AGENDA

Morning Keynote: The Game Changer;New How to Being

Nilofer Merchant founded and leads Rubicon, which creates businessstrategy to find and win markets. Having worked inside and outsidemajor corporate brands like Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and others, Niloferhas honed her collaborative approach to solving tough problems as muchthrough her failures as her successes. Her firm is hired by globalbrands such as Hewlett-Packard, Pinnacle, Logitech, Openwave, Symantecand others to create strategy that people will actually execute becausethey created it. She's often quoted or published in major businesspublications such as BusinessWeek, Entrepreneur, Fortune and The WallStreet Journal. Nilofer earned her MBA from Santa Clara University, aBS in Economics from University of San Francisco. In her book(published by O'Reilly), The New How, she shares the stories and waysto shift from traditional top-down approaches to flat, fast ways toinvent the future.

AfternoonKeynote: Getting to 50/50:How Working Couples Can Have It All by Sharing It  All

SharonMeers is the co-author of Getting to 50/50, a book about how men andwomen findcommon ground and share power so that men can be full parents and women canhave full careers.  Launched on the Today show in 2009, Getting to50/50 has been featured in The New York Times, Time magazine, Forbes,BusinessWeek and USA Today and lauded by leading academics and businessexecutives for what the Huffington Post called it’s “Obama-like”approach with solutions to cut work/life stress, retain female talentand improve productivity.   Of the thousands of employees and studentswho’ve attended Getting to 50/50 talks, half have been male.

The Art of Intrapreneurship, Connection And Innovation will cover how you can emerge as a top influence within your current role.The panel will offer insights on how w to be an Intrapreneur andsucceed through forging meaningful alliances and connections throughnetworking and collaboration. Panelists will help us learn to innovateour roles for growth and Success.

FollowYour Calling, Live Your Passion willcover how to discover your leadership style, leverage your strengthand effectively position yourself for success in these challengingeconomic times. Learn from exceptional leaders who will share how theyfound their passion and used it for progress. Come and be inspired bywomen whohave achieved success in their chosen fields through realizing theircalling, and reaching their potential.

• Deepika Bajaj Deepika Bajaj is the founder and president of Invincibelle, a company empowering diverse, multi generational workforce and women to thrive in a multicultural world. Prior to starting her company, Deepika has more than eight years of experience in telecommunications consulting nand corporate marketing. She has served on the board of various professional organizations including the National Society of Hispanic MBAs and Women in Intel. Deepika is working on her second book which (yet to be named) speaks to her experiences of being a global citizen and what is shaping the new voice of diversity. She is the author of the book "DiversityTweet: Embracing Diversity in the world." She speaks and consults on diversity, blogs at www.deepikabajaj.com and writes a column on social media for ActiveGarage. She is in the process to launch a new blogDiverseconomy.com. You can follow her on http://twitter.com/invincibelle. Deepika holds a degree in Engineering from Bangalore University, India and has an MBA in marketing from Fordham University, New York. She is an honorary member of Phi Kappa Phi and Beta Gamma Sigma.
• Sehba Ali Sehba Ali is the Chief Academic Officer for KIPP Bay Area Schools. She is founder and former Principal of KIPP Heartwood Academy in San Jose, CA. Mrs. Ali is also the co-founder of KIPP San Jose Collegiate, a new charter high school in Ease San Jose. Prior to starting KIPP Heartwood Academy, Mrs. Ali earned a MS from Stanford University's School of Education and received training from the KIPP school of leadership program, including study at the Haas School of Business. She began her career as a Middle School English teacher in Houston, TX. Mrs. Ali earned her BA in English and Psychology from U of C at Berkeley. She currently resides on the KIPP Foundation Board of Directors, CA Charter School Association Member Council and Rocketship Education's Board of Directors.
• Linda Alepin is a senior executive with both turnaround and growth experience. She produced outstanding results in a variety of positions including general management, strategy, finance, marketing, and business development. She is currently a professor of entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University and Founding Director of the Global Women's Leadership Network. She is a graduate of Stanford University with a BA in Economics, 1967.
• Dian Alyan was born and raised in Indonesia. She holds a degree in engineering and came to the US to pursue a career in marketing with Procter & Gamble where she handled many of its global brands.  The tsunami of 2004 changed her life forever as that tragedy and her personal loss compelled her to create GiveLight Foundation ( http://www.givelight.org ).  The focus of her work has now turned into her life's passion: helping orphaned children around the world. GiveLight's first orphanage opened in Dec 2005 in Aceh for the orphans of the tsunami. The second one was inaugurated in Nov 2008 for the 2005 earthquake orphans in Pakistan. Today, GiveLight supports over 300 orphans in six countries (Indonesia, Pakistan, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Bangladesh and Afghanistan). This year GiveLight is looking to expand to Haiti and our long term goal is to reach out to 1,000 orphans in at least 10 countries around the world. Dian lives in Sunnyvale with her husband and their two young boys.