Executive Women's Forum - Tech Trends and Tales

"Tech Trends and Tales”: Women & Hi Tech welcomes Leading Light Award winners and luminaries to share their stories with the our members

Each of our guests will take the podium for a few minutes to describe a tech trend that has been critical to her business or education goals or share a tale that will inspire, from one woman in hi tech to another. You will not want to miss out on hearing these nuggets from this impressive field of women. 

Laurie Burns-McRobbie, Indiana University First Lady and Adjunct Faculty member, IU School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University - "Getting the Guys in the Room:  Men as Allies, Advocates and Mentors"

Dr. Brenda Capobianco, Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Purdue University - "Engineering a New Way of Learning and Teaching Science"

Christina Dunbar, Sr. UX Researcher, Angie's List -Agile UX during Organizational Change

Deborah L. Gordon, Vice President, Mobile Source Emissions Regulatory Activities, Allison Transmission - "What Do I Want to Be When I Grow Up"

Linda Hicks, Vice-President Global Technology, Vertellus Specialties Inc.   - "The Problem with Anemonies"

Dr. Rona C. Howenstine, Vice President Operational Excellence and Claims, OneAmerica Financial Partners, Inc. - "Creating Your Next Opportunity"

Rhonda Winter, EVP, Cloud Operations and Support, Bluelock - "Accessorize with Data"

Dr. Carla Yerkes, Senior Research Scientist and Seeds Discovery Biology Group Leader, Dow AgroSciences - "PCR Applications in Trait Discovery"

Lunch will be provided.