Parent said of the panel. “We’ve assembled an exciting group of panelists, and I’m thrilled to be hosting this conversation at NYCWiC, a community that consistently fosters inclusive, early-career engagement with the technologies and ideas shaping tomorrow.”

The panel will feature five speakers working across different sectors, including former Orthogonal Research and Education Lab intern Samantha Carollo, who completed her internship while a senior at the University at Albany, SUNY.

Panel Details

Panel Title: Navigating Innovation Spaces: A Discussion on Finding Your Way When Building & Creating across Industry, Academia, and Startup Environments

Moderator: Jesse Parent (University of California, San Diego; JOPRO; Orthogonal Research and Education Laboratory; Simmons University)

Panelists:

• Clair Hayden (Velan Studios)
• Jeannette Bender (IBM)
• Kelly Yang (IBM)
• Minh Tran (General Dynamics)
• Samantha Carollo (GE Vernova)

More information about the full program can be found here: NYCWiC 2025 Program

More information about ACM’s NYCWiC 2025

• Date: April 11–12, 2025
• Location: Poughkeepsie, NY

To learn more about the conference, visit the official website: NYCWiC.org