Girls In Tech

An organization focused on women's innovative and entrepreneurial achievements in technology

  • Join Us
  • About GIT
  • Conference
  • Sponsors
  • Spotlight
  • Press
  • Vlog
  • Store
  • Contact

Catalyst Conference Agenda

Agenda | Speakers | Sponsors | Pitch Contest | Register Here

Cooleysonic sm
Thefunded-Logo | geeky 3p-2 -3 | -4tl
–
Join the conversation on:
Twitter with #GITcc
Facebook Group

Times Main Stage
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

9:00a Curious About Branding: Online Tools and Techniques for Niche Marketing

  • MODERATOR: Susan Bratton, Founder & CEO, Personal Life Media; and Chair Emeritus, ad:tech
  • Eileen Gittins; Founder & CEO, Blurb
  • Lisa Padilla; Founder & CEO, Communicate.io
  • Julia Hartz; Co-founder & President, EventBrite
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.

Success & The Pause that Empowers
In this interactive activity, we’ll look deeply at how we define and encourage success in our own lives. It’s a chance to connect with other women catalysts –and yourself! Hosted by conference Program Director Arden Pennell.

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: Maya Baratz; Product Manager, MTV
  • Erin Turner; Founder & CEO, SuperFunLabs, Inc.
  • Anu Shukla; Founder & Board Director, OfferPal Media
  • Mari Baker; CEO, PlayFirst
  • Sangita Verma, CEO & Founder, TAG Networks
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

  • MODERATOR: Bambi Francisco; Vator.tv
  • Jeanette Gibson; Director New Media, CISCO
  • Nina Bhatti; Principal Scientist, HP Labs
  • Sudha Jamthe; Social Media Strategist, PayPal
  • Lynn Langit; Developer Evangelist, Microsoft
3:30p BREAK
3:45 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
4:15p 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
5:30 – 8:00pm Catalyst Conference Afterparty!
  • Events Calendar

    « Feb spinner iCalendar Apr »
    March 2010
    Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
    1234567
    891011121314
    15161718192021
    22232425262728
    293031EC
    • 18 March:
      • WITI Spring Mixer With Girls in Tech LA: Discount For GIT Members (6:00 pm)
    • 25 March:
      • She's Savvy: SEO (7:00 pm)
  • Donate to GIT

    • Please consider giving a donation to Girls in Tech via Paypal secure checkout.
  • Connect with GIT

    • Get Twitter updates the moment they appear via the Web, SMS, or instant messages.
    • Connect with like-minded women to swap energy, ideas and experiences.
    • Become a part of the growing Girls in Tech network on LinkedIn.
    • If you are interested in speaking to someone at Girls in Tech Corporate, please email info@girlsintech.net
  • Search

  • GIT Partners

    Sale.com
    CARE General
    BlogHer NYC
    YouNoodle
    Where 2.0 2010
    Media Temple
    Paper Swan
    David Scott Office
    NY GIT
    Girl Source
    GIT Boise
    24 Notion
  • GIT Photostream

    DSCN0890DSCN0847DSCN0841DSCN0928DSCN0927DSCN0926DSCN0925DSCN0924DSCN0923DSCN0922DSCN0921DSCN0920DSCN0919DSCN0918DSCN0917DSCN0916
  • Recent Jobs

    View All Jobs
    Post a Job
    Get your job site
    at SimplyHired.com
  • Archives

    • March 2010
    • February 2010
    • January 2010
    • December 2009
    • November 2009
    • October 2009
    • September 2009
    • August 2009
    • July 2009
    • June 2009
    • May 2009
    • April 2009
    • March 2009
    • February 2009
    • December 2008
    • November 2008
    • October 2008
    • September 2008
    • August 2008
  • Tag Cloud

    "Lucia Giacomantonio" Adriana Gascoigne Boston Catalyst Conference Christine Oneto conference entrepreneurship event Events facebook fashion gaming Geeks on a Plane girls in tech Girls in Tech University GIT Google Internet iphone jobs Kiva launch Los Angeles marketing networking New York City party Portland public relations San Francisco santa cruz Silicon Valley Social Good social media social network social networking tech technology Tina Tran twitter venture capital women women in business women in tech women in technology

Privacy · Login
Blog Posts - RSS and Blog Comments - RSS and Online Pharmacy US