FITT - Females in Information Technology and Telecommunications

Events

Events 2011

Throughout the year FITT holds luncheons, social nights, education events for FITT members.

As a Business Network Group of the AIIA, FITT now posts our events on AIIA Online as part of our move to utilise the AIIA infrastructure. For our latest events please see:
Sydney Events
Melbourne Events

AIIA runs an events program with many that women in ICT will benefit from. Check AIIA Online for other AIIA events you might attend.

FITT Quick Coach Webinars have been running in 2011 very successfully with hundreds of FITT members attending them live and viewing the recordings. FITT Quick Coach webinars are brought to you by your dedicated FITT Volunteers and self-managed on the Telstra Webex platform with presenters volunteering their time.

We also hold joint events with like-minded and specialist groups.

ICT Trends
This year we ran our annual Telstra FITT ICT Trends Luncheon in Sydney AND in Melbourne for the first time). The lunch in Sydney on 12 October 2011 was attended by 243 people and Melbourne had 81 on 18 October. Our panel was about "Always On - Cloud Computing". The MC was Jeanne-Vida Douglas, Editor, BRW.com.au. Panel members included:

Katherine Milesi - Senior Partner, Deloitte Online
Mark Pratley - General Manager Cloud Computing, Telstra
Pamela Cass - VP Marketing Asia Pacific Japan, VMWare (Sydney only)
Darren McCullum - VMware, Cisco, VCE Technology Alliance, EMC Corporation ANZ (Melb only)

Ernst & Young Networking Breakfast
Over 80 attendees arrived at Ernst and Young at 7.30am for an insightful presentation by Jen Dalitz, Founder and SheEO Sphinxx. Jen shared many insightful thoughts on Gender Intelligence. With a continued lack of diversity at a senior level and board level in the ASX200 companies, Jen and the attendees discussed the reasons and benefits of change.

Did you know that companies with higher representation of Women report on average 35.1% higher return on equity and 34% higher total return for shareholders! All attendees also received one of Jen's books, "Little Wins for Working Women".

Telstra FITT International Women's Day Lunch in Sydney
377 registered for our annual Telstra FITT International Women's Day (IWD) Lunch which was held on Tuesday 8 March 2011 from 12:00 - 2:30pm at the five-star Westin Hotel, 1 Martin Place, Sydney. Our generous event sponsors were Telstra and UTS:IT.

We celebrated 100 years since IWD started and how ICT has redefined media for women, starting with a networking session over drinks before sitting down to a delicious 2-course meal with beverages and celebrity guest speakers.

Our MC for the day was noted IT journalist Beverley Head. We had an inspirational panel of women (read their impressive bios):

Pip Marlow, new MD of Microsoft Australia
Anne Davies, investigative journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald
Gloria Farler, Executive Director, Market Intelligence & Customer Analytics, Telstra

The panel looked at the advancements we have made, as well as some of the many areas where women are still either stereotyped or ignored in the media.

There was additional networking during the luncheon and the chance to be in to win a lucky door prize and great raffle prizes.

Event sponsors:
Telstra (FITT's Platinum Sponsor for 2009, 2010 and 2011)
UTS:IT (Educational Sponsor)

Special thanks to Business & Technology IT PR for marketing & PR assistance and to Gener8 for event management.

Past Events