SECOND SESSION: Technology Innovations –Equipping A More Flexible Leader

July 19 – 21, 2009
San Francisco and Silicon Valley, CA

Technology Innovations –Equipping A More Flexible Leader
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*25% discount for ALL Leadership America Alumnae.
**Scholarships are available.

Technology breakthroughs continue to create a growing awareness of connectedness at all levels. Nuclear energy, computers, satellite TV, lasers and biotechnology, organ transplants, space exploration, and the internet: all these, and more, have forced us to see the world as a single, albeit complicated, system – one immense set of interrelated pieces.

Connective leaders who know how to bring together all the diverse, interdependent parties, even those who feel they have conflicting agendas, will achieve important goals more effectively in this new environment.

In the “cradle of technology”, Leadership America participants will have opportunity to explore the impact of leading-edge innovations on their particular arenas of professional leadership. The engines of change are pushing leaders simultaneously in different directions, toward both increased interdependence and greater fragmentation born of diversity.

The session will focus on the technology revolution’s demand for new solutions that integrate the economic, political, health, and educational needs of many diverse groups.

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE:

Day One, Sunday, July 19, 2009

3:00- 4:00 p.m.
Arrival and Check-In
Omni San Francisco Hotel

4:00 p.m.
Welcome to Leadership America & Program Overview
Wanda Brice, CEO, The Women’s Museum
Martha P. Farmer, Founding Director, 2009 Interim Director

4:30 p.m.
Networking in the Age of Web 2.0
Building Your Personal Brand with New Technology

An Interactive Conversation With… Patricia Romboletti
Leadership California ‘08
President, Sage Connection, Atlanta

5:30
Opening Reception with “Small Table Discussions"
Facilitated by Leadership America & Leadership California Alumnae in the Bay Area

7:00 p.m.
Opening Dinner

Day Two, Monday, July 20, 2009
Omni San Francisco Hotel

7:30 a.m.
Coffee & Croissant

8:00 a.m.
Depart for the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank

8:15 a.m.
Breakfast Briefing at The Fed
Welcome Remarks
Joy K. Hoffmann
Group Vice President/District Public Information & Community Development

Technology Innovations: Powering or Pummeling the Economy?
A Briefing From the Federal Reserve

Daniel J. Wilson, Ph.D.
Senior Economist, Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve

9:30 a.m.
Depart for The Silicon Valley

11:00 a.m.
A Conversation With…
(Speaker to be determined by Hewlett-Packard)

12: 30 p.m.
Break & Lunch
Hosted by Hewlett-Packard

1:30 p.m.
“Technology: Equipping or Inhibiting A More Flexible Leader?”
A Forum Featuring:

• James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director/CFO, The Mayfield Fund
• Dorothy Farris, Vice President, Strategic Sales, Wise Technology
• Rebecca Norlander, Partner Engineering Manager, Microsoft Online Advertising Platform
• Telle Whitney, President & CEO, Anita Borg Institute for Women & Technology Moderator

3:00 p.m.
Break

3:30 p.m.
Leadership America Responds
Roundtable Discussion
What We’ve Heard – What We’ve Learned

4:00 p.m.
Return to San Francisco

6:00 p.m.
Private Reception & Buffet Dinner
“San Francisco from The Top of Russian Hill”

8:30 p.m.
Enjoy San Francisco Nightlife

Day Three, Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Omni San Francisco Hotel

7:30 a.m.
Breakfast Buffet

8:30 a.m.
Closing Presentation
A Conversation With... Sunne Wright McPeak
President & CEO of the California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF) (Pending)

Susan E. Walters, Senior Vice President, CETF (Pending)

9:30 a.m.
Break & Check-Out

10:00 a.m.
Identifying You Connective Leadership Style?
A Connective Leadership Workshop
conducted by Dr. Jean Lipman-Blumen (Confirmed)
Professor of Public Policy, Co-Founding Director, Institute for Advanced Studies in Leadership
Claremont Graduate School, California

11:45 a.m.
Concluding Session
What’s Next – Taking My Leadership America
Experience to My Sphere of Influence
A Conversation Among the Leadership America Participants

Noon
Closing Remarks

Find out more information and how to apply by visiting www.leadershipamerica.com.
*25% discount for ALL Leadership America Alumnae
**Scholarships are available.