WITI Announces Event Schedule for Annual Women and Technology Summit September 12-14, 2010 at the Doubletree, San Jose, CA
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA-–WITI (Women In Technology International), the world’s leading professional organization for professional tech savvy women will truly inspire “Collaboration, Strategy and Growth” through hands-on presentations and panel discussions at the Annual WITI Women and Technology Summit at the Doubletree in San Jose, CA, September12-14, 2010. Top technology and business leaders in Clean/Green Tech, Cloud, Mobile, Search, Social Media, and Business teach WITI Summit attendees how to capture and target more customers, build stronger relationships with existing customers and take advantage of the applications and tools to build a stronger web presence, increase revenue and streamline costs for their companies.
WITI represents the ideal market for business networking – CIOs, executive women and men, as well as leaders in technology from around the world converge at WITI’s Annual Women and Technology Summit to discuss and collaborate on innovative solutions to common business challenges, and explore new business opportunities.
“The 2010 WITI Women and Technology Summit and WITI Hall of Fame Awards together underscore the many significant contributions to the advancement of technology made by women through out the world,” said Carolyn Leighton, Founder/Chairwoman of WITI.
WITI’s Annual Women and Technology Summit will be held September 12-14 at the Doubletree Hotel in San Jose, CA. The 15th Annual WITI Hall of Fame Awards Gala will take place Monday, September 13, 2010 at 6pm. To learn more about the WITI -Women in Technology Summit, group rates, and to register for this event, please visit: http://witi.com/Summit
Speakers include:
Carolyn Leighton, Founder/Chairwoman, WITI | Anne Adams, Ph.D., President, ACS | Vanessa Alvarez, Industry Analyst, Frost & Sullivan | Brian Bershad, Site Director, Google | Anne Bezancon, Founder & President, Placecast | Colleen Bisconti, Marketing Program Director, IBM | Marie Bjerede, Vice President of Wireless Education Technology, Qualcomm | Dr. Cheemin Bo-Linn, Chief Executive Officer, Peritus Partners | Cathy Brooks, Founder, otherthanthat.com | Sandy Carter, VP, Software Business Partners, IBM | Emilie Choi, Corporate Development, LinkedIn | Kathy Chou, VP, PSG Americas Sales Strategy & Operations, Hewlett Packard | Laura Anne Edwards, Founder Alura Entertainment | Lauren Flaherty, Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Juniper | Lisa Garza, Market Manager, Service Provider Mobility Marketing, Cisco | Wanda Gass, TI Fellow / DSP Architect, Texas Instruments | Bernard Golden, CEO, HyperStratus | Nat Goldhaber, Managing Director, Claremont Creek Ventures | Ayalla Goldschmidt, Program Director, Application Infrastructure Marketing, IBM | Melody Haller, CEO, Antenna Group | Christine Herron, Principal, First Round Capital | Sally Jenkins, Vice President, Worldwide Marketing, Symantec | Duy Loan Le, Senior Fellow, Texas Instruments | Sophia Lopez, BPM Product Marketing Manager, Process Modeling, IBM | Melendy Lovett, President, Education Technology, Texas Instruments | Joel Makower, Executive Editor, GreenBiz.com | Nancy Margulies, Co-Developer, The World Café | Melinda Matthews, Software Executive Channels, IBM | Laurie McCabe, Co-founder and Partner, SMB Group | Amanda McConnell, Director, User Experience & Product Marketing, ReachLocal | Chirag Mehta, Office of the CEO, SAP | Nilofer Merchant, Entrepreneur, CEO & Chief Strategist, Rubicon Consulting | KL Moore, Image Consultant, KL Image Group | Bernadette Nixon, SVP, Global Field Marketing and Programs, CA Technologies |Adrian Ott, Author, CEO & Founder, Exponential Edge, Inc. | Jean Pawluk, Chief Architect, Visa | Michelle Price, CEO, A Third Mind Digital Media | Melissa Jun Rowley, Cause Correspondent, WhatGivers!? | Dr. Miriam Reiss, DSS, MCC, SpiritedMarketing.com | Michelle Robbins, Director of Technology, Third Door Media | Patricia Santamaria, Smart Work Demand Program Marketing Manager, IBM | Paula Satow, Founder, Satow Strategies LLC | Ann Saydah, General Business and Channel Sales, IBM | Judy Shaw, Director, Advanced Module Development External Development and Manufacturing, Texas Instruments | Becky Swain, Program Manager, IT Risk Management, Cisco | Joey Tamer, Consultant, Expert, JoeyTamer.com | Chenxi Wang, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research, Inc. | R "Ray" Wang, Partner for Enterprise Strategy, Altimeter Group | James Watters, Sr. Manager, vCloud Solutions, VMware | Ghennipher Weeks, Co-Founder, Applied Connectioneering, Inc. | Bill Weihl, Green Energy Czar, Google | Lizzie Widhelm, Vice President of Sales West Coast, Pandora | Lorie Wigle, General Manager of Eco-Technology, Intel | Kathrin Winkler, Chief Sustainability Officer, EMC | Teresa Zobrist, President & CEO, Zobrist Consulting Group