A forum where women can learn from the wisdom and experience of others and gain inspiration to achieve their own personal and professional goals. This year’s 30th anniversary will feature Diane Keaton, Maxine Clark, Dr. Antonia Novello and Charlayne Hunter-Gault.
There will be a business ethics panel featuring Lynn Brewer, Cynthia Cooper and Cindy Olson on what has changed and what has not after the Enron and Worldcom collapses.
Please go to here for a full agenda and registration information.
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The Working Mothers Committee invites you to attend our 2nd Annual Spring Luncheon. Come meet the talented and exciting women in the financial services business sector of New York City & New Jersey. This luncheon is an opportunity to share and discuss the challenges many women, particularly working mothers, encounter each and every day. All are welcome to attend- new and expecting mothers, seasoned mothers and empty nesters.
The Working Mothers Committee encourages all new attendees to consider joining this dynamic organization.
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The Women of Vision Awards Banquet, hosted by the Anita Borg Institute Board of Trustees, honors women making significant contributions to technology. One winner is selected in each category: Innovation, Leadership, and Social Impact. Register here.
The Women of Vision Awards Banquet, hosted by the Anita Borg Institute Board of Trustees, honors women making significant contributions to technology. The award winners will be selected in early February, and nominators will be notified.
AWARD CATEGORIES
Innovation recognizes a woman who has contributed significantly to technology innovation. The innovation might be creating unusual and important technology or approaching developing technology in a significantly new and innovative way, such as by bringing diverse people and experiences together in the technology creation process..
Social Impact recognizes a woman who developed or applied technology with a significant impact on society and/or the community. These people are creating or employing technologies that are changing our world in positive ways.
Leadership recognizes a woman who has led an important technology development or innovation, made a significant contribution to the technology industry, and someone who inspires others.
The Africa/Middle East Committee of Women In International Trade (WIIT) cordially invites you to a reception on the “Outlook for US-Africa Trade Relations Under the Obama Administration” featuring Florizelle Liser, Assistant United States Representative for Africa
Deadline for registration is April 23, 2009. Register here
by Jane Carruthers (London)
After all the recent economic doom and gloom, a rare glow of positive light shone over a gathering of some 500 business and public sector leaders in the City of London on 29th April 2009: The Opportunity Now Awards, sponsored by Santander, celebrated those UK employers addressing inequality as a business imperative, creating workplace best practice so that women can succeed.”
The Glass Hammer sponsors PricewaterhouseCoopers and Goldman Sachs were among a line-up of winning firms, which also included Citi and FTSE 100 firms Pearson and Alliance Trust.
PricewaterhouseCoopers won both the Advancing Women in Business and Global Awards. Moira Elms, Global Partner for People, Knowledge, Brand and Communications and chair of the Gender Advisory Council at PricewaterhouseCoopers, said: “We are extremely proud of this distinction. At PwC, we are committed to ensuring women have the opportunity to build a rewarding career and move into leadership positions. Since its foundation in 2006, the Gender Advisory Council has made a real impact. Every year, we see an increase in the number of female partners around the world. And we now have two talented women on the global leadership team.”
Cleo Thompson, Gender Advisory Council Programme Manager, who, with Moira Elms, accepted the award on behalf of PricewaterhouseCoopers, added: “I am delighted we have won this award, particularly since Opportunity Now is such a respected and prestigious organisation and one of the few bodies to recognise achievement in global diversity.” Goldman Sachs won the Santander Award: Equality of Opportunity through Education and Learning, for its 10,000 Women Program.
Controlling costs and ensuring long-term return on payments investments are more critical than ever. Attend the 2009 AFP Payments Forum and discover proven solutions to achieving payments efficiencies that will yield benefits to your entire organization.
Learn how to unlock savings by streamlining processes and tightening controls through e-payments:
Hear proven success stories and gain practical advice on managing your organization’s payments and receipts process when dealing with suppliers, customers and internal partners.
Participate in lively exchanges with your corporate peers in interactive roundtables where you can learn how others have solved the problems that you face.
Attend lectures that explain the basics of ACH rules, international payments, accepting and making card payments, and check imaging.
Gain insights into all payment methods—ACH, cards, checks and wires, domestic and international.
You will return to your office with innovative ideas and networking contacts that will help you achieve your company’s payments goals long after the forum has ended. Registration is restricted to corporate practitioners.
Register here.
Demonstrate your commitment to gender equality, diversity and inclusion. Join over 500 other business and public sector leaders at one of the most prestigious diversity events of the year.
The Opportunity Now Awards and Dinner 2009 are generously sponsored by Santander
Celebrate, Entertain, Network
As well as recognising the commitment and progress which has been made in this arena, this glittering occasion also provides an excellent opportunity to network and exchange best practice.
Hosting a table gives you the perfect opportunity to reward your people or demonstrate your commitment to clients.
Guests will be addressed by inspiring and high profile speakers who will share their personal stories and achievements.
We will be delighted to hear from:
This is one of the most prestigious occasions in the diversity calendar so make sure your organisation doesn’t miss out.
For more information contact: Michelle O’Brien 020 7566 8715
The Los Angeles members of 100WHF have organized a dinner to come together after the Milken Global Conference, held here in Beverly Hills.
After hearing 500 CEOs from the world’s top-tier companies, senior elected and appointed foreign and U.S.
government officials, high-level executives in the American and foreign capital markets, global academic experts and leaders in education, health care and philanthropy, continue the discussions of the financial crisis and the global economy, as well as on government’s growing role in business and our lives over dinner and cocktails.
Seating is very limited. Register here
by Sima Matthes (New York City)
A recent article in the Financial Times stated that men held 80% of jobs lost in this recession. This would seem to indiate that, across the board, men seem to be suffering the most from the current economic crisis. But contrast this to the findings set forth in a stunning report released by PricewaterhouseCoopers in the UK on April 15th in which they found a disproportionate effect of the recession on women in banking. According to Ruth Sealy, the Deputy Director of the International Centre for Women Business Leaders at Cranfield School of Management, who was quoted in the Times Online commenting on the report, “There is a sense among … women in banking that this is very much a gendered recession.”