在这篇文章中，Mathworks GHC 18团队成员Penny Anderson分享了她在休斯顿GHC的经历的一些想法。Penny于2016年首次参加GHC，当时她与Mary Ann Freeman发表了一场演讲，宣布MATLAB的新大数据功能。萨拉·纳多（Sara Nadeau）是Mathworks的技术作家和多样性倡导者，是问问题的人。

For me, the most memorable things were staffing the career booth and attending networking and recruiting events. I’ve been to many conferences in the past and staffed career booths and panels before. These candidates, all women except for one man, were all just really impressive, and there was such an onslaught of interest at the booth, too. It was just waves and waves of really amazing candidates. I would write little notes on their resumes when I handed them in, like, “A+ so excited about this candidate.” Recruiting was our number one business priority for attending the conference, and I just felt like we hit a home run because the candidates were so awesome.

On my first visit to the Grace Hopper Celebration, we hadn’t done any career activities. We gave a Product Announcement talk and tried to attend talks. We had a very different experience this time around when our focus was on recruiting, and it became very apparent that this is what the conference is for. It makes sense. The audience is largely students and early-career, and the booths are staffed by all the serious players in tech intent on recruiting this talent pool.

我参加了十二次谈判，并在每一个人中学到了一些东西。例如，我在中级演讲中学到了有关微服务架构的新知识。谈判的水平范围：初学者，中级和高级。我去什么样的谈话都没关系，演讲者都是表达的，出色的演讲者，而且他们有适合水平的材料。我最喜欢的演讲是由惠普（Hewlett Packard）的一位工程师发表的。她谈到了他们如何使用数据分析来通过分析打印机发出的声音来对打印机进行预测性维护。谈话涵盖了信号处理，机器学习，将解决方案部署到集群中，看到我们的核心数据分析角色体现在该工程师中真是令人兴奋。

我学会了与一群女性同事一起旅行是多么有趣。我们吸引了来自Mathworks的许多小组的人，从营销，应用程序工程，业务应用程序，咨询，优质工程以及我们的招聘人员和工程开发小组招聘经理中见面并从营销，应用工程，业务应用，咨询，质量工程中认识并认识人们真的很有趣。

我还学会了如何在聚会上进行舞蹈！

Mathworks是GHC 18的黄金赞助商。这次会议对于招聘很重要：让所有这些才华横溢的女毕业生都能在一个地点开始工作，准备开始在Mathworks工作。我们致力于多样性和包容性，作为一名女高级经理，我对雇用有才华的女性开发商并以23年前雇用我的方式来聘请有才华的女性开发商并将其带入我们的组织（Mathworks Employee＃1）感到非常强烈。这只是我们不能错过的机会。

Also, if the stereotype is that as a woman in tech you can often be the only woman in the room, when you’re at Grace Hopper, it’s the reverse. Almost everyone in the room is a woman and that paradigm shift really gives a special kind of energy to all of the sessions and the overall environment. Until you actually see it in action or participate, you can’t imagine what it’s like. It starts when you get on the airplane and you’re surrounded by women in tech flying to Houston, and you’re all going to the same conference.

At the 2016 conference, I ran into a woman who was at the conference because of the BRAID program, trying to increase the number of female undergraduates in computer science at her institution. She was there with one of the undergraduates in the program. She basically engaged me in this conversation with this young woman as a way to give her exposure to someone who’s been there and done that in computer science. I still think about that conversation two years later and her description of her journey and talking with her about a future with computer science.

I was pleasantly surprised by how many people had an engineering background and knew about MATLAB and Simulink and by how many people were excited to see us there. I wasn’t expecting it. Many people came up and said they use MATLAB daily, or learned to program in MATLAB, and talked about using MATLAB at school and in their professional life.

I got to act as a TA for both sessions of the workshop, and it was super fun. The audience was engaged and got into the spirit of it. Some people ended up sharing laptops, which gave a collaborative vibe to the whole room. People were laughing and joking and digging stuff out of their bags to classify with Deep Learning.

该团队去了超市，买了价值几百美元的水果，供参与者在车间中进行分类，并将其带回手提箱。我们对“水果箱”有很多笑话。第二届会议之后，科技工作人员正在清理，他们要求一些水果，所以我们给了他们尽可能多的东西。最后，我们找到了一名工作人员，并在休息室里把其余的水果送走了。

招聘工作非常成功。深度学习和IoT研讨会非常适合宣传和培训机会。另外，我们拥有的网络机会。有结构化的机会，例如高级妇女计划，以及到处都有更多非正式的机会。

One of our team members volunteered as a speed mentor, and got a lot out of it herself, as often happens with volunteering.

To read more about MathWorks’ activities at GHC 18, check out our博客文章that covers the workshop! You can learn more about the GHC 18 team on theMathWorks GHC website. Follow the#shelovesmatlabhashtag to keep up with the awesome women in science and engineering who work with our tools.