Go Girl Summit

Go Girl Summit is exploring the ‘confidence’ gap, often hailed as one of the main causes of the gender imbalance in founder and senior leadership roles.

The summit aims to provide an environment that inspires and empowers our young female students and women in our community, through discussion of the ‘confidence’ gap as being the important reason for the difference between men and women in founder and senior leadership roles, as this does not have to be the case.

You will be joining other great women founders and in senior roles on stage exploring the challenges and potential solutions associated with this issue. The campaign is designed to empower, inspire and motivate all women in our university and the wider community to come together in celebration of each other’s success. All while setting the stage for International Women’s day in March 2018.

Panelists

Danielle Price - She Will Shine

With over 9 years small business experience, Danielle Price is the Founder of 'She Will Shine', an Australia-wide community for female business owners and a female coworking space in Footscray.

Milly Schmidt - Code Like A Girl / Dim Valley

Milly is a designer, coder, and tech product maker. She works with small to medium businesses to design and future-thinking technology. She owns a small tech consultancy (Dim Valley) and has a co-founded a product (estimate-work.com).

Hayley Hewitt - One Roof Women

Hayley is the Community and Operations Manager at One Roof, Australia's leading co-working space for female entrepreneurs. She is passionate about women in business and ensuring women have the tools, networks, and confidence they need to succeed.

Background

The Victoria University Leadership team and VU Hanger are collaborating on the “Go Girl Summit” series in the lead-up to International Women’s Day in March 2018. The series will involve a variety of networking and forum type events with the focus on empowering women in entrepreneurship. The launch will also provide ample opportunity for students to network with like-minded peers and successful people in start-up, entrepreneurship, and senior leadership roles.

The summit will be a Q&A style event with 3 women panellists.

Event details

The event is free, but RSVP via Eventbrite essential.

2 hour street parking is available near the venue. Venue is also a walkable distance from Footscray Station.