TechLeaders: Realizing Your Vision for Women of Color Agenda

Day 1: Wednesday, September 10
8:00 am – 9: 00 am Registration & Breakfast
9:00 am – 9:15 am ABI Welcome   
Telle Whitney, President and CEO, Anita Borg Institute
9:15 am – 10:00 am Getting Started: Context Setting
10:00 am – 10:15 am Break
10:15 am – 11:45 am Senior TechLeaders Panel: Passionate Leadership               
Neerja Raman, Senior Research Fellow & Stanford Media-X Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Stanford University
Cecilia Aragon, Staff Scientist, Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Gilda Garreton, Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems Laboratories
Christine Grant, Professor and Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Special Initiatives, College of Engineering, North Carolina State University
11:45 am – 12:45 pm Lunch
12:45 pm – 3:15 pm Discovering a Vision for Your Technical Leadership
3:15 pm – 3:45 pm Break
3:45 pm – 5:00 pm Day 1 Keynote: Perspectives from a Senior Technology Leader - How to Break Through Barriers                       
Valerie E. Taylor, Department Head and Royce E. Wisenbaker Professorship in Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Texas A & M University
5:00 pm – 5:10 pm ABI Ambassadors
BJ Wishinsky, Communities Program Manager, Anita Borg Institute
5:10 pm – 6:30 pm Networking Reception
Day 2: Thursday, September 11
8:00 am – 8:45 am Breakfast
8:45 am – 9:15 am Welcome Back
9:15 am – 10:45 am Senior TechLeaders Panel: Moving Your Vision into Reality                                
Irene Au, Director of User Experience, Google
Sandra Begay-Campbell, Principal Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories
Monica Martinez-Canales, Principal Engineer, Intel Corporation
10:45 am – 11:00 am Break
11:00 am – 12:15 pm Day 2 Keynote: Corporate Leavers                       
Freada Kapor Klein, Founder and Board Chair, Level Playing Field Institute
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm Lunch
1:15 pm – 2:00 pm Leading Our Own Breakthroughs: Session 1
2:00 pm – 2:45 pm Leading Our Own Breakthroughs: Session 2
2:45 pm – 3:00 pm Break
3:00 pm – 3:45 pm Leading Our Own Breakthroughs: Session 3
3:45 pm – 4:15 pm Report Out
4:15 pm – 4:30 pm Next Steps & Close