Program

 

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IEEE – Women in Engineering Forum USA East 2016, Boston, MA

Program, Thursday, Dec 1st (3:00PM-6:00PM)
 Registration & Office 3:00PM – 6:00PM
Networking Reception 4:30PM-6:30PM
Program, Friday, Dec 2nd (7:00AM-5:00PM)
7:00am-5:00pm Track 1: Innovation Track 2: Leadership & Inspiration
Track 3:Professional Growth
7:30am-9:00am Breakfast
8:30am-8:45am Opening Remarks – IEEE Region 1 Director, IEEE Region 2 Director
8:45am-9:30am Keynote Gretchen McClain

“It’s the Tension Between our Confidence and Butterflies That Produces Our Greatest Work”

9:30am-10:00am Coffee Break & Exhibits
10:00am – 10:35am Sarah Ostadabbas – Big Data & healthcare Amory Wakefield – Sound confident, but not too harsh:” Effective Communication for Women in Leadership WORKSHOP – Dee Dee – Smart Strategies

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Poster Session – In Exhibit Area
10:45am-11:20am Faith Davis – Don’t Miss Out on the Next Technical Revolution Andy Moysenko- The Professional Career – A Manageable Process
11:30am-12:05pm Geetika Tandon – Collaborative research and innovation Reena Dahle – A New Approach to Retaining Females in Engineering
12:05pm-2:00pm  

Lunch & Keynote

2:00pm-2:35pm   Maria Demaree – Success Strategies for Women in the Workplace Stacy Roopnarine – Increasing Equity in Power and Decision Making

WORKSHOP – Barbara Taylor, X VS. Y: Overcoming Gender Bias on Your Way to the C-Suite

2:45pm-3:20pm Christina Kayastha – Innovation & hackathon example blend PANEL: Sarah Lyons, Danita Mitchell and Jungnam Pleasant –
Tales of Mentoring Successes and Failures
3:20pm-4:00pm Coffee Break & Exhibits
4:00pm-4:45pm Keynote – Susan Raymon, Rockwell Automation Career Fair in Exhibit Area

(4:00PM – 7:00PM)

4:45pm-5:30pm Plenary – Heidi Hemmer – Fireside Chat with Maryam Rahmani
Program, Saturday, Dec 3rd
7:00am – 12:30pm Track 1 : Innovation
Track 2: Leadership & Inspiration
 Track 3: Professional Growth
7:30am-9:00am  Breakfast
8:30am-9:15am  Panel – Women in Leadership – Opportunities to Lead

Moderator, Nita Patel, IEEE Women in Engineering
Pamela Goldberg, Former CEO, Mass Tech Collaborative
Liz Borowsky,  Senior Director of Technology Mapping, Akamai Technologies
Ginamaria Espinoza-Garcia, Design Engineering Director, Sensata Technologies

9:30am-10:05am Maura K. Moran – Beyond Networking 101 Kemi Sorinmade – The Leadership Advantage: Raising your Influence, Driving Results, and Making an Impact as a Female Leader Manasi Kakade –
7 Steps to Building a Stellar LinkedIn Profile
10:15am-10:45am PANEL: Dana Voll, Katherine Czerniejewski and Julie Fetzer –
From Concept to Reality: TINKER makes its way across campuses
Carolyn C. Matheus – From Problems through Prosperity: Leading with Passion and Purpose
10:45am-11:00am Transition Coffee Break
11:00am-11:30am Plenary – Debra Goldfarb
11:30am-12:30pm Closing Session