Cisco Connected Women (CCW), Cisco's internal Employee Resource Group, has hosted its 3rd Annual Connected Women Leadership Forum at the Cisco Globalization Centre East in Bangalore. The theme of this year’s event was "Empowering Women in Technology". The event was focussed on identifying, developing and empowering women, especially in the technology industry.
The event brought together about 250-300 women professionals representing various companies and exposed participants to varying perspectives on important topics such as skills required for 21st century technology-enabled work environments, finding right opportunities, managing career transitions, working cross-culturally in multi-generation workforce, and building and leveraging women networks.
Kathy Hill, Senior Vice-President, Development Strategy & Operations, Cisco Systems, delivered the keynote address and participated in a panel discussion on "Skills for the 21st Century". The event also included different sessions chaired by Cisco leaders including Shubhra Sinha, Managing Director, Marketing Globalization, Cisco; Jake Chacko, VP, Business Development, Cisco Services; Rama Padmanabhan, Director, Legal, Cisco; Radhika Muthukumaran, Manager, India Inclusion & Diversity, Cisco Systems; Tracy Ann Curtis, Manager, APAC Inclusion & Diversity, Cisco Systems and Pallavi Muralidhara, Manager, Software Development, Cisco Systems. Some of the other prominent speakers at the forum were Vasanthi Srinivasan, Professor, IIM-Bangalore; Susan Jain, CMO, IBM India; and Sejal Gulati, Vice-President, Time Inc.
In today's world, there is growing participation of women in this network around the world as engineers, scientists, sociologists, teachers and students. It is with the hope of connecting all these women across the ecosystem that the Cisco Connected Women (CCW) organised the CWLF 2010.
