Global Women’s Journey III

Global Women’s Journey – a series on female business leaders around the world

We launched the Global Women’s Journey series last year to discuss women’s path to leadership.
On March 8^th, together with our guests and audience, we celebrated the International Women’s Day and discussed leadership and career development with some of the women who are making a difference in Silicon Valley and around the world.

When: THU, March 8^th, 2012, 6:00pm-9:00pm
Location: Adobe corporate headquarters at 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA 95110

Speakers:
Bridgette Sexton, Global Entrepreneurship Manager, Google
Katy Dickinson, Director, Huawei Technologies
Linda Alepin, Director, Global Women’s Leadership Network
Rebecca Fannin, Journalist, Author of Silicon Dragon
Moderator: Deborah Petersen, Senior Editor, San Jose Mercury News

Big thanks to our moderator and speakers for sharing your wisdom with us!
Big thanks to Adobe Systems, for hosting us, and to BayBrazil partners GABA & Silicon Valley for joining forces to make this event happen! Obrigada!

BIOs

Bridgette Sexton, Global Entrepreneurship Manager, Google working to further Google’s efforts to empower entrepreneurs around the world. She brings with her a truly global background and a passion for making the impossible happen. Prior to her current role, Bridgette led Google’s outreach efforts in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA), based out of Ghana. In this role, she built programs that enable software developers, startups and businesses to utilize Google’s tools to drive innovation and content generation on the web. Her efforts expanded Google’s reach to over 19 countries, training thousands of people while creating sustainable local tech communities. Before moving to Africa, Bridgette was a on the scalable 3rd party sales team focused on non-traditional agencies, based in San Francisco. Prior to joining Google, Bridgette’s diverse background spanned jumpstarting a micro-finance organization in Peru, attracting foreign direct investment in the investment promotion Nicaragua, working at Alcoa in the marketing strategy unit and studying in Thailand. Bridgette is an avid runner, a culinary experimenter and a jazz singer.

Deborah Petersen is a columnist and Senior Editor for Mobile and Social Media at the Bay Area News Group, which includes the San Jose Mercury News.
A longtime writer and editor, her award-winning work has appeared in the San Jose Mercury News, Riverteeth, Northeastmagazine and The Hartford Courant, where she was a staff writer for many years. A recovering New Englander, Deborah moved to the Bay Area in 2006 with her husband after falling in love with Northern California. Her Facebook page, which has more than 50,000 subscribers is used by Facebook as a model for journalists throughout the world, and her blogwww.deborahpetersen.wordpress.com: “Unraveling Social Media One Tool at a Time” dissects the often confusing world of social media. She conducts social media training for journalists and her column What I Do often focuses on Social Media and women’s issues. During her first year of marriage, she bicycled across America and lived to write about it for The Courantand created a lecture series about the American community inspired by the 4,697-mile journey. She is a hiker, birder, and gardener.

Katy Dickinson, Director, Huawei Technologies
Katy Dickinson is the Chief Analyst, Software Development Trends, at Huawei Technologies, in Corporate R&D. She is also the Mentoring Process Architect for the TechWomen 2011 mentoring program. TechWomen paired women in Silicon Valley with their counterparts in the Middle East and North Africa for a professional mentorship and exchange program at leading technology companies that started in June 2011. Prior to joining Huawei Technologies Katy Dickinson was the Director, Business Process Architecture: CTO & Sun Labs organizations.

Linda Alepin, Director, Global Women’s Leadership Network
Linda Alepin is a senior executive with both turnaround and growth experience. She is currently a professor of entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University and Founding Director of the Global Women’s Leadership Network. Ms. Alepin is a graduate of Stanford University with a BA in Economics. She spent 16 years at Amdahl Corporation (1978-1996) as it rose from a startup to a major force in the computer industry, battling IBM for 20% market share in its lucrative mainframe segment. She started her career with IBM with its new business division.
Ms. Alepin was CEO or Director of three startups in the technology, consulting, and not for profit fields. She hold various board positions including the Global Women’s Leadership Network, a leadership capacity building organization sponsored by Santa Clara University. It has 80 graduates of its Women Leaders for the World program from 27 developing nations.

Rebecca Fannin, Journalist, Author of Startup Asia and Silicon Dragon, founder of Silicon Asia, and contributor to Forbes
Since 1992, Rebecca has been reporting on innovation, technology and emerging economies. Her books have been highly acclaimed by leading media and industry figures worldwide, and translated in several languages. A former international editor at Red Herring, International Business, & Asian Venture Capital Journal in Hong Kong, Ms. Fannin has also written for Inc.,Fast Company, Huffington Post, & Harvard Business Review. A commentator on Fox Business News, Sky TV, & Channel News Asia, Rebecca has also lectured at Yale, Columbia, Harvard, and National University of Singapore. Her news and events group, Silicon Asia, publishes e-newsletters and research for venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and investors.

 

 

 

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