Archive: Senior TechLeaders: “Technology Leaders in Government”

Expanding Your Horizons

March 19 – 20, 2007
Airlie Conference Center
6809 Airlie Road
Warrenton, Virginia 20187

INVITATION ONLY

This workshop is for influential women involved with Technology in the Government.

It’s a time out of time from your careers and lives in order to make them an even better place to return to. Through this interactive event you will establish connections with a large number of powerful women across all sectors of government. You will reconnect with old contacts in meaningful ways. You will hear keynote speeches on topics that are not only captivating and intriguing, but also tailored to your unique perspective – that of a female technical leader in government. You will attend workshops that increase the effectiveness of senior leaders who are already highly competent at what they do. You will have the opportunity to engage with other leaders on topics that you are most passionate about.

Keynote Speakers and Workshop Facilitator

  • Facilitator: Sabina Nawaz, Former Senior Director of Leadership, Microsoft Corp.
  • Dr. Kathie Olsen, Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer, National Science Foundation
  • Dr. Anita Jones, Lawrence R. Quarles Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia
  • Dawn Meyerriecks, former CTO, Defense Information Systems Agency, and former Vice President, Strategic Development, AOL

The two day inaugural Expanding Your Horizons event for senior technical women in government will expand:

  • Your network of senior women colleagues.
  • Awareness and capacity of your leadership strengths and challenges.
  • Your thinking about the next steps of your career.
  • Your collective impact as a group of powerful women better connected with each other.

You will walk away with:

  • Not just business cards, but a connection and purpose behind each of them. Many more meaningful connections than you have today with women across multiple sectors.
  • A list of leadership skills and strategies and a clear understanding of how you can leverage them in your current and future jobs and lives to be more successful.
  • A plan for the next steps you can take in your current career or in starting a new one.
  • A framework for increasing your impact in the world by working with other like-minded women in government.

The Anita Borg Institute’s mission is to increase the impact of women on all aspects of technology and increase the positive impact of technology on the world’s women. Come find out how you can take your impact on the world one exponential step further by harnessing the ideas, tools, and connections at Expanding Your Horizons.

We hope you can join us. This event has a limited number of seats and will sell out.

Agenda Overview

DAY ONE

Timinig:
8:00am to 8:00pm
Overnight accomodation included for March 19

Goals:

  • Expand your network
  • Increase awareness and capacity of your leadership strengths and challenges
  • Start thinking abot the next steps of your career
  • Articulate how you can give back to others and increase your impact on the world

Highlights:

  • Keynote: Dr. Kathie Olsen, Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer, National Science Foundation
  • Keynote: Dawn Meyerriecks, Former Chief Technology Officer, Defense Information Systems Agency, and Former Senior Vice-President, AOL Corporation
  • Organization Workshop: a) integrate strongly as a group of women leaders; b) better see and understand human systems; c) develop a common language and understanding about why it goes the way it does in organizations and what else is possible. You will enhance your grasp of what you can do to increase personal and organizational effectiveness and get what you want from others.
  • Dinner and networking reception guaranteed to create new connections while deepening existing ones.

DAY TWO

Timinig:
8:00am to 4:30pm

Goals:

  • Expand your network
  • Formulate plan for implementing any desired changes in your own leadership or career
  • Engage with others to understand and address key common issues
  • Leverage and increase your collective impact

Highlights:

  • Keynote: Dr. Anita Jones, Lawrence R. Quarles Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia
  • Change workshop: Explore how to bring about change based on your insights from Day One in the context of a change framework and tools
  • Participant nominated breakout topics

Organizing Committee Co-Chairs

  • Dr. Fran Berman, Professor and High Performance Computing Endowed Chair, UC San Diego, and Director of San Diego Supercomputer Center
  • Dr. Anita Jones, Lawrence R. Quarles Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia
  • Dr. William Wulf, President of National Academy of Engineering
  • Dr. Telle Whitney, CEO and President, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology

Organizing Committee Members

  • Pamela Arya, Director of the Federal Business Office, Applied Minds Inc.
  • Laura Campbell, Director of the National Digital Library, Library of Congress
  • Dr. Mary Cleave, Associate Administrator for Science, NASA
  • Dr. Elizabeth Grossman, Staff Director, Research Subcommittee House Science Committee
  • Dr. Kathie Olsen, Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer, National Science Foundation
  • Nancy Ramsey, Author and Futurist
  • Carol Tisson, Organizational Consultant
  • Cindy Goral, VP of Programs and Operations, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
  • Dr. Caroline Simard, Research Associate, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology