News Archive: December 2007
ABI Advisory Board Meeting: What is the role of policy?
The ABI Board of Advisors meeting in Washington DC, is meeting with Michele Flourney, the co-founder of CNAS, a policy think tank whith the mandate "to help identify the key challenges confronting this generation of Americans in the foreign policy and national security arena." The purpose of the meeting is to brainstorm ... Read more
ABI Advisory Board at the National Academy of Sciences
The ABI Advisory Board is holding its annual meeting at the National Academies of Sciences in the nation's capital. The newly elected President of the National Academy of Engineering and former President and President Emeritus of MIT, Charles M. Vest, met the group to discuss the issues facing women in science and engineering. Vest highlighted the ... Read more
Insights from the technical track: TechLeaders Realizing Your Vision at Google Manhattan
Moving Your Vision into Reality On day two of TechLeaders: Realizing Your Vision, hosted by Google in Manhattan, a panel of senior technologists shared their knowledge about breaking through barriers. Linda Knippers, Distinguished Technologist at HP, articulated three key barriers she overcame: 1. The first barrier was understanding what it was in her ... Read more
Learning from Day 1: TechLeaders @ Google in Manhattan
Participants started the day by discussing key learnings from the first day If you do not ask, the answer is always no If you don't exceed your authority once a week you are not doing your job there is a difference between drive and passion It's ok if some people don't like me - ... Read more
ABI’s Newsletter - December 2007
SEASON'S GREETINGS Dear Jerri, In this, our final issue of the year, we are pleased to announce the opening of our Women of Vision 2008 registration and nominations. Be sure to take a look and sign up to attend our event and nominate a woman of vision from your organzation. ... Read more
TechLeaders: Power and Influence
This two-day workshop featuring Jo Miller, CEO of Women’s Leadership Coaching, will focus on extending your power and influence as a technical woman through increased organizational awareness, negotiation techniques, strategies to increase your visibility, and influence techniques to increase buy in for your ideas. Learn more Read more
Breaking Through Barriers at TechLeaders
TechLeaders: Realizing Your Vision, hosted by Google in Manhattan New York, is creating leadership breakthroughs with 52 technical women. Gabby Silberman, SVP at CA and Head of CA Labs, is sharing his lessons learned as a male technologist. His first lesson learned: always have a plan. Every day, move toward achieving ... Read more
TechLeaders: Realizing Your Vision @ Google Manhattan
TechLeaders, ABI's leadership development workshop designed to grow the next generation of technical women leaders, is currently having a workshop in New York City. 52 technical women from a variety of leading companies such as Juniper, Sun, ATT, Google, HP, Medco, State Farm Insurance, and Goldman Sachs are here learning ... Read more
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper’s Birthday
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper's work on on compilers and on making machines understand ordinary language instructions led ultimately to the development of the business language COBOL. The Anita Borg Institute's annual technical conference in computing is named in honor of Rear Admiral Hopper's honor. Learn more about the Grace Hopper Celebration ... Read more
Senior Techleaders: Leading Across Cultures
The goal of this two-day workshop for senior level women is to expand your: Network of senior women colleagues. Effectiveness at working across cultures whether those boundaries are across geographies, hierarchies, or organizations. Awareness and capacity of your leadership strengths, challenges, ... Read more