Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/23/2012
11:45 am

Location
MIT

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The WiSDM Symposium, sponsored by the MIT Women in System Design and Management (WiSDM), will be held on Tuesday October 23, 2012, as the afternoon session of the 2012 MIT SDM Conference on Systems Thinking for Contemporary Challenges.
WiSDM has invited accomplished female leaders across the industries of food and health, consumer products, and defense to discuss the application of systems thinking and systems engineering in their respective organizations.
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AGENDA

11:45–12:30 pm: Lunch, MIT Faculty Club
12:30–1:15 pm: Luncheon Speaker
Zoe Finch Totten, Founder and CEO, The Full Yield; Ashoka Fellow
Reinstating Food in Healthcare Systems Design
1:15–1:45 pm: Break
1:45–2:30 pm: Heidi Grenek, Western Hemisphere Post Sale Supply Chain New Product Launch Manager, Xerox Corporation
Business Transformation and Optimization through System Dynamics and Systems Thinking
2:30–3:15 pm: Dr. Ellen Ferraro, Director of Systems Architecture, Design & Integration Directorate, Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems
The Art and Science of Systems Thinking and Systems Engineering
3:15–3:30 pm: Tina Srivastava, Deputy Technical Director, Electronic Warfare, Raytheon; SDM Fellow 2011
Key Themes—Creating Value through Systems Engineering
3:30–3:45 pm: Joan Rubin
Wrap-up
3:45–5:00 pm: Networking Reception Hosted by WiSDM
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