As a bonus, a TREE will be planted for Early-Bird Registrants so it is important to register as soon as possible.
Sponsors: Environmental (Eco) Entrepreneurs Mary Vincent, Founder and CEO of Green Star Solutionand Gratitude Gourmetand Merc Martinelli, Founder of Verdafero. Both have Fortune 500 Silicon Valley backgrounds from Sun Microsystems and Cisco respectively and Co-Founded the Green Software Unconference with the purpose of gathering technologists and businesspeople together to collaborate and innovate for the environment and business.
Hundreds of women descended on the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, January 30 and 31st for the second annual Silicon Valley She’s Geeky Conference.
Kaliya Hamlin did a stellar job moderating the proceedings. Introductions were made using the expression: “I’m geeky because….” and everyone tried hard to outgeek each other with comments like “I’m geeky because I named my first born child after my favorite search engine,” and “I’m geeky because I take my laptop in the bath with me.”
During intros, everyone was encouraged to share their Twitter ID, which revealed over 90% of the room was already Twittering. One gal proudly announced that she was going to do her 10,000th tweet that morning!
As for me, still a Twitter virgin, I decided I’m a just nuevo geek with a very long way to go.
Highlights on Saturday were a seminar on social media and business (twitter, facebook, myspace, Hi5 among others) by Jen Leggio – ZDNet, and Jen from Adobe; and Mary Vincent of Green Star Solutions led a seminar about ecopreneurship; and Lynne Sopchak talked about biomimicry You can check out more at this TED video
Great to see Debra Bowen, Secretary of State for California there. She’s a strong advocate for using the Internet to open government to computer users worldwide. In 1993, she successfully helped to pass legislation making all of California’s bill information available on the Internet.
If you want to read a wiki listing notes from all the seminars and information shared (and there was a ton of it!), check out this link. And if you want to find out more about my seminar, Greening your business, click here
Former Sun Microsytems Executive, Mary Vincent chaired a panel of green venture capital and entrepreneur experts at the 2008 Women in Technology International (WITI) Conference in Silicon Valley. She talked to me afterwards about the key moment that inspired her to give up her corporate job as a Java expert and become a green entrepreneur. She cites the UN Climate Change Report 2006, and says “animal agriculture produces more greenhouse gases than transportation…it shocked me.” Seeing a way to leverage her skills to work on climate change, she recently founded Green Star Solution and Gratitude Gourmet; and is using many web 2.0 tools to build her business:
Just back from WITI‘S 14th annual Women and Tech Summit in Silicon Valley (Oct 12-15th) and the potent energy is still with me. There is something incredibly empowering and energizing about gathering hundreds of go-getting women in a conference hall. Wish you could bottle that energy.
WITI’S motto is “no woman stands alone” and just how apt this is, given the current financial meltdown and shaky economic climate. We had senior executives announcing their personal emails from the podium, others inviting young entrepreneurs to get in touch after their talks, a real feeling of “let me help you get where you want to get sista.”
From the impressive keynotes of Cathleen Benko, Vice Chairman at Deloitte LLP and Sandy Carter, VP at IBM; the success strategies of Life Coach Kathleen Hill to the Clean Tech investment experts like Laurie Yoler and Marianne Wu, each one inspired and energized a packed auditorium.
I had the opportunity to interview several outstanding panel members for Fresh Dialogues, including LinkedIn’s April Kelly, GrowthPoint Technology Partner’s Laurie Yoler (who’s been involved with Tesla Motors from the early days) and Mary Vincent of Green Solutions. Check back soon to hear their take on the current financial crisis, how to leverage Web 2.0 to help your business, and one woman’s leap from Sun Microsystems to entrepreneurship and how global warming helped inspire that leap.
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