Women & Girls Leadership Summit

Silicon Valley Leadership Group and NASA is proud to present the 

First Annual Silicon Valley Women & Girls Leadership Summit

"The Current and Future Leaders of Silicon Valley"

Connecting the Valley's women executives with girls at a local high-needs middle school in an exciting half-day event featuring keynote speakers and panels, plus large and small group Q&A sessions.  Come network with other women executives and share your knowledge with the next generation of leaders.

(Pre-registration required; no on-site ticket sales will be available.)

Who: 150 women executives and other influential leaders and

        450 girls from a traditionally underserved middle school

Where: Peter Burnett Academy, San Jose

When: Friday, February 12, 2010; 8:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Cost: $100 per participant/$45 for public/non-profit  (Part of the proceeds will benefit Peter Burnett Academy)

Program / Agenda 

 8:00 a.m. - 8:35 a.m. - Check-In (Media Center)

                   Networking / Coffee (Cafeteria)

8:45 a.m. - 9:35 a.m. - Session One with Sixth Grade Girls/Women Execs in the Cafeteria (Keynote, Panel, Q & A)

• NBC Bay Area morning co-anchor Laura Garcia-Cannon
• NASA Assistant Administrator Olga Dominguez
• Working Partnerships USA Executive Director Cindy Chavez
  
• Amgen Vice President Ruth Lightfoot Dunn
• BAE Systems Engineering Chief Susan Horstkamp. 

9:52 a.m. - 10:48 a.m. - Session Two with Seventh Grade Girls/Women Execs in the Cafeteria (Keynote, Panel, Q & A) 

• U.S. Congresswoman Jackie Speier 
• San Jose City Councilwoman Nora Campos
• Marvell Technology Group COO Weili Dai
• Bank of America Market President Raquel Gonzalez. 

10:48 a.m. - 11:40 a.m. - Session Three with Eighth Grade Girls/Women Execs in the Cafeteria (Keynote, Panel, Q & A) 

• Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina 
• Assemblywoman Anna Caballero
• Shellye Archambeau, CEO of Metricstream, Inc.
• Deloitte partner Christie Simons

11:40 a.m. - 12:10 p.m. - Lunch in Cafeteria
12:15 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Individual Classroom Visits

Plenary Sponsors

Amgen, Deloitte, Varian, BAE Systems, Bank of America, BD Biosciences and Marvell.

Classroom sponsors

EMC, Google, Metricstream, MoSys, NBC-Bay Area, and SVB Financial Group

Community Partners

NASA-Ames Women’s Influence Network

Anita Borg Institute for Women & Technology, Chicana / Latina Foundation,Girls for a Change Entrepreneur’s Foundation,  Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and Executives,

Hispanic Foundation of Silicon Valley