Fortune Magazine just concluded its annual Fortune’Most Powerful Women’ Summit. This year’s event was held in Laguna Niguel, California from October 17-19, 2016, and featured some really interesting conversations affecting women in business and leadership.
The 2016 theme was ‘Building a Better Future,’ and participants included Apple Senior Vice President Angela Ahrendts, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Co-founder Priscilla Chan, DDB North America CEO Wendy Clark, GE Vice Chairman Beth Comstock, Deloitte CEO Cathy Engelbert, Citigroup Latin America CEO Jane Fraser, Ingredion CEO Ilene Gordon, author and comedian Chelsea Handler, Anita Hill, Kate Hudson, Ariel Investments President Mellody Hobson, JWT CEO Tamara Ingram, Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James, Ellevest co-founder and CEO Sallie Krawcheck, Former Dupont CEO Ellen Kullman, NBCUniversal Chairman Donna Langley, BBG Ventures President Susan Lyne, Kleiner Perkins Managing Partner Mary Meeker, Campbell Soup President and CEO Denise Morrison, Alphabet/Google CFO Ruth Porat, Airbnb Head of Global Operations Varsha Rao, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Diane Sawyer, Barbra Streisand, Greta Van Susteren, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, plus the most senior women executives at leading global companies such as Amazon, Coca-Cola, Estee Lauder, Genentech, Goldman Sachs, Google, Home Depot, Johnson & Johnson, Nike, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, Starbucks, Uber, Under Armour, Unilever, and Walt Disney.
Watch and listen in on some of the conversations at the event.
Ivanka Trump, Businesswoman and ex-fashion model
Judy Smith, The CEO inspired the TV show “Scandal”
Priscilla Chan, Philanthropist, Pediatrician and wife of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg
American Apparel’s Former CEO Paula Schneider discusses her time with the embattled company.
Donna Langley, Chairman of Universal Pictures
Susan Wojcicki, CEO of You Tube
Marne Levine, COO Instagram
Ellen Kullman,Retired CEO and Chairman, Dupont
Wendy Clark, CEO of DDB North America
Ginny Romerty, IBM CEO
Tamara Ingram, J. Walter Thompson’s CEO
Deborah Lee James, U.S. Air Force Secretary on Women in the Military
Dayle Haddon, Canadian model promoting anti-aging products manufactured by L’Oreal
Actress Kate Hudson
Barbra Streisand
Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs CEO on his Battle with Cancer and View on the Global Economy
Photocredit: Fortune MPW
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