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Senior TechLeaders Day 2: Dr. Francine Berman
On day 2 of Senior TechLeaders: Leading across culture, keynote speaker Francine Berman, Director of the San Diego SuperComputer Center and Professor of Computer Science at UCSD, continued the discussion of cultural differentiators - Berman talked about the dimensions of uncertainty avoidance, power distance, masculinity and feminity, and individualism versus collectivism. Berman talked ... Read more
Senior TechLeaders: Leading Across Cultures
66 eminent technical leaders from industry and academia are gathered at Cisco in Silicon Valley for TechLeaders. The theme is Leading Across Cultures. The workshop is designed to expand particpants' network of senior leaders, their own understanding of their leadership, and increase their collective impact as a group of senior ... Read more
Virtual Bali on OneClimate Island in Second Life
Anuradha Vittachi, co-founder of OneWorld.net and speaker at the 2007 TechLeaders for Social Innovators last October, is spearheading an effort with OneWorld to leverage technology to impact global climate change. OneWorld just launched "Virtual Bali," to coincide with the thirteenth United Nations Climate Change Conference to be held on the island of Bali from 3 ... Read more
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
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
Help ABI Impact More Technical Women
The Anita Borg Institute’s programs make a true difference in the lives of technical women, their organizations, and the world. We are thankful for the support, commitment, and passion of our sponsors and community. We now need your help to impact even more women. From now until December 6, your individual ... Read more