The Global Women in STEM Leadership Summit to be held in at the Atlanta Four Seasons, November 4-5, 2019 is the only one of its kind 2-day summit held in the world that is dedicated to giving women in STEM access to powerful tools, strategies and connections to advance their careers and their lives. Three hundred entrepreneur, academic, and business-women in technological and scientific fields from around the globe will participate.

Among Summit Partners: The University of Georgia College of Engineering, Northrup Grumman,  Lockheed Martin, Georgia Power, Oglethorpe Power, Georgia Transmission, Novelis

Summit Program: Over 30 plenary and break out speeches, panels, fireside chats, round table discussions, and mentoring and networking sessions with powerful takeaways such as:

Tools to navigate our increasingly fast, competitive and challenging business world

Innovative ideas and strategies to achieve breakthroughs

Action plans to accelerate personal and professional growth

Summit Speakers: The summit has called on influential movers and shakers and thought leaders from academia, industry, nonprofit, and entrepreneurship spheres, who are predominantly women, to share their rich and enriching stories and experiences and how they shattered the glass ceiling everywhere and in so many ways. The speakers and facilitators have written books, led major fortune companies, won big awards, founded companies and nonprofit organizations, worked across the globe, and appeared on major TV networks.

Summit speakers include:

Takoi Hamrita, Ph.D.: Global Women in STEM Leadership Summit Founder, Inaugural Chair, School of ECE, UGA 

Christine Fox Harbison: Vice President, Advanced Ground Sensors Land & Avionics C4ISR, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems

Maria Thacker Goethe: President & CEO, Georgia Bio; Executive Director, Georgia Global Health Alliance          

Mary Carol Alexander: Vice President of the Southeast Region, Microsoft             

Kenneth L. Robinson: Vice President, Western Region and Field Engineering, Engineering and Sciences, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems        

Lara O'Connor Hodgson: President & CEO, NOW Corp, Entrepreneur in Residence, Harvard Business School           

Elaine H. John: Enervision President/CEO             

Alex Marren: SVP and President, ABM Aviation 

Genevieve Bos  : SVP Strategic Alliances & Partnerships - Member of The Board of Advisors at PlatypusNeuro      

Ritu Aneja, Ph.D.: Distinguished University Professor at Georgia State University

Elizabeth G. Loboa, Ph.D.:Vice Chancellor for Strategic Partnerships and Dean of the College of Engineering, University of Missouri

Jackie Parker: JWP Consulting, LLC           

Meisa Salaita, Ph.D.: Co-Founder & Co-Executive Director, Atlanta Science Festival
             
Karen Handel: President, Cogent Strategies       

Karen Cashion: CEO, Tech Alpharetta    

Brooke Beach: CEO & Founder at Marketwake

Kimberly A. Jackson: Founder & Principal of CKI

Toni Presnell: VP, Environmental Affairs, Oglethorpe Power Corporation