The Walnut Creek Chamber of Commerce and The PMI Group, Inc., in association with Chevron Corporation, convene the 2009 East Bay Women’s Conference, Creating Impact – Influencing Positive Change, Monday, March 2, 2009, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., at the San Ramon Marriott, 2600 Bishop Drive, San Ramon, CA.
This year’s conference, with KGO Radio’s Rosie Allen as emcee, focuses on contemporary issues and features experts who will offer tools for surviving today’s economic environment, embracing social networking, anticipating micro and macro trends, building leadership skills, improving personal health, and giving back to our communities. Organizers again expect a sold out attendance of 550.
Keynote speaker Isabel Allende is a renowned novelist, teacher, journalist, and celebrated human rights advocate. Her Isabel Allende Foundation supports organizations that help women and children by providing education, healthcare, protection, and the means to empowerment.
Kickoff speaker Elizabeth Colton is president of the International Museum of Women (San Francisco), a groundbreaking social change museum that inspires global action, connects people across borders, and amplifies the voices of women worldwide through global exhibitions and cultural programs. Featured speaker Meagan Johnson, a vivacious, professional communicator, helps companies embrace and navigate today’s multi-generational workforce and will share her humor and insight as a Gen-Xer herself.
Attendees will choose from extraordinary speakers and sessions including Economic & Financial Markets in 2009 and Beyond; Getting the Most out of Social Networking; Good Leaders are Loved, Great Leader are Invisible; Health Behavior Strategies That Work; Taking Your Vision to Victory; Increasing the Impact of Your Charitable Giving; You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling; Write a Book: Build Credibility;
Conference highlights include continental breakfast, full lunch, and a champagne and hors d’oeuvres reception; exhibitor booths; free John Muir Women’s Health screenings for cholesterol, bone density, and blood pressure; and prize drawings. The bookstore, hosted by Lafayette Books, will be stocked with niche books and those written by EBWC speakers; Isabel Allende will be signing copies of her best-selling memoir The Sum of Our Days.
Registration for EBWC is $165.00 per person, and pre-registration is required. To register, contact the Walnut Creek Chamber of Commerce at www.walnut-creek.com or 925.934.2007.
The 2009 EBWC is supported by Premiere sponsors Citi Smith Barney, John Muir Health, and Wells Fargo Bank; Major sponsors at&t, Broadway Plaza, and PG&E; Event sponsors BPI, Capital and Counties, Contra Costa Times, Diablo magazine, KGO Radio, Miller Starr Regalia, and Safeway; and Supporting sponsors De La Housaye & Associates, Domaine Carneros, Tiffany & Co., and Whole Foods Market.
