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GHC Saturday Sessions “make it happen” from idea to reality, as a start-up or within a large corporation

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July 18, 2007 PALO ALTO, CA. — An exciting line-up of innovators, proven entrepreneurs and industry leading “intraprenuers” for the Saturday Sessions at the seventh annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women and Computing (GHC) conference, October 17-20 in Orlando, Florida, was announced today. Whether you’re creating innovations from a lab within an organizational structure (intraprenuerially) or dream of taking your idea global from your garage (entrepreneur-style) the Saturday session at Grace Hopper will provide you solutions, tools, and insight to make it happen and “Invent the Future”.

The Saturday Sessions are the culmination of the conference theme “I Invent the Future”. Throughout the GHC conference industry intraprenuers, innovators and entrepreneurs present during panels, poster-sessions, keynotes, invited technical talks and through networking. Saturday’s interactive workshops will teach actionable skills and offer real world solutions for developing your own ideas, building networks, developing social movements, delivering products and launching companies.

You’ll learn how to:

• Pick an idea and build an effective business plan
• Create networks and coalitions within your organization and in support of your ideas
• Leverage the creative resources within your organization
• Develop and validate special projects within your company
• Realize an idea and build a successful business based on it
• Bring innovation or social responsible change into your work place
• Sell your business plan and get seed money

Among the invited speakers are Nilofer Merchant and Denise Brosseau. Merchant founded Rubicon Consulting in 1999 after gaining 15 years of operational experience in key leadership positions at notable technology firms such as Apple, Autodesk, and GoLive. Time and time again she has used her sharp expertise to design industry-leading go-to-market programs, winning notable awards from CRN, VAR Business and Marketing Association in the fields of marketing and channel development.

Brosseau is a serial entrepreneur who started her first company by accident at the age of 27 and since then has co-founded three non-profits and two for profit ventures. Denise spent ten years running the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs (now FWE&E) where she created networks, programs and services for women founding high growth technology and life science businesses. Along the way, she also co-founded the Springboard Venture Forums which have led to over $3.7B in funding for women-led businesses.

The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is a program of the
Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI)
and is co-presented by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
www.gracehopper.org