Wednesday, January 29 – Wednesday, February 19 | Online | Register
Join us for our 2nd annual Women Talk Tech Conference – Virtual Edition! This four-week series for and by women entrepreneurs will feature three panels on leadership, funding, angel investing, and conclude with 3 women-owned companies presenting their innovative technology solutions at a Virtual Demo Day. This series will provide women innovators in tech and life science with real-world advice and actionable insights they can immediately implement in their businesses.
You’ll have the chance to:
Founders face a million challenges when they are starting their business. Our panelists will share what they have learned in their own businesses and as investors to help you scale your leadership skills while scaling your business.
Speakers:
Tracy Podell, Executive Coach, Evolution
Debra Liebert, Managing Director, Domain Associates
Irene Woerner, CEO, emTRUTH
Jenna Mons Anderson, CEO, AccessElite
You’ve closed your funding round and now you have to make it last! Panelists with C-suite experience will share strategies on how they stretched their runway and the tough choices they made along the way.
Speakers:
Paige Smith, Associate, Stradling
Amy Fox, VP Human Resources, Halozyme Therapeutics
Cathy Kim, COO, Voluware
Lubna Ahmad, CEO, Invoy Technologies
A panel of women angel investors will discuss their investment strategy, criteria, and how they began their investing career. Panelists will also share advice for pitching to angel groups in general.
Speakers:
Kelly Barba, Director of Client Engagement, K&L Gates LLP
Kim Kovacs, President, The Arcview Group
Sarah Fergusson Chambless, Partner, Fenwick & West
Janice Varney Hamlin, CEO, Marketing Immersion
There will be 3 women-owned companies presenting their innovative technology solutions. You will leave the demo day with actionable takeaways you can directly apply to your business to increase efficiency, performance, scalability, and growth.
Speakers: TBD
Funded in part through a Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration. All opinions, conclusions, and/or recommendations expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the SBA. All programs are extended to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis.
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Funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Funded in part through a grant with the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development.
Mike Daniel is the network director of the Orange County Inland Empire SBDC Network, which assists aspiring entrepreneurs and current business owners throughout Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties. Mike was formerly the director of the SBDC office at Long Beach City College. As business owner and entrepreneur himself, he started his career as the owner of a Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory location in Manhattan Beach and went on to open a second location in Long Beach in 2001. In 2007, Mike sold the Manhattan Beach store for an above-market offer then invested in several additional locations as a minority shareholder. Mike further expanded his candy empire with venture located in Shoreline Village in Long Beach called Sugar Daddies Sweet Shoppe, based on fill-it yourself candy options.
Mike has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from California State University, Fullerton.
