| Wednesday, September 26 |
| Time |
Session Title |
Speaker(s) |
| 3:30pm - 5:30pm |
Capital Strategies for Entrepreneurs
For entrepreneurs, especially those with innovative products and services, controlling their capital, their... |
Joey Tamer
Consultant, Expert, JoeyTamer.com
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| 3:30pm - 5:30pm |
Gaining a Seat at the Table
Nilofer Merchant, CEO, Rubicon Consulting, provides both a framework and a methodology to use in the move from... |
Nilofer Merchant
Entrepreneur, CEO & Chief Strategist, Rubicon Consulting
|
| 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
Founders Reception |
| Thursday, September 27 |
| Time |
Session Title |
Speaker(s) |
| 7:00am - 8:30am |
Keynote Breakfast; Secrets of a Renegade Innovator
Renegade entrepreneur-and runaway success story-Christine Comaford-Lynch has lived the kind of life most of us only... |
Christine Comaford-Lynch
CEO/Founder, Mighty Ventures
|
| 8:45am - 10:15am |
Eliciting the Creativity in Everyone- A World Café
Awakening & engaging collective intelligence through conversations about questions that matter.
A World cafe is... |
Wendy Wallbridge
President / Executive Coach, On Your Mark
Nancy Margulies
Co-Developer, The World Café
Anne Adams, Ph.D.
President, ACS
|
| 10:30am - 11:30am |
Bringing Innovation to Market
Technology is about Innovation - and innovation plays a central role in a company's ability to deliver long term... |
Yael Zheng
Vice President of Corporate and Field Marketing, VMware, Inc.
Cheemin Bo-Linn, EdD.
Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Revenue Officer, NetLine Corporation
Paul Constantino
Partner, Peritus Partners
|
| 12:00pm - 1:45pm |
Keynote Lunch; Innovators – Panel Discussion
This panel of Innovators will openly discuss the wins, tradeoffs, the challenges that have occurred in their... |
Padmasree Warrior
Executive Vice President and CTO, Motorola, Inc.
Nilofer Merchant
Entrepreneur, CEO & Chief Strategist, Rubicon Consulting
Helen Greiner
Co-founder and Chairman, iRobot Corp.
|
| 1:45pm - 6:00pm |
Exhibit Floor Opens |
| 2:30pm - 3:30pm |
Making Innovation Work
If you want to be more than a 'one hit wonder' and make innovation part of your organization's DNA, this session is... |
Beth Zimmerman
Principal, Cerebellas LLC
|
| 2:30pm - 3:30pm |
Women's Critical Role in the Evolution of Conscious Business
As businesses integrate their concerns for people, planet and profit and move away from an ego-centric model toward... |
Natalie Zeituny
Founder & Principal, NZ CONSULTING
Susanne Sonderhoff
Marketing Manager, Hewlett Packard
Angelina Howard
Vice President, Office of the President and Execut, Nuclear Energy Institute
|
| 3:45pm - 4:45pm |
Accelerate Career Development with Intellectual Property
This session will cover empowering women to recognize their potential as innovators, creators and even owners of IP... |
Pam Nesbitt
Senior Software Engineer, IBM
Michelle Mancino Marsh
Partner, Kenyon & Kenyon LLP
|
| 3:45pm - 4:45pm |
The Six Essentials: Jump Start Your Creative Flow Now!
THE SIX ESSENTIALS presented by Marsh Engle is the ultimate invitation to connect with the center of your creative... |
Marsh Engle
Founder, Marsh Engle Show
|
| 4:30pm - 6:00pm |
Taste Of Technology Reception |
| 6:30pm - 8:30pm |
Hall Of Fame Dinner |
| Friday, September 28 |
| Time |
Session Title |
Speaker(s) |
| 7:00am - 10:30am |
Exhibit Floor Opens |
| 7:00am - 9:00am |
Continental Breakfast on Exhibit Floor |
| 8:00am - 9:00am |
Smart Thinking Smart Talking Women
Creating Structures for Success and Satisfaction
As leaders and managers we know that real success is a lot more... |
Ardice Farrow
Founder, Co-Creator, Wake Up Women
|
| 9:30am - 10:30am |
BlogHer presents: Non-Developers to Open Source Acolytes: Tell Me Why I Care
While open source and open standards are like a religion to many in the tech world, many of us who are... |
Annalee Newitz
Writer, Techsploitation
Dawn Foster
Director of Developer Relations, Jive Software
Elisa Camahort
President Events & Marketing, BlogHer
|
| 9:30am - 10:30am |
Building an Innovative Culture - I Wish I Had a Blueprint!
In the face of stiff competition, internal organizational obstacles and the ever so quickly changing environment,... |
John McDonald
Technical Executive, IBM
Suchita Dadhich
Strategic Innovation & Organizational Capability, IBM Rational
|
| 9:30am - 10:30am |
Innovative Branding: Thriving on the Edge
Innovation is the brand value that counts today. In a flat world, the only constant is fast, fluid and disruptive... |
Linda Zimmer
CEO, MarCom:Interactive
Nina Burokas
President, Digerati Branding
|
| 9:30am - 10:30am |
Mentoring
Whether you are looking for a mentor or are willing to be one, managing that relationship from both sides is not... |
Sandra E. Burke, Ph.D., FAHA
Director, Cardiovascular Biology Research (Retired), Abbott Vascular
|
| 9:30am - 10:30am |
Time to Market
Time to market is cited as one of the most essential ways a company can differentiate itself among competitors. You... |
Beth Zimmerman
Principal, Cerebellas LLC
|
| 10:45am - 11:45am |
A River Runs Through the Digital Divide
Women using global communications technology to shift the balance of power.
Women, powerful agents of change,... |
Jensine Larsen
Founder, World Pulse Magazine
|
| 10:45am - 11:45am |
BlogHer presents: Getting Custom: What Web Designers Know
Loyal Readers are Valuable Readers - Reaching Your Audience and Keeping Them.
First impressions are important. ... |
Nelly Yusupova
CTO, Webgrrls International
Tenni Theurer
Product Optimization Manager, Yahoo Inc.
|
| 10:45am - 11:45am |
Optimize Your Marketing Investment: How Smart Innovation and Strategic Integration Power Sales
With technology vendors facing an ever-expanding global marketplace, it is particularly critical for today's... |
Niti Agrawal
Principal & Founder, Stage 4 Solutions, Inc.
Robbie Baxter
Technology Consultant, Peninsula Strategies
Jennifer Vessels
CEO, Next Step
Karen Walker
Vice President of Marketing, Technology Solutions, Hewlett Packard
|
| 10:45am - 11:45am |
Smart Thinking Smart Talking Women
Creating Structures for Success and Satisfaction
As leaders and managers we know that real success is a lot more... |
Ardice Farrow
Founder, Co-Creator, Wake Up Women
|
| 10:45am - 11:45am |
Web 2.0 and Social Computing: Click. Connect. Collaborate
The voice -- spoken conversation -- is still one of the most natural and effective ways for people to communicate.... |
Joe Hertzbach
Principal, A Virtual Match
Anna Dreyzin
Education Program Manager, IBM SWG Digital Thought Leadership Program, IBM
|
| 12:00pm - 1:15pm |
Keynote Lunch; Trade Up
5 Steps for Redesigning Your Leadership and Life from the Inside Out
A leader's most important job is to reveal... |
Rayona Sharpnack
Founder, Institute for Women's Leadership
|
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
BlogHer presents: Blogging Workflow Tools and Tricks
Are you inundated and overwhelmed? Do the words Information Overload particularly resonate? Or are you scared off... |
Barb Dybwad
Producer, Weblogs, Inc.
|
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Effective IT Governance and Building Business Cases that Pass the Big Gate
Each and every IT organization is faced with a myriad of challenges... however, if we were to distill them down,... |
Debra Deganhart
IT Management Consultant - GTS IT Strategy and Arc, IBM
Rosa Caputo
Founder, KeyData Associates Inc.
Colleen Berube
Sr. Director, IT Strategy & Programs, Cisco Systems
|
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Innovation in Accountable Advertising: Making Your Advertising Dollars Count
Learn innovative ways to monitor one of your largest business investments: your advertising. Learn ways to use... |
Michael Rowehl
Director of Technology, AdMob
Michael Bonfils
President, International Media Management Corp
|
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Search Engine Marketing for Innovators
Make Money by Getting People to Find You Online and Converting Them to Customers
Driving traffic and converting... |
Amanda Watlington
Owner, Searching for Profit
Heidi Cohen
Principal, Riverside Marketing Strategies
|
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Taking Innovation to a Global Marketplace
Going global with innovative services is critical to IBM's success. With the rise of Internet-based self service... |
Mary Reilly
Applications on Demand, Global Enablement Executiv, IBM
|
| 2:00pm - 4:00pm |
Dessert, Raffle and Networking on Exhibit Floor |
| Saturday, September 29 |
| Time |
Session Title |
Speaker(s) |
| 8:30am - 1:00pm |
Powerful and Connected: Women Transforming Technology Environments
The successful book Enlightened Power: How Women are Transforming the Practice of Leadership proposes that... |
Patricia Shafer
President, Compel Ltd.
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