International Women's Day Luncheon - Monday 8 March 2010
300 women (and some men!) met at
the beautiful Four Seasons Hotel (March 8 2010 ) in Sydney
to celebrate the Telstra FITT International Womens Day
luncheon - 100 years of change! As 1910 was the year a women's charter was drafted and plans made for the first International Women's Day, FITT members and guests joined to revisit that charter. We were incredibly fortunate to have Minister Jodi McKay, M.P, NSW Minister for Women to open the event and then onto a fabulous lunch involving lots of laughs, great food and wine, very happy raffle winners, and riveting personal and open anecdotes from our panellists Pru Goward, Shadow NSW Minister for Women, Senator the
Senator the Hon Helen Coonan,
Liberal Senator for NSW and former Federal Minister for ICT
and
Deena Shiff,
Group Managing Director, Telstra Business all
conducted with great skill by our fabulous MC for the day,
Candy Tymson,
Professional Speaker & Executive Coach in Gender
Communication. Our panellists and MC all donated their time (many thanks) and the event could not have been run without sponsor support from Telstra, SAP, PGI and UTS.
Click here to read article covering the event
Click here to view event photos
For those that attended, please also complete our feedback survey from this event:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XGGLYXX
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FITT Melbourne Networking Event - "2010 ... make IT happen!"
A FREE event kindly hosted and sponsored by IBM on Tues
Feb 23with a panel of senior IBM executives speaking
including:
- Janet Matton - IBM Vice President Sales Operations And Executive
- Nicole Crooks - IBM Vice President, SO & Global Technology Services
- Robyn Woodley - IBM Client Director BHP
- Jane Chen - IBM Executive IT Architect
- Moderated by Wayne Morrison who is a Project Executive in IBM Global Business Services
The panel discussed matters related to their careers in
the ICT industry, and the challenges and opportunities they
see for business in 2010 and beyond. We had over 100 women
attend and the feedback was great! It is worth noting that
FITT cannot run events like this in Melbourne without (a)
sponsorship like from IBM (thank you IBM for hosting and
organising this event) and (b) FITT volunteers in Melbourne
to help our Melbourne-based FITT Steering Committee member
Tracy Currie. FITT also recognises there are some great
women in IT&T groups around Australia (whereas in Sydney,
FITT fills a particular gap) so its a matter of partnering,
not duplicating. FITT encourages our members to check out
the other locally-based groups which may provide additional
events/mentoring programs that some are asking for.
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