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Fortune’s annual Most Powerful Women Summit will take place Monday, October 6th through Wednesday, October 8th. The schedule of main stage sessions is listed below. Main stage sessions listed below will be livestreamed. As the event occurs, the schedule will be updated with links to write-ups of each session, which will also include an on-demand video of the full session. Pictures from the event will also be available on our Flickr page.

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2014

2:45 PM FINDING YOUR GENIUS
How to identify the moments of brilliance that lead to success—and replicate them to advance your career
Bridgette Heller, Executive Vice President and President, Consumer Care, Merck
Tamara Lundgren, President and CEO, Schnitzer Steel; Chairman, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Pontish Yeramyan, Founder and CEO, Gap International
Moderator: Jennifer Reingold, Senior Editor and Co-chair, MPW Summit, Fortune

4:00 PM THE NEW M&A
Inversions, spinoffs, activists and more: It’s a whole new world when it comes to M&A
Heather Bresch, Chief Executive Officer, Mylan
Sue Decker, Trustee, Save the Children; Director, Berkshire Hathaway, Costco Wholesale, Intel
Susan Kilsby, Chairman, Shire; Director, BBA Aviation, Coca-Cola and Keurig Green Mountain
Moderator: Poppy Harlow, Correspondent, CNN

4:15 PM CONVERSATION: BEHIND THE SCENES AT FACEBOOK—WHAT IT’S REALLY LIKE TO WORK THERE
It’s a lot of work and a lot of fun—a top exec describes her day to day life
Carolyn Everson, Vice President, Global Marketing Solutions, Facebook
Interviewer: Colleen Leahey, Manager, Most Powerful Women, Fortune

7:15 PM–9:30 PM GALA DINNER AND PERFORMANCE
CONVERSATION: TRANSFORMING BUSINESSES
Lessons in reinvention from the chief who built eBay and is revamping HP
Meg Whitman, Chairman, President and CEO, Hewlett-Packard
Interviewer: Pattie Sellers, Fortune

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2014

8:05 AM THE BIG GET-TO-KNOW-YOU
Welcome by Pattie Sellers, Fortune

8:55 AM THE EDITOR’S WELCOME
Alan Murray, Editor, Fortune

9:00 AM HONORING GLOBAL WOMEN LEADERS
The Goldman Sachs and Fortune Global Women Leaders Award
Gircilene Gilca de Castro, Founder, Alimex Soluções em Alimentação Ltda., Brazil
Rehmah Kasule, Founder and President, CEDA International, Uganda
Gary Cohn, President and COO, The Goldman Sachs Group

9:15 AM CONVERSATION: THE ORACLE SPEAKS
The annual Fortune MPW interview with the world’s most successful investor
Warren Buffett, Chairman and CEO, Berkshire Hathaway
Interviewer: Carol Loomis, Retired Senior Editor-at-Large, Fortune

9:55 AM CONVERSATION: NEED FOR SPEED
How do you make a 430,000-person organization move fast? Big Blue’s CEO shares her tips (rule #1: Don’t protect the past.)
Ginni Rometty, Chairman, President, and CEO, IBM
Interviewer: Michal Lev-Ram, Senior Writer, and Co-chair, MPW Next Gen Summit, Fortune

10:20 AM CONVERSATION: THE BUSINESS OF BEAUTY
The Estée Lauder executive and director opens up about beauty, business and her career
Jane Lauder, Global Brand President, Clinique
Interviewer: Leigh Gallagher, Fortune

11:55 AM CONVERSATION: HAPPINESS AND HEALTH
The Academy Award-winning actress talks about her career and her calling: mental health programs for kids around the world
Goldie Hawn, Founder, The Hawn Foundation
Interviewer: Pattie Sellers, Fortune

12:10 PM INTRODUCING THE MPW INSIDER NETWORK
Pattie Sellers, Fortune

12:15 PM CONVERSATION: INSIDE THE DNA REVOLUTION
A conversation about biology, technology and the future of disease prevention
Anne Wojcicki, Co-founder and CEO, 23andMe
Interviewer: Nina Easton, Fortune

12:30 PM CONVERSATION: AMERICA’S CTO
America’s new CTO talks about making the leap from Google to the White House — how she landed the big job and what she plans to do in it
Megan Smith, United States Chief Technology Officer
Interviewer: Pattie Sellers, Fortune

2:30 PM CONVERSATION: GABRIELLE GIFFORDS
Rebuilding a life—and fulfilling a larger purpose
Gabrielle Giffords, Former U.S. Representative; U.S. House of Representatives; Co-founder, Americans for Responsible Solutions
Claudia Kelly, Stepdaughter of Gabrielle Giffords
Hayley Zachary, Executive Director, Americans for Responsible Solutions
Moderator: Jaimee Rose, Freelance Journalist; Former Reporter, The Arizona Republic/Pulitzer Prize Finalist

2:45 PM CONVERSATION: BIG PLANS
Google’s top women exec talks about scaling businesses, changing jobs and doing it all at once
Susan Wojcicki,Chief Executive Officer, YouTube
Interviewer: Jennifer Reingold, Fortune

3:00 PM CONVERSATION: GETTING TO “LIKE”
Facebook’s COO on how the best marketers socially engage
Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer, Facebook
Interviewer: Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune

3:10 PM CONVERSATION: SHE REPORTS, YOU DECIDE
How a trailblazing anchor found her path to success—and earned respect across the political divide
Megyn Kelly, Anchor, The Kelly File, Fox News Channel
Interviewer: Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer, Facebook

3:25 PM THE WORLD, AS WE SEE IT
Experts on the global economy assess critical dangers, challenges and opportunities
Wei Sun Christianson, Co-CEO, Asia Pacific, Morgan Stanley
Diana Farrell, President and CEO, JPMorgan Chase Institute
Jane Fraser, CEO, U.S. Consumer and Commercial Banking and CitiMortgages
Moderator: Nina Easton, Fortune

3:45 PM CONVERSATION: LEADING CHANGE—THROUGH GLOBAL STORMS AND BAD WEATHER
The ADM CEO talks change, a corporate move to the big city and continued success in the face of challenges
Pat Woertz, Chairman and CEO, Archer Daniels Midland
Interviewer: Jennifer Reingold, Fortune

4:00 PM CONVERSATION: LEADING IN THE SPOTLIGHT
The Oscar-winning actress and entrepreneur talks about building a career online and on screen
Gwyneth Paltrow, Actress; Founder and Chief Creative Officer, Goop, Inc.
Interviewer: Kristin van Ogtrop, Editor, Real Simple

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014

8:35 AM CONVERSATION: GLOBAL GOOD
The world’s leading philanthropist talks about redirecting her passion and purpose
Melinda Gates, Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Interviewer: Pattie Sellers, Fortune

9:00 AM CONVERSATION: NEW BLOOD
The extraordinary entrepreneur on Fortune’s June cover explains her mission and opportunity ahead
Elizabeth Holmes,Chief Executive Officer, Theranos
Interviewer: Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune

9:15 AM CONVERSATION: ENERGY’S CHALLENGES
The CEO of America’s largest utility talks about leadership, our energy future and managing the country’s largest electric power company
Lynn Good,President, CEO, and Vice Chair, Duke Energy
Interviewer: Leigh Gallagher, Fortune

9:30 AM SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS—THE GENERATIONAL DIVIDE
TIME and Real Simple editors share survey findings—and business experts cite why it matters to MPW leaders
Lori Goler, Vice President, People, Facebook
Susan Peters, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, GE
Kristin van Ogtrop, Editor, Real Simple
Moderator: Nancy Gibbs, Editor, TIME

9:50 AM SCALING YOUR COMPANY
Three star entrepreneurs on the challenges, lessons, and rewards in taking their businesses to the next level
Susan Coelius Keplinger, Co-founder and President, Triggit
Debbie Sterling, Founder and CEO, GoldieBlox
Shunee Yee, Founder, President and CEO, CSOFT International
Moderator: Leigh Gallagher, Fortune

10:10 AM CONVERSATION: OPEN FOR BUSINESS
A conversation with the secretary of commerce about how she approaches her job as America’s top CEO
Penny Pritzker,Secretary of Commerce, U.S. Department of Commerce
Interviewer: Nina Easton, Fortune

10:30 AM CONVERSATION: THE EBOLA CRISIS
Just back from Liberia and home on a 21-day quarantine, Dr. Nancy gives us an update on the evolving situation via video interview.
Dr. Nancy Snyderman, Chief Medical Editor, NBC News
Interviewer: Nina Easton, Fortune

10:45 AM CONVERSATION: IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT
The CEO with the toughest job in corporate America talks about leading through crisis and overhauling a culture
Mary Barra, Chief Executive Officer, General Motors
Interviewer: Alan Murray, Fortune

11:10 AM CLOSING REMARKS AND ADJOURN

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