INVITATION REMINDER



We'd love for you to join us! If you can't, please share this with your networks and do invite friends and colleagues to join our final community event this year! The event is open to men as well!



WOMENSPHERE GLOBAL SUMMIT 2009:

LEADERSHIP. ENTREPRENEURSHIP. INNOVATION.

www.womensphereglobalsummit.com

Please join us and connect with high-impact and influential women leaders at Womensphere's final and biggest event of the year: The WOMENSPHERE GLOBAL SUMMIT 2009. Join and take advantage of: Inspiring speakers. Great networking. Career Expo. VIP Reception with Speakers & Suzy Welch. Women Entrepreneurs Expo. Chocolate Tasting. Wine Tasting. The event is also open to men who support, champion, and invest in women's leadership!

Join us and benefit from:



* Inspiration and insights through connecting with over 30 inspiring speakers - all leaders in their industries and fields

* Invaluable connections with a network of leaders

* Women ENTREPRENEURS Expo

* CAREER Expo featuring top companies and women-owned businesses

* Over a dozen GREAT and world-changing NGOs and Non-Profit organizations

* Connections with social change filmmakers and book authors to expand the horizon of possibilities

* Join the inaugural Womensphere FILM FESTIVAL

* Fun networking with speakers and attendees over wine, chocolates, books, and films!

Featuring over 30 inspirational and world-changing speakers, including:

SUZY WELCH - Author of "10-10-10: A Life-Transforming Idea"; Media columnist on BusinessWeek and O, The Oprah Magazine; Co-Author with Jack Welch of the bestselling book "Winning"

BARBARA ADACHI - Chief Talent Officer, Human Capital Consulting; National Managing Principal, Initiative for the Retention & Advancement of Women, DELOITTE

MADELINE NELSON-SMALL - Executive Director, MARY J. BLIGE FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN NOW (FFAWN)

SHAZI VISRAM - CEO & Founder, HAPPYBABY; 2nd Place Winner in NBC-American Express SHINE A LIGHT national small business contest!

KATE KOHLER - Chief Operating Officer, The Pentagon Federal Credit Union Foundation (PENTAGON FOUNDATION)

NANCY PEDOT - Managing Director, GOLDEN SEEDS; Former CEO, GYMBOREE; Former CEO, PARTY CITY

PEGGY WALLACE - Co-Founder, Managing Director, GOLDEN SEEDS Angel Investment Network

BETH SCHOENFELDT - CEO & Founder, COLLECTIVE-E; Founder & former CEO, LADIES WHO LAUNCH

STEPHANIE HAUGE - President, FINANCIAL WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION (FWA)

LARA GALINSKY - Senior Vice President, ECHOING GREEN

ABHA DAWESAR - Award-winning novelist; Author of the award-winning books That Summer in Paris, Babyji, Miniplanner

MAURA CURTIN - Executive Director, SOCIAL MEDIA ADVERTISING CONSORTIUM

ELAINE BARSOOM - Director, EXCLUSIVE RESORTS

MICHELLE TITUS - Executive Director, FRESHWATER HAVEN

JACQUELINE WALES - Author and CEO, THE FEARLESS FACTOR

ANDREA MILLER - Founder, CEO & Publisher, TANGO MAGAZINE/TANGO MEDIA

SARANNE ROTHBERG - CEO & Founder, COMEDYCURES FOUNDATION

DIANE BURSTEIN - Director of Operations, ALL FOR AFRICA

DAVID FRESCHMAN - Venture Capitalist; Managing Partner, INNOVATION CAPITAL PARTNERS; Chair & Founder, EARLY STAGE EAST; Chair & Founder, FASHINVEST


This Saturday will feature over 30 inspiring speakers, inspiring cross-industry networking with several hundred women leaders and emerging leaders, over 15 world-changing non-profit community partners, and will also feature award-winning women-produced/women-directed social issue films at the inaugural Womensphere Film Festival with films by acclaimed filmmakers like Abby Disney (we are showing "Pray the Devil Back to Hell") and Kim Snyder ("Crossing Midnight".



We will cap the day with networking with speakers, participants, filmmakers, and book authors, the creation of community volunteer circles to solve global and local issues, and a wine tasting with W.R. Tish and top Italian vintner Castello Banfi, and coffee and chocolate tasting with the Italian illy issimo. This will be at truly inspirational gathering of a community of great women! JOIN US!!!


SUMMIT DETAILS:

Date: Saturday, October 24, 2009
Time: 9:00AM - 6:30 PM
Venue: Tribeca Performing Arts Center, New York City
Website: http://www.womenspher...
REGULAR REGISTRATION: http://globalsummit.e...

LIMITED STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS: http://globalsummitst...



THANK YOU TO OUR PARTNERS:

The Womensphere Global Summit 2009 brings together leaders from across a number of communities. Corporate partners include Goldman Sachs as our Lead Sponsor together with Exclusive Resorts, and in partnership with Fridman Law Group, W.R. Tish - Wine for All, illy issimo, Castello Banfi Wines, and Bon Vivant LLC.



Womensphere's community partner organizations supporting the Global Summit include All for Africa, ASTIA, ALPFA, ASCEND Pan Asian Leaders, Ayala Foundation, CARE, ComedyCures Foundation, Early Stage East, Freshwater Haven, Global Fund for Women, Golden Seeds, Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, the Mary J. Blige & Steve Stoute Foundation for the Advancement of Women Now, NAWBO New York, Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO), WINGS Worldquest, Windows for Widows, Women Presidents Organization (WPO), and the Yale Entrepreneurs & Investors.



For questions, please email cochairs@womensphere.com.



I hope to see you this Saturday - please join us!



Sincerely yours,



Analisa Balares

CEO, Womensphere
www.womensphere.org