Sample Talks, Articles, Panels, Workshops:

Social Entrepreneurship Showcase: Stanford Entrepreneurship Week, Wallenberg Hall, February 28 2010

Microfinance 2.0: Is it Market or Strategy? Microfinance India Summit 2009, Plenary Session - Revitalizing the Rural Economy, Livelihoods Day New Delhi, Oct 28, 2009

Workshop: Media and Management Bridges between Head and Heart for Impact, Wallenberg Summer Institute, Stanford University, August 7, 2009

Workshop: Operations Plan: the path from vision to reality Dorothy’s Place, Towards a 21st Century Model of Service and Community Transformation, California, March 11, 2009

Values Based Leadership in a Globalised World: A Market Action Perspective, Cover story on a New Model of Leadership, ISBInsight, Indian School of Business Magazine, Dec. 2008

What is BOP and Why You Should Care: Hitting the moving market with diffusion programs, The Secret Sauce of Innovation, Stanford University Continuing Studies Program, Fall Quarter, November 12, 2008

Seven Steps to Powerful Decision Making: Influencing Up by Leveraging Your Personal Power WCAN Fall Forum, Unleashing Your Potential, San Jose, Nov 6, 2008

Wisdom Perspectives on Leadership, Centre for Leadership, Innovation and Change, ISB, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, India, 23-26 October 2008

Getting to Diamond, Center for Development Finance, IFMR, Nungambakkam, Chennai, October 15, 2008

Technology Innovation: Key to Unlocking BOP Markets? International Sustainable Development Research Conference, India Habitat Center, New Delhi, India, 21-23 September 2008

Passionate Leadership: Realizing your Vision for Women of Color, Anita Borg Institute, Techleaders conference, Google, September 10-11, 2008 http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS118684+04-Aug-2008+BW20080804

How to Influence and Deliver Results, Indo-American Women Empowered (IWE) Professional Development Workshop, ICC Milpitas, August 2, 2008

World Future 2008; Seeing the Future through new eyes-Global Online Learning Pioneers (Panel of 7 students) with Ted Kahn of DesignWorlds, Washington DC, July 2008

Decisions…Decisions… Seven Steps to Powerful Decision Making Indus Women Leaders (IWL), June 12 2008 http://www.induswomenleaders.com/

Creativity 2.0: Virtual Worlds for Education and Innovation Emerging Technologies in Teaching Languages and Culture DigitalStream Monterey, March 17-19, 2008

Creativity 2.0: Contrasts between Multimedia and Language Media X at Stanford, February 25, 2008 http://events.stanford.edu/events/125/12583/

Social Entrepreneurship Showcase: Stanford Entrepreneurship Network (SEN), Wallenberg Hall, February 22 2008

Women in Science and Technology: Challenges and Changes through the Generations AMITA of Northern California and Google, September 20, 2007 http://www.mitcnc.org/amitanorcal/amitanorcal-eventinfo.html

The Next Step in Emerging Markets; TEKES profile August 07 http://www.tekes.fi/amerikka/monthlyfeat/amerikka_monthlyfeature0907.html

Virtual Life: Building Effective Virtual Teams, Stanford Summer Institute, Wallenberg Hall, August 1-3, 2007

Social Entrepreneurs: The New Breed – IIT 2007 Global Conference, July 6-8 2007, Santa Clara, California

Leading with Empathy: Corporate Skills Workshop Indo-American Women Empowered (IWE) Professional Development Workshop at Stanford, June 07

Operations Plan: the path from vision to reality Digital Vision Fellows Workshop April 24, 2007

Language, Literacy and Sacred Cows: Using Multimedia to Radically Change how we Educate and Communicate
– CSU Monterey, March 23, 2007

Social Entrepreneurship: Unlocking Emerging Markets – Graduate and undergraduate classes
- Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur,
- Indian Institute of Technology at Delhi,
India, February and March 2007

Social Mission as Strategy, This article introduces the concept of creating competitive advantage by employing a social mission as a business strategy. Three women led enterprises spanning USA, Brazil and India, were studied to develop the case for investing in technology solutions for poverty alleviation and social empowerment.
Published by Women In Technology International (WITI) Magazine , 2007

Getting to Diamond: Unlocking Emerging Markets Media X, H-STAR,
Stanford University, December 5, 2006

Getting to Diamond: Harnessing ICT as a Driver of Economic and Social Development - Frontiers of Knowledge for Africa,
University Leaders’ Forum, University of Cape Town, Nov 2006

Social Entrepreneurship as Strategy: Two Case Studies
– MBA class, Menlo College, August 2006

Ethical Conduct: A Workplace Oxymoron or a Business Need?
– Cal Poly Pomona, San Jose State University - 2006

Realizing Your Vision-Leading with passion: Being True to Yourself and Pursuing your Vision with Commitment
– Anita Borg Techleaders conference, Google, March 22-23, 2006

Seven Steps to Powerful Decision Making
– HPL Technical Women, HP Labs, Hewlett Packar, February 2006

New Economy, New Strategy: Digital Technology Innovations and Applications SPIE
- Electronic Imaging, San Jose, Jan 17, 2006

Technology Changes to the Marketplace:
WITI Annual Conference, San Jose, Dec 2005

New Economy? New Strategy: The Latest Technology Innovations and Applications Women In Busines;
Santa Clara University, May 2005

Decision Making for Self Empowerment: A Seven Step Guide - AWIS – Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto
http://www.pa-awis.org/newsletter/05_Jan_Feb.pdf

Technical Careers for Girls – Featured Speaker:
The Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose;Jan 2005

Where are the brave new mobile multimedia applications?
ACM Multimedia Conference ACM Multimedia 2004

HP Helps U.S. Clamp Down on Counterfeiting
http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2003/july_sept/counterfeit.html

Globalization, Technology and Culture: Imaging Research for Global Art and Science Program
– University of Michigan http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/gtc/initiatives/london.htm

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