Annual EWG Summit & Training Conference
at the US Chamber of Commerce
“Women: Builders of Communities & Dreams”

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Join leading women from the public and private sector for a full day of education and networking. In keeping with this year’s National Women’s History Month, we’re honoring the spirit of possibility and hope set in motion by generations of women in their creation of communities and their encouragement of dreams. We’ve built a program that will help women continue to excel and build communities into the future.

Hear from a collection of women how they have created change and progress. Learn new ideas and new ways of thinking. Explore how you can make build communities in your own agencies, organizations and neighborhoods. Make new contacts and new friends. Enrich your knowledge. Discover new resources.

Special thanks to conference sponsor: Native American Marketing and Development Corporation

Speakers include:

Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao (bio)
When President George W. Bush nominated Elaine L. Chao, the first Asian-American woman appointed to a President’s cabinet in U.S. history, he described her as an individual with “strong executive talent, compassion, and commitment to helping people build better lives.” Secretary Chao, who is respected as an effective and articulate champion of the nation’s contemporary workforce focusing the Labor Department on the modern realities of workers’ lives, will share her thoughts on how women are building communities and dreams.

Anna Escobedo Cabral, U.S. Treasurer (bio) “None of us stands alone. We rest on the shoulders of those who have gone before. We are expected to repay their sacrifices by working to ensure that our children and our children's children inherit a safer, better world.” As a third generation Mexican American, first generation college graduate and the second highest ranking Hispanic in the Bush administration, Ms. Cabral has wisdom and experience to share with all women as they seek to build tomorrow’s neighborhoods.
As treasurer, Cabral advises the secretary and deputy secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department, the director of the U.S. Mint, and the director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing on matters relating to coinage, currency and other financial instruments issued by the federal government.

Kim Nelson, Executive Director
e-government, Microsoft After four years at the helm as CIO at EPA, Ms. Nelson left to join Microsoft in a newly-created position to head up its efforts to provide the technology needed to make an increasing number of government services available directly to the public. Nelson said she left EPA well-positioned to support citizen-centric government and its "challenging mission of protecting human health and safeguarding the natural environment." She’ll chair a panel of four former state and federal executives who will talk about their experience transitioning from the public sector to the private sector.

How did their public sector experience prepare them for a successful career in the private sector? What would they have done differently had they known what they know now about private sector demands and expectations? Expect a lively discussion moderated by the publisher of one of the nation’s premier technology publications. Panelists include:

Cathy Wagenfer, Director, Business Development, Lockheed Martin Information Technology, formerly Maryland Department of the Environment

Mary Ellen Condon, Vice President and Deputy Director, Orion Center for Homeland Security, SRA International, formerly Department of Justice

Anna F. Dixon, Managing Consultant, IBM Business Consulting Services, formerly Department of Homeland Security.

Anne Armstrong, Federal Computer Week

Torie Clarke (bio)
From the Pentagon to the private sector, Torie Clarke has been at the center of some of the most historic events in the United States in recent years. She is renowned and respected in political and business circles as one of the nation’s most gifted communicators. She served most recently in the public sector as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and was at her desk in the Pentagon’s outer ring when the World Trade Center was attacked on September 11, 2001. Today, she is a Senior Advisor for Comcast Corporation and on air commentator for CNN and recently wrote a book, Lipstick on a Pig: Winning in the No-Spin Era by Someone Who Knows the Game. Join us for an entertaining and insightful presentation.

Karen Evans, Administrator of E-Government and Information Technology, Office of Management and Budget (bio)
Ms. Evans has been instrumental in building communities through technology for more than 20 years in the public sector. Along the way, she has seen many applications and remarkable solutions. Hear about some of these as well as what’s in store for the future.

Dr. Linda Combs, Comptroller, Office of Federal Financial Management, OMB (bio)
"Work hard, be bold, and think big," are the words of advice Dr. Combs gives to those interested in a career in public service. She also lives those words and will share advice from a long career that includes key positions at EPA, Treasury, Transportation, Education, in the private sectors and as an educator in the public school system. She is also author of A Long Goodbye and Beyond: Coping with Alzheimer's an account of her mother's struggle with Alzheimer's.

Dr. Mary Catherine Bateson (bio)
“We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.” Join cultural anthropologist Ms. Bateson for an intriguing conversation that will inspire your learning. Like her parents anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, Ms. Bateson has inspired a generation. As a founder of GrannyVoter.org, she is now inspiring and laying the ground work for another generation.

Mary Fillmore, Founder & Director of Changing Work (bio)
Helping women succeed has been a career goal – and life goal – for Ms. Fillmore. Her book Women MBAs: A Foot in the Door has been called "one of the few absolute must books for today's serious career women.” She will share the stories of women and strategies on mentoring, coaching and succeeding in today world.

Fees: EWG/TIAW Members - $225; Non-members - $295

Training conference fees fall within the Government Employees Training Act (GETA)

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