** This event is open to everyone **

As women in computing, we sometimes feel like we are Venusians (residents of the planet Venus) dwelling in Mars, struggling to survive in this male-dominated field. Do we have to change our identity in order to thrive in the computing field?
Speaking from her experience, Leng will discuss the common issues and pitfalls we encounter and she will explore how we can leverage our strengths to excel and lead!

Speaker's Bio: Leng Leng Tan is the Senior Vice President of Engineering for Oracle Enterprise Manager product at Oracle Corporation. She was the leader behind the widely adopted self-managing database capabilities in Oracle Database Diagnostic and Tuning Packs. Her team also delivered the innovative workload capture and replay technologies (Real Application Testing) that enable realistic testing of database and middle-tier. The most recent release of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control provides an integrated system management tool that manages Oracle software and hardware including virtualization and Cloud.
Leng was born in Singapore and came to University of Wisconsin, Madison for her B.S. in computer science. She also holds an M.S. in computer science from Stanford University. Leng originally joined Oracle in 1989 as the sole female database kernel developer.