GIT 2010: Catalyst Conference – San Francisco, CA, USA

Commonwealth Club
595 Market Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA, USA

“Catalyst Conference” catalyzes the career development of women working in high technology. By providing high-level speeches and discussions of successful women in the top of their game, along with workshops led by experts in innovation and collaboration, Catalyst Conference encourages and enables women to take the next step, Whether launching a company making waves in business, looking to join an innovative startup, or building their online and digital media brand.

Catalyst Conference will bring together more than 250 passionate, creative women, next to fuel new relationships and ideas. Come prepared to share concrete technology and trade tools and tactics, meet with strong leaders and entrepreneurs, and develop their own businesses. This conference is for women at the top of their industries, as well as taking their first ventures, and lead in all discussions of strategy and success.

Conference Agenda

Morning Sessions

8:45a     Opening Remarks
* Adriana Gascoigne; CEO & Founder, Girls in Tech
* Arden Pennell; Co-Producer, Catalyst Conference
* Cassandra Phillipps; Co-Producer, Catalyst Conference

Special Guest Emcee: Shira Lazar, Host, Yahoo!’s What’s So Funny & Correspondent, CBSNews.com

9:00a     Curious About Branding: Online Tools and Techniques for Niche Marketing
* MODERATOR: TBD
* Kirsten Mangers; Founder & CEO, WebVisible
* Eileen Gittins; Founder & CEO, Blurb
* Lisa Padilla; Founder & CEO, Communicate.io

9:30a     Curious About Cash: Leading VCs & Funded CEOs Discuss Sealing the Deal –and the Equity Question
* MODERATOR: Jessica Vascellaro; Reporter, Wall Street Journal
* Jennifer Fonstad; Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
* Maha Ibrahim; General Partner, Canaan Partners
* Eve Phillips; Co-founder & CEO, Empower Interactive
* Susan Wu; CEO, Ohai, Former VC at CRV

10:00a     The Art of Negotiation
* Katherine Barr; Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures
Knowing how to effectively negotiate is a powerful skill in the business world, whether for negotiating a job offer, promotion or raise, problem solving within a project team, or managing relationships with partners or vendors. This interactive session offers insight into key negotiation tools that were first created by the Harvard Negotiation Project and introduced in the best-selling book Getting to Yes (used in major MBA programs globally), and are now being used successfully by thousands of companies around the world.
10:40a     BREAK
11:00a     Keynote: Heather Harde, CEO, TechCrunch
11:30a     Curious About Social & New Media—How Web 2.0 & 3.0 Tools are Transforming the Enterprise
* MODERATOR: Charlene Li; Founder, Altimeter Group
* Jeanine LeFlore; Founder & CEO, LiveHit
* David Sacks; Founder & CEO, Yammer
* Clara Shih; Founder & CEO, Hearsay Labs
* Wendy Lea, CEO, GetSatisfaction

12:00n     Curious About Coding & Developing: Developing Creativity & Building a Business
* MODERATOR: Sarah Mei; Co-Founder, RailsBridge
* Leah Culver; Product Manager, Six Apart
* Poornima Vijayashanker; Senior Software Engineer, Mint.com
* Sandy Jen, Co-founder & VP Engineering, Meebo
* Rebecca Parsons, CTO, ThoughtWorks

12:30p     WORKSHOPS:

Curious About Innovation, Scalability, Sustainability: Micro-Lending Workshop & Brainstorm with Kiva.org
The world’s leading micro-lender offers a workshop on crafting community, led by Jessica Jackley, co-founder, Kiva.org – A real-life exercise in product development & brainstorming

Legal Needs and Advice for Small Businesses
Hosted by leading startup law firm, Cooley Godward Kronish, LLP, come learn what legal issues you’ll need to address in your growing startup or small business, and how to get started.

Top Tech Demos
Come learn how some of the newest and hottest startups are changing the way you do business on a global scale.

1:00p     LUNCH

Afternoon

2:00     Girls in Gaming — Women at the Top of their Games talk about Growing a Business and Monetization with Gaming
* MODERATOR: Trina Schwimmer; CEO & Founder, Gaming Angels
* Kristin McDonnell; CEO, LimeLife
* Erin Turner; Founder & CEO, FunLab
* Anu Shukla; Former CEO, OfferPal Media
* Mari Baker; CEO, PlayFirst

2:30     Curious About Doing Good- How Women Transforming Entrepreneurship & Businesses Across Borders?
* MODERATOR: Cathy Brooks, Raconteur & Founder, Otherthanthat.com
* Ben Rattray; CEO, Change.org
* Leila Janah; Founder & CEO, Samasource
* Clare Winterton; Executive Director, International Museum of Women
* Beth Kuenstler, Director of Community Partnerships, CARE

3:00     Curious About Intra-preneurship: Innovating in a Big-Business Setting
* Jeanette Gibson; Director New Media, CISCO
* Nina Bhatti; Principal Scientist, HP Labs
* Sudha Jamthe; Social Media Strategist, PayPal
* Lynn Langit; Developer Evangelist, Microsoft

3:30     Curious About Growth — How to Steer your Company through Expansion (and Have Fun)
* MODERATOR: Dave McClure; Partner, Founders Fund
* Aaron Lee; Co-founder, RedBeacon
* Elisa Camahort Page; Co-Founder & COO, BlogHer
* Jessica Livingston, Co-founder, Y Combinator
* Donna Novitsky, CEO, BigTent

4:00p     Announcing the Catalyst Top Five Women-Led Startups, Co-Presented by Vator.tv
* JUDGE: Joyce Chung; Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures
* JUDGE: Sharon Weinbar; Managing Partner, Scale Venture Partners
* JUDGE: Cindy Padnos; Founding Managing Director, Illuminate Ventures

6:30 – 10:00pm     Catalyst Conference Afterparty!

Please note: This event is for WOMEN ONLY.

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