We know how important it is to find your knowledge tribe, tap your female networks and support each other to work toward the possible. girledworld is built on it. It's why we started. And it's why our community continues to grow as we future face, learn from each other and embrace innovation.
One of the biggest gifts of working in a startup building the next Gen of female founders and leaders is the fact that we get to meet incredible women. All the time.
In this city alone there are scores of phenomenal Changemakers, Trailblazers, Budding Entrepreneurs, Courageous Status Quo Shakers and Purpose-Fuelled Leaders inspiring, collaborating, co-creating and reimagining the way we work, live and play. Outstanding humans all round, innovating, iterating and building the futures we'll inhabit.
So it's my great pleasure to invite you to a Melbourne Knowledge Week University of Melbourne event I'm delighted to moderate, where you'll hear from a stellar panel of Melbourne’s best female entrepreneurs!
Unlock their secrets to entrepreneurial success. Learn how they lead companies that are changing the way the world works. Ask them how they started and scaled. And after the panel, stay and network with other passionate entrepreneurs and business owners over a drink or two at the Wade Institute of Entrepreneurship at the University of Melbourne (home to the next Gen of budding founders).
See invite below. Please share with your networks.
And please join us on the night.
I look forward to future-facing with you all.
Madeleine Grummet
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MELBOURNE KNOWLEDGE WEEK EVENT
Wade Institute, University of Melbourne
Tuesday May 2, 2017 6pm-8pm
Women Entrepreneurs: Changing The World
The Wade Institute is thrilled to invite you to hear from a panel of three amazing women entrepreneurs as part of Melbourne Knowledge Week. Moderated by entrepreneur, Co-founder of girledworld and Master of Entrepreneurship Alum Madeleine Grummet, Women Entrepreneurs: Changing the World is part of a week-long, city-wide annual festival featuring 70 new wave events to inspire curiosity, ignite conversation, encourage collaboration and bring future-focussed ideas to life.
FEMALE GUEST PANELLISTS
Bec Scott, STREAT
Bec Scott is the Co-founder and CEO of STREAT, a Melbourne-based social enterprise that works with marginalised young people aged 16-25 years and provides them with a healthy self, job and home. STREAT run a portfolio of eight foodservice businesses across Melbourne, including cafes, an artisan bakery, a catering company, and a coffee roastery. Prior to starting STREAT Scott was the Vice-President of KOTO, a hospitality training program and social enterprise for street youth in Hanoi and also worked for a decade in management positions at CSIRO, Australia’s premier science research organisation. Awarded a scholarship to the Australian National University and holding a Masters in International and Community Development, Scott traveled Australia as part of the Shell Questacon Science Circus, has founded a number of large interdisciplinary programs (particularly international science art programs) and helped establish the ACT Film Makers’ Network. For six years Scott has been on the Board of the Australian Choreographic Centre and was awarded the Vincent Fairfax Fellowship, an 18-month program to further develop outstanding young Australians who have demonstrated strong ethical leadership.
Dr Elaine Saunders, Blamey Saunders
Dr Elaine Saunders has been a pioneer in hearing research and innovation for over forty years. An award-winning, globally-recognised business woman, audiologist and academic, Saunders is the co-founder and CEO of Blamey Saunders hears, an innovative, world-leading hearing aid and telehealth company. In 2015 the Blamey Saunders IHearYou® self-fit hearing aid system received the Australian Good Design Award for Social Innovation and was a finalist in The Australian Innovation Challenge. Saunders was named an AFR/Westpac 100 Women of Influence in 2015, awarded the 2016 Clunies Ross Medal for Entrepreneur of the Year, the BioMelbourne Network's Women in Leadership Award 2015 and recognised as Asia's Leading Woman in Healthcare. Saunders blogs about hearing and hearing loss at elainesaunders.com.au
Charlotte Petris, Timelio
Charlotte Petris Co-founded Timelio after experiencing first-hand how difficult it was for businesses to raise finance. Actively involved in shaping Australia’s FinTech industry, Petris is Vice President of FinTech Australia and a member of the Australian Federal Government’s FinTech Advisory Group. Passionate about making it simple and easy for businesses across Australia to get finance, Petris describes the award-winning tech startup as a peer-to-peer marketplace for invoice financing, which will soon expand to a staff of more than 30 (with more than half of those hires female). Petris remains one of the only Australian females at the helm of a rapidly scaling Fintech startup.
Join us to hear and learn from these knowledge-rich, extraordinary entrepreneurs.
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