Global Startup Ecosystem (GSE) Announces Presenting Diamond Sponsor- New York University for “Her Future Summit” Virtual Program
March 24, 2020 [New York, USA] Her Future Summit powered by the Global Startup Ecosystem is pleased to announce the presenting sponsor for the virtual global program, NYU’s Office of Global Inclusion, Diversity, and Strategic Innovation.
The headline keynote for the Summit will be Dr. Lisa Coleman, Senior Vice-President for Global Inclusion and Strategic Innovation and Chief Diversity Officer at (NYU) New York University. She will be giving a Keynote Address titled, “Innovating for our Future: Generations, Digitization, and Our New Normal.” Reporting to the President, Dr. Coleman works to advance, promote, and build capacity for strategic global inclusion, diversity, equity, belonging and innovation initiatives across NYU globally including campuses in New York, Shanghai, and Abu Dhabi, and NYU’s other thirteen sites, and numerous global centers.
Prior to NYU, Dr. Coleman served as the first Chief Diversity Officer and Special Assistant to the President at Harvard University. During her tenure, she and her team developed some of the first initiatives focused on the intersections of technology, disability, and access. Currently, Dr. Coleman continues to advise and consult with C-Suite leaders globally and sits on various national and international boards. Her current research focuses on the intersections of innovation, inclusion, science and technology, art and humanities, data analytics and digitization for diverse cultures globally. This is a monumental collaboration to partner with a premier global research institution such as New York University and the Third Annual Her Future Summit program aims to be one of the leading inclusive virtual programs in the world.
The Her Future Summit aims to identify, train, and empower the next generation of female pioneers. The Her Future Summit series was launched in to accelerate humanity’s success with Sustainable Development Goal #5- Gender Equality and has quickly become the fastest growing platform for women in tech.
In 2018 the summit was launched in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In 2019 the series expanded to three main cities including New York (USA), London (UK), Accra (Ghana). The success of these previous launches led to a scale up initiative with 88 partners for 2020 where Her Future Summit was scheduled to take place in 7 global cities-Washington, DC (USA), Silicon Valley (USA), New York (USA), Accra (Ghana), Port-au-Prince (Haiti), London (UK), and Dubai (UAE) throughout the month of March.
Thus the 2020 summit will be a virtual program with 50 speakers on the kick-off day of the summit and 1000 digital delegates on March 31, 2020. This will be the largest virtual summit for women to date featuring digital stakeholders from over 60+ countries. The summit also serves to teach fundamentals of future technology and the leading social impact applications of Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Nanotechnology, Space, and Blockchain technologies.
The top 50 speakers announced for the program represent the most innovative organizations from different industry sectors. The list includes:
- H.E. Ambassador Lana Marks Ambassador of South Africa to the United States
- Dr. Lisa Coleman Senior Vice-President for Global Inclusion and Strategic Innovation and Chief Diversity Officer at (NYU) New York University
- Sophia World’s First Robot Celebrity; Hanson Robotics’ most advanced human-like robot
- Dr. Terri Cooper Chief Inclusion Officer at Deloitte
- Jenny Lawton Chief Innovation Officer at Tech Stars
- Christine Ntim Chief Marketing Officer- at Global Startup Ecosystem
- Liz Walsh Vice President – Growth Marketing @ Forbes
- Samantha Skey Chief Executive Officer at She Media
- Deborah Jackson Founder and CEO at Plum Alley
- Ann Rosenberg SVP & Global Head of SAP Next-Gen & Running the SAP Innovation Space
- Aisha Taylor Community Engagement & Partnerships at Grow with Google
- Sandra Moerch-Petersen Chief Content Director, Purpose and Brand Experience at SAP
- Einstein Ntim Partner at Africa Future Fund
- Amira Alfa Senior Manager of Corporate Engagement at United Nations Global Compact
- Tríona Byrne Snr Director – Strategic Relations, EMEA | Salesforce.org
- Sabrina Tharani Director of Partnerships, Mastercard Start Path
- Ty Heath Global Lead, The B2B Institute @ LinkedIn
- Chinwe Esimai Managing Director – Chief Anti-Bribery & Corruption Officer at Citibank
- Lisette Barbero Investment Officer at Inter American Development Bank
- X. Eyee Global Outreach Lead – Responsible Innovation at Google Ai
- Charlotte Anabelle de Brabandt 30under30 Megawatt winner, TEDx Speaker, Author, Technology Speaker and Host
- David Chen Chief Financial Officer at Hanson Robotics
- Effie Kilmer Program Manager, Azure Global Engineering – Financial Services at Microsoft
- Lynn Loacker Partner in Charge at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
- DJ Forza Director of Partnerships and Collaboration at World Alliance of YMCA
- Kim Walsh Global VP, HubSpot for Startup at Hubspot
- Hollie Haggans Global Partnerships leader building brand, culture & community
- Lisette Barbero Investment Officer at Inter American Development Bank
- Erika Murdock Balbuena Global Head of Impact Computing at Amazon Web Services
- Iynna Halilou Global Programs Manager at Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator
- Kwena Mabotja Sub-Sahara Africa Director at SAP Next-Gen
- Ilana Fass US FinTech Platform Lead, Barclays Ventures
- Asra Nadeen President, Draper University & Investor, DraperU Ventures
- Regina Njima Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Kizo Ventures | Host SingularityU Kenya Summit
- Kate Anderson Co-founder of IFundWomen
- Amy Nelson Founder and CEO of The Riveter
- Ryan Foland Author of Ditch The Act
- Victoria Repa CEO & Co-Founder of BetterMe
- Carolina Castro Lead, Equalithons at Essteem
- Daphnee Charles Director at Startup Grind Port au Prince & Co Founder at Cocread
- Marc Alain Boucicault Founder at Banj
- Efe Ukala Founder at ImpactHER/ VP, Assistant General Counsel at JPMorgan
- Anie Akpe Founder at African Women In Tech (AWIT)
- Lucinda Cross President at Activate WorldWide LLC
- Jhonson Napoleon CEO at Azure College
- Gina Kloes Founder at Gina Kloes International
- Stacie Sussman Chief Technology Officer at SSR Digital Group
- Liz Gulliver Co-Founder, Kunik
- Sehreen Noor Ali Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Visible Health
- Mary Clavieres Founder & CEO, The Transitions Collective –
- Jamie Lieberman Owner at Hashtag Legal
- Fernanda Dobal Co-Founder at Bia.Care
- Kristi DePaul CEO at Founders Marketing
- Busie Matsiko-Andan Strategy Consultant & Outreach Specialist
- Andra Stanciu Head of Partnerships at the Global Startup Ecosystem
- Christina Glancy Head of Community at the Global Startup Ecosystem
- Kami Arkorful Head of Outreach at Ghana Tech Summit
- Abigail Amsab Tetteh Outreach Lead at Global Startup Ecosystem
- Leticia Boateng Outreach Lead at Global Startup Ecosystem
- Rose Désaugust Head of Health Tech at Haiti Tech Summit
RSVP via eventbrite here. For more information on tickets, sponsorships and partnerships, please email the team at events@globalstartupecosystem.com .
