Program - National Diversity Council

Silicon Valley
Inaugural Women’s Tech Roundtable
June 17, 2016
8:00AM - 11:30AM
Hewlett Packard Enterprise HQ
Main Auditorium
3000 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, CA
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2016 California Diversity Council Schedule of Events
Northern California
June
July
August
9 : 7 Annual Northern
California Diversity &
Leadership Conference
20 : BA Diversity
Chapter Meeting
6 : Statewide Board
of Directors Strategy
& Planning Meeting
for 2017
(Southern CA)
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17th: Silicon Valley’s
Women’s Tech
Roundtable
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11th: Unconscious Bias
Workshop
29th: BA Diversity
Chapter Meeting
October
November
December
13th: Silicon Valley’s
Top 50 Women in Tech
Awards Dinner
3rd: Silicon Valley’s
Top 50 Tech
Multicultural Dinner
14th: BA Diversity
Chapter Meeting
End of the Year Mixer
Legal Women
in Leadership
Symposiums
Veterans’ Summits
19th: BA Diversity
Chapter Meeting
17 : BA Diversity
Chapter Meeting
21st: BA Diversity
Chapter Meeting
31st: Sacramento’s
DiversityFIRST™ Best
Practices Meeting
22nd: 3rd Annual ERG
Conference
17th: San Francisco’s
Healthcare Diversity
Summit
30th: Top 50 Women
Lawyers Announced
18th: San Francisco
19th: Silicon Valley
September
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8th: San Francisco
9th: Silicon Valley
16th: BA Diversity
Chapter Meeting
Southern California
June
July
August
7 : 7 Annual Southern
California Diversity &
Leadership Conference
California Diversity
Council Meetings
6 : Statewide Board
of Directors Strategy
& Planning Meeting
for 2017
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12th: Orange County
14th: Los Angeles
20th: San Diego
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California Diversity
Council Meetings
23 : Orange County
25th: Los Angeles
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October
November
December
11 : Orange County’s
4th Annual Multicultural
Roundtable
8th: Orange County’s
California Diversity
Council Meeting
California Diversity
Council Chapter End of
the Year Mixers
12th: San Diego’s
3rd Annual
Veterans‘ Summit
11th: Los Angeles’
Inaugural
Veterans’ Summit
13th: Orange County
14th: San Diego
15th: Los Angeles
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September
30 : San Diego’s
2nd Annual Multicultural
Roundtable
California Diversity
Council Meetings
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13th: Orange County
14th: San Diego
15th: Los Angeles
29th: Los Angeles’
Legal Women in
Leadership Symposium
13th: Los Angeles’
California Diversity
Council Meeting
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DIVERSITY COUNCIL
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Welcome from the Council
Dear Participants,
We are truly honored to welcome you to the Inaugural Silicon Valley Women’s Tech Roundtable. This event offers a
platform for you to observe, gain knowledge, and network with incredible women who have achieved great success in
the technology field.
Although women make up more than half of the U.S. population, they continue to be underrepresented in the
technology field. Our goal in creating the Women’s Tech Roundtable is to unite women of various backgrounds to
discuss how to improve career interest and advancement in the field. You will have the opportunity to discuss appealing
topics such as “Confidence 101,” “Essential Leadership Skills,” and “The Art of Promotion” with some of the leading
women in your industry. You will also have the opportunity to ask questions and gain insight on how to advance in
your career.
We encourage you to take the initiative to meet new colleagues and exchange ideas that will contribute to your own
success. It is our hope that your experience is rewarding and that you leave empowered to reach new heights within
your organization. Just as the leading women presenting here today, you too are more than capable of reaching the top.
We sincerely appreciate your attendance today in support of our Inaugural Women’s Tech Roundtable. We would also
like to thank our corporate sponsors, planning committee, and volunteers for their support and participation.
Sincerely,
Dennis Kennedy
Angeles Valenciano
Founder & Chairman
National Diversity Council
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Board of Directors
KENDRA ANGIER
Vice President,
Human Resources
Ingram Micro
DENISE BANUELOS
Senior Diversity Consultant
Diversity & Inclusion
City of Hope
ADRIANA CABRÉ
Senior Vice President,
Human Resources
MedImpact Healthcare
System
WENDELL FERGUSON
Healthcare Quality & Affordability IT Portfolio
Blue Shield of California
ELANA HOBSON
Independent
Board of Directors
MARIA HOLLANDSWORTH
Vice President,
Operations Initiatives
Jack in the Box Inc.
DR. ANDREW C. JONES
Executive Vice Chancellor
Contra Costa Community
College District
DENISE KIRWAN
Principal & Founder
Track Global
DENNIS KENNEDY
Founder & Chairman
National Diversity Council
MARIAH MACHNIKOWSKI
Director,
Human Resources
Bloomin Brands
MATT MCELRATH, EDD.
Chief HR Officer
Keck Medicine of USC
TORYE NGUYEN
Community Relations
Manager
University of Phoenix
BEAU PACK
Director,
Business Operations
Aerotek
LAURIE SALTZMAN-KOVATCH
Vice President,
Human Resources
Wyndham Vacation Ownership
NATHAN STEIN
Vice President,
Regional Diversity Officer
(Northwest Region)
Morgan Stanley Wealth
Management
ANGELES VALENCIANO
Chief Executive Officer
National Diversity Council
NAOMI WERNER
Vice President,
Human Resources
Össur
HELANE WILBOURNE
Diversity & Inclusion
(D&I) Team
Transamerica Insurance
Company
FRANCES DILLON
Global Head of Organizational Development
HSBC
DR. MARY J. WARDELLGHIRARDUZZI
Vice Provost for
Diversity Engagement
University of San Francisco
& Community Outreach
SONJA WILKERSON
Vice President,
Human Resources
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Moderator & Panelist
Moderator
Donnie Small
Senior Technical Recruiter, Diversity Specialist
Facebook
Donnie is an exceptional recruiting leader who has worked for established tech companies such
as Blackboard, Opower, LivingSocial and most recently and currently employed with the social
media giant - Facebook. She has been educated at some of the most prestigious institutions in
the country receiving a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland, College Park and
a Master’s degree from the American University. Her successful 15+ year recruiting career has
taught her quite a bit about understanding people and has helped her to become a very strong
listener, speaker, facilitator, trainer and career matchmaker.
Panelist
Jennifer Blatnik
Vice President, Cloud and Enterprise Marketing
Juniper Networks
Jennifer is Vice President of Cloud and Enterprise Marketing at Juniper Networks with focus
on marketing of Cloud solutions, Enterprise deployments of Routing, Switching, Security
and SDN products. Jennifer specializes in deployment topologies in Enterprise core networks,
WAN access, Data Center Interconnects (DCI), and Campus and Branch LAN networks. At
Juniper, Jennifer has held leadership positions in Product Line Management in Routing and
JUNOS software.
Before joining Juniper, Jennifer was Director of Product Management at Cisco Systems, Inc.
with a focus on product management and marketing of Enterprise and SP Managed Services routing portfolio. Her
focus at Cisco was in cross architecture designs supporting managed services and cloud service architectures and
their go to market strategies. During her tenure at Cisco, Jennifer also held various roles at Cisco managing product
portfolios in routing, integrated access and VoIP products for Service Providers and Channel Partners who provide
managed services for Small Businesses and Enterprises. Jennifer helped build Cisco’s business in solving small
business needs in the areas of Ethernet and wireless connection, security and unified communications. Jennifer
has worked closely with Service Providers on portfolio development strategies to deliver higher quality end to end
solutions in resale, hosted and managed service offerings.
Jennifer Blatnik will be speaking in “Building Influence on the Workplace.”
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Panelists
Elana Hobson
Chairwoman
California Diversity Council
Elana Hobson serves as the chairwoman for the California Diversity Council State Board of
Directors. She is the former vice president of operations for Jack in the Box Inc. She oversaw
the operation of all company and franchised Jack in the Box restaurants in the U.S.
Hobson joined Jack in the Box in 1977 as a team member at a restaurant in Hayward, Calif.
After serving as team leader and assistant manager, she was promoted to manager of a Jack in
the Box restaurant in San Lorenzo, Calif., in 1981. In the years that followed, Hobson took on
positions of increasing responsibility, including district manager in 1986 and area manager in
1998. In 2003, she was promoted to regional vice president of the company’s North Coast region, which included
more than 160 restaurants in Northern California and Hawaii. In 2007, Hobson relocated to the company’s
corporate offices in San Diego as division vice president of Guest Service Systems, and in 2009, was promoted to
division vice president, operations initiatives. She was promoted to vice president of operations in 2010.
Elana Hobson will be speaking on “Leveraging Your Network, Sponsors, & Mentors.”
Christina Lai
Vice President, Corporate Legal Affairs
Applied Materials, Inc.
Christina Lai has been President of Corporate Legal Affairs at Applied Materials since 2014.
She leads the team responsible for corporate governance and securities matters and supports
the company’s corporate finance transactions, executive compensation and equity and benefit
programs.
Christina joined Applied form Yahoo!, where she held a variety of corporate governance and
securities roles in her eleven years with the company, most recently serving as Vice President,
Deputy General Counsel of Corporate Governance and Assistant Secretary. Prior to starting her
in-house career, she was an associate at Latham and Watkins.
Christina received her bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Stanford University and her J.D. from
UCLA School of Law. She is a member of the Governance Committee of the Board of Directors of El Camino
Hospital.
Christina Lai will be speaking on “Art of Promotion.”
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Panelists
Gisselle Ruiz
Head of Diversity Staffing
Google
Gisselle has a long history of infusing her passion for recruitment, diversity and inclusion to
identify the best talent and provide access and opportunity. A graduate of Clark University in
Urban Development and Social Change, she launched her career in college recruitment. As
Assistant Director of Admissions at Northeastern University and Worcester State College in
Boston, she led the admissions process for multicultural and international students. In these
roles she gained global recruitment experience in over 30 countries, all while earning a graduate
degree in Policy, Planning, and Administration at Boston University.
In April 2007, she relocated to Los Angeles and transitioned into corporate recruitment as the West Coast Campus
Relations Manager for NBC Universal. In 2009, Gisselle joined Creative Artists Agency, the premier entertainment
talent and sports agency, where she led the recruitment team which supported all divisions. She was actively
involved in the Diversity Strategy Council, the Multicultural Committee, and company wide diversity initiatives.
After 5+ years at CAA, Gisselle transitioned to The Walt Disney Company where she served as the Senior Manager
of Enterprise Talent Acquisition and led functional recruitment/talent acquisitions across all 7 segments of the
company. In January 2016, Gisselle transitioned to Silicon Valley and joined Google as the Head of Diversity
Sourcing in People Operations-leading the charge across the company to increase the representation of diverse
technologists globally.
Gisselle Ruiz will be speaking on “Confidence 101.”
Sonja Wilkerson
Vice President, Human Resources
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Ms. Wilkerson joined HP as a Vice President of Human Resources in November of 2014. Prior
to joining HP, Ms. Wilkerson was a Director of Human Resources with Cisco for over 10
years. In her last role, she was a responsible for providing strategic HR support to Cisco’s core
engineering products including the Server, Switching, Routing, Software, Hardware, and CTO
organizations.
Previously, Ms. Wilkerson served as Vice President of Human Resources for Vitria Technology,
Sequence Design, and Infinity Financial Technology from 1997 to 2004 where she built
HR functions from the ground up, worked with the Board of Directors, venture capitalist, and compensation
committees. She was a Director of Human Resources supporting Global Sales and Marketing with Synopsys where
she was responsible for attracting, retaining, and developing talent in Singapore, Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. Ms.
Wilkerson began her career with Sun Microsystems in 1985 where she worked in various HR roles for 8 years.
Sonja Wilkerson will be speaking on “Essential Leadership Skills.”
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Schedule of Events
8:00 a.m. - 8:50 a.m.
R EGISTR ATION, C ONTINENTAL BREAKFAST & NETWORKING
8:50 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
WELCOME & SPONSOR R EMARKS
Elana Hobson - Chairwoman, California Diversity Council
Bindu Garapaty - Manager, Marketing Education, Juniper Networks
Brian Tippens - Chief Diversity Officer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
9:00 a.m. - 9:05 a.m.
I NTRODUCTION OF PANELISTS AND TOPICS
Donnie Small - Senior Technical Recruiter, Diversity Specialist, Facebook
9:05 a.m. 9:35 a.m.
SESSION I
9:35 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
BREAK
9:50 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
SESSION II
10:15 a.m. - 10:25 a.m. BREAK
10:25 a.m. - 10:55 a.m. SESSION III
10:55 a.m. - 11:05 a.m. BREAK
11:05 a.m. - 11:35 a.m. SESSION IV
11:35 a.m. - 11:40 a.m. C LOSING R EMARKS
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