Lone Star Section WIE Day 2026 Panel Luncheon
This year's theme is Technology with Purpose: Innovate Responsibly, Inspire Globally, Lead with Integrity.
Join distinguished panelists for a discussion in cybersecurity at Southwest Research Institute. Registration is open to the public.
Our WIE Day luncheon will take place in the presentation room in B265 at Southwest Research Institute. Please arrive 10-15 minutes early to account for security and navigating campus. Attendees must enter through the main entrance on Culebra road and approach the security gate with a valid form of government ID. Once through the gate, follow the signs down the main road and head straight at the four way stop. Then take a left into the B265 parking lot.
If you have issues with the link or registration, please contact nicole.webb@ieee.org.
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- 6220 Culebra Rd
- San Antonio, Texas
- United States 78238
- Building: 265
- Room Number: 1st Floor Presentation Room
- Starts 22 April 2026 05:00 AM UTC
- Ends 23 June 2026 05:00 AM UTC
- No Admission Charge
Speakers
Ms. Janice Grantz of Southwest Research Institute
Biography:
Ms. Grantz joined Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in December 1999 after completing her bachelor’s degree in computer science at Trinity University. She is currently a Staff Computer Scientist and Acting Manager in the Defense and Intelligence Solutions Division at SwRI. Ms. Grantz works on research and development projects in the RF signal processing domain, delivering mission-critical products to clients in the intelligence community. Ms. Grantz has extensive experience with Frontier, a large, componentized, reusable software framework developed by SwRI to address software processing challenges across multiple projects in a unified way. She works to balance long-term support and maintainability with innovation, research, and technology improvements. Over the course of her career, she has contributed to a wide variety of efforts, including the development of blind recognition signal processing algorithms, dataflow and inter-process communications for distributed systems, and graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for operator-driven data analysis.
As an Acting Manager, Ms. Grantz supervises software developers that are matrixed out to projects across the division. She also acts as a software team manager on multiple projects, implementing agile methodologies to provide robust task tracking and estimation, release planning, and software schedule maintenance that can flex with changing client priorities.
Ms. Grantz is a senior member of IEEE and member of IEEE Women in Engineering.
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Agenda
11:45 AM - Lunch Served
12:00 PM - Panel Begins
12:45 PM - Open Q&A
