Goal. The goal of the CAPP-L workshop is help mid-career women working in industry or government research labs significantly advance in their careers, either to reach the top of the technical ladder as a distinguished scientist or fellow, or to enter into research management.

Intended Audience. The workshop targets mid-career lab researchers. We define "mid-career" to mean someone roughly equivalent to an Associate Professor in academia, i.e., well established at her institution and in her research community, but looking to advance further. In the world of research labs, the corresponding job titles vary from institution to institution. For example, at Sun the appropriate title might be staff engineer to senior staff engineer. At AT&T or Sandia National Labs, it would be Senior or Principal Member of the Technical Staff. If you are unsure whether you qualify for the program, please inquire.

Speakers. The speakers at CAPP-L workshops are Distinguished Researchers from industry and government labs. Previous speakers include:

• Deb Agarwal, Advanced Computing for Science Department Head and Data Intensive Systems Group Lead, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.

• Dona L. Crawford, Associate Director, Computation, Lawrence Livermore National Lab.

• Mary Fernández, Executive Director of Dependable Distributed Computing, AT&T Labs Research.

• Laura Haas, Distinguished Engineer and Director, Computer Science, IBM Almaden Research Center.

• Susan Landau, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems Laboratories.

• Kristin Lauter, Senior Researcher and Cryptography Group Manager, Microsoft Research.

• Cynthia A. Phillips, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories.

Funding. Full and partial scholarships are available for individuals whose labs are unable to providing funding.

Workshop Structure. The CAPP-L workshop is integrated with the CAPP-E and CAPP-R workshops, which focus on helping associate professors at teaching and research colleges and universities get promoted to full professors. Some sessions are divided into tracks with material of particular relevance to each of the three groups. Other sessions of general relevance bring all participants together. Sessions specific to the CAPP-L track may include:

• How to Reach the Top of the Technical Ladder, addresses topics such as the factors that go into promotion decisions (company contributions, publications, patents, leadership activities, etc.), how these factors are weighted, how one learns what these factors are, how to avoid/cope with layoffs, and how to get support for innovative rather than incremental research.

• Entering Research Management and Thriving, which focuses on how to think about deciding whether to enter management, what factors go into hiring managers, what such positions involve, whether there are training or mentoring programs available to prepare for such a transition, how to cope with becoming a manager, how to break into typically male-dominated senior management, and how higher-level management positions differ from first-line management positions.

• Managing Opportunities. Jobs in research labs offer a huge variety of opportunities with the concomitant challenge of managing them. This panel discusses some of these opportunities and challenges, such as: switching into development organizations and back, transferring technology into practice, interacting with business units and funding agents, collaborating with researchers outside of one's home institution, leveraging internal and external service opportunities to build a network of contacts, and maintaining external visibility to increase job security/employability.

Each such session is lead by senior women from research labs with relevant experiences and consists of a formal presentation and then an open discussion.

Plenary topics include panels on such topics as Time Management, Managing Professional Service Opportunities, and Cross-organization collaborations, each of which include a representative from each of the three tracks. As with the track panels, each includes a formal presentation and an open discussion.

Optional CV Review. For interested participants, we provide an opportunity for one-on-one CV review meetings with the Distingished Professors and Researchers who are the speakers at the workshop.

Coaching Session. In addition to the above content, there is typically a coaching session led by an expert on a variety of leadership skills.

2008 CAPP-L Workshop

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