The Bay Area region of the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science (ACWIS) will be honoring networking technology pioneer and Silicon Valley leader Judy Estrin on September 3, 2009. This event is the third luncheon in the Weizmann Women in Science Speaker Series. The Weizmann Women in Science Speaker Series is aimed at highlighting the Bay Area’s top women in research, biotechnology, high technology and healthcare. The luncheon honoring Ms. Estrin, as the top women in high tech, is being held at the Rosewood Sand Hill Hotel in Menlo Park. To view the invitation and register electronically click on the following link:
http://www.weizmann-usa.org/site/Calendar?view=Detail&id=5281
Ms. Estrin is chief executive officer of JLABS, LLC, formerly known as Packet Design Management Company, LLC. Prior to co-founding Packet Design in May 2000, Ms. Estrin was chief technology officer for Cisco Systems. Beginning in the early 80’s, she co-founded three other successful technology companies: Bridge Communications, Network Computing Devices, and Precept Software. In 1998, Cisco Systems acquired Precept, and she became Cisco’s chief technology officer until April 2000. Ms. Estrin has been named three times to Fortune Magazine’s list of the 50 most powerful women in American business.
Ms. Estrin is the author of Closing the Innovation Gap, published in September, 2008, which explores key concepts of innovation and challenges business, education and national leaders to work together to reignite the sustainable innovation essential for future growth. It is this subject of sustainable innovation that will be the focus of Ms. Estrin’s talk on September 3rd.
The first Weizmann Women in Science event in May, featured UCSF researcher Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn and the second event in the luncheon series honored biotechnology leader and UCSF’s new Chancellor, Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann. The last event in the Weizmann series will feature Dr. Sandra Hernandez, Executive Director of the San Francisco Foundation on November 4, 2009. The speaker series coincides with a new fund launched by ACWIS aimed at increasing the community of women scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science and in the world. The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot Israel is one of the world’s foremost centers of multidisciplinary scientific research and graduate studies. Its 2500 scientists, students, technicians and engineers pursue basic research in the quest for knowledge and to enhance the quality of human life.