We Own It Summit

Exploring the Motivations, Metrics, Money and Myths Around Women Entrepreneurs

Event website coming soon:  http://www.weownitsummit.org/

By Invitation Only For:
Leaders of organizations and institutions advocating, promoting, accelerating and researching women’s participation in high-growth entrepreneurship.

Background:
A Summit established to explore women’s participation in high growth businesses and identify the solutions that move us forward in to the decade of the woman entrepreneur!

We know the motivations
We know the metrics
We know the money
We know the myths
We come together to own the solutions

The Kauffman Foundation has for many years provided seed funding in support of research and programmatic initiatives intended to increase the number of women as entrepreneurs of high growth firms.  In the last two years their research suggests that the tides have begun to turn and they have noted the feeder group of women receiving advanced degrees in science and technology has greatly increased.

In the fall of 2009 Astia convened a dialogue with more than 20 organizations that work in the arena of women’s entrepreneurship.  Simply stated, it was time that we collaborate to drive toward common objectives to be identified and measured annually at one significant conference – The We Own It Summit. 

Objective:
The goal of the day is to drive collaboration, energize the global discussion, and create a roadmap for increasing women’s participation in high-growth entrepreneurship in the 2nd decade of this century.

The We Own It Summit creates the venue for leaders to articulate their respective missions, identify opportunities to collaborate and build alliances, share research and findings, and create a shared-policy agenda.  A specific outcome is to define key data to support policy recommendations to directly address the core challenges facing women entrepreneurs in high growth sectors, and those who aspire to be.

Internationally renowned panelists will explore the opportunities and challenges for women entrepreneurs – in particular within high-growth markets such as high technology, life science, clean technology and high-growth consumer brands.  

Host Sponsor:

 

Location Sponsor:

The Polytechnic Institute of New York University
and
New York University

 

Event Sponsors:

ABOUT US

We represent a cross-section of entrepreneurs, investors, academia, government, media, non-profit and industry. Each of our organizations is focused on breaking down barriers for women in high-growth entrepreneurship – across the pipeline – from college graduate to founder and CEO to investment professional.

2010 Convening organization:
Astia
http://www.astia.org/

Planning Organizations:
85 Broads
http://www.85broads.com
ACTiVATE
http://www.umbc.edu/activate/
Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
http://anitaborg.org/
Aurora UK Women's Enterprise Task Force
http://www.auroravoice.com
Babson College
http://www3.babson.edu/
California State University Northridge
https://www.csun.edu
Delta Economics
http://www.deltaeconomics.com
Diana Project
http://www.dianaproject.org/
Girls in Tech
http://girlsintech.net/
GoldenSeeds
http://www.goldenseeds.com/
Illuminate Ventures
http://www.illuminate.com
International Museum of Women
http://www.imow.org
National Center for Women & Information Technology
http://www.ncwit.org
Simmons College School of Management
http://www.simmons.edu/som/
Springboard Enterprises
https://www.springboardenterprises.org
SVB Financial
http://www.svb.com/
The Clayman Institute for Gender Research
http://www.stanford.edu/group/gender/
The Kauffman Foundation
http://www.kauffman.org/
The Next Woman
http://thenextwomen.com/
The Op Ed Project
http://www.theopedproject.org/
Forum for Women Eexecutives & Entrepreneurs
http://www.fweande.org
Women 2.0
http://www.women2.org/
Women Presidents Organization
http://www.womenpresidentsorg.com/

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Nick Donofrio, IBM
Esther Dyson
Vivek Wadhwa, BusinessWeek
Brad Feld, Foundry Group
Susan Lyne, CEO, Gilt Groupe,
Heidi Messer, Founder/CEO of World Evolved
Anu Shukla
Andrea Henderson, PhD, California State University, Northridge
Telle Whitney PhD, Anita Borg Institute
Patricia Fletcher, PhD, SAP
Janice Roberts, Mayfield Fund
Catherine Ashcraft, Senior Research Scientist, NCWIT
Cristian Dezso, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland
Prof. Dr. Martina Schraudner, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Pam Nesbitt, IBM
Kristine Brandt, Invesco
Dr. Marina Ranga, Research Fellow, Stanford University, Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research
Henry Etzkowitz, Research Fellow, Stanford University, Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research & Visiting Professor, Edinburgh University Business School, UK
Jeanne Sullivan, Star Vest Partners
Jo Anne Miller, Golden Seeds
Marianne Hudson, Angel Capital Association
Cindy Padnos, Illuminate Ventures
Rebecca Buckman
Caterina Fake, Hunch
Sukhinder Singh, Ployvore
Theresia Gouw Ranzetta, Accel
Lesa Mitchell, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Karen Kerr, Head Business Development - Intellectual Ventures
Fiona Murray, Co-Director Entrepreneurship Center MIT
Beth Donley, CEO, Stemina
Michelle Dipp, Vice President and Head of US Center of Excellence for External Drug Discovery (CEEDD)
Gwen Martin, Executive Director, Director of Research, Center for Women’s Business Research
Kris Appel, Founder and CEO of Encore Path
Pamela Aldsworth, Silicon Valley Bank
Catherine Roth

Location

New York

Contact Information

sharon@astia.org

More Information

To learn more about the Summit, contact Sharon Vosmek