Speaker
Description
Title: “Women in High Performance Computing South Africa (WHPC-South Africa)”
Duration: 90 minutes
Type of session: Advancement through the professional staircase
Organiser(s): Name Affiliation Email Address
1. Khomotso Maenetja University of Limpopo khomotso.maenetja@ul.ac.za
2. Raesibe Ledwaba University of Limpopo raesibe.ledwaba@ul.ac.za
3. Beauty Shibiri University of Limpopo beauty.shibiri@ul.ac.za
4. Tebogo Morukuladi Univerisity of Limpopo tebzamorukuladi@gmail.com
Description:
The WHPC BOF session for 2025 will be a reflection session where women in HPC will be sharing on how their careers have advanced in the past 5 years also sharing how the platform has impacted on encouraging women to take leadership or management roles in their workspace. This will give feedback on underrepresentation of women in HPC especially in leadership.
As a result, we are glad to offer an invitation to both male and female conference attendees to continue where we left off with the last session at the 2024 annual conference. The major goal of bringing them together at the meeting was to develop a network of female HPC professionals in South Africa. The CHPC executive team gave major assistance to the workshop, which was sponsored and attended by both men and women.
Anticipated Goals
• Improve women's underrepresentation in HPC (Contribute in increasing the number of women and girls participation in HPC through training and networking)
• Share information and resources that foster growth for women in HPC (institutionally and across community)
• Raise our professional profiles
• Encourage young girls at school level to consider HPC as a career of choice
Size: 80
Target audience: Women and Men
Prerequisites: Registered CHPC conference attendees
Chair(s):
Ms NN Zavala and Ms MG Mphahlele
Outline of programme: — Single 90 min
1. Opening – Prof Khomotso Maenetja (3 min)
2. Presentations
a. Introduction of the guest speaker – Prof RR Maphanga
b. Guest Speaker – Keynote speaker – 30 Min
c. Dr Tebogo Morukuladi – Academic Journey (15 min)
d. Ms CS Mkhonto (University of Limpopo, Faculty of Science and Agriculture Student Ambassador) (15 min)
e. Ms Precious Makhubele and Keletso Monareng – Moving from Masters to PhD Journey (15 min)
3. Closure – Prof RS Ledwaba (2 min)
