Postcards

How the power players do it - by Fortune senior editor at large Patricia Sellers

A ticket to the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit

September 30, 2011: 2:40 PM ET

The just released Fortune Most Powerful Women list includes more Fortune 500 CEOs than ever. And next week's Most Powerful Women Summit includes plenty of them--Indra Nooyi of PepsiCo (PEP), Ellen Kullman of DuPont (DD), Pat Woertz of ADM (ADM), Denise Morrison of Campbell Soup (CPB)...plus one guy who manages to secure an invitation to the Summit every year. Warren Buffett. Fortune senior editor at large Carol Loomis will interview the Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) chief Tuesday morning.

You can watch Buffett and Loomis, as well as the entire main-stage program, for free by registering for the Virtual Summit, here.

This year's Summit participants include a record 30 of the 50 women on the MPW list. I'll be interviewing Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg (No. 12 in this year's rankings), media-empire builder Chelsea Handler (one of Fortune's featured women entrepreneurs), and Barbara Bush, the former President's daughter who now runs a world-changing startup called Global Health Corps.

We'll have provocative panels and one-on-ones with IBM's (IBM) Ginni Rometty, Gilt Groupe's Susan Lyne, financial services analyst Meredith Whitney, Gloria Steinem, actress Glenn Close, and AOL's (AOL) Arianna Huffington. Handler will interview Huffington. The two women have never met, but their phone conversation last Saturday suggests that this will be a must-watch session.

So tune in next Tuesday and Wednesday--and if you want a peek at what this hot-ticket event, now in its 13th year, is about, watch this:

Want to be a part of the discussion happening at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit? Use the hashtag #FortuneMPW on Twitter.

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Pattie Sellers
Patricia Sellers
Senior Editor at Large, Fortune
Executive Director of MPW/Live Content, Time Inc.

Fortune senior editor at large Pattie Sellers has written some of Fortune's most talked-about cover stories, including "Marissa Mayer: Ready to Rumble at Yahoo," "Oprah's Next Act," "Can Meg Whitman Save California?" "The $100 Billion Woman" (Melinda Gates), and "Remodeling Martha" (Martha Stewart). She has helped oversee Fortune's "Most Powerful Women in Business" package every year since its launch in 1998. Pattie is Executive Director of the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, the preeminent gathering of women leaders in business and beyond. She oversees MPW programs that enable women leaders to extend their influence and empower the next generation—such as Fortune MPW Entrepreneurs and the Fortune-U.S. State Department Global Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership. Beyond her Fortune duties, she is also developing Live Content across Time Inc. Pattie grew up in Allentown, PA, graduated from the University of Virginia, and started at Fortune in 1984. Her blog, Postcards, is about how power players lead, manage others, and navigate their careers.

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