In collaboration with Women’s Business Initiative International, Webster University Leiden Campus and Women Entrepreneurship Platform, on 10-11 November 2018 in Leiden, the Netherlands, the Digital Leadership Institute organized a Move It Forward – female digital starters event. This event was supported by top technology companies, non-profit organisations, and youth and women’s networks and communities, and was an official activity of Women’s Entrepreneurship Day 2018, being celebrated on 19 November all around the world. The event’s objective is to give teen and adult women* the skills to become digital entrepreneurs and leaders, and to support them in driving positive change in their communities.
*Anyone who identifies as a woman
Move It Forward Leiden – Programme:
Day One – 10 November (Saturday) :
- 8:00-8:30 – Registration & Coffee
- 8:30-10:30 – Opening Plenary:
- Welcome
- Ms. Loredana Bucseneau / DLI
- Ms. Katja Legisa / Digital Brusselles Director, DLI
- Ms. Charlene Lambert / Women’s Business Initiative International
- Keynote Presentations
- Ms. Anne Slotegraaf/ Nutrition and Healthcare Alliance
- Ms. Ebere Akadiri / Ataro Food & Spices
- 10:30-12:30 – Workshop 1: Build & Launch your Online Presence in the Cloud with WordPress & AWS with Katja Legisa / DLI
- 12:30 – 13:30 – Lunch Break
- 13:30 -15:30 – Workshop 2: Develop a Smartphone App with MIT AppInventor for Android with Loredana Bucseneau / DLI
- 15:30-18:00 – Brainstorming, Proposals, Idea Selection, Team Grouping and Project Work
- 18:00-19:00 – Dinner
- 19:00-22:00 – Project Work with Coaches
Day Two – 11 november (Sunday) :
- 8:00-8:30 – Coffee and Danishes
- 8:30-10:30 – Workshop 3: Google advertising and analytics / with Carina van Seling, Google
- 10:30-12:30 – Project Work with Coaches
- 12:30-13:30 – Lunch Break
- 13:30-14:00 – Project Work with Coaches
- 14.00-14.30 – Intoduction to successful pitching, Mr. Ron Lameij / Eisenfelt Academy
- 14.30-16.00 – Project Work with Coaches
- 16:00-17:00 – Presentation Preparation
- 17:00-19:00 – Closing Plenary: Project Presentations and Judging, Awards
- ++18:30 – Keynote Presentation of Ms. Snezana Zivcevska-Stalpers / IBM
- 19:00-22:00 – Awards Dinner, Networking
