WITI's Excellence in Corporate IT Leadership Awards and Symposium Returns to Chicago in May!

WITI Chicago will host its "Excellence in Corporate IT Leadership" awards honoring executive women leaders for significant contributions to their respective corporations and technology industries on May 1, 2008 in Chicago.

Hosted by UBS, premiere event sponsor, and with support from others including IBM, Exelon and Motorola, the event will feature two executive panels of dynamic industry leaders followed by a ceremony honoring this year's award recipients. The Executive panel will discuss how they led their organization's transformation and delivered results by adapting their leadership styles.

Venue:
The Conference Center | UBS Tower
One North Wacker Drive, Second Floor
Chicago, IL 60606

Schedule:
2:30pm - Women Leading Change - Michigan Ballroom
4:00pm - Women Leading Change and the Challenges Faced - Michigan Ballroom
5:00pm - Private Reception - Superior
5:00pm - General Reception - Reception & Hall Areas
6:30pm - Awards - Michigan Ballroom

Congratulations to our 2008 Winners!

Jean Holley Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Tellabs

Jennifer Scanlon Vice President, Chief Information Officer, USG Corporation

Karenann Terrell Corporate Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Baxter

Connie Shoemake is Being Recognized for her Support of Women in the IT Community in Chicago

Connie Shoemake Vice President, Sales Americas Central Region, IBM

Our Keynote Speaker

Noreen Iles
VP Technology Solutions, Freddie Mac

Thanks to our Judges

• Noreen Iles of Freddie Mac
• Lauren DeLong of WITI GEN
• Brad Spirrison of the Chicago Sun Times
• Mark Cummuta of CIO Magazine

Symposium Panelists Include:

Dr. Cheemin Bo-Linn CEO & President, Peritus Partners, Inc.	Nora Choi-Lee Managing Director and Global Major Program Lead, UBS Investment Bank Technology Services	Joanne Hickman Managing Director and Head of Consultant Relationships, UBS North America	Sharon Heck Partner, Ernst & Young LLP
Kim R. Jenson Managing Director and Regional Manager, UBS Midwest	Cathie Kozik Corporate Vice President, Information Technology, Mobile Devices Business and Integrated Supply Chain, Motorola	Bets Lillo Project Director, Abbott Transition Organization	Connie Shoemake Vice President, Sales Americas Central Region, IBM
Anjali Soni Managing Director and Regional Manager, UBS Equity Derivatives

Premiere "Host" Sponsor:

UBS is the leading global wealth manager, a top tier investment banking and securities firm, and one of the largest global asset managers. With headquarters in Zurich and Basel, Switzerland, UBS operates in over 50 countries and from all major international centers. UBS employs more than 80,000 people.

Silver Sponsor:

For nearly a century, when people have turned to IBM, what have they been seeking? Companies, institutions and individuals trying to imagine what the world might be — and actually to build it — have looked for a unique capacity to conceptualize opportunities, to analyze developments, to tackle and overcome grand challenges. At the most basic level, IBM’s defining value over the years has not been our assets, our size or our offerings. It has been the way we think.

Supporting Sponsors:

Exelon Corporation is one of the nation's largest electric utilities with more than $15 billion in annual revenues. It distributes electricity to approximately 5.2 million customers in Illinois and Pennsylvania, and gas to 480,000 customers in the Philadelphia area. In addition, for energy delivery Exelon's operations include energy generation and power marketing.

InterCall is the largest conferencing service provider in the world. Along with a team of over 500 meeting consultants, we employ more than 1500 operators, customer service representatives, call supervisors, accounting, marketing and IT professionals. We serve over 400,000 individual conference leaders in more than 40,000 organizations around the globe withÊour range of audio, web and video conferencing services.

We are scientists. We are artists. Most of all, we are a global communications leader, powered by, and driving, seamless mobility. Motorola is revolutionizing broadband, embedded systems and wireless networks - bringing cutting-edge technologies into your everyday life, with style.

Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities that make the promise of Business Made Simple a reality for our customers. Our next-generation technologies, for both service provider and enterprise networks, support multimedia and business-critical applications. Nortel's technologies are designed to help eliminate today's barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying networks and connecting people to the information they need, when they need it.

As user needs for communications services evolve, Tellabs experts design, develop, deploy and support our solutions for telecom service providers worldwide. Our customers include wireline, wireless and cable TV companies, as well as government agencies. Verizon, BellSouth, NTT Communications of Japan, Telstra of Australia, Telkom South Africa and Telecom Italia are among our customers.

For more than 100 years, Chicago-based USG has been a leader in producing innovative products and systems to build the environments in which we live, work and play. As the inventor of wallboard and mineral wool ceiling tile, USG created North America's building materials industry. Our products are used in everything from major commercial developments and residential housing to simple home improvements.

Previous Winners Include:

• Noreen Iles
  VP Technology Solutions, Freddie Mac
• Jan LaHayne
  VP, Chief Information Officer, Littelfuse, Inc.
• Susan Malisch
  VP, Chief Information Officer, Loyola University
• Barbara A. Zeller
  VP Information Technology Nicor Inc. and Nicor Gas
• Catherine S. Brune
  Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Allstate Insurance Company
• Maureen G. Osborne
  Chief Technology Officer, Bank One
• June E. Drewry
  Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, AON Corporation
• Padmasree Warrior
  Chief Technology Officer, Cisco
• Ellen Barry
  Chief Information Officer, Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority
• Joy Keeler
  Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs & Chief Information Officer at the University of Illinois at Chicago

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