Nasscom Announces 'IT Women Leadership Summit 2007'
NASSCOM announced the second annual 'IT Women Leadership Summit 2007' to be held in Bangalore on December 12-13, 2007 at The Leela Palace. This year's summit, in addition to several focused tracks will see the first ever-corporate awards for excellence in gender inclusivity. Other highlights at this years' summit include presentation of broad level findings of a NASSCOM - IIMA research study on findings on women in IT in India.
The NASSCOM IT Women Leadership Summit, now in its second year examines the drivers for gender inclusively at every level of enterprises. Factors such as the acute talent shortage the industry faces today, the different abilities and perspectives that women bring into their workplace, and the cultural factors impacting women aspiring for top leadership roles, will be discussed by thought leaders, including some of the most successful and well-known women entrepreneurs and leaders from India and abroad. This initiative is also being furthered by WIL-IT (Women in Leadership - IT), a networking platform for middle level IT women for networking, sharing best practices, mentoring and training. WIL-IT is active in Bangalore since September 2007, with regular networking and leadership training workshops. The Chennai network of WIL-IT was launched on 4 December, and WIL-IT Hyderabad is slated to be launched in January 2008.
This year the Summit will highlight the policies and best practices that would promote gender inclusivity in the IT-BPO workforce; what are the strategies for creating more women leaders; why successful enterprises create and support women's networks; how aspiring women leaders can equip themselves to reach the corner suites.
Event highlights -
- Listen to successful women CXO's share their experiences on what defines success and the skill sets required for success
- Hear the NASSCOM-IIMA study findings on women in IT in India
- Be guests at a glittering award ceremony for the IT companies who have shown excellence in promoting women's participation and learn the innovative initiatives undertaken by them
- Interact with high profile CEOs on their views about having women at the top
- Know why it makes more business sense for companies to have more gender inclusive policies
- Participate with men and women managers in exchanging perspectives on these issues
- Enhance your leadership qualities at parallel track skill-building workshops.
- Become a proactive member of WIL-IT, a networking platform for IT Women Leaders
Objectives of the NASSCOM IT Women Leadership Summit -
- Sensitize senior management and policy makers in the IT and ITES industry on the importance of diversity and gender-friendly policies to retain and develop women for management roles
- Share insights on how global companies in IT and other related industries have benefited by having more women leaders in their organizations.
- Create a platform to allow women leaders to share their experiences of what it takes to reach the top.
- Equip women managers with insights on leadership skills, how to leverage their potential and work towards their career goals.
- Showcase successful examples of the NASSCOM gender diversity awards that will be announced at the summit.
