This document summarizes an organization called Women Influence Chicago that aims to cultivate women leaders in technology. It provides updates on the organization's progress, including partnering with other groups and launching a community collaboration tool. It also features short biographies of two speakers, Irenie Poitras from IBM and Anne Trompeter from her company Live Marketing, discussing their experiences with empowering women. The document promotes joining the Women Influence Chicago community.
3. MISSION
An organization that operates, as an umbrella, to cultivate women leaders in enterprise,
start-up and not-for-profit technology organizations, a goal to connect community and
increase female leadership at the top;; C-Suite, President, GM, CEO, and Public
Advisory Board positions across all verticals in Chicago.
4. WOMEN INFLUENCE CHICAGO UPDATES
Our progress, feedback from the survey, ITA partnership
IRENIE POITRAS + ANNE TROMPETER - Q&A
Women empowerment and some personal insights
COMMUNITY PLATFORM
What does this year look like? How can we influence your event?
LOOKING AHEAD
Rebecca Minkoff Instore Technology Tour
5. WOMEN INFLUENCE CHICAGO UPDATES
• We met for 4 quarters and are using purpose to build a community of like minded
individuals who do business together
• CloudCraze team ccElevate showed us build a women’s group within an
organization
• Started to map our events and honors that we can use to influence women leaders
• We partnered with WMBA, MDMII on Women in Manufacturing, ITA on the IOT
Summit
• We also want to congratulate Julia Kanouse for her new role as CEO of the ITA
• We are in the process of building a more solidified partnership with ITA
• We are starting to put a board together, so please let Julia or myself know if you
have interest
• Launched community collaboration tool earlier this week open invite through our
community
6. Irenie Poitras
Senior Mgr – Strategy & Design, IBM
Irenie
is
dedicated
in
her
pursuit
to
bring
her
love
and
expertise
of
customer,
content and
commerce
to
the
marketplace
to
solve
critical
digital
transformation
challenges.
This
“trifecta”
of
value
leverages
her
ability
to
take
Ideas
to
Action,
at
scale,
through
the
use
of
Design
Thinking.
Irenie
has
been
instrumental
in
helping
big
brands
(McDonald’s
&
Coca-‐Cola)
navigate
the
complexity
of
their
evolving
digital
ecosystems
and
adroitly
leading
clients
to
embrace
ecommerce
in
an
AGILE
fashion.
Irenie
provides
a
unique
blend
of
right
brain
and
left
brain
“sensing”
in
a
world
of
increasing
fragmentation,
having
most
recently
transitioned
over
as
a
Sr
Mgr.
with
Accenture|Fjord
companies
within
the
Insurance
and
Pharma
industries
to
reinvent
their
digital
businesses.
7. Anne’s
company, Live
Marketing,
is
a
well
established
boutique
agency
specializing
in
creating
engaging
experiences
for
tradeshow
+
meeting
attendees.
Buying
the
company
for
whom
she’d
been
Creative
Director
and
EVP
was
an
opportunity
to
refine
and
freshen
up
creative
solutions
used
in
B2B
setting
for
clients,
which
include
Intel,
Philips,
HPE,
Deloitte,
Baxter
and
CenturyLink.
(…and
grow
sales
by
30% J )
Anne
gained
her
agency
chops
as
an
Executive
Producer
at
Jack
Morton
Worldwide,
among
other
companies.
She’s
also
spoken
widely
at
industry
conferences
such
as
Experiential
Marketing
Summit,
Healthcare
Conventioners
Marketing
Association,
and
EXHIBITORLive.
Anne Trompeter
Principal;; Executive Creative Director
Live Marketing