Linda Alepin is the Founding Director of Global Women’s Leadership and Executive Professor of Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University. Prior to her academic and not for profit career, Linda was a corporate executive in both startups and large corporations. Her career roots were at IBM and then Amdahl where she rose to be an officer …
Sandy Herz is Director of Strategic Alliances for the Skoll Foundation, which drives large-scale change by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs and other innovators dedicated to solving the world’s most pressing problems. Prior to the Skoll Foundation, Sandy worked with several innovative grassroots non-profit organizations and spent six years as Executive Director of …
Lisa Hammann is a patient access champion in her volunteer role as the Vice-President of the San Francisco Public Health Foundation Board of Directors and in her job as a Director of Access Solutions for Genentech. Her values and how she lives her life are fully aligned. In her nine-year career with Genentech, Lisa has …
Gayle Keck is a Lowell Thomas Award-winner who writes about travel and food – preferably both at the same time. She has written for Gourmet, National Geographic Traveler, Islands, Executive Traveler, GQ, ForbesLife Executive Woman, Four Seasons, VIA, 360, the Zagat San Francisco Bay Area Restaurants guides and AARP The Magazine. Gayle is a frequent …
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The Smart Grid promises to change our relationship with electricity from that of a passive, unaware consumer to an active, engaged prosumer (as defined by Alvin Toffler, a producing consumer). This talk will discuss some of the greatest beneficial impacts Smart Grid technologies will have on consumers, energy markets, and our environment. Christine Hertzog is …
Carole Leigh Hutton will discuss managing through such crises as a merger of competitors, a lengthy and bitter strike, the death of a company leader, the sale of two companies and the slow, painful decline of the newspaper industry. Carole Leigh Hutton is an accomplished executive and dynamic public speaker, experienced in strategic planning and …
Do you have a children's book idea in the back of your mind? Celebrities such as Madonna, John Lithgow and Jamie Lee Curtis did. But authors need illustrators to bring their words to life. Ashley Wolff, the illustrator of over 60 books, many by well known authors such as Margaret Wise Brown, Robert Louis Stevenson …
Marleen McDaniel, successful serial entrepreneur and visionary internet pioneer, will share how and why she has decided to spend her time working toward transforming education after a career of growing seven technology startups. Higher Education teaching methods go back to the time of Socrates and Plato. Ingrained methods, policies and culture have caused the education …
Jan Oldenburg will talk about personal health records and discuss what role they can play in helping you take charge of your health and the health of your family. In the process, she’ll talk about what it took for Kaiser Permanente to create personal health records for its members, what some of the public policy …
Wendy Lea is an accomplished entrepreneur, angel investor and CEO of Get Satisfaction, a network of online support communities. She’s also an active philanthropist, serving on the board of Silicon Valley Social Venture Capital and Watermark (formerly The Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and Executives). In the many chapters of her business life, from bootstrapped entrepreneur, …
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