2014 Conference Program
For details about these sessions, visit the Speakers Page

Session 1:

March 7 11:00 PST
March 7 14:00 EST
March 7 19:00 UTC
March 8 00:30 IST
March 8 06:00 Sydney
Duration: 1 Hour
Inner Success and Inner Critics: Claiming Success While Taming Inner Critics (2 Sessions)

Session 1: Diffusing the Inner Critic
Stacey Sargent, CEO of Connect Growth and Development
Session completed. Watch the recording here.

Session 2:

March 7  12:00 PST
March 7 15:00 EST
March 7 20:00 UTC
March 8  01:30 IST
March 8  7:00 Sydney
Duration: 1 Hour
Enabling Workplace Transformation through Activity Based Working
Vanessa Sulikowski, Collaboration Technical Solutions Architect, Cisco
Session completed. Watch the recording here.

Session 3:

March 7 13:00 PST
March 7 16:00 EST
March 7 21:00 UTC
March 8 02:30 IST
March 8 08:00 Sydney
Duration: 1 Hour
Women Can Negotiate  
Jacqueline Janssen,
Janssen & Associates
Session completed. Watch the recording here.
This was a 2-part workshop. Due to sound issues, it was combined into one session.

Session 4:

March 7 14:00 PST
March 7 17:00 PST
March 7 22:00 UTC
March 8 03:30 IST
March 8 09:00 Sydney
Duration: 1 Hour
The Power of Branding with Integrity
Fabiola Addamo, Artist & Human Rights Activist
Session completed. Watch the recording here.

Session 5:

March 7  15:00 PST
March 7 18:00 EST
March 7 23:00 UTC
March 8  04:30 IST
March 8  10:00 Sydney
Duration: 1 Hour
Panel: Engaging Men in Gender Competence
Moderator: Bonita Banducci, Santa Clara University School of Engineering and Banducci Consulting

Panelists: Faisan Ahmed, Mountz Inc; Motaz Hajaj, Chess Tag; Noé Lozano, Santa Clara University; Scott Lynn, Oracle and Udaya Bhaskar Yalamanchi, EMC
Session completed. Watch the recording here.

Session 6: 

March 7 16:00 PST
March 7 19:00 EST
March 8 00:00 UTC
March 8 05:30 IST
March 8 11:00 Sydney
Duration: 1 Hour
Women in ICT - The global failure of intervention programs.  IT’s just bad business.
Sonja Bernhardt, CEO ThoughtWare
Session completed. Watch the recording here.

Session 7:

March 7 17:00 PST
March 7 20:00 EST
March 8 01:00 UTC
March 8 06:30 IST
March 8 12:00 Sydney
Duration: 30 Minutes
Gigabit Technology - A New Wireless Frontier
Charlotte Montemayor, Vice President and Head of Marketing, Redstone Technologies
and 
​Steve Tsuruda, Vice President and Head of Strategic Business Development, Redstone Technologies 
Session completed. Watch the recording here.

Session 8:

March 7 17:30 PST
March 7 20:30 EST
March 8 01:30 UTC
March 8 07:00 IST
March 8 12:30 Sydney
Duration: 30 minutes
Becoming a Software Engineer - SESSION CANCELLED - BLIZZARD
Kinsey Durham, gSchool

Session 9:

March 7 18:00 PST
March 7 21:00 EST
March 8 02:00 UTC
March 8 07:30 IST
March 8 13:00 Sydney
Duration: 1 hour
Feminine Feminism - SESSION CANCELLED
Sramana Mitra -Founder of One Million by One Million (1M/1M)

Session 10:

March 7 19:00 PST
March 7 22:00 EST
March 8 03:00 UTC
March 8 08:30 IST
March 8 14:00 Sydney
Duration: 1 hour
Role of Analytics in Delivering Health Information to help fight Cancer in Australia
Katerina Andronis, 
Deloitte Consulting, Australia
​
and 

Chandana Unnithan, 
Deakin University, Australia
Session completed. Watch the recording here.

Session 11:

March 7 20:00 PST
March 7 23:00 EST
March 8 04:00 UTC
March 8 09:30 IST
March 8 15:00 Sydney
Duration: 1 hour
Transformation into FIERCE Technical Leaders
Linda Bernardi, author, technology provocateur, entrepreneur/ex-CEO, strategist, investor, lecturer and board member
Session complete. Watch the recording here.

Session 12:

March 7 21:00 PST
March 8 00:00 EST
March 8 05:00 UTC
March 8 10:30 IST
March 8 16:00 Sydney
Duration: 30 Minutes
Orchestrating Web Print Platform Releases for Success 
Ruby Tomar, HP
Session complete. Watch the recording here.

Session 13:

March 7 22:00 PST
March 8 01:00 EST
March 8 06:00 UTC
March 8 11:30 IST
March 8 17:00 Sydney
Duration: 1 Hour
Effective Test Case Optimization Technique Using Classification Trees Method- CANCELLED
Chandrakanth Reddy, Hewlett Packard; Savitha HK, MVJCE; Suchitra Narayan, Hewlett Packard and Karan Rasur, Hewlett Packard   

Session 14:

March 7 23:00 PST
March 8 02:00 EST
March 8 07:00 UTC
March 8 12:30 IST
March 8 18:00 Sydney
Duration: 45 Minutes
Eventlog: Seamlessly Integrated Graphical Debugging Tool
Devi Vellingiri and Binod Kumar, HP
Session complete. Watch the recording here.

Session 15:

March 8 00:00 PST
March 8 03:00 EST
March 8 08:00 UTC
March 8 13:30 IST
March 8 19:00 Sydney
Duration: 1 Hour
Women in ICT Leadership - Are We Nearly There?
Chandana Unnithan, 
Deakin University, 
Australia; 
Renu Rajani, Capgemini, India
and 
​Arathi G, RIPL, India
Session complete. Watch the recording here.

Session 16:

March 8 01:00 PST
March 8 04:00 EST
March 8 09:00 UTC
March 8 14:30 IST
March 8 20:00 Sydney
Duration: 30 Minutes
Save Trees and Print More
Shinoj Bhaskaran and Ruby Tomar, HP 
Session complete. Watch the recording here.

Session 17:

March 8 02:00 PST
March 8 05:00 EST
March 8 10:00 UTC
March 8 15:30 IST
March 8 21:00 Sydney
Duration: 1 hour
Be Your Own Technology Brand Ambassador
Pragati Ogal Rai, Chief Technology Evangelist, Paypal
Session complete. Watch the recording here.

Session 18:

March 8 03:00 PST
March 8 06:00 EST
March 8 11:00 UTC
March 8 16:30 IST
March 8 22:00 Sydney
Duration: 1 Hour
Design of Risk Analysis for Embedded System Firmware Using Finite State Machine Events - CANCELLED
Chandrakanth Reddy, Hewlett Packard; Savitha HK, MVJCE; Suchitra Narayan, Hewlett Packard and Karan Rasur, Hewlett Packard   

Session 19

March 8 04:00 PST
March 8 07:00 EST
March 8 12:00 UTC
March 8 17:30 IST
March 8 23:00 Sydney
Duration: 1 Hour
Why Too Few Women at the Top? The Leaky Leadership Pipeline
Latha Uttam, Dell; 
Pallavi Baruah, Huawei; Sushma Chakkirala, Intuit India and Uma Ranjan, Phillips Research
Session complete. Watch the recording here.

Break

March 8 05:00 PST
March 8 08:00 EST
March 8 13:00 UTC
March 8 18:30 IST
March 9 00:00 Sydney
Duration: 2 Hours
Break

Session 20

March 8 07:00 PST
March 8 10:00 EST
March 8 15:00 UTC
March 8 20:30 IST
March 9 02:00 Sydney
Duration: 1 Hour
Building a Local Entrepreneurship Ecosystem – Challenges and Opportunities
Hanan Youssef, OTVentures
Session complete. Watch the recording here.

Session 21

March 8 08:00 PST
March 8 11:00 EST
March 8 16:00 UTC
March 8 21:30 IST
March 9 03:00 Sydney
Duration: 1 hour
Building Your Street Cred
Karen Catlin, Founder, Karen Catlin Consulting
Session complete. Watch the recording here.

Session 22

March 8 09:00 PST
March 8 12:00 EST
March 8 17:00 UTC
March 8 22:30 IST
March 9 04:00 Sydney
Duration: 1 hour
Think Agile, 
Move Forward
Aakriti Agarwal, 
Deutsche Bank; 
Vidya Srinivasan, 
Microsoft; 
Sophia Xiao, 
Box Inc.; 
Tiffany Lentz, 
​ThoughtWorks and 
Chrissie Cui, VMWare
Session complete. Watch the recording here.

Session 23

March 8 10:00 PST
March 8 13:00 EST
March 8 18:00 UTC
March 8 23:30 IST
March 9 05:00 Sydney
Duration: 1 Hour
Calling Forward the Global Leader in You: Step 1 - Declaring Your Truth
Lucie M. Newcomb, The NewComm Global Group, Inc.
Session complete. Watch the recording here.

Session 24

March 8 11:00 PST
March 8 14:00 EST
March 8 19:00 UTC
March 9 00:30 IST
March 9 06:00 Sydney
Duration: 1 Hour
Move Around to Move Ahead: Sustain Your Passion for Technology for the Long Term
Shubha Prithvi Raj, HP
Session complete. Watch the recording here.

Session 25

March 8 12:00 PST
March 8 15:00 EST
March 8 20:00 UTC
March 9 01:30 IST
March 9 07:00 Sydney
Duration: 1 Hour
Brilliance of Women Successes
Moderator: Bonita Banducci, Santa Clara University School of Engineering/Banducci Consulting

Panelists: Amani AlBakry, University of San Francisco; Shradha Cripe, Santa Clara University;  Shelly Gordon, G2 Communications; Linda Thompson, Thompson Leadership and Sue Young, Oracle
Session complete. Watch the recording here.

Session 26

March 8 13:00 PST
March 8 16:00 EST
March 8 21:00 UTC
March 9 02:30 IST
March 9 08:00 Sydney
Duration: 1 hour
How Women Can and Should ‘Drive’ Leadership in Tech vs Following Leaders in Tech!
Linda Bernardi, Author, technology provocateur, entrepreneur/ex-CEO, strategist, investor, lecturer and board member
Session complete. Watch the recording here.

Session 27

March 8 14:00 PST
March 8 15:00 EST
March 9 22:00 UTC
March 9 03:30 IST
March 9 07:00 Sydney
Duration: 1 hour
One Connected World: Building a Blueprint for Universal Internet
Charlotte Montemayor, Vice President and Head of Marketing, Redstone Technologies 
Session complete. Watch the recording here.

Session 28

15:00 March 8 PST
18:00 March 8 EST
23:00 March 8 UTC
03:30 March 9 IST
10:00 March 9 Sydney
Duration: 1 hour
Inner Success and Inner Critics: Claiming Success While Taming Inner Critics

Session 2: How to Build You Inner Success Story and Achieve Resilience
Stacey Sargent, CEO of Connect Growth and Development
Session complete. Watch the recording here.

Session 29

16:00 March 8 PST
19:00 March 8 EST
00:00 March 9 UTC
05:30 March 9 IST
11:00 March 9 Sydney
Duration: 30 minutes
Think Green – Analyzing and Optimizing Power Consumption
Dhanashri Phadke, Symantec
Session complete. Watch the recording here.

Session 30

16:30 March 8 PST
19:30 March 8 EST
00:30 March 9 UTC
06:00 March 9 IST
11:30 March 9 Sydney 
1 Hour
Women Can Negotiate  (A 2-part Workshop)

In Part II, you will hear what you will gain over the course of your career by using negotiating skills, learn additional tools, and methods for practicing and succeeding in your negotiations.
Jacqueline Janssen, Janssen & Associates
Session complete. Watch the recording here.

Session 31

17:30 March 8 PST
20:30 March 8 EST
01:30 March 9 UTC
07:00 March 9 IST
12:30 March 9 Sydney 
1 Hour
Writing Impactful Resumes
Jerri Barrett, SENS Research Foundation
Session complete. Watch the recording here.

Session 32

18:30 March 8 PST
21:30 March 8 EST
02:30 March 9 UTC
08:00 March 9 IST
13:30 March 9 Sydney 
1 Hour
Game Changer for Women in CS: Lessons Learned from Turkey
Umit Yalcinalp Ph.D., Mills College; Gokcen Cilingir Ph.D., Intel and Gulustan Dogan Ph.D., NetApp
Session complete. Watch the recording here.
END OF CONFERENCE - HOPE YOU ENJOYED VOICES 2014!