The ACM Distinguished Speakers Program Committee
The ACM Distinguished Speakers Program Committee is responsible for the oversight of the program, including reviewing its scope, procedures, policies and effectiveness. The Committee also reviews all nominations and decides which nominees to accept to the program.
Alexandre Renteria
ACM headquarters liaison to the committee: Cynthia Ryan
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Meet Featured ACM Distinguished Fatma Özcan
Fatma Özcan is a Principal Engineer at Systems Research at Google. Before that, she was a Distinguished Research Staff Member and a senior manager at IBM Almaden Research Center. She is an ACM Fellow and serves on the CRA board of directors, is the co-chair of CRA-Industry, adn received the VLDB Women in Database Research Award in 2022. She has over 24 years of experience in industrial research, and has delivered core technologies into various IBM and Google products. Her lectures include "What We Learned Building LLM-Powered Text-to-SQL."
