Palo Alto, CA, January 22, 2007 — Diane Greene, President, CEO, and co-founder of VMware will be the keynote speaker at the Women of Vision Awards Banquet on May 8, 2008 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA. The annual Women of Vision Awards, sponsored by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, honor women making significant contributions to technology in three categories: Innovation, Leadership, and Social Impact. Sydnie Kohara, CBS 5 News Anchor, will be the Master of Ceremonies again this year.
Diane Greene is President, CEO and co-founder of VMware. Under her leadership, VMware created the market for mainstream virtualization, and leads what is now a virtualization software industry. She has held technical leadership positions at Silicon Graphics, Sybase, Tandem, and was the CEO of VXtreme.
“The Women of Vision Awards spotlight just a few of the many women creating new technologies that are impacting our world today,” said Telle Whitney, CEO of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology. “We face many challenges in the years ahead and technology companies need to build and retain a diverse workforce to meet these challenges. By celebrating these women leaders we are providing role models not only to our existing workforce but for the generation of women that are today making their decisions about pursuing technology careers.”
The Women of Vision Awards Banquet will take place at 6:00 pm on May 8, 2008 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA. Tables and tickets may be purchased online at http://anitaborg.org/wov. Event sponsorship opportunities are also available.
About the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI):
In an increasingly competitive global marketplace, the Anita Borg Institute provides resources and programs for industry, academia, and government to help them recruit, retain, and develop women leaders in high tech fields resulting in higher levels of technology innovation. ABI programs serve high-tech women by creating a community and providing tools to develop their careers. ABI is a not-for-profit 501(c) 3 charitable organization. ABI Partners include: Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Google, IBM, Intel, Cisco, Juniper Networks, National Science Foundation, Symantec, NetApp, and Capgemini. www.anitaborg.org.
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