Katy Dickinson

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http://blogs.sun.com/katysblog/date/20061023 Monday October 23, 2006

SEED Mentoring Annual Event

The SEED Engineering mentoring program holds its big kick-off event tomorrow and Wednesday here in Menlo Park, California. SEED holds monthly phone-in meetings plus two in-person annual events: this two-day meeting in September plus a one-day meeting in March. Over 100 people are signed up for the event. We have participants who have travelled here from China, Czech Rep., France, Germany, India, Ireland, Russia, The Netherlands, and the UK.

Executive speakers tomorrow include:

  • Jonathan Schwartz, CEO and President
  • Juan Carlos Soto, Vice President of Adoption Marketing and Technology Evangelism
    Talk Title: "Career Paths"
  • Ivan Sutherland, Sun Fellow and Vice President
    Talk Title: "On Leadership"
  • Leslie Lambert, VP & Chief Architect for Sun IT
    Talk Title: "What Sun IT is Looking for from Sun Engineering Leadership"

HR Director for the CTO Carol Gorski and I are also giving a repeat of our SEED talk at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2006: "5 Years of Mentoring by the Numbers". Part of each day is devoted to the SEED Showcase (brief presentations on current work by SEED participants, past and present). The SEEDs will eat lunch together and then go on afternoon tours.

For this event, Tanya Jankot has arranged these tours:

This event is by invitation only. SEED program participants, their managers and mentors from any term are invited.

Posted at 02:04PM Oct 23, 2006 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business  | 

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