Speaker

Peggy Kilburn

Managing Director, Peggy Kilburn Conferences & Events

Since 2013, Peggy Kilburn has served as Program Director for WITI's annual Women in Technology Summit, as well as Managing Director for the Women in Technology Hall of Fame Awards. A seasoned director of such major conferences as COMDEX, AppleFest, ComNet, Harvard Computer Graphics Week, and Softcon, Peggy was the founding conference director for Macworld Expo and ran it for 14 years, zestfully growing the program to over 100 sessions with 375+ speakers. Since its founding, Peggy Kilburn Conferences has developed and administered more than 2,000 programs for such clients as Boston University, CeBIT America, Clasma Events, Customer Engagement Technology World, Harvard University, pulvermedia, Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP), SRI International, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She currently serves as Operations Director for Project Voice. Peggy is webmaster for RSVP Community Theatre of Asheboro, NC, while dabbling as a character actress and voice-over artist. As well, she manages The Heart of Christmas Dinner - a free Christmas Day party for seniors who would otherwise be alone on the happiest day of the year. Peggy is also an incipient champion for sustainability, FASD, and Intellectually Gifted Adult Aspergians, and holds a BA in Broadcast Journalism from the University of South Carolina.