October 4, 2006
San Diego, Ca

TechLeaders’ GHC 2006 Senior Women’s Workshop will focus on building and sustaining change. It is the sixth in a series of workshops for senior technical women leaders and funded by the Career Action Center Fund. This is a day-long workshop for senior technical women which will showcase leading edge work of four organizations in making a positive impact for technical women and provide an opportunity for participants to explore and share insights and opportunities for impacting their own organizations.

Objectives for this workshop:

• Participants will hear about leading edge efforts that are supporting the success of technical women, with some concrete ideas for how to apply key learnings in their own careers and/or organizations
• Senior technical women will increase their network of peers
• A commitment to take action as a result of the session

This event is by invitation only.

Registration

Registration fees for the workshop is $200 for academic/non-profit, $300 for industry, or only $100 if buy a full registration to the Grace Hopper Conference.

Presenters

There will be 4 sessions. Each participant will have the opportunity to attend 2 of the 4 sessions. More information on the topics for each presenter is forthcoming.

• Wendy Bartlett, Distinguished Technologist in the NonStop Enterprise Division, HP - “Five Years, Three Companies, One Desk: Tips on Surviving Mergers, Acquisitions and Reorganizations”
• Katy Dickinson, Director Business Process Architecture, CTO and Sun Labs and Carol Gorski, Sun Microsystems - 5 Years of Executive Mentoring
• Sabina Nawaz, Former Director of Leadership Development, Microsoft - How to Overcome Groundhog Day. Tools to set up change right the first time.
• Debra Richardson, Professor of Informatics and Dean of the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California Irvine - “Transformational Change in Academia: Learning while Leading while Learning”

Chairs

Co-Chair: Fran Berman, Director of the San Diego Supercomputing Center, University of California San Diego
Co-Chair: Jeanne Ferrante, Professor and Associate Dean, University of California San Diego
Dr. Telle Whitney, CEO and President, ABI
Cindy Goral, Vice President of Programs and Operations, ABI
Dianthe Harris, Office Manager, ABI
Caroline Simard, Research Associate, ABI

Hotel Location, Rate Information, and Transportation

This event immediately precedes GHC 2006.

Agenda

Participants are invited to continue networking and attend the Grace Hopper Opening Reception from 7-9pm.