Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing

The celebration, named after computer scientist Grace Hopper, is organized by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.

Keynote speakers at Grace Hopper Celebration 2022 included Daphe Koller, Dr. Anita Hill, Megan Rapinoe, Anne Neuberger and Frances Haugen.

[5] Past keynote speakers included Sheryl Sandberg, Shirley Jackson, Carol Bartz, Duy-Loan Le, Kathy Pham, Megan Smith, Ginni Rometty, Nonny de la Peña, Maria Klawe, Frances E. Allen, Mary Lou Jepsen, Barbara Liskov, Susan Landau, Jennifer Mankoff, Vivienne Ming, Susan L. Graham, Melinda Gates, and Fernanda Viegas.

[15] The Grace Hopper Celebration features a career fair with over 70 high-tech companies, government labs, and universities.

[17] In addition to the GHC Scholarship, Anita Borg Institute offers the ABI-Heinz College Partnership Program.

GHC Scholars who are accepted into master's programs at the Heinz college are eligible for tuition scholarships of a minimum of $6,000 per semester.

[18] The Grace Hopper Celebration offers free childcare to all attendees, as well as an on-site nursing mothers' room.

OSD is an all-day hackathon (including workshops) at Grace Hopper Celebration in which participants of all skill levels learn about Open Source while contributing to projects designed to solve real-world problems.

[24] In 2015, GHC faced criticism, including from engineer Erica Baker, when two white men and zero black women were featured as "headline" speakers.

[27] The "pay to speak" approach has been criticized by people including author and software engineer Gayle Laakmann McDowell.

[28] In 2023, female and non-binary attendees criticized the event for being dominated by "pushy" cisgender men, some of whom were harassing the women present.