The SEED Engineering mentoring program holds its big kick-off event
tomorrow and Wednesday here in Menlo Park, California. SEED holds monthly
phone-in meetings plus two in-person annual events: this two-day meeting in
September plus a one-day meeting in March. Over 100 people are signed up
for the event. We have participants who have travelled here from
China, Czech Rep., France, Germany, India, Ireland, Russia, The Netherlands,
and the UK.
Executive speakers tomorrow include:
Jonathan Schwartz, CEO and President
Juan Carlos Soto, Vice President of Adoption Marketing and Technology Evangelism
Talk Title: “Career Paths”
Ivan Sutherland, Sun Fellow and Vice President
Talk Title: “On Leadership”
Leslie Lambert, VP & Chief Architect for Sun IT
Talk Title: “What Sun IT is Looking for from Sun Engineering Leadership”
HR Director for the CTO Carol Gorski and I are also giving a repeat of our SEED
talk at the Grace Hopper Celebration of
Women in Computing 2006: “5 Years of Mentoring by the Numbers”. Part of
each day is devoted to the SEED Showcase (brief presentations on current work
by SEED participants, past and present). The SEEDs will eat lunch together and then
go on afternoon tours.
For this event, Tanya Jankot has arranged these tours:
- Sun’s Menlo Park
Enterprise Technology Center - Sun’s Menlo Park
Executive Briefing Center (EBC) - Sun’s xDesign Menlo Park
Usability Labs - Computer History Museum
in Mountain View - Sun Labs in Menlo Park
This event is by invitation only. SEED program participants, their managers and
mentors from any term are invited.
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