Cisco Connected Women

Present

The Connected Women

Leadership Forum 2013

A Program Guide

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Event Overview

Cisco, a global leader in the Networking industry, is hosting its Annual Connected Women's Leadership Forum, CWLF 2013, on Wednesday, September 4th2013, in Bangalore.

This industry event is organized by Cisco Connected Women, an Employee Resource Group (ERG) in Cisco. It is hosted by Cisco at our Bangalore Campus at Cessna Business Park. It has been a successful annual feature celebrating the growing participation of women in the workforce around the world as engineers, scientists, marketers, sociologists, teachers, and students. The intent of the event is to connect all the women and their supporters across the ecosystem to create a day of learning, networking and fun for leaders and professionals in the industry. This event provides equal opportunities to men and women and it has been successfully represented by sizable participation of attendees from Cisco and across the industry.

This year's theme is "Aspire, Reach Out, Rise Above ", with a special emphasis on strengthening women leadership, motivation and personality development.

Here is what this event means to the participants -

You get to actively interact with people of similar background and interests

You can take away personal development tips and advice

You find opportunities to connect with successful women leaders across the industry

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Agenda for the Day

Wednesday, September 4th2013

8:30 – 9:00 AM Registration

9:00 – 9:30 AM Event Launch and Welcome Note by V C Gopalratnam, Vice President, IT and CIO APJC, Cisco

9:30 – 10:20 AM Keynote address by Liz Centoni- Vice President/ General Manager, Service Provider Access Business, Cisco Kumud Srinivasan - Vice President, Technology and Manufacturing Group and President, Intel India

10:30 – 11:30 AM Panel Discussion on Aspire, Reach Out, Rise Above

11:30 – 12:00 PM A Fun Session

12:00 – 12:30 PM Motivational Speaker Session with Swarna Lakshmi

12:30 – 1:30 PM Lunch Break

1:30 – 2:30 PM Breakout Panel Sessions and Workshops Soft Skills Track - The Power of Being Seriously Silly Technical Track - Programmability of Everything Financial Planning Track - How to get Rich and Retire Early

2:30 –3:30 PM Networking Session

3:30 – 4:00 PM Closing ceremony

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Our Keynote Speakers

Liz Centoni

Vice President and General Manager Service Provider Wireline Access Group, Cisco Systems Inc

Liz Centoni, a 13+ year Cisco veteran, is responsible for leading the Service Provider Wireline Access Group, which includes the Access and Pre Aggregation portfolio within the Service Provider Networking Group. She has been instrumental in driving discipline, cadence, and structure to operational and strategic decision processes, portfolio analysis, planning, and analytics to maximize growth and

profitability for SPNG.

Ms. Centoni partners with senior leaders across Cisco functions to establish shared priorities and accountability that continue to drive improved quality and customer adoption. As part of her customer operations charter, she works with high touch customers to drive product insertions, increase engineering intimacy and executive focus with some of Cisco‟s top service provider customers.

Ms. Centoni brings over 20+ years of marketing, sales, and engineering experience to Cisco. She has worked for a variety of firms developing long range investment plans, M&A, and branding programs for industries such as consumer packaged goods and healthcare.

Her career progression can be attributed to her determination, courage, and simply the enjoyment she gets from working in the high-tech service provider industry. Ms. Centoni is passionate about personally contributing to business transformation and the growth of individuals and teams.

Ms. Centoni holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry and Physics as well as a Master‟s Degree in Business Administration.

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Kumud Srinivasan

President, Intel India and Vice President, Technology and Manufacturing Group, Intel.

Kumud M Srinivasan is President of Intel India and Vice President of the Technology and Manufacturing Group at Intel. In this capacity, she is responsible for general management of Intel's operations in India, which includes the location's overall strategy, business-enabling operations, organizational development, engineering and innovation for market

development, as well as managing relationships with government, industry and academia.

Ms. Srinivasan joined Intel in 1987 and has held several business and information systems positions within Intel's manufacturing and IT organizations.

Ms. Srinivasan is a member of the Board of Advisors of the School of Information Studies in Syracuse University.She is a member of the Governing Body of the International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore. She serves on the India Council of the Anita Borg Institute.

Ms. Srinivasan received her bachelor's degree in economics from Calcutta University in 1981 and her master's degree in information and library studies from Syracuse University in 1984. In addition, she has completed doctoral coursework in Information Science at University of California, Berkeley.

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Panel Discussions and Panelists

Panel Discussion on Aspire, Reach Out, Rise Above

Panelists:

Rohini Srivathsa, Ph.D.

Executive Director, Global Business Services (GBS), IBM India/South Asia

Dr. Rohini Srivathsa is focused on Front Office Transformation areas of Mobility, Social Business, Smarter

Commerce, Analytics and Cloud. She has over 20 years of experience in strategy consulting, practice leadership, sales & marketing and R&D leadership. Rohini has an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, USA, and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, USA. She has published extensively and is a frequent invited panelist/speaker on topics related to innovation, business strategy, technology and women in leadership.

JayshreeGururaj

Senior Director, Customer Services, Cisco

Jayshree brings nearly 20 years of experience in leading global teams in multiple geographies (US, EMEA and India) across a wide range of technologies and domains with

companies like AT&T Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies and Hewlett-Packard. She holds a Master‟s degree in Computer Science and an MBA from the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

Prakash Belawadi

Founder, Suchitra School of Cinema and Dramatic Arts

Prakash Belawadihas a BE in Mechanical Engineering and moved on to become a successful journalist and a known personality in cinema and theatre. He is a co-founder of

Centre of Film and Drama, which has launched Suchitra School of Cinema

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and Dramatic Arts in Bangalore. He is a regular columnist for Bangalore Mirror. He has won several accolades including a National Award for best feature film in English, 2003; Nataka Academy Award; Aryabhatta Award for Best Direction among others. Contact him atprakash.belawadi@gmail.com

AkilaKrishnakumar

Former - President Global Solution Centers at SunGard

Akila built and led SunGard‟s global R&D and operations footprint, including establishing and growing centers in India, China and Tunisia from 800 to 4000 employees. She

spearheaded operational excellence programs, distributed product development initiatives and productivity improvement across the global R&D organization. She is the former Chairperson for the American Chamber of Commerce Chapter and Chair of Nasscom‟s Regional Council. She has been counted among the top 5 women leaders in the Indian technology industry and also listed amongst the “50 Most Powerful Business Women in India”.

PriyaChetty-Rajagopal

Vice President & Partner, Stanton Chase International

A well known industry figure at Bangalore, PriyaChetty-Rajagopal heads the Corporate Practice at Stanton Chase International, a premier Executive Search firm rated

as the top seven worldwide. She is a long term member of the Global Stanton Chase Business Excellence Committee, Global Vice President – Corporate Initiatives, and has focused on setting up their Global Diversity Practice.

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Our Motivational Speaker

MsSwarna Lakshmi

Ms. Swarna Lakshmi is currently working for Canara Bank as a Probationary Officer. She is a Graduate in Computer Science from Nagpur University.

Swarnalost her vision after she graduated – when suddenly she realized that the person she could see a few seconds ago at a distance of 50 ftwas no longer visible! Her loss of vision was very sudden- and she was rushed to the hospital immediately. It was diagnosed that she had a brain tumor hidden inside the cluster of nerves – which also had a nervous system within it! The tumor was growing rapidly and was very close to bursting, which meant that she was left with her last few counts of breath.She was put under the knife and the tumor was successfully removed. Whileher life was saved, the doctors could not revive the vision loss.

Her journey into the new world with different approaches started at that point. She got enrolled with an NGO that helped her move to Bangalore. She learnt many new technologies including operating computers using screen readers. She took bank exams to qualify for employment in a nationalized bank – and was successful in getting gainful employment with Canara Bank.

Swarna works tirelessly to guide and teach other visually impaired individuals. She coaches them for corporate interviews, helps them prepare for competitive exams and guides them in creating presentations, enriching them with her corporate experience and tips for clear business communication in English.

She is an eternal optimist with the courage to swim against the tide when needed. She has an inspiring message to never give up easily and ruin this precious life the Almighty has given us. She is thankful for her supportive and understanding family.

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Our Workshops

Soft Skills Track

The Power of Being Seriously Silly- SameeraIyengar

SameeraIyengar is co-founder of Junoon, an organisation that aims to make the richness of theatre and the performing arts accessible to people across India. Previous to Junoon, Sameera was Director Projects at Prithvi Theatre, where she worked from 2002 to 2011.

Sameera has a PhD focusing on theatre from the Department of South Asian Languages &Civilisations at the University of Chicago, but her theatre journey began in her undergraduate years at MIT, where she majored in mathematics and minored in theatre. She believes that theatre can open doors of imagination and empathy and sheer delight - and is committed to bringing this possibility of theatre to more and more people across India.

Technical Track

Programmability of Everything -AmruturBhardwaj, MukeshTaneja and Ravishankar G Shiroor.

Amrutur Bharadwaj is the Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Science. He has his BTech in CS&E from IIT Bombay and a MS and PhD in EE from Stanford University. He has been previously employed at Agilent Labs, Palo Alto, CA where he primarily worked on High Speed Chip to Chip interconnects, and at Greenfield

Networks (now part of Cisco), where he worked on networking ASICs for high speed packet processing applications. Since 2004, he has been braving Bangalore Traffic and Roads, to do guru-giri at IISc.

MukeshTaneja is a Principal Engineer, Cisco. He has been working in the areas of Internet of Things and Mobility. Prior to joining Cisco, he worked on commercial products in the areas of Macro cell, Small Cell, IP networking & MPLS. He worked on standards related to MAC, Security and All-IP networking architectures for LTE,

3G and Cellular – WLAN technologies. Mukesh has a PhD from University of California San Diego and Executive Management training from IIM,Bangalore.

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Ravishankar G Shiroor is Co-founder, Stellapps Technologies. He has more than 17 years of experience in the Telecommunications. He is an entrepreneur focused on developing and deploying M2M, Smart Systems and Internet of Things based end-to-end technology solutions specific to industry segments specific emerging economies

like India. StellappsTechnologies, is making significant inroads in applying these technologies into Dairy and Agriculture sectors.

Financial Track

How to get Rich and Retire Early - S. G. Raja Sekharan

S.G. Raja Sekharan is avisiting MBA faculty, mentor to budding entrepreneurs, a wealth management consultant and an author of a book „How to get Rich and Retire early‟ on Investing in India.He has an active blog on investing in India. His corporate life included leadership roles in HR and Sales in NTT Data. Raj got his PGDBM

from XLRI Jamshedpur and Chemical Engineering Degree from CIT, Coimbatore.

Contact him at rajasekharan.sg@gmail.com

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About Cisco Connected Women (CCW)

Cisco recognizes the need for more female participation in high technology and business. Cisco has programs and resources to help women develop their skills as individual contributors, managers, and senior executives. In line with its inclusive organizational culture, Cisco has a number of employee networks to support the development and growth opportunities of staff – and Cisco Connected Women (CCW) is an important one. CCW has a broad vision “to contribute to the strategic effort to enhance Cisco's success in attracting, developing and retaining talented women employees”. Cisco views the CCW as an integral part of its business success.

CCW India has more than 350 employees as members. CCW activities are strategized and executed by a core team of volunteers, with the guidance of executive sponsors and thought leaders. The volunteers develop programs in line with the business guidelines and employee-needs in the context of the local culture. The executive sponsors provide thought leadership, business direction and funding for such initiatives.

Like its other employee networks, Cisco‟s CCW in India maintains a business plan, with specific goals in several focus areas that support the company's business objectives.These include:

Business Partnerships: The Connected Women Leadership Forum is an initiative to bring professionals from Cisco and corresponding leaders from our customers and partners to share business practices and learn from each other to build a stronger ecosystem in the industry.

Recruitment: The „Girls in Technology‟ program focuses primarily on building an interest in technology among female college students.

Professional Development: The Powered Development Sessions is an open event for all employees, giving them an opportunity to hone their technical and soft skills. Panel discussions, seminars, networking events like International Women‟s Day celebration have helped build a strong network among employees at Cisco. The CCW website and WIKI are key initiatives to sustain the growth and success of this human network.

The Mentoring Program & Executive Shadowing helps in connecting junior women employees with senior managers and executives for focused mentoring sessions on career development at Cisco.

Critical Success Factors

A clear framework for vision, strategy, execution and metrics for this employee resource group

Alignment with business objectives

Visible support from senior management

Dedicated team of volunteers

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About Cisco

Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Today, networks are an essential part of business, education, government and home communications, and Cisco Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of these networks. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create Internet solutions that allow individuals, companies, and countries to increase productivity, improve customer satisfaction and strengthen competitive advantage. The Cisco name has become synonymous with the Internet, as well as with the productivity improvements that Internet business solutions provide. At Cisco, our vision is to change the way people work, live, play and learn.

Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)- based networking technologies. Today, with employees and development spread worldwide, the tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products in the core areas of routing and switching, as well as advanced technologies in areas such as Home Networking, IP Telephony, Optical, Network Security, Storage Networking and Wireless LAN.

Cisco India Pvt. Ltd. commenced operations in 1995. With sales and marketing operations spread across 7 key cities in India - New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Kolkata and Hyderabad and a Global Development Centre in Bangalore (largest outside of the US), Cisco dominates the networking market in core technologies of routing and switching, as well as WLAN and network security. The total India headcount is over 7000 employees, including R&D, sales and business support staff.

In October 2007, Cisco opened operations in India at the new Globalization Centre Campus, which was inaugurated by Cisco‟s Chief Executive Officer Mr. John Chambers and the honorable former President Dr. Abdul Kalam. The centre also includes a state of the art Global Briefing Centre with the latest technologies from Cisco on display including the award winning Cisco Telepresence Systems.

For more information please refer to http://www.cisco.com