The Australian Computer Society Young IT Professionals Board invites you to participate in the 2009 International Young ICT Professionals Conference, which will be held on the 3-4 September, 2009.This conference is essential for career growth and development with their theme ''The Future of ICT - Lead, Transform, and Succeed''.

Queen Mary, University of London, together with Women@CL and the British Computer Society (BCS), are presenting the 2009 London Hopper Colloquium for women in computing research, to be held on Tuesday, 5 May 2009 at the BCS headquarters in London. The aim of the colloquium is to provide a forum for women computer science researchers to come together to exchange ideas, form new collaborations, and more simply, become aware of the network of women conducting research in computer science.

Cinderella or Cyberella? provides an excellent overview of the critical issues addressing the global participation of girls and women in today's information society. It serves as both a resource for comprehensive understanding and a strategic guide for taking the necessary steps to ensure women fully participate in and benefit from information and communication technologies.

Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. Women's contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. Entrepreneurs, innovators, sysadmins, programmers, designers, games developers, hardware experts, tech journalists, tech consultants. The list of tech-related careers is endless.

The European Commission DG INFSO has a DVD posted on YouTube about Girls and IT. It is brief (4 minutes) and a lot of fun! For more information, please contact Nancy Pascall at nancy.pascall@ec.europa.eu

A FREE motivational showcase supporting women interested in IT where you will meet with some of the smartest IT professionals, the biggest recruiters in IT, attend career development workshops, revamp and submit your CV, prepare yourself for that next interview or promotion.

The Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology is the only reference work that provides an all-encompassing perspective on the way gender and information technology impact each other. Hundreds of leading international experts have compiled their research about the role of gender in human interaction with IT and the IT profession. Special attention is paid to the contributions, challenges, issues, and experiences of women in the IT field.

University of Bremen, Germany, March 5 - 7, 2009; On the 5th European Gender and ICT Symposium we will take a closer look at the complex interdependences between gender and ICT. We will explore ways to increase appreciation of diversity in design and use and to strengthen empowerment and participation by means of ICT. This conference, the fifth in a row of symposia held in Europe since 2003, traditionally provides a meeting point for researchers from various disciplines and research schools dealing with gender and ICT.

SIGCSE is the conference held by the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education, which specializes in the improving and creating methods of teaching computer science.

is trying to achieve. If you haven't heard, these ladies produced a fun book presenting the diversity of IT Careers to high school students. With sponsorship, they have managed to get a decent number printed and distributed to High Schools around Australia.