The first ever conference to discuss the leadership issues for women in technology will take place in Bangalore on March 10, 2008. In the conference, highly successful professional women from leading companies like IBM, Texas Instruments, Avaya, Yahoo!, Intel, Cisco will share their knowledge, experiences and insights to help empower more women to achieve their goals.

Some of the women leaders speaking at the event are Pamela Kumar, Director- India STG Engineering Labs, IBM; Aparna Pujar, Director - Media Products, Yahoo! India; Vani Kola, Managing Director, India, NEA-IndoUS Ventures; and Vasantha Erraguntla, Senior Engineering Manager, Bangalore Design Lab, Intel.

More then 700 mid and senior level technology professionals have registered for the event so far. There is a lot of excitement in professionals registering for the event. A Group Project Manager from an outsourced product engineering firm has said, "I want to know how one strikes a balance between increase family demands and work pressure and make it to the top." A senior recruiter from a leading IT firm has said, "I want to understand the role of woman in building corporate India and wealth creation for India. How do women build skills in understanding the diversity of the industry?"

An innovation officer at a multinational company says, "I am amazed by the way women are contributing immensely to any field they enter. This seminar will give me an opportunity to see and interact with these inspiring individuals since I also aspire to be like them very soon." A product manager from another multinational company says, "I expect to gain more confidence levels in handling issues of concern related either to product or process and want to hear from the panel their real life situations on the work field and how they managed it with less help from their male counterpart."

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