Events' Realm

What are the opportunities for women in business in today's economy?
What strategies can women entrepreneurs employ now to strengthen & grow their businesses?
Which resources exist to support women to exploit global market opportunities?

Presentations by:
The Minister of State for Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Sharon Folkes-Abrahams,
Former Minister of State for Industry & Opposition Spokesman on Industry Hon. Karl Samuda
JAMPRO, EXIM BANK & Leading Entrepreneurs 

Join us on Tuesday 20, May 2014 at 6pm for this truly informative, one of a kind event!

Overview

WEConnect International is a global non-profit that empowers women business owners to succeed in global markets. Since 2009 the organization has provided certification, training, mentoring, tools & resources as well as peer and corporate connections to women entrepreneurs in our network. Recently, there was partnership with the Clinton Global Initiative in a ground-breaking commitment to action that will see global corporations spending US$1.5 billion with women-owned business over the next 2 years. We currently have chapters in the UK, Canada, China, Australia, Jamaica, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, South Africa, Chile, Costa Rica, Brazil, Peru, Turkey and Mexico. The Jamaican chapter was launched in April 2013 at the US Embassy Kingston and has a current membership of 160 women business owners. Being the first of its kind in this region, the organization is seeking, through this conference, to bring together Jamaica’s premier female business leaders to share expertise and professional knowledge with potential entrepreneurs. The conference will also provide a forum for young female entrepreneurs to make their business pitch to potential investors, who will also be present. The Minister of State for Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Sharon Folkes-Abrahams, will deliver the keynote address focusing on the role of women in shaping and encouraging growth in the modern Jamaican economy. The conference is being spearheaded by WEConnect International in Jamaica.

Kingston

Jamaica

Chelsea Avenue

The Knutsford Court Hotel

Women's Business Development Conference

Iset Sankofa forges ahead of the turntable constellation with a stunningly refreshing kinda sound. This is the 'all genres considered' milieu... where dusty Malian Blues takes a night stroll with Dub, Naija hip hop flirts dangerously with Kingston Dancehall grit,  and bubbly Brazilian Electronica steams a peace pipe with Afro-Jazz futurism. 
 
For this self-described 'bird', she is always reaching beyond the beyond and fetching back what she terms as musical source-code. In that, we can find a song or a groove so undeniable in it's appeal that it not only builds on the idea of the universality of music but of sound itself. Her musical selections have a way of running past the dance-able and the obvious. Usually, the next stop is a bold convergence of history and magic - one that playfully wields the listener into the lush, downright sensuous terrain that music can be. 
 
For Sankofa, hers is an imagined and realized terrain where digital divides are effortlesly bridged in 128 BPMs and new music lifts a hat to traditional sounds via a kind of time-travelling-self-discovering-remixing sort of aesthetic.

Events

In the evening

Women's Business Development Conference

The Sankofa Sessions

Tuesday on the Grill

Wet & Wild Beach Party