Please register - there will not be onsite registration this time due to the policy at JM Family.

WITI ‘s (Women In Technology International) South Florida Network will honor the recipients of the 2nd Annual WITI ‘Women to Watch’ Awards on November 30, 2011 at JM Family in Deerfield Beach, FL. We will also be honoring one of the nominees with the *Carolyn Leighton Leadership Award.

We will also have the honor to listen Dr. Alicia Abella is Executive Director of the Innovative Services Research Department at AT&T Labs Research VIA SKYPE.

The purpose of the WITI South Florida's Women to Watch award is to honor and recognize rising as well as existing leaders within their Company and Community.

The honorees for 2nd Annual WITI South Florida's Women to Watch are:

Susan Wills Amat, M.B.A., Ph.D. Executive Director of The Launch Pad

Sharon Moura CTO of Tyco,

Pat Smith CIO of Our Kids

Beth Morgan Senior Vice President of Teremark Worldwide

*The Carolyn Leighton Leadership Award

Carolyn Leighton was named as one of the Most Influential Women in Technology in 2011 by Fast Company magazine. Carolyn set about to create a support network where women could find a foothold in science and high-tech fields. Launched in 1989, Women in Technology International was essentially an email network to help coordinate in-person events for women in tech.

The social Web was in its incipience; the first search engine was just being assembled at McGill University, and five-year-old Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg was somewhere in suburban New York watching "Sesame Street." Needless to say, there was no Meetup.com to come to her aid; Leighton had to build up her membership woman by woman using word of mouth.

The Carolyn Leighton Leadership Award will go to Woman to Watch nominee whose visionary contributions have broken societal, political or economic barriers.