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WEConnect International

WEConnect’s Conference For Europe – Getting Connected 2011

Wednesday 21st September 2011

09.00hrs – 17.00hrs

Clifford Chance, 10 Upper Bank Street, Canary Wharf, London E14 5JJ, UK

Highlights:

• Meet with corporations who are diversifying their supply chain to include women-owned businesses
  
• Learn about supplier diversity and how to leverage certification to win contracts
• Meet successful women business owners who are already doing Corporate business
• Understand how best to work together.

Our keynote speakers and panelists include:

• Nikki Walker – Cisco Systems, Chair of WEConnect Europe

• Amanda Burton - COO Clifford Chance - global law firm

• Elizabeth Vazquez - Co-Founder and Executive Director of WEConnect International

• Carmen Castillo – President SDI.  Global and award winning word-based solutions company.

• Eileen Brown – Amastra and author of Working the Crowd: Social Media Marketing for business

Programme Detail

09.00    Arrival, coffee, networking

09.30   Conference opens – CEO, WEConnect Europe

09.40    Clifford Chance.    Why diversity matters.

• Speakers:   Amanda Burton COO and Laura King, Partner Clifford Chance
• Presentation followed by 10 min Q & A

10.10   Fay Sharpe – the practioners experience/working with Clifford Chance

10.40   Multi-National Corporate panel on Supplier Diversity"The challenges and the opportunities".

• Discussion on how we can embed supplier diversity programmes in Europe.   

11.20    Coffee & Networking

11.40   Workshop options X 3

Workshop One – Social Media - Eileen Brown, Amastra

Workshop Two – Technology in procurement – Deb Leary, Forensic Pathways presents ‘The Hive’

Workshop Three – Women and High Growth Businesses – Sarah Coleman, Business Evolution

12.40 - Lunch and networking – Member hosted tables.

13.40  – Dragons Den - Certified WBE's pitch their businesses to procurement specialists

15.00 -  Lessons learned from Dragon's Den

15.10 Coffee and networking

15.30   Why the database matters (global opportunities),Elizabeth Vazquez, WEConnect International

• Q&A on global development

16.00  Carmen Castillo SDI  

• Successful WBE with global company, originally from Majorca.

16.30   Chairs closing remarks

16.40   Summary

17.00  CLOSE

For further information, please contact Sue Lawton, CEO on sl@weconnecteurope.org

or call + 44 (0)800 8815 368