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| January 2002 |
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What's Hot in High Tech?
Athena West led a panel and discussion on hot new technologies.
Maxine Most and Patricia Ferreira from Acuity Market Intelligence discussed
the Biometrics market -- using physiological or behavioral
characteristics to identify or verify an individual's identity.
http://www.acuitymi.com
Jeannie Freis from Turquoise Technology talked about the ContentCube, a
combined hardware/software appliance for digital asset management and
storage.
http://www.contentcube.com
Mary Pat Link, founder of the Interlink Group,
http://www.interlinkgroup.com
presented on a wireless solution that Interlink has developed for Sun
Microsystems called the Mobile Intelligence Platform to arm their global
field force (3500+ engineers) with a mobile solution to access and share
information while responding to service calls, a wireless 'first' and a
collaboration with Symbol Technologies, Red Hat, and other wireless 'shakers'."
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(This page is a little out of date -- please bear with us while we update it!)
| January '99 |
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Monique Reece Myron spoke on the topic
"Market Smarter Not Harder". Monique is co-founder of MarketSmarter LLC, an
international marketing training and consulting firm which specializes in
helping businesses increase sales and profits through more effective marketing
planning. Monique is the co-author of Market Smarter Not Harder, a marketing
columnist for the Denver Business Journal, and she is a frequent contributor to
many business publications. http://www.marketsmarter.com. |
| February '99 |
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Julia Geisman spoke on the topic "SO, YOU
WANT TO GO INTERNATIONAL!". Julia is the President of Millennium Learning has
recently expanded the company's operation to Europe and has experienced some of
the ups and downs of what it means to become international in scope. She will
share some of the "things to know" as you consider going global. Specifically,
she will talk about finding partners, business development, negotiating deals,
managing projects, currency issues, and some of the realities behind doing
business outside the U S. |
| March
'99 |
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Kathy Simon spoke on "Championing Technology: Growing
Technology Infrastructures." Kathy is Vice President of Technology and Planning
with Leopard Communications in Boulder. Kathy has 20 years's experience in
systems engineering and integration and has worked with Internet technologies
for the last 8 years. Kathy's work experience includes 17 years with IBM in its
sales and services business units. She has been with Leopard for four years,
working with multiple clients in Web site design and implementation. She has
extensive experience managing multi-million-dollar and multi-year systems
integration projects. http://www.leopard.com |
| April '99 |
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Cara Hart spoke on "Y2K -- beyond the hype". Cara
Hart, Systems Administrator for ARITEK Systems, Inc., discussed what to be
concerned about, where to find information,and steps she is taking at ARITEK to
ensure Y2K compliance in its software and hardware. |
| May '99 |
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Paula Sharick spoke on the topic of Virtual Private
Networking. Paula (rmi.net/~psharick) has been an IT consultant for 16 years.
She is a contributing editor at Windows NT Magazine and writes a weekly column
for the UPDATE newletter that reaches 110,000 subscribers. She is a popular
Windows NT speaker at national and international conferences and is a featured
presenter for Technology Education Network's (TenTV) Spotlight on Microsoft
broadcasts. Her company, Wildwood Associates, is located in Boulder, Colorado.
Paula can be reached at 303-499-5700 or via email,
paula@winntmag.com. |
| June '99 |
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Marina Larson of Oppedahl & Larson LLP spoke on
intellectual property law. Oppedahl & Larson LLP specializes in Intellectual
Property Law. Founded by Carl Oppedahl and Marina Larson, the firm's mission is
to provide the highest quality legal services to clients while using up-to-date
technological support to achieve high levels of efficiency and responsiveness to
client needs. Oppedahl & Larson LLP can be contacted via their Web site at
www.patents.com or by telephone at +1(970)668-2082. |
| July '99 |
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Susan Brown spoke on the topic "Telltale Signs Your
Software Project is in Trouble" Susan has over twenty years experience in the
software industry, fifteen of them in senior technical management positions with
a variety of Silicon Valley's most shining stars. Her background includes
leadership roles on large, mission-critical systems software projects in Product
Development, Manufacturing and Sales/Marketing. Susan founded and is President
of Interim Technical Managers, Inc., a hands-on management consulting firm
specializing in the needs of software organizations and mission-critical users
of software technology. InterimTech offers three services: 1) management
consultation emphasizing best practices, process management, developer tools and
technology and team effectiveness, 2) contract technical management staffing,
and 3) contract technical project management. |
| August '99 |
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Kathy Pike poke on the topic "Energize; Eliminate the
Brain Drain!". Kathy is a Personal and Professional Coach. Her specialties with
corporate and business clients include employee retention, and identifying and
developing effective communication styles. Kathy also works with individuals
seeking life balance or experiencing transition. She has coached numerous
individuals and group, and is affiliated with CoachU, Corporate Coach U
International and the International Coaches Federation Kathy describes herself
as "passionate at empowering people to see the possibilities of any situation
and to catalyze them into action". Please check out Kathy's website at
www.coachkpike.com to learn more about the benefits of coaching, or email her at
kathyp@tesser.com. |
| September '99 |
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Janice Calm facilitated a round table discussion on
managing expectations in today's hectic work environment. Janice is Manager of
Client Services at Leopard Communications. |
| October '99 |
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Linda Payne spoke on "Attaining Personal and
Corporate Goals -- A Model for Success" Linda has more than 15 years' experience
in Business and Personal Development. Since founding The Growth Group LLC, Linda
has consulted/coached organizations in developing strategies for business growth
and increased employee satisfaction. Linda's keen business sense and practical
approach to enhancing performance results from several years of experience in
business management in a broad range of industries. The Growth Group has
successfully assisted executives attain peak performance within numerous
organizations, including Ernst & Young, Coldwater Creek, Young &
Rubicam, Esprit, Stewart Online Mortgage Documents, Laserscope, and Vail
Associates. For further information on The Growth Group and how they can assist
you or your organization, contact Linda Payne at (303) 770-1231.
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| January '97 |
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Shirley Sostre addressed issues
facing startup technology businesses (including copyright and trademark issues
and technology licensing). Shirley has a full-service legal practice in Boulder,
The Sostre Law Office, (www.sostre.com) and
specializes in helping software companies with a variety of legal
issues. |
| March '97 |
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Aleece Raw discussed the how's and
why's of the Internet and Web, especially in leveraging the technology when
creating your own startup, as well as how women in technology careers can take
advantage of this new medium. Aleece is Production Manager of CCG Online (http://www.ccgonline.com/), an interactive
marketing agency and website development company based in
Denver. |
| May '97 |
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Valerie Anderson, General Partner of
Catalyst Venture Management, spoke about the history of Sybase, Inc., which she
helped get off the ground. She talked about what made Sybase different and what
made them succeed. Catalyst Venture Management is a venture capital fund
investing in early stage information technology companies in the Rocky Mountain
Region |
| June '97 |
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Meg Hansson of the Boulder
Technology Incubator (http://www.metzger.com/bti/index.html)
spoke about the Incubator, what the Incubator has accomplished, what we can do
for it, and what it can do for us. Meg sits on the Board of Directors and the
Admissions Committee of the Boulder Technology Incubator. Meg has many years of
technology wizardry under her belt. Her entrepreneurial career ranges from the
founding of baby backpack manufacturer Gerico (now Gerry Baby Products) in the
early 1970s, to her current activities as CEO of AquaLogic
Inc. |
| July '97 |
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Athena West led a discussion on
"Women and Negotiation". Athena is a software developer for Email Publishing
Inc. and the founder of CWIT. |
| August '97 |
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Lauri Blake, Marketing Manager from
MapQuest Publishing Group, (www.mapquest.com), spoke about MapQuest -
the technology and the market. MapQuest licenses world-wide interactive mapping
and driving direction software to other web sites like U S WEST Dex,
Excite/City.net, Volkswagen, and hundreds of other sites. The MapQuest web site
is #1 in the Travel Category, and #13 in the world from traffic at the workplace
(according to Media Metrix, July 1997 report). |
| September '97 |
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Ida Halasz led a round table
discussion on "Leadership". The discussion especially related to women today in
the realm of technological arenas. Ida has designed and delivered leadership
training to hundreds of administrators on a national level. She is VP of a
women-owned company, Powell International, Inc., and among other OD/Training
work, is co-writing a series of six leadership/management
books. |
| October '97 |
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Web Page Development Part 1 -
Carol Goetz covered HTML development. Carol is the Webmaster at VeriBest, Inc.,
(www.veribest.com). Margie Alexander
reviewed web page development tools. Margie is owner of Random Thoughts and the
CWIT newsletter diva. Barbara Lehman spoke on information and interface design
for the Web. Barbara's from Carl, (www.carl.org), and has 17 years experience in
graphic design. Collette Renteria addressed the technical aspects of creating
graphics, such as color palettes, gif animation, size concerns, etc. Collette is
the Sr. Illustrator and Webmistress at McData, (www.mcdata.com). |
| January '98 |
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Web Page Development Part 2 -
Cyndy Gal addressed Usability Testing, Lynn Schaper addressed CGI and Perl
and Lena Teverovskaia addressed Java development. |
| March '98 |
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Sarah O'Donnell, founder and CEO of
Windstorm Interactive Productions, a leading Boulder multimedia consulting and
production firm, gave a presentation on the technological and business
challenges of multimedia development. |
| April '98 |
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Valerie Anderson spoke about how to
secure venture capital. Valerie is General Partner for Catalyst Venture
Management, a venture capital fund investing in early stage information
technology companies in the Rocky Mountain Region. She was also President and
Co-Founder of Catalyst Partners, Inc., a management consulting and
organizational development firm that helps early and seed stage software
companies align their technology vision with real-world market opportunity and
attract the venture capital and other resources necessary to build a successful
software company. |
| May '98 |
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Theresa Szczurek told The Story of
Radish: Founding and Funding an Entrepreneurial Venture with Heart. Theresa
Szczurek helps entrepreneurial ventures and individuals succeed by connecting
with their heart-based path. With over 20 years experience in world-wide
planning, development, and delivery of technological innovations, she brings
marketing savvy, team building skills, and a hands-on management style which
produces results. She incorporates traditional business approaches, as well as
eastern management philosophies, into her practice. For 7 years as a consultant,
researcher, author, and teacher, she has focused on marketing new technology and
managing technological change through her consulting firm, Technology and
Management Solutions. |
| June '98 |
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Dana Parker, did an introduction to
DVD technology and talked about what it means for electronic publishing and data
storage as well as showing some pretty awesome demonstrations of it. Dana has
been been speaking and writing about DVD since its inception. She's spoken at
professional technology conferences in Paris, Budapest, Brussels, Mexico City,
and Toronto, as well as domestically. She's chair of an upcoming DVD conference
(August, Santa Barbara) and has a DVD book in the works for Prentice Hall. You
can find her bio at http://www.onlineinc.com/dvdpro/organization.html. |
| July '98 |
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Shirley Sostre discussed issues
surrounding sexual harrassment in the workplace, including an in-depth
discussion of two recent Supreme Court cases that have muddied up the waters a
little between that which is proper and that which is not. Shirley runs her own
law practice which concentrates in issues specific to technology business,
including technology licensing as well as employment discrimination issues. For
more information about The Sostre Law Office see http://www.sostre.com. |
| August '98 |
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Julie Jacobs, VP of public access
services for Get.2.net and founder of CyberFlyer Technologies, will discuss what
it takes to launch a women-owned, high-tech business off the ground. Julie will
share what she learned at the CyberFlyer School of Hard Knocks from business
concept to financial backing to risks. |
| September '98 |
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Donna M. Auguste, President and CEO
of Freshwater Software in Boulder, will speak about her experiences creating
and leading her cutting-edge Internet software startup company. Find out more
about Freshwater at http://www.freshtech.com
Donna is also the editor of WomenCompute.com, a
newsletter for women in leadership roles who like to "work smart". The website
is http://www.WomenCompute.com |
| October '98 |
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Kimberly Weiner spoke on "Girls and the
Internet". She discussed the various interface & user issues that draw young
girls towards using the computer to explore their creative sides. As many of us
already have experienced, male use of technology still outnumbers female use.
However, the Internet in particular offers young girls compelling reasons to
become interested in technology even more than most commercial software
packages. Check out some of her work at http://www.girlsite.org, and some sites for girls
http://hale.pepperdine.edu/~kweiner/girls.html
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