January 7th, 2010
Nerd Girls Rule
Earlier this week, the Lotusphere Blog posted about the 2nd annual Nerd Girl Panel at Lotusphere 2010 - NERD101 in your programs. They (mistakenly) listed me as a panelist, but this is not so - I've been merely helping to recruit the panelists.
The well known and popular Gabriella Davis of the Turtle Partnership will be the Moderator of this year's group.
Last year, we decided to have the panel represent both IBM women and non-IBM women, and decided to keep that format this year. I'd like to announce this year's confirmed panelists......(cue the drumroll, please)
Mary Beth Raven, IBM Senior Technical Staff Member, Lotus Product Design
Sandy Carter, Vice President, IBM Software Group Channels
Akiba Saeedi, Program Director, Unified Communications and Collaboration, IBM Software Group
Marie L. Scott, Director, E-mail Services, Virginia Commonwealth University
Eileen Fitzgerald, Vice-President Product Management and Customer Delivery at GSX
We will also have front-row seats reserved for last year's panelists and other invited guests to make sure they get a seat - because the stage simply isn't big enough and an hour isn't long enough to feature every one we'd like to.
If you know who these fabulous women are, you'll know you need to get there early to find a seat. If you don't know who they are, start clicking the links or hit Google or YouTube and find out - you need to know......then get there early to get a seat.
So no, I won't be on this year's panel. I will be one of the ones near the front of the room, listening, learning and being a little star struck by this crowd. Come visit us - but get there early.
We also have other Nerd Girl activities planned and we'll blog and tweet those as they get confirmed. There will be a BOF where we'll offer mentoring and discussion, and a meet and greet function. Look for other Nerd Girl postings from other Nerd Girls - watch your tweeter feed - stand by. This Lotusphere will be great.
Oh yeah, I'm speaking this year also - I have 3 sessions - will post those later.
