FROM INTERNS TO ENTREPENEURS - FROM YOUR ROLODEX TO LINKED-IN
Using Technology and Personal Relationships to Build a Professional Network
April 4, 2008 - Atlantic City Convention Center, Atlantic City, NJ

Purpose: Provide an initial regional conference for Women in S&T with a focus upon career and business development that will facilitate the further development of an active, regional SMART Women’s Program.

This program will leverage the SMART infrastructure of our Congressional Caucus, our Federal Executive Branch contacts, State leaders and the tech community. We will conduct morning plenary sessions and exhibits followed by lunch and two afternoon workshops on Regional Women’s Leadership and Health Care.

For further information on SMART, please click on the above logo.


Platinum Sponsors:

PA Office of the Lt Governor and Stokes Advertising

Silver Sponsor:
Rowan University

Supporting Sponsors:

New Jersey Technology Council, DE Commission for Women, NJ Legislative Caucus for S&T and the New Jersey Network PA Lt. Governor. We will seek other women’s groups & our other organizational partners as additional sponsors.


AGENDA
7:00-8:00

7:30-8:30

8:30-9:00


9:00-9:30


9:30-11:00











11:00-Noon

Noon - 1:30PM


1:30 – 3:00

















3:00

Exhibit Move In

Registration/Breakfast/Exhibits/Networking

Opening Comments & Welcome
Bob Carullo - SMART Executive Director

Federal Topics
Kathleen Donnelly – Naval Air System Command Lakehurst, Engineering Director

States Panel - Using Technology and Personal Relationships to Build a Professional Network
Moderator: Claire DeMatteis
DE

MD

NJ

PA
Judy McKinney-Cherry – Director, Delaware Economic Development Office
Claire DeMatteis - Chair DE Commission for Women
Robbie Melton - Senior PM, Entrepreneurial Development, TEDCO
Dory Stacks - Executive Director MD Commission for Women (invited)
Kathleen Coviello - NJ Economic Development Authority
Janice Kovach - Director NJ Division on Women
Lieutenant Governor Catherine Baker Knoll
Leslie Stiles - Executive Director PA Commission for Women

Exhibits / Networking

Lunch / Keynote
PA Lieutenant Governor Catherine Baker Knoll

Concurrent Workshops
Workshop 1

Regional Women’s Panel – Women Taking the Lead in Academia, Industry, Government Labs & Support Organizations
Moderator: Elizabeth Christopherson, New Jersey Network
DE: Cheryl Heiks – LLuminari
MD: Col. Mary Deutsch – Ft Detrick Garrison Commander
NJ: Dianne Dorland, Rowan University
PA: RoseAnn Rosenthal – Ben Franklin Technology Partners SEPA

Workshop 2
Health Care, "Understanding Cancer Risk: Current Practices in Personalized Medicine and Cancer Genetics"
Bridget LeGrazie, RN, MSN, AOCN, APNc; Manager, Family Risk Assessment Program, Virtua Health
Angela R. Bradbury, MD; Director, Margaret Dyson Family Risk Assessment Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center

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