SUMMIT PROGRAM WEDNESDAY: 2 NOVEMBER 2016

TIME	SESSION	LOCATION
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM	REGISTRATION	Ellington Pre-Function

SUMMIT PROGRAM THURSDAY: NOVEMBER 3rd, 2016

TIME		SESSION	LOCATION
7:30 AM - 5:30 PM		REGISTRATION	Ellingtion Pre-Function
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM		NETWORKING BREAKFAST	Ellingtion Pre-Function
8:00 AM-8:30 AM		OPENING REMARKS TAKOI HAMRITA, PhD: LET'S EMBRACE FEMININE QUALITIES AND TRANSFORM THE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT Summit Chair, National Medal of Science and Education Laureate, Professor and Inaugural Chair, School of Electrical &Computer Engineering, UGA, Regional Coordinator of IEEE-Women in Engineering	Ellington Ballroom
8:30 AM-9:30 AM		LESSONS LEARNED Moderator: Takoi Hamrita, PhD - Summit Chair Jennifer Van Buskirk - Regional President, Northeast, AT&T Mobility Jeff Hoffman - Serial Entrepreneur, Co-founder, Priceline.com Karen Leland - President, Sterling Marketing Group Jill Tietjen - Author; Former National President, SWE Parisa Khosravi - Former SVP, CNN Worldwide, CEO Payam Global Strategies Karen Pedersen - IEEE-USA President-Elect 2016 Jean Smith - Leader in Professional Services and IT	Ellington Ballroom
9:30 AM-10:00 AM		JENNIFER VAN BUSKIRK: BAN THE WORD "CAN'T" Regional President, Northeast, AT&T Mobility	Ellington Ballroom
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM		COFFEE BREAK	Ellington Pre-function
10:30 AM-11:20 AM		REAL TALK: OUR ASPIRATIONS AND FRUSTRATIONS Facilitator: Takoi Hamrita, PhD - Summit Chair Audience	Ellington Ballroom
11:30 AM-12:30 PM PARALLEL SESSIONS		POWER AND INFLUENCE: WHY YOU NEED THEM AND HOW TO CULTIVATE THEM Moderator: Jean Smith Leader in Professional Services and IT Steve Bucherati - Retired Global Chief Diversity Officer, The Coca-Cola Company Miyako Schanely - Commander, 102nd Training DivisionJennifer B. Kahnweiler, PhD - Global Speaker and Author Neva Alexander, PhD - Director, National Educational Venture Alliance __________________________________________________________________________ WORKSHOP: THE MARKETING MASTERY PYRAMID - 3 PERSONAL BRANDING STEPS Karen Leland - President, Sterling Marketing Group _________________________________________________________________________ FIRESIDE CHAT: HOW UNIVERSITIES ARE ADVOCATING FOR STEM Moderator: Cheryl Gomillion, Ph.D - Assistant Professor, College of Engineering, UGA Serita Acker - Director, PEER/WISE, Clemson University, College of Eng., Computing and Applied Sciences Jennifer Stanford Johnson - STEAM Program Development Manager, Spelman College _______________________________________________________________________ PATHS AND STRATEGIES TO SUCCESSFUL AND FULFILLING CAREERS IN ACADEMIA Moderator: Elena Karahanna, PhD, Distinguished Research Professor, Terry College of Business, UGA Dana Randall, PhD - Co-Executive Director of the Institute for Data Engineering and Science; ADVANCE Professor of Computing, Georgia Tech. Nancy Manley, PhD - Distinguished research professor of Genetics, University of Georgia Ritu Agarwal, PhD - Senior Associate Dean for Research and Co-Director, Center for Health Information and Decision Systems, University of Maryland Carlee Bishop, PhD - Executive Director, Professional Masters Degree inApplied Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech Ayanna Howard, PhD - Bioengineering Chair, School of ECE, Georgia Tech; CTO, Zyrobotics	Ellington Ballroom Piedmont Centennial Ravinia
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM		LUNCH	Overlook East
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM		VALERIE MONTGOMERY RICE, MD: PASSION AND PURPOSE - THE UNSPOKEN KEYS TO SUCCESS President and Dean, Morehouse School of Medicine	Ellington Ballroom
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM		JEFF HOFFMAN: KEYS TO SUCCESS FOR ENTREPRENEURS Serial Entrepreneur - Co-founder, Priceline.com	Ellington Ballroom
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM		Rachel Schutt: MY JOURNEY DOING BIG DATA Senior Vice President and Chief Data Scientist, News Corp	Ellington Ballroom
3:00 PM - 3:30 pm		COFFEE BREAK	Ellington Pre-function
3:30 PM – 04:30 PM PARALLEL SESSIONS		PATHS AND STRATEGIES TO SUCCESSFUL AND FULFILLING CAREERS IN TECHNOLOGY Moderator: Crystal Leach - Director of Discovery and Innovation, University of Georgia Jill Tietjen - Author, Former National President, SWE Jennifer Tillson - Vice President of Information Technology, Cricket Wireless Kim Reitterer - President and Founder, Elm Engineering, Inc Leanne West - Principal Research Scientist, GTRI ________________________________________________________________________ SUCCESS STORIES OF BIG ENTREPRENEURSHIP VENTURES Moderator: Andrea Hershatter, Sr. Associate Dean, Goizueta School of Business, Emory Jeff Hoffman - Co-founder, Priceline.com Jennifer Van Buskirk- Founder of Aio and the New Cricket Wireless Radhika Subramanian - Co-founder and CEO, Emcien _______________________________________________________________________ ACADEMIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP Moderator: Jennifer Sherer, PhD - Vice President, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Metro Atlanta Chamber Michelle C. LaPlaca, PhD- Associate Prof. Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech;Co-developer, DETECT Jenna Jambeck, PhD - Associate Prof. Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, UGA Rebecca Levit, MD - Assistant Prof. Division of Cardiology, Emory University Adriane B. Randolph, PhD - Executive Director, BrainLab; Associate Prof., Kennesaw State University _________________________________________________________________________ THINGS I WISH I KNEW WHEN I STARTED OUT MY CAREER Moderator: Michelle Wilcox - Senior Technicall Manager, Honeywell Aerospace Keli Kemp - Associate Vice President and Group Director of Planning Services, HNTB Angela Battle – Transmission Projects Manager, Georgia Transmission Corporation Susan Wyant – Oracle Data & Analytics Technologies Leader, PWC Andrea Razzaghi - Deputy Director of Astrophysics, NASA Headquarters Shelley Gager- Product Marketing Manager, Baldor _______________________________________________________________________ HOW NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS ARE ADVOCATING FOR STEM Moderator:Cathy Freeman - President, Freeman RF & Microwave Solutions LLC Mary Ellen Randall - IEEE/MOVE; Founder and CEO of Ascot Technologies, Inc Aneshia Smith - Executive Director of the Aneshia Y. Smith Institute for Women and Girls	Piedmont Dunwoody Ravinia Ellington Ballroom Centennial
04:40 PM – 05:30PM		REAL TALK: PUTTING OBSTACLES ON THE TABLE Facilitators: Takoi Hamrita, PhD - Summit Chair Jennifer Van Buskirk, President AT&T NorthEast Audience	Ellington Ballroom
05:30 PM – 06:30PM		RELAX AND RECHARGE
06:30 PM – 07:00PM		PRE_DINNER MIXER	Ellington Pre-Function
07:00 PM – 9:00PM		DINNER BANQUET (Welcome Remarks: Don Leo - Dean, College of Engineering, UGA)	Overlook East

SUMMIT PROGRAM FRIDAY: 4 NOVEMBER 2016

TIME		SESSION	LOCATION
7:30 AM - 3:00 PM		REGISTRATION	Ellington Pre-function
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM		NETWORKING BREAKFAST	Ellington Pre-function
8:30 AM		OPENING REMARKS: TAKOI HAMRITA, PhD Summit Chair, National Medal of Science and Education Laureate, Professor and Inaugural Chair, School of Electrical &Computer Engineering, UGA, Regional Coordinator of IEEE-Women in Engineering	Ellington Ballroom
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM		LESSONS LEARNED Moderator: Jennifer Van Buskirk - President AT&T Northeast Alicia Philipp - President, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Nita Patel - Systems and Software Engineering Director at L-3 Warrior Systems Rachel Schutt - Senior Vice President, Chief Data Scientist, News Corp Towanna Freeman, PhD, PCC President of CoachDiversity Institute Saswati Collam - Principal Innovation Evangelist, TCS CTO Office, US, Canada & Latam Betsy Higgins, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer Oglethorpe Power Corporation Paige Kassalen - Commercial Trainee for Covestro LLC Liesl Folks -Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University at Buffalo Gloria Chan - Senior Vice President of CoachDiversity Institute	Ellington Ballroom
9:30 AM – 10:00AM		SASWATI COLLAM: INNOVATION LEADERSHIP IN A HYPER-CONNECTED WORLD Principal Innovation Evangelist, TCS CTO Office, US, Canada & Latam	Ellington Ballroom
10:00AM–10:30AM		TOWANNA FREEMAN, PhD: THE POWER OF DIVERSITY IN TRANSFORMING INDUSTRIES AND THE WORLD PCC President of CoachDiversity Institute	Ellington Ballroom
10:30AM-11:00AM		COFFEE BREAK	Ellington Pre-function
11:00AM–11:30AM		KAREN LELAND: THE POWER OF PERSONAL BRANDING President, Sterling Marketing Group	Ellington Ballroom
11:40AM–12:30PM PARALLEL SESSIONS		FIVE STEPS TO SECURING YOUR FINANCIAL FUTURE Kristian Hunter - Financial Advisor, Ransom Hunter Heir Financial Services _____________________________________________________________________________ WORKSHOP: THE ART OF SELF PROMOTION: TELL YOUR STORY-TRANSFORM YOUR CAREER Debby Stone, Executive Coach, Author of "The Art of Self Promotion: Tell your Story, Transform your Career" ______________________________________________________________________________ EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP: LESSONS FROM THE TOP Moderator: Maryam Alavi Dean, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Tech Christina Ruggiero - Chief Procurement Officer, Coca Cola Refreshments Kelly Barrett - Senior Vice President of Home Services, The Home Depot Betsy Higgins, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer Oglethorpe Power Corporation Julia Davis - Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Aflac ______________________________________________________________________________ STEM OUTREACH: HOW ORGANIZATIONS ARE ADVOCATING FOR STEM Moderator: Cathy Freeman President, Freeman RF & Microwave Solutions LLC Gilda Lyon - STEM Coordinator, Georgia Department of Education Anne Kaiser - Vice President, Community and Economic Development, Georgia Power ______________________________________________________________________________ ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP Moderator: Pamela Whitten, PhD Senior Vice President and Provost, University of Georgia Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD - President and Dean, Morehouse School of Medicine Liesl Folks, PhD - School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Buffalo Annie Anton, PhD - Professor and Chair, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech	Ravinia Piedmont Ellington Ballroom Centennial Dunwoody
12:30PM		LUNCH (Welcome Remarks: Pamela Whitten, Senior VP of Academic Affairs, UGA)	Overlook East
1:30PM–02:00PM		ALICIA PHILIPP: LEADING WITH PASSION, WORKING WITH PURPOSE BUILDING A BILLION DOLLAR COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT President, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta	Ellington Ballroom
2:00PM – 02:30PM		JILL TIETJEN : TAKING ADVANTAGE OF OPPORTUNITIES Author; Former National President, SWE	Ellington Ballroom
2:30PM – 03:00PM		PARISA KHOSRAVI: BE PROUD Former SVP, CNN Worldwide, CEO Payam Global Strategies	Ellington Ballroom
3:00PM		COFFEE BREAK
3:30PM–4:20PM PARALLEL SESSIONS		INSPIRING LESSONS AND SUCCESS STORIES FOR THE UNDERGRAD Moderator: Emilia Suarez - B.S Environmental Engineering Sarah Cannon - Fourth year PhD Student, Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization, Ga Tech Paige Kassalen - Commercial Trainee, Covestro LLC Dirichi Onyeukwu - Civil Engineering/Project Management Consultant Anya Brown - PhD Student, Ecology, UGA ______________________________________________________________________________ WORKSHOP: LESSONS IN LEADERSHIP, COMMUNICATION, EMPOWERMENT, TEAMWORK Gloria Chan - Senior Vice President of CoachDiversity Institute Towanna Freeman,PhD PCC President of CoachDiversity Institute ______________________________________________________________________________ LEADING IN A GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT Moderator: Marisa Pagnattaro - Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs,Terry College of Business, UGA Michelle Wilcox - Senior Technical Manager, Honeywell Aerospace Saswati Collam - Principal Innovation Evangelist, TCS CTO Office, US, Canada & Latam Pam Estes Brewer PhD- Associate Professor, Mercer University’s School of Engineering Mononita Ghosal - President, Globally Competent ______________________________________________________________________________ HOW ENTREPRENEURS ARE ADVOCATING FOR STEM Moderator:Cathy Freeman, President, Freeman RF & Microwave Solutions LLC Stephanie Espy, Founder of MathSP Academic and Test Prep Coaching and Author of STEM GEMS Angelicque Tucker Blackmon PhD, CEO of Innovative Learning Concepts, LLC (ILC) ______________________________________________________________________________ FIRESIDE CHAT: BEING BOLD IN BUILDING YOUR CAREER, ELEVATING YOUR INFLUENCE AND IN BUILDING A POWERFUL NETWORK Moderator: Becky Blalock - Former CIO, SouthernCo; Author of Dare Tami Barron - CEO of Southern Linc Wireless Marie Mouchet - CIO of Colonial Pipeline	Dunwoody Piedmont Ravinia Centennial Ellington Ballroom
4:30PM – 05:30PM		REAL TALK: TURNING ASPIRATION INTO ACTION Facilitators: Takoi Hamrita, PhD - Summit Chair Rachel Schutt, Senior Vice President and Chief Data Scientist, News Corp Audience	Ellington Ballroom
05:30 PM		CLOSING REMARKS: TAKOI HAMRITA, PhD Summit Chair, National Medal of Science and Education Laureate, Professor and Inaugural Chair, School of Electrical &Computer Engineering, UGA, Regional Coordinator of IEEE-Women in Engineering	Ellington Ballroom