Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers
October 6th, 2004
8:30am – 5:30pm

Held the day before the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference, the Senior Women Leadership Summit is by invitation only.

The Senior Women Leadership Summit will bring together powerful women exercising major influence on the world of computing in industry, government, and academia. In leadership roles, skills to achieve success, network with other women leaders, share ideas, tactics and strategies are critical. The summit will aid professional development and provide a venue in which to deepen relationships with other women leaders in the community.

Promises for the session

• You will leave knowing the power of your voices and how to translate that into actions
• You will learn a new way of thinking and holding conversations that allows you to impact your communities
• You will engage with a broad network to work on one of three issues relevant to women’s leadership

Three key areas we will explore

• Knowing who you are as a leader
  Who am I as a leader? How does my knowledge of myself affect my ability to lead others? What is my vision of myself as a leader? What steps can I take to fully unleash my power as a leader?
• Building and exercising power. How can we create ways of being leaders that are more powerful? What is the role of networking and community in building this? Why do women shy away from talking about being powerful? What forms of power (positional, reputation, etc.) can we use to benefit our communities?
• Creating a new future. How do we create environments where innovation can thrive? How can we stimulate collaboration on topics ranging from new technologies to corporate cultures? What can we do to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles? How do we move our new ideas with velocity?

Pre-summit reading material

• New Listening: The key to organizational transformation
• The Breakthrough Process

Agenda

8:00 am – Continental breakfast and coffee
8:30 am – Opening
9:45 am – Break
10:00am – Working Session 1
12:30pm – Lunch
1:30 pm – Working Session 2
2:45 pm – Break
3:00 pm – Working Session 3
5:00 pm – Closing
5:30 pm – end

Facilitator

We are delighted that Linda Alepin, CEO and Partner of the leadership consulting firm Center for New Futures, will be facilitating the Senior Women Leadership Summit. She has more than thirty years experience in high technology. As a consultant, she is focused on her clients achieving breakthrough results through shifts in their thinking. She spent more than ten years as a Vice President and officer in a Fortune 300 IT company and was CEO and Founder of an early Internet start-up.

Linda is a noted public speaker on leadership and management. She is a founder of the Global Women’s Leadership Center at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University.

Registration

Cost:
– $50 if also registered for the Grace Hopper Celebration
– $200 Senior Women Leadership Summit only

The Leadership Summit is now sold out and we currently have a waitlist. Please click here to send email to be added to the waitlist

For information on Grace Hopper and reservations at the Sheraton Hotel, please visit the Grace Hopper site.

Organizing committee

• Co-Chair – Dr. Fran Allen, IBM Emeritus
• Co-Chair – Dr. Margo Seltzer, Associate Dean for Computer Science and Engineering, Harvard University
• Dr. Telle Whitney, CEO and President, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
• Cindy Goral, Director of Operations, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology

The Senior Women Leadership Summit is part of the Anita Borg Institute’s new Leadership Initiative and patterned after the pilot leadership workshop held in January of this year. The Senior Women Leadership Summit will also build on the previous work of the Senior Women’s Summits held in 2000 and 2002.

Participants include:

• Linda Alepin (Center for New Futures)
• Sally Ahnger (Stanford)
• Fran Allen (IBM Emeritus)
• Nancy Amato (Texas A&M)
• Helene Armitage (IBM)
• Margaret Ashida (IBM)
• Marcia Balestrino (Girl Scouts of USA)
• Karen Banks
• Genevieve Bell (Intel)
• Linda Bernardi (ConnecTerra)
• Lenore Blum (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Helen Bradley (Network Appliance)
• Tracy Camp (Colorado School of Mines)
• Justine Cassell (Northwestern University)
• Ann Mei Chang (Google)
• Jennifer Chayes (Microsoft)
• Margarent Chiosi (AT&T)
• Deborah Clayton (Charlotte Research Institute)
• Sharon Connor (Hewlett-Packard)
• Mary Cooley (Hewlett-Packard)
• Carolyn Crandall (Cisco)
• Janice Cuny (University of Oregon)
• Ruth Davis (Santa Clara University)
• Shirley Edwards (Anita Borg Institute)
• Magda El Zarki (UC Irvine)
• Carla Ellis (Duke University)
• Joan Feigenbaum (Yale)
• Kathleen Fisher (AT&T)
• Jen Fitzpatrick (Google)
• Barb Fox (Microsoft)
• Danyelle Ganshirt (Apple)
• Gita Gopal (Hewlett-Packard)
• Cindy Goral (Anita Borg Institute)
• Freida Granot (University of British Columbia)
• Barbara Grosz (Harvard University)
• Denise Gurer (EMD Consulting, ACM-W)
• Gerry Hackett (Veritas)
• Jeannette Harrison (Intel)
• Mary Jean Harrold (Georgia Tech)
• Lalita Jagadeesan (Lucent)
• Leah Jamieson (Purdue)
• Robin Jeffries (Sun)
• Liz Jessup (University of Colorado)
• Maria Klawe (Princeton)
• Heidi Kvinge (Intel)
• Ellen Lapham
• Susan Landau (Sun)
• Andrea Lawrence (Spelman College)
• Rosemary Lowden (Lawrence Berkeley Labs)
• Martha Lyons (Hewlett-Packard)
• Lizbeth Martin (Notre Dame de Namur University)
• Ursula Martin (Queen Mary University of London)
• Susan Merritt (Pace University)
• Gloria Montano (Anita Borg Institute)
• Carol Muller (Mentornet)
• Radha Nandkumar (University of Illinois at Urbana)
• Dorothy Nicholls (Amazon)
• Kellee Noonan (Hewlett-Packard)
• Rebecca Norlander (Microsoft)
• Sharon Nunes (IBM)
• Nuria Oliver (Microsoft)
• Joan Ordille (Avaya)
• Amy Pearl (General Chair Grace Hopper conference)
• Sharon Perl (Google)
• Ana Pinczuk (Cisco)
• Lori Pollock (University of Delaware)
• Diane Pozefsky (Univ of North Carolina Chapel Hill)
• Wendy Rannenberg (Hewlett-Packard)
• Nancy Ramsey
• Ann Redelfs (Redelfs, LLC)
• Debra Richardson (UC Irvine)
• Kathy Richardson
• Barbara Ryder (Rutgers)
• Lucy Sanders (National Center for Women in Information Technology)
• Nancy Schmitt (Sun)
• Betty Shanahan (SWE)
• Margo Selzter (Harvard)
• Mary Lou Soffa (University of Virginia)
• Diane Souvaine (Tufts)
• Valerie Taylor (Texas A&M)
• Barbara Waugh (Hewlett-Packard)
• Chris Wellens
• Elaine Weyuker (AT&T)
• Telle Whitney (Anita Borg Institute)
• Tamara Yancey (Abbott Labs)
• Einat Yogev (Cisco)
• Jeanne Yuen (Intel)