Inventing Your Own Path
In 2009, the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is taking the path less traveled! From April 17-19th, the Professional Northwest and UW SWE sections are hosting the 2009 SWE Region J Conference at the UW South Campus Center. The theme of the conference is “Entrepreneurship: Inventing Your Own Path.”
This conference will be an exciting and informative weekend that will help scientists, engineers, and anyone else turn their ideas into companies through workshops, speakers, and an entrepreneurial services fair. Workshop leaders include Vanessa Fox, a partner at Seattle’s Ignition Partners venture firm, and Sharelle Klaus, founder of Dry Soda.
There will also be a technical tour at Boeing and a career fair featuring engineering companies that may not generally recruit at UW.
The lunch keynote speaker is Linda Bernardi, a serial tech entrepreneur who recently started her own leadership institute. Ms. Bernardi is the CEO and founder of StraTerra Partners, a technology strategy consulting firm, and a board member of SETI.
Christina Lomasney, CEO, president, and co-founder of materials science firm Modumetal, will be the keynote speaker at the evening banquet. She has worked in the research, development and commercialization of advanced materials technologies for over a decade.
The conference includes an Order of the Engineer ceremony where engineers take an oath similar to the Hippocratic Oath sworn by doctors.
The 2009 SWE Region J conference is a great opportunity to network with women engineers. The conference is open to males and females, engineers and non-engineers. Early-bird registration ends March 23 and banquet tickets are limited, so register soon to save your spot at this inspiring event!
For more information, please visit: http://www.swe.org/regionj/jcon09/
Sponsors include BP, US Navy Recruiting Command, and UW Technology Management MBA.