Stanford Women in Business (SWIB) is excited to present “I Don’t Know to CEO: Inspiration at Every Milestone” on Saturday April 25th at Annenberg Auditorium. The conference’s mission is to educate you, to motivate you, to inspire you to achieve success at every point in your career, whether you’re learning the ropes at your first, entry-level job or leading a successful company and looking to reach new heights. To that end, the conference features speakers who have reached these heights and are eager to share their stories, from recent graduates pioneering their own innovative start-ups to CEO’s of multinational corporations. We invite you to hear these stories, participate in hands-on conference workshops, and in the process, broaden your definition of the path a career can and should take.
Featuring these speakers who have made great impact...
Sue Gardner, Executive Director, Wikipedia
Ellen Siminoff, Founding Executive, Yahoo!, CEO, Schmoop, Board of Mozilla Corporation
Jawed Karim, Co-Founder, Youtube,
Sophia Bekele, Founder and CEO, CBS International
Jessica Steel, SVP Business Development, Pandora
Charlotte Guyman, Director, Berkshire Hathaway
Donna Wells, Chief Marketing Officer, Mint.com
Adriana Gascoigne, Director of Communications, hi5
Mara Brazer, Founder, Brazer Communications
Jason Shen, Founder, Gumball Capital
Filip Kaliszan, Co-Founder, CourseRank
Kayvon Beykpour, Co-Founder, TerriblyClever Design
Including these panels and workshops...
Stanford Student Businesses: the Spark, the Story, the Success - Hosted by Gumball Capital
Learn why now is the best time for you to start a business, find out how Stanford student entrepreneurs got started, and discover how they crossed the chasm from nothing to success. Speakers include: the founder of Gumball Capital, the Chief Marketing Officer of Mint, the creators of CourseRank, and the founder of TerriblyClever Design.
Marketing 101 for Industry - Hosted by Stanford Marketing
Learn practical marketing skills in this hit workshop provided by popular demand by Stanford Marketing. This time, take marketing into the corporate environment with speakers who have worked in-house for large companies.
Why Technology Needs Women - Hosted by Girls in Tech
At this workshop, you will learn the unique edge women can bring to technology companies. Many think of Silicon Valley as a “boys club” where men congregate and come up with the big ideas and the best technologies, yet in reality the tech industry needs the creativity, the strength, the innovation and the emotion that only women can bring to the field. Make the woman factor work with you, not against you, at this session, which will show you how women are currently changing the face of technology,= and how young women interested in the field can take steps to build the new Silicon Valley. Adriana Gascoigne, founder of Girls in Tech and Director of Communications for hi5 will lead this session.
Reaching In, Reaching Out - Hosted by Young Women Social Entrepreneurs
Part One: Three women social entrepreneurs who found the inspiration and courage to change careers and start a business/organization to address a social issue. Their stories will help inspire, educate, and encourage participants to reach within themselves and reach out to others so they may manifest their own desires to create social good locally and globally.
Part Two: In this practical interactive session, identify the social issues that are important to you and learn how to harness your natural creative ability to address these problems through entrepreneurship.
Consulting for the Future - Hosted by Stanford Consulting
Plenty of people say that consulting is a great field to expose you to a wide variety of industries right out of school, and good preparation for you to succeed as a leader in life. Now meet people who've had impactful, meaningful lives in non-profits, entrepreneurship, management, finance, and marketing after leaving their consulting years and ask them what you can learn as a consultant.
View From The Top: Changing the Face of Technology - Hosted by SWIB
Each of the outstanding panelists has changed the way we think about the Internet and beyond. With its revolutionary technology, Pandora has taken music by storm; YouTube has altered online video and sharing all around the world; Friendfeed is transforming how we learn from our friends' online discoveries; Gmail and Adsense shattered old conceptions of email and online advertising; Schmoop is putting education on a whole new platform; Yahoo! brought the Internet into the hands of the average Joe; and CBS International brings powerful advanced information technology to the developing world, with long-standing initiatives to bring the internet to Africa. How does one little start-up end up improving so many millions of lives? What makes these people passionate about what they do? Learn how you can be one of these people whose lives affect the face of technology.