2025 Agenda
Thursday, May 1, 2025 | ||||
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7:30 AM | Registration opens | |||
7:30 AM - 8:20 AM | Networking Breakfast | Meet and engage with the ChIPs community | ||
8:20 AM - 8:30 AM | Welcome Remarks | Dorian Daley, Board Director - Panetta Institute | ![]() | |
8:30 AM - 9:15 AM | Career Highs and Lows | Hear the stories of their experiences, life events, not just work, (mistakes and happy accidents) from senior leaders as they share the highs and lows of their paths, the obstacles, and how they rose above. | Esha Bandyopadhyay, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary - Spectrum Dynamics Karineh Khachatourian, Co-Founder and Managing Partner - KXT LAW Melissa Ruiz, Intellectual Property Litigation Associate - Jackson Walker Elena Grimme, GM and Associate General Counsel, Western Europe - Microsoft Corporation | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM | Table Activity | In this interactive exercise, map your own highs and lows to help discover opportunities for growth.
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10:00 AM - 10:40 AM | Networking Break | |||
10:40 AM - 11:25 AM | Paths of Purpose: Legal Careers with Impact | Hear from leading lawyers, learn how they shaped their careers, and identify the paths you can take to move forward with intention. | Mary Fuller, Regional Director, Silicon Valley Office, USPTO - United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Taryn Williams, Group Counsel - Intel | ![]() ![]() |
11:25 AM - 12:10 PM | Table Activity | In this visualization and interactive exercise, fast forward a decade to gain clarity as you navigate your career path, identify what is and is not in your control, and get specific on action you can take to align your behavior with your values.
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12:10 PM - 1:25 PM | Networking Lunch | Use this time to take a brain break or sign up for lunch club and join others in an interactive exercise that will engage your creative side. | ||
1:25 PM - 1:55 PM | Fireside chat: Embrace the Power of You! Owning Your Identity at Work |
Learn what is holding you back, how to overcome it, and move forward with impact Author, venture capital investor, and board member of Salsify, Tricia Montalvo Timm is a first-generation Latina who rose through the ranks of Silicon Valley advising high-tech companies big and small, culminating in the sale of data analytics software company Looker to Google for $2.6 billion. | Tricia Montalvo Timm, Board Director - Salsify | ![]() |
1:55 PM - 2:40 PM | Table Activity | In this interactive exercise, identify what is holding you back so you can start to move forward. | ||
2:40 PM - 3:25 PM | Networking Break | |||
3:25 PM - 3:55 PM | Fireside chat: Creating Your Personal Board of Advisors | To go far, we need to surround ourselves with the right people. Learn how to develop a board of advisors to empower you to achieve their goals. In this fireside chat, Meredith Price, Senior Director, Legal at Nvidia, will show you how she did it, what worked, what got in the way, and offer guidance so you can get started. | Meredith Price, Senior Director - NVIDIA Corporation Sarah Craig, Partner - Kirkland & Ellis LLP | ![]() ![]() |
3:55 PM - 4:20 PM | Table Activity: Board of Advisors |
Complete your road map of empowered growth with your personal board of advisors. Participants will be guided through an exercise so you can leave feeling confident and ready to take charge of your career. | ||
4:20 PM - 4:30 PM | Wrap-up and Take-aways | |||
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Networking Reception | Sponsored by |
Speakers and agenda are subject to change