Microsoft announced their Autism at Work Summit for April 24-26, 2018 at the Redmond campus, WA. Launching the Autism Hiring Program in 2015, Microsoft sought to address neurodiversity at work, and since then 50 full-time employees have joined through the program. The conference brought together over 180 participants from a wide range of stakeholders including representatives from companies that have autism hiring programs, such as DXC Technology, Ernst & Young, Ford, JP Morgan Chase, and SAP. Other participants included representatives from companies who are considering starting autism hiring programs, employment support agencies representatives, university and industry researchers, government agency representatives, and autism advocates.The summit included various panels about hiring and retaining workers with autism, as well as exploring different skill levels across autistic employees. There were two lived experience panels, where autistics talked about career paths and women with autism, respectfully. John Marble, co-founder of the Autism Advantage Program led the Career Paths panel, and described his personal path, diagnosis and experience with stigma. The panel on women with autism was led by Sara Luterman, the founder and editor of NOS Magazine.
She described the benefits of the autistic experience at work.Keynotes at 2018 Autism at Work - RedmonD. In this episode, Harold Reitman, M.D.
Speaks with Thomas D’Eri, COO and co-founder of Rising Tide Car Wash. Thomas discusses his family’s connection to neurodiversity, the primarily autistic staff of the car wash, and how employment can change lives for those on the spectrum.For more information, visit:Rising Tide Car Wash Website: risingtidecarwash.comRising Tide U Website: risingtideu.comFacebook RTCW: www.facebook.com/RisingTideCarWashFacebook RTU: www.facebook.com/risingtideuNationswell:TEDX:This video is owned by Different Brains Inc, kindly donated by it's original producer PCE Media LLC. Speakers: Kathleen West-Evans, Director of Business Relations for Council of State Administrators of Vocational Rehabilitation Rob Hines, Washington VR Director Danielle Biddick, Community Partner, PROVAIL Session Description: Learn about national, state and community organizations that provide support to students and other individuals preparing for work and transitioning into a career. Partners from Vocational Rehabilitation (VR), the National Employment Team (NET) and PROVAIL will provide an overview of services and examples of how they work together with individuals and business. Speakers: Andrew Begel, Researcher, Microsoft Jill Locke, Research Assistant Professor, University of Washington Hala Annabi, Associate Professor, University of Washington Session Description: In the next 10 years, over half a million children with autism will enter adulthood. Many of them will encounter substantial challenges in their attempts to find job opportunities, gain employment, and stay employed.
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Andrew Begel, Thomas Zimmermann, Analyze this! 145 questions for data scientists in software engineering, Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering, May 31-June 07, 2014, Hyderabad, India. Andrew Begel is a Senior Researcher in the Ability group at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA, USA. He received his Ph.D. In Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2005. Andrew’s research focuses on the use of AI to increase the accessibility of technology for those with cognitive disabilities.
In this seminar, we offer recommendations for high school and college students with autism and their caregivers to help prepare them to start their careers. Led by Microsoft Research and University of Washington on preparing for work, geared towards college students. Speakers: Dr.
Kerri Morse Jen Hong Session Description: Do you ever feel lost or overwhelmed when you it’s time to fill out your taxes, make doctor appointments, remember to pay your bills, complete your assignments at work, while you make sure to get enough rest, exercise and eat healthy? Do you rely on your parents to take care of these things for you? There are so many things to learn and keep track of when living as an adult. Now that you have a job, it’s time to start ADULTING and take care of these responsibilities. In this session, we are going to play a quiz game to review scenarios within the categories of transportation, living on your own, managing your finances, relationships, and getting ahead at work. At the end of the session, you will set a goal to increase your knowledge base in one or two of the Adulting IQ categories.
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AbstractLarge-scale software is developed by teams of engineers that work together. The teams’ compositions change all the time, with engineers continuously leaving and joining. Learning about these organizational dynamics is vital to understanding how engineers acquire technical skills and business relationships throughout their career. In addition, since employee turnover can be costly to team morale and productivity, it is important for management to learn how to proactively guide the process.In this talk, I report on a study of a professional software development organization in which engineers switch teams frequently. We learned what causes engineers to consider leaving their teams, why they leave, how they learn about new teams, and how they decide which team to join.
We also quantify the perceived costs and benefits of recent moves made by the engineers. We offer recommendations to engineers and their managers on how to ensure that both make better, happier team moves. BioAndrew Begel is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft. He studies software engineers to understand how communication, collaboration and coordination behaviors impact their effectiveness in collocated and distributed development. He then builds software tools that incentivize problem-mitigating behaviors. Andrew’s recent work focuses on the use of biometrics to better understand how software developers do their work, on understanding evolving job roles in the software industry, and on helping tech companies learn how to work more effectively with autistic software engineers. Andrew received his Ph.D.
In Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2005.