Elevate Women - Economic Power

Following the Evelate Women 2022 , Elevate International is pleased to invite you to part 2:

Please Join Us for Elevate Women - Economic Power: A Special Event for BIPOC and Immigrant Women Entrepreneurs with Vicki Saunders, Founder of Coralus (formerly SheEO)

Hosted by Elevate International in partnership with RBC and Invest Ottawa

• Thursday, November 17, 2022
• 6PM to 8:30PM
• Bayview Yards, 7 Bayview Station Rd., Ottawa

Elevate International, together with RBC and Invest Ottawa, is pleased to invite you to Elevate Women - Economic Power: A Special Event for BIPOC and Immigrant Women Entrepreneurs with Vicki Saunders, Founder of Coralus (formerly SheEO).

Elevate International, together with RBC and Invest Ottawa, is pleased to invite you to Elevate Women - Economic Power: A Special Event for BIPOC and Immigrant Women Entrepreneurs with Vicki Saunders, Founder of Coralus (formerly SheEO).

Event Snapshot:

• 6PM: Doors open for networking
• Light refreshments will be served
• Free parking is available adjacent to the building
• 6:30PM: Program begins
• 6:40PM: Panel discussion
• 7:20PM: Keynote address and a fireside chat with Vicki Saunders
• 8:30PM: Program concludes

There is no cost to join us and all are welcome.

Background: Critical Need for Change

BIPOC and immigrant women bring unique and powerful perspectives, skills, and experiences to Canada that add value to our economy, society, and community. Although these gifts can be leveraged to build high-impact, sustainable businesses:

• Immigrant women entrepreneurs are under-represented in business. They are often undermined and overlooked as their prior knowledge and education are undervalued in Canada.
• Black women entrepreneurs continue to face systemic barriers. Many institutions and organizations designed to support entrepreneurs have entrenched conscious and unconscious biases that exclude Black women and create additional hurdles and challenges.
• Indigenous women entrepreneurs continue to face systemic barriers and disadvantages such as access to services, networks, mentors, financing, information, and basic infrastructure.

If we are to create a truly inclusive economy where women from every walk of life can grow and thrive, it is essential to drive meaningful and sustainable change for all women entrepreneurs. This includes economically empowering BIPOC and Immigrant women founders and business owners.

We will address this challenge together as a community on November 17 at Bayview Yards.

Join Us and Be a Changemaker

Please join us at a very special in-person Elevate International event with the incredible support of Invest Ottawa, our host partner, and RBC, our 2022 presenting partner.

We are honoured to welcome Vicki Saunders, founder of #radical generosity and Coralus (formerly SheEO), a global community of radically generous women supporting women-led Ventures working on the World’s To-Do List.

• Vicki is an entrepreneur, award-winning mentor, advisor to the next generation of change-makers and leading advocate for entrepreneurship as a way of creating positive transformation in the world.
• She will deliver a keynote address that will followed by a fireside chat with Elevate Founder & CEO, Solange Tuyishime and ending evening with a Q& A Session with all participants

Additional guest speakers include:

• Karla Briones, Immigrant Serial Entrepreneur, Business Strategist for Underrepresented Entrepreneurs
• Debby Macharia, Founder, Beauty Profs Global
• Sonya Shorey, Vice President, Strategy, Marketing, and Communications Invest Ottawa and Bayview Yards
• Nita Tandon, CEO and Founder, Dalcini Inc.
• Helen Tang, Ph.D., Founder & CEO, HT Real Estate Team

Goals: Taking Action Together as a Community

This Elevate Women event will:

• Unite aspiring and current women founders, leaders, champions, allies, and organizations on shared goals
• Facilitate constructive discussion on how to drive an inclusive post-pandemic economic recovery and create greater opportunity and impact for BIPOC and Immigrant women entrepreneurs
• Openly address the systemic challenges BIPOC and Immigrant women entrepreneurs face
• Pursue opportunities to build a stronger, more supportive entrepreneurial ecosystem for BIPOC and Immigrant women to thrive and succeed.

Together, we can elevate more women founders who launch and scale successful businesses and achieve an even greater impact on our society.

Please join us – all are welcome.