The
Women of Wonder
Then
there was Denise Goodie, who creatively overcame her company's
reluctance to support her trip to receive her "Women
Who Make A Difference Award." Denise is the Event
Manger for Education & Development Americas, at Agilent
Technologies, a spin off from Hewlett Packard Corporation.
She is in charge of planning, coordinating, and managing
conferences and related events for Agilent around the
world.
I
met Denise at the "Women to Women Roundtable"
discussion I led Friday afternoon. These sessions were
designed to help women address the gender and career development
challenges they face in the corporate sector. Coordinated
by Sheila Forte, Senior Program Manager of the Internal
Programs - Multicultural People in Technology Project
Office at IBM, over 200 women participated in the roundtable
sessions lead by successful women executives.
And
talk about brain-power, setting the stage for the discussion
on the Evolution of Technology was Sandra Johnson Baylor,
Ph.D. Dr. Baylor is Manager of WebSphere Data Base Development
at the IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory. She was a member
of the design team that developed the prototype for the
IBM Scalable Parallel Processor, the base machine for
"Deep Blue, IBM's world-famous chess machine. On
top of that, she is also a Research Division Master Inventor.
Who better than Sandra, as we called her, to set the stage
for the discussion of the future of technology and how
to prepare for the future.
Then
there was Kathleen H. Dyer, Principal, Booze-Allen &
Hamilton, Inc., who won the "Lifetime Achievement
Award" at the Saturday Awards Dinner for over 26
years of professional experience in the industry. Kathleen
specializes in information resources management, systems
integration, and development, and has directed full systems
life cycle management projects, strategic information
technology planning, and business process re-engineering,
while helping executives improve the performance of their
organizations. She currently leads an information technology
group of more than 40 professionals focused on using information
technology to improve governmental operations.
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