Schedule

Sunday, May 31 Build - Community and Brand Building
Time	Session Title	Speaker(s)
1:00pm - 6:00pm	Registration Opens
2:00pm - 3:15pm Donner	101 - Leverage Your Personal Brand to Achieve Your Goals The concept of personal branding is popping up everywhere these days, but what exactly does it mean? It's not about developing a slick marketing campaign. It's all about uncovering what is the ... For More Details	Donna Ceriani Leadership Success Coach, Success Compass
2:00pm - 3:15pm Siskiyou	102 - Making LinkedIn Work for YOU Do you have a LinkedIn profile simply because you feel you ought to? Or have you been meaning to set one up but don't know where to start? Chances are, even more advanced users of LinkedIn are not ... For More Details	Amanda Healy Senior Marketing Manager & Social Media Storyteller, TIBCO Software
2:00pm - 3:15pm Cascade	103 - Optimizing STEM Talent Through Mentoring and Sponsorship A mentor speaks to you, guides you, advises you. A sponsor speaks about you and champions you behind closed doors. A sponsor might also be the one to say YES! and make the hiring call. To see more ... For More Details	Julie Kantor President & CEO, Twomentor
3:15pm - 3:30pm	Break
3:30pm - 4:45pm Donner	107 - How to Effectively Identify and Connect with Your Community Most companies view their customers as their only community. The reality is that every business is surrounded by, at least, NINE separate community groups. Each group has the potential to bring or ... For More Details	Kyra Reed Co-Founder, MTO Agency
3:30pm - 4:45pm Siskiyou	108 - Speak Like a Leader Bootcamp You and your team's ability to communicate WELL makes a difference on every level. Come learn how to use neurobiology to maximize all of your communications and get more of what you want, more of the ... For More Details	John Bates Founder & CEO, Executive Speaking Success
3:30pm - 4:45pm Cascade	109 - Twitter 101 This Twitter 101 session is designed to address the non-initiated, introduce them to Twitter, and make them feel more comfortable using it - promoting themselves as much as their brand/company. ... For More Details	Yael Wagner Chief Product Officer
5:00pm - 5:45pm Gateway Ballroom	113 - It's Our Time Patricia Arquette continues her quest to share her thoughts on equality for women. Arquette, who recently won an Oscar© for best actress for her work in the movie Boyhood, continues to make ... For More Details	Patricia Arquette Actor, Humanitarian, GiveLove.org
6:00pm - 7:30pm Bayshore Foyer	Founder's Reception Opening Night at the Summit features welcoming words from WITI Founder Carolyn Leighton, offering a friendly networking environment for attendees to meet Summit speakers, VIP guests, and colleagues ... For More Details	Carolyn Leighton Founder/Chairwoman, WITI
Monday, June 1 Empower - Innovation and Technology
Time	Session Title	Speaker(s)
7:30am - 8:30am Gateway Ballroom	Networking Breakfast
8:15am - 8:30am Gateway Ballroom	Welcome Women In Technology International Founder Carolyn Leighton launches the 2015 WITI Annual Summit with a warm greeting to all attendees! ... For More Details	Carolyn Leighton Founder/Chairwoman, WITI
8:30am - 9:00am Gateway Ballroom	202 - Spiraling Up for the WITI Summit! The author of Spiraling Upward shows how to maximize your participation in the WITI Summit, providing the perspectives and tools you need to make the most ... For More Details	Wendy Wallbridge President / Executive Coach, On Your Mark
9:00am - 10:00am Gateway Ballroom	203 - Disruption, Innovation, IoT, and Women: Disrupt to Succeed! Women are amazing innovators and leaders. In addition to having highly unobstructed new product ideas, women possess amazing team-building and leadership capabilities. So, why is it that in 2015 we ... For More Details	Linda Bernardi Chief Innovation Officer, Cloud and IoT, IBM
10:00am - 5:45pm Bayshore Foyer	Coaching Circles at the WITI Summit Do you find yourself unsure of how to step into a larger role... or take an idea and build a startup... or reach for that next level in your career? We believe good coaching from women who have ... For More Details
10:00am - 11:00am Gateway Ballroom	204 - The Internet of Things: What Does it Take to Make the Internet of Everything Real? The Internet of Things (IoT) is the next technology revolution. With less than 1% of "things" in the physical world connected to the Internet, there is an incredible opportunity to connect the ... For More Details	Michele Pelino Moderator Principal Analyst, Forrester Research Cheemin Bo-Linn President and CEO, Peritus Partners, and 2015 WITI Hall of Fame Honoree Janet Landers SVP, Global Business Technology, Starbucks Company Rebecca Scholl SVP, Strategy & Marketing/High Tech, Communications & Media, Xerox Corporation Jaishree Subramania Director, Internet of Things Marketing, Cisco Systems
11:00am - 2:00pm	Exhibits Open - Career Fair / Product Expo / Networking, Book Signing in Exhibit Area
12:30pm - 2:00pm Gateway Ballroom	206 - Lunch Keynote - Reimagine IT: The Digital Dragon is Upon Us! With the continued advancements of social, mobile, cloud, and information - companies are now competing in new ways in the span of a moment. If you're looking for clarity to help further navigate your ... For More Details	Tiffani Bova Global Customer Growth & Innovation Evangelist, Salesforce
2:00pm - 3:00pm Gateway Ballroom	207 - Geek Girls are Chic: Five Career Hacks Is the technology world biased against women? Why are fewer women graduating with a technical degree (12% today vs 37% in 1984)? Why aren't more women rising in the tech ranks or starting businesses? ... For More Details	Sandy Carter CEO \| CMO \| Ecosystems \| Business Development Information Technology, Silicon Blitz, and 2010 WITI Hall of Fame Honoree
3:15pm - 4:15pm Donner	209 - Wearable Computing Wearables: one of the most hyped technologies in the past decade. Are they worth the hype? Where is the technology headed, and what will it take for wearables to become mainstream? Everyone from ... For More Details	Erin Flynn Moderator Investment Banker, Ackrell Capital Dawn Damschen, Esq. Associate, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP Sandra Lopez Director, Business and Marketing Strategy for Wearable Tech in Fashion, Intel Mary Vincent Co-Founder & CTO, LifetimeMD Kristi Wolff, Esq. Senior Associate, Kelley Drye & Warren
3:15pm - 4:15pm Siskiyou	210 - How Serious Games Are Changing the World Imagine learning mission-critical skills and life-saving procedures all on a game console from the comfort of your home. Serious games can be just that - taking important training and moving it into ... For More Details	Sophia Viklund Moderator Founder, backCODE Donna Barbisch CEO, Wicked Solutions Alexis Brandow Founder, Amorse Anna Leighton Founder, Annatarian Designs
3:15pm - 4:15pm Cascade	211 - What Smart Companies Are Doing to Leverage Big Data The shift from Machine to Machine (M2M) to IoT has created a far more complex environment. IoT is an evolutionary technology that has the potential to revolutionize the way we live and do business. ... For More Details	Laura DiDio Moderator Director, Strategy Analytics Jennifer Cambern Vice President, Product Management and Chief Product Owner, ADP Lila Snyder President, Document Messaging Technologies, Pitney Bowes Inc.
4:00pm - 7:00pm	Exhibits Open - Career Fair / Product Expo / Networking, Book Signing in Exhibit Area
4:45pm - 5:15pm Gateway Ballroom	214 - Building, Empowering, Inspiring This very special panel introduces the outstanding women who will be inducted Monday evening into WITI's Women in Technology Hall ... For More Details
5:30pm - 7:00pm	Taste Of Technology Reception (located at exhibit area)
7:00pm - 9:00pm Gateway Ballroom	Hall Of Fame Awards Induction Banquet
Tuesday, June 2 Inspire Powerful Leadership and Influence
Time	Session Title	Speaker(s)
8:00am - 9:00am Gateway Ballroom	Networking Breakfast, sponsored by Ford Motors
8:45am - 9:00am Gateway Ballroom	Update by Carolyn Leighton
9:00am - 9:30am Gateway Ballroom	302 - Breakfast Keynote Presentation by Ford Motors - Behind Every Success Is a Group of Mentors and Motivators The journey of one woman in tech, and how she came to hold her current role as a marketing manager and user interface engineer at Ford Motor Company. This session will focus on Jennifer Brace's ... For More Details	Lindsey Turrentine Moderator Vice President and Editor-in-Chief, CNET Jennifer Brace User Interface Supervisor, Ford Motor Company
9:30am - 12:30pm	Exhibits Open - Career Fair/Product Expo Expo And Reopens from 2PM - 4PM
9:30am - 10:30am Gateway Ballroom	303 - How Millennial Women Are Shaping the Future Despite struggling with debt, recession, and the jobs crisis, millennials (who will account for 75% of the workforce in 2025) are not motivated by money. Rather, they are driven to make the world more ... For More Details	Adam Poswolsky Moderator Author Jessica Brown Programs Director, The Passion Co. Nikita Mitchell President, Berkeley-Haas MBA Association Clemantine Wamariya Human Rights Advocate and Storyteller
10:00am - 3:45pm Bayshore Foyer	Coaching Circles at the WITI Summit Do you find yourself unsure of how to step into a larger role... or take an idea and build a startup... or reach for that next level in your career? We believe good coaching from women who have ... For More Details
10:30am - 10:45am	Break
10:45am - 11:45am Donner	304 - Creating a Purpose-Driven Career How can you make a living doing work that's deeply meaningful to you? How can you get paid for who you are? How can you build a company that makes you (and your employees) excited to wake up in the ... For More Details	Adam Poswolsky Author
10:45am - 11:45am Siskiyou	305 - Why IT Is Losing Smart Women - and How Workforce Diversity Can Help While the opportunity for careers in Information Technology is growing dramatically, the number of women choosing to enter our field continues to shrink. A well-known study labeled this "The Leaky ... For More Details	Tammy Hawkins Moderator Vice President, West Region, OPTOMI Ester Frey Vice President, Technology Staffing Services, Robert Half Technology Madhu Mujoo Executive Director, San Jose Office, Ernst & Young Maria Olson Vice President, Global Alliances, NetApp Eddie Pate, Ph.D. Director Inclusion & Diversity for WWOPs, Amazon
10:45am - 11:45am Cascade	306 - Creating/Managing Teams That People Are Clamoring To Be On Creating a productive team means bringing together people with different skillsets and varied personalities to work towards a common goal. No easy task! Learn from industry leaders about tried and ... For More Details	Theresa Spralling Moderator CEO, Women of AT&T National Organization Teresa Deveaux Director, Gender Diversity Strategy, Microsoft, Corp Caroline Ingeborn COO, Toca Boca Candace Worley Senior Vice President & GM/Endpoint Security, McAfee, Inc.
11:45am - 1:15pm Gateway Ballroom	309 - Luncheon with PricewaterhouseCoopers Keynote Presentation - Collaborating to Advance Innovation A sense of belonging is a critical component of any successful relationship. Nowhere is this more important than where we spend most of our time as professional adults: the workplace. Workplace ... For More Details	Christine Goldberg Principal, Advisory Practice, PwC
1:15pm - 2:15pm Donner	310 - Speak Like a Leader Bootcamp You and your team's ability to communicate WELL makes a difference on every level. Come learn how to use neurobiology to maximize all of your communications and get more of what you want, more of the ... For More Details	John Bates Founder & CEO, Executive Speaking Success
1:15pm - 2:15pm Siskiyou	311 - Breakthroughs in Leadership: Here's How I Got to the Top! WITI loves a good success story! Come hear women relate personal stories from their own experiences: growth challenges, lessons learned, and rewards they earned on their way to success. Also included: ... For More Details	Ellen Leanse Moderator Business Strategist and Advisor Laura Biasucci VP, US Solutions Sales, Hewlett-Packard Company Debra LeBlanc VP/Emerging Partner Programs & Corporate Development, BMC Software Lindsey Turrentine Vice President and Editor-in-Chief, CNET Emily White Data Science Leader, GE Healthcare
1:15pm - 2:15pm Cascade	312 - The Roadmap to Successful Startups What does it really take to launch, lead, and grow a successful startup? Come be a part of our interactive discussion with panelists who will share their personal adventures in entrepreneurship. ... For More Details	Michael Winwood Moderator CEO, Optomi Elizabeth Dodson Co-Founder, HomeZada Anita Gardyne CEO/Co-Founder, Onēva Radhika Iyengar-Emens Managing Partner, DoubleNova Group
2:00pm - 4:00pm	Exhibits Open - Career Fair/Product Expo
2:30pm - 3:30pm Donner	315 - WITI WIN - Women Semiconductor and Embedded Systems Leadership What does it take to be a successful leader in the semiconductor and Embedded Systems industry? Join an interactive conversation and gain insights from women who talk about their own corporate paths - ... For More Details	Dina McKinney Senior Engineering Executive, Qualcomm Camelia Rusu Senior Engineering Director, Lam Research Corporation May Su Vice President, Strategic Marketing, Brooks Automation, Inc.
2:30pm - 3:30pm Siskiyou	316 - WITI WIN - Women IoT and Wearables Leadership IoT and Wearables is an exciting, fast growing segment of technology and explore how your skills can have some workable applications to this space. This panel will share their experiences and ... For More Details	Michelle Miller Moderator Director of Marketing, Jabil Sara Gardner CTO, Social Innovation, Hitachi Data Systems Syuzi Pakhchyan Wearable Technology Consultant, fashioningtech.com Urska Srsen Founder, Bellabeat
2:30pm - 3:30pm Cascade	317 - WITI WIN - Women in Cloud and Storage Leadership Join a dynamic group of women sharing their vision, insights and experiences leading storage, cloud and enterprise software. This is a great opportunity to explore opportunities and build ... For More Details	Laura DiDio Moderator Director, Strategy Analytics Kathleen Conroy AVP/CBC, Cognizant Technology Solutions Priyanka Mazagaonkar Software Development Manager, Strongview Prashanthi Padmanabhan Technical Director, Communication Products, AOL Malika Sangani Director of Engineering
3:30pm - 4:30pm Gateway Foyer	WITI Celebrates! A rare opportunity to mix, mingle, and enter fabulous raffles over yummy desserts - with Summit attendees, speakers, exhibitors - to schmooze, share lessons learned, and maximize networking ... For More Details

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Sunday, May 31

Build - Community and Brand Building

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