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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Comment from Lisa Padilla
Time: January 18, 2010, 11:12 am
GIT events are a unique opportunity for women to help one another gain foothold, skills and experience in technology and its surrounding career opportunities. Though some of the conferences or meetups are women-only, several events or accompanying evening parties welcome the opposite sex.
Comment from Nkongho Valentine eku
Time: January 26, 2010, 9:15 am
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Comment from Brita Moeller
Time: January 27, 2010, 11:49 am
An excellent event, very well-organized and managed. A tremendous group of accomplished individuals in the audience and the speakers were outstanding! Congratulations to the winners of the Catalyst Competition, a great selection of up and coming companies! SecondMarket was honored to be a sponsor!
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