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| Calendar of Events 2010 |
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Throughout the year FITT holds luncheons, social nights, education events for FITT members. We also hold joint events with like-minded and specialist groups. AIIA runs an events program with many that women in ICT will benefit from. Check the AIIA Event Calendar. |
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Previous Years Events
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Free Skills Webinar to help you Become a Global Brand by Connecting and Communicating Creatively
| Proudly sponsored by PGi, this webinar on Wednesday 1 December was on leveraging web 2.0 networks (such as Twitter and LinkedIn) and traditional 'old school' communication skills to connect and communicate creatively. Presented by Kim Chandler McDonald, Executive Vice President, Director of Communications and Flat World Navigator for KimmiC. |
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Powerful Influencing Skills Workshop
FITT ran this fantastic one-day workshop at a subsidised price of $395 to 12 lucky people on Saturday 30 October 2010. The workshop helped them understand the secrets of influencing, empowering them to manage their manager, relationships and career more effectively.
| Using DISC, one of the leading behavioural profiling tools in the world, presenter Vaness Giannos of MyPerformance Coach helped them gain an insight into their emotional intelligence enabling high levels of self awareness. This a great foundation for becoming a strong influencer. |
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ICT Trends Luncheon
Over 180 people attended the annual ICT Trends Luncheon held at the Sydney Hilton on Tuesday 12 October.
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The topic for the luncheon was Communication Trends for 2011, and the event was moderated by MyCyberTwin’s Liesl Capper-Bielby.
Panellists were Bjarne Munch, Senior Analyst at Gartner, Carol White, Director of Unified Communications at Telstra and Bronwen Lipscombe, Key Accounts Manager, Hosted Services, at Macquarie Telecom. |
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Optimising your Critical Path in Career Management with Reinvention Guru Kim Seeling Smith
Proudly sponsored by PGI, Females in Information
Technology and Telecommunications (FITT) presented an
informative Webinar with special guest presenter, Kim
Seeling Smith who delved into the 4 steps required to
manage the critical path in your career.
Kim Seeling Smith speaks, trains and coaches on Staff
Retention and Career Management issues after having
spent 15 years as a recruiter. See http://www.mycriticalpath.com/.
Over 60 people attended and a record 14 questions were asked, with many people staying on the call after time was up. |
Telstra FITT Event on Career Planning & Advancement
The Telstra-sponsored evening on Career Planning & Advancement was attended by about 50 women in ICT in Melbourne, a great turnout on a very rainy night.
The keynote speaker was Michael Lawry (Telstra Executive Director). Others who spoke included Irene Evgengiadias (Telstra Program Manager), Dr Cathy Foley (CSIRO), Ashley Lazar (Telstra A/g CIO) and Julie Quinton (Telstra General Manager).
View the presentation used to introduce the evening (PPT 2.5MB). |
Free Luncheon hosted by Cisco and ACS
The recent Cisco networking luncheon (discovering your unique strengths and striving for self-mastery) attracted over 300 registrations and had to be moved to a larger venue. We’d like to thank those of you who were able to make it along. We hope you found the event inspiring.
For those of you who missed it, Cisco have kindly provided a recording of the panel session, so you can catch up on all the action.
During the session, the speakers presented a number of tips on how to identify and strategically utilise your key strengths and those of others to create cohesive teams and optimal performance. Tools recommended by Clive Leech (Executive Coach) and Dr Suzy Green (Coaching Psychologist) are listed below:
VIA Strengths Finder Test
Strengths Finder Tool (Professional)
Strengths Finder 2.0 (Gallup Press; hardcover; February 2007)
Thank you to Cisco and ACS for hosting such a wonderful event.
 
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Free Webinar on tips to become more successful on what you set out to achieve
On April 28th, Females in Information and Technology (FITT) hosted it's first Webinar of 2010, More Time for Life with special guest presenter, Sacha Crouch. Through its valuable sponsor PGI, FITT were able to provide over 170 registered members with valuable tip on how to become super effective and make more time for themselves. The Webinar was a great success.
Sacha provided attendees with a good overview on the importance of prioritising what's important, optimising your time as well as simple techniques to reduce stress, feel relaxed and switch off from work.
To listen to the recording of the More time For Life Webinar, please click here:
http://www.premierewebinars.com/WebinarDetail.aspx?WebinarID=112
For more information on Sacha, please check out her web site at
http://www.activ8change.com.au/
FITT thank Sacha for providing a valuable experience to our FITT member as well as PGI for helping to host the event. We look forward to seeing FITTmembers at the next webinar so stay tuned for more details.
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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
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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
Click here to view event photos in Facebook
In pictures: International Women's Day
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 23 with 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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