You are invited to join IAMCP's Women in Leadership and Technology, CATA Women in Technology and Microsoft's Women's Groups as we join to present a fun evening of networking, empowerment and finding the courage to follow your own dreams.

The evening will include a light snack and will feature a book reading from Sheryl Steinberg, journalist and author of the novel "Opportunity Rings", a light-hearted look at finding our strengths through our adversities.

About the Author

When Sheryl Steinberg was a girl, she thought she would become an architect. An interior designer. A sports reporter. A physio-therapist. Even a coroner (during the Quincy TV show era).

After graduating university with a journalism degree, Sheryl got a job as an advertising copywriter-only to lose it a couple of years later due to the economic recession of the early 1990s.

Determined to keep writing, she picked up random writing jobs (translation: writing about rakes and power tools for Canadian Tire store flyers and catalogs), until she applied for a full-time posting as a technology publicist/writer. It didn't matter that she knew nothing about technology. She could learn (she needed the money). And learn she did, working on agency accounts over the years, like Dell, Lexmark, NEC and AT&T.

Inspired to marry her two worlds in 2004, Sheryl pitched one of her magazine editors on a feature article that would educate mainstream women on technology (complete with a fun, sexy Cosmo-like quiz).

Sheryl lives in Toronto and still writes about women and technology, architecture and design from her home office - while juggling meal preparation, helping her kids with homework and getting them to/from school, hockey, baseball, swimming and karate - with her smartphone and laptop permanently attached to her hip.