Katy Dickinson

Women of Vision Event

Last night the amazing Women of Vision event was held in downtown San Jose. Sun Labs' Susan Landau, Distinguished Engineer, won the Anita Borg Institute 2008 WOV Award in the Social Impact category. Sun's CTO Greg Papadopoulos gave the welcome address at the Imperial Ballroom of the Fairmont Hotel. Some photos from the inspiring event are below.

In a few days, videos of the 3 winners' acceptance speeches will be posted on YouTube. Those of us who are building the new MAGIC program for mentoring middle school girls are already planning how to use these videos in our program. All of the acceptance speeches were amazing but Helen Greiner (Co-founder and Chairman, iRobot, 2008 WOV winner for Innovation) was particularly moving when she spoke about never even once having been encouraged to consider Engineering as a career when she was a girl, despite her aptitude and fascination for math and computers, and our obligation not to let that kind of negligence continue into the new generation.

To make it easier to find the videos from the first two WOV events, here are links:

• Woman of Vision Radia Perlman Video 2005 WOV Winner for Innovation
  (Radia Perlman is Sun's first woman Fellow!)
  
• Woman of Vision Janie Tsao 2005 WOV Winner for Leadership
• Woman of Vision Pamela Samuelson Video 2005 WOV Winner for Social Impact
• Deborah Estrin, Women of Vision 2007 WOV Winner for Innovation
  Deborah Estrin, Acceptance Speech
  
• Duy-Loan Le, Women of Vision for Leadership 2007
  Duy-Loan Le, Acceptance Speech, part 1
  Duy-Loan Le, Acceptance Speech, part 2
  
• Leah Jamieson, Women of Vision for Social Impact 2007
  Leah Jamieson, Acceptance Speech
  

Greg Papadopoulos

Susan Landau

Program, Keychain, Badge

Images Copyright 2008 by Katy Dickinson

Posted at 06:08PM May 09, 2008 by katysblog in Hopper - Anita Borg Institute  |