Women of Vision Awards Banquet & Top Company For Technical Women Workshop: Women of Vision Keynote Speaker and Master of Ceremonies

Kara Swisher

Kara Swisher currently edits the tech and news site, AllThingsD.com.  She started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal’s San Francisco bureau in 1997. Her column BoomTown originally appeared on the front page of the Marketplace section and also online at WSJ.com.  Previously, she covered breaking news about the Web’s major players and Internet policy issues and also wrote feature articles on technology for the paper. She has also written a weekly column for the Personal Journal on home gadget issues called Home Economics. With Walt Mossberg, she currently co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech conference with interviewees such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and many other leading players in the tech and media industries. The gathering is considered one of the leading conferences focused on the convergence of tech and media industries.

Previously, Ms. Swisher worked as a reporter at the Washington Post. She is also the author of “aol.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads and Made Millions in the War for the Web,” published by Times Business Books in July 1998. The sequel, “There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for a Digital Future,” was published in the fall of 2003 by Crown Business Books.

She is a graduate of Georgetown University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Monica Kim

Being a somewhat recent transplant from Canada, I’m excited to be a part of an event that recognizes and awards women of such cultural diversity.

Born in Seoul, South Korea, my family and I immigrated to Canada when I was 6 years old.

I attended Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario Canada and received a bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Journalism.

I have been a tv reporter and anchor for nearly 20 years in Toronto. My career began at YTV, where I made national, international stories accessible for Canada’s youth. It was there that I achieved one of the highlights of my career, covering the fall of apartheid in South Africa.

From there I moved to Global TV, one of Canada’s 2 private networks, where I specialized in politics, providing daily coverage of the legislature as well as hosting a weekly political forum show. It was there I first started at the anchor desk.

I then moved to CBC – Canada’s national public network to anchor their flagship supper hour newscast.

I believe information and education is the key to real change. And that is what I Iove about being a journalist — getting to ask the questions and being given the access to people, places and events to find the answers, and to bring that to the public.

Presently, I live in the Bay area with my husband and young daughter.