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I'm a Hopper, You're a Hopper (Angela Dalton)
Innovation Inside Corporations
Some of the greatest innovations in technology come out of large, powerful corporations. You just can’t match the resources of those organizations in terms of money and technical prowess. The question this session tried to answer was how to get involved in the innovation within a large corporation, where it seems so easy [...]
Brit @ GHC 2007 (Brittany McCullar)
Innovation Strategies: Finding the Next Big Idea
Sadness.. It's my last session at my first GHC!
The presenter founded a company called Rubicon in 1999. It's a
high-tech consulting firm that has big-name clients such as Logitech.
Innovation is critical! She said that we should consider ourselves as
innovators, which is interesting to think about. I had never thought
of myself as an innovator before. I suppose I could look at our work
with WiCS as innovation!
The speaker brought up an interesting story about the CEO of FedEx,
Fred Smith. He wrote an undergrad paper about his applied idea from
telecommunications and banking industries to transportation He got a
C on it! His classmates and professor did not like his idea at all.
This is so inspiring to me since I have received less-than-stellar
grades on essays in my undergraduate study, and that can be so
discouraging. It's nice to realize that even some of the most
successful people in industry have not always done as well as they
would like!
She told us another story about the inventor of Post-It notes, Art
Fry. As a college student, I can attest that Post-It notes are pretty
much the best invention ever. :)
One of Apple's inventions, the first mouse for a Macintosh, was a
"reinvented" invention that was originally debuted in 1968. Twenty
years later, it became a successful Apple product.
Some innovation lessons:
-Build on existing concepts.
-Do more elegant solutions.
-Serve the new demand.
-Serve exising customers with more.
Five part framework for innovation:
-Map it -> compare to competitors and benchmarks
-Listen and knit -> research methodology
-Seek out new minds -> find other good thinkers, be curious, and ask questions
-Seek the wand -> ask powerful questions, find solutions for problems
-Plot out options -> develop alternative scenarios, work on scenarios
with industry leaders
This was a very interesting, thought-provoking session. What a great
way to conclude GHC!
Meandering streams of consciousness (Anna Martelli Ravenscroft)
Diane's space (Diane Curtis)
Technical to Management: Expect the Unexpected - A Synopsis of Two Women’s First Year Experiences
This would be one of the harder panels to prepare for. Do you cover best practices of being a manager? Anecdotal evidence of things that have worked well for you?
This presentation gave a good overview of some pros/cons of moving to management, some challenges they had and best practices. Overall, I liked it as an overview. I was expecting more examples of "unexpected" things. But many of the things discussed worked whether one is a leader in the organization or a manager. For instance, asking for feedback. Everyone should be asking for feedback from peers/managers. It helps anyone get better! And get a mentor or support system!! Again, I think mentorship is a great best practice for anyone. I was happy they reinforced that.
Diane Curtis Official GHC 2007 Blogger You may comment on this blog by visiting the GHC Forum You can find me at http://dianecu.spaces.live.com
FeelingElephant's Weblog (Jessica Dickinson Goodman)
Mentoring Makes MAGIC for Middle and High School Girls (part 2)
Hey all,
Just as I promised, here’s more info on MAGIC. I was very impressed by the women on this panel. But the facts of the MAGIC project are just as interesting (and potentially motivational). As a quick note, I just finished watching part of Randy Pausch’s presentation on Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, and it [...]
Katy Dickinson's Blog (Katy Dickinson)
Women of Vision Event
Last night the amazing
Women of Vision event was held in downtown San Jose. Sun Labs'
Susan Landau, Distinguished Engineer, won the
Anita Borg Institute
2008 WOV Award in the Social Impact category. Sun's CTO
Greg Papadopoulos gave the welcome address at the Imperial Ballroom of the
Fairmont Hotel. Some photos from the inspiring event are below.
In a few days, videos of the 3 winners' acceptance speeches will be posted on YouTube. Those of us who are building the new MAGIC program for mentoring middle school girls are already planning how to use these videos in our program. All of the acceptance speeches were amazing but Helen Greiner (Co-founder and Chairman, iRobot, 2008 WOV winner for Innovation) was particularly moving when she spoke about never even once having been encouraged to consider Engineering as a career when she was a girl, despite her aptitude and fascination for math and computers, and our obligation not to let that kind of negligence continue into the new generation.
To make it easier to find the videos from the first two WOV events, here are links:
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Woman of Vision Radia Perlman Video 2005 WOV Winner for Innovation
(Radia Perlman is Sun's first woman Fellow!) - Woman of Vision Janie Tsao 2005 WOV Winner for Leadership
- Woman of Vision Pamela Samuelson Video 2005 WOV Winner for Social Impact
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Deborah Estrin, Women of Vision 2007 WOV Winner for Innovation
Deborah Estrin, Acceptance Speech -
Duy-Loan Le, Women of Vision for Leadership 2007
Duy-Loan Le, Acceptance Speech, part 1
Duy-Loan Le, Acceptance Speech, part 2 -
Leah Jamieson, Women of Vision for Social Impact 2007
Leah Jamieson, Acceptance Speech
Greg Papadopoulos
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Susan Landau
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Program, Keychain, Badge
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Images Copyright 2008 by Katy Dickinson
Thoughts from a software engineer (Valerie Fenwick)
It's about time to go and finish packing and head to the airport. I'm in Innovation Strategies: Finding the Big Idea, but I have to leave early and the session started late, so I'm not going to write anything up on this session - but Brittany is blogging this session right next to me, so it'll be covered :-)
Sponsor Night last night was incredible - got to talk to so many amazing women, meeting new people, reconnecting with friends and even bumped into a woman, Heather, that I went to Snider High School with in Fort Wayne, IN. Small world!
This was such an amazing conference - I've got so many things to take away from this. So much to think about. I'll try to write more thoughts on all of this later - but for now, I need to pack!
Official GHC 2007 Blogger. You may comment on this blog by visiting the GHC Forum.
life is beautiful (Tulika Agrawal)
Walking on the streets of New York
As anyone who knows me or has been following this blog would have guessed, this post is not about the dreamy narative of walking on streets of New York, mesmarized by huge building blah blah. No. This post is about a real experience of walking on the streets of New York, experience of a common person who is not getting paid by any magazine to write this.
I always wondered, when I used to live in San Francisco, I just used to love walking in downtown. I used to go out during lunch time, just walk around, or take the bus to downtown on weekends, walking places. But here in New York, I just hate it, I cannot wait to get back inside. The reason was kind of obvious, right in front of my eyes, or rather under my nose and feet.
New York is shady and dirty!! I have a short walk, 2 block, about 0.4 mile from train station to office and it is a pain, wrinkling your nose at the smell of garbage everywhere, keeping your eyes fixed on the ground to avoid canine excretes, its very very far from pleasant. And the weather, its either too hot or too cold. San Francisco of course has the advantage of mild climate, along with that its also a place of beauty. Even among the huge skyscrapers, concrete jungle, you can always glimpse the ocean, the bridges or the greenry. Being west coast it also has the advantage of being new, clean and shiny. New York on the other hand is a total concrete jungle, old, smelly, dirty. So now I know why I love San Francisco and have a totally opposite reaction to New York.
oh, well, hopefully its just a few more months!
Eventyr (Johanna Hunt)
Intrapreneurship
Intrapreneurism is working from within; "internalising the mission of an organization, absorbing your customer's problem, and driving a creative solution that matters." Organisations rely on intrapreneurism and always have. No one tells you to do it but they appreciate the...
Gilda en Espaol (Gilda Garreton)
Nosotras Construimos un Mundo Mejor
Muchos van a pensar que con este título ahora si los humos se me fueron a la cabeza... quizás pero no esta vez :-)
"Nosotras Construimos un Mundo Mejor" es el lema de la próxima conferencia Grace Hopper 2008. Esta vez será en Keystone, Colorado y el concurso para enviar propuestas vence el 16 de Marzo.
Nuestra comunidad de Latinas en Computación (LiC) ya está trabajando en que podría ser nuestra participación en la versión 2008. Por ahora estamos pensando en que podría ser pero pucha que me gustaría ver una Latina trabajando fuera de los EEUU presentando un trabajo en la conferencia. Eso demostraría que el espíritu de Anita Borg también habría llegado a todo el resto de América como continente.
Y para eso seguimos trabajando para extender el alcance de nuestra comunidad y permitir que nuestra experiencia sirva de ejemplo para otras.
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