Online Event
Female Founder Roundtable: Unique Inspiration for your Energy Startup
Connect and advance your Energy Startup with top female investors in the Energy sector
Date
Feb 10, 2023
Time
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Address
Online Event
At this live and interactive online event, top female entrepreneurs, investors, and startup experts will share their stories, best practices, and pitfalls to avoid while pursuing a sustainable energy startup. Join us for what promises to be an informative and entertaining roundtable and Q&A discussion. All are welcome to attend.
What You'll Learn:
- The status of female entrepreneurs in your community
- Network with other female-led and ally-led startups
- Dive deeper into tactics to help you stand out
Featured Speakers:
- Oladunnni Owo- President @ Women in Energy Oil and Gas Nigeria, CEO Blackgold Energy Authorities: -Dr. Oladunni Owo is currently the National President, of Women in Energy, Oil and Gas ( WEOG) Nigeria; Secretary, of Women In Sustainable Power Africa Network( WISPANET), Global Women Network for Energy Transition (GWNET), Austria; Forbes Women Forum – Energy group.
- Ibilola Amao - CEO of Lonadek Global Services is a multi-award winning, woman-owned, ISO:9001:2015 certified Company. Lonadek prepares people, engineers, and enterprises for the use of technology to create wealth. Lonadek provides Outsourcing, Staffing, Diversity, Workforce Development, Training, and Human Capital Development Initiative (HCDI) initiatives to deliver Work From Home (WFH) and Work From Anywhere (WFA) solutions.
- Mopeola Abudu, Founder CEO, Knight Ventures - Mope is an experienced business management, operations and transformation professional with a demonstrable successful history of working in the management consulting industry. She is highly skilled in Business Process adaption, Business Planning, Regional expansion and Market / data analysis. Strong hands on expertise with highly relevant entrepreneurial experience from raising capital to multi location market entry for set up of operations. She is spearheading a growth business Accelerator and Investor platform as well as the establishment of an early stage fund focused on connecting Founders, Mentors and Funders across Africa leveraging on creative solutions and technology. She is passionate about women owned/led businesses.
- Ajuma Ataguba - MD FI Abuja: Ajuma is an experienced business development consultant with a demonstrated history of working in agriculture, education, technology, and international trade. She is skilled in project management / turnkey projects, business planning, coaching, and entrepreneurship; a Cochran Fellow, Mashav Scholar and Swedish Institute Alumna. Having social entrepreneurship certifications from the University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Copenhagen Business School. She is the Principal Consultant of The Learning Gate and Venture Partner at White Hibiscus Capital.
- Janet Todorova - Head of Expansion at Founder Institute: Janet is the Head of Expansion at Founder Institute, and is working on opening new chapters of the FI accelerator globally. She started as Director at the Founder Institute Berlin and is currently a Director at Founder Institute Sofia running an Eastern Europe regional accelerator program together with FI Bucharest. Janet has experience working with HRinTech and FinTech, focusing on business and product development. She is passionate about startups in the field of education and sustainability and is interested in psychology.
- Bennie Damul -Team Lead, Female Founder Initiative, Founder Institute: The Female Founder Initiative was formed in 2016 to create more opportunities for women to build successful companies through Founder Institute’s global pre-seed accelerator program. We created the initiative with the overarching goal of leveraging the Founder Institute’s scope (180+ cities, 65+ countries) to make the global technology sector more gender-balanced.
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Motunrayo Opayinka - Founder /CEO, Womenovate: Motunrayo is a Business Transformation Professional possessing organizational capability, process/technology innovation, and performance/operational excellence.
She is a focused individual with over 15 years of experience in the Oil and Gas/Energy industry mainly in Downstream activities, System Implementations, and Business Process Re-engineering and Management. She is motivated by achievement and creativity with proven commercial and interpersonal skills. She has been working in the ERP space for over 15 years across a number of global implementations. Specialties: Derivative Operations, Commodity, Energy, Product Knowledge, Management Accounting, Financial Analysis and Reporting, Business Process Management ERP Project Management, Organizational Change Management SAP Programme/Project Management, SAP FICO, and Delivery of SAP value add to the business. - Dr. Lami Onayi Ahmed -Board member, Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation LTD: Lami Angela Ahmed is a social service enthusiast, a hardworking achiever and a fulfilled family woman. She is a philanthropist who always desires to lessen the burden of the sufferings of poor people around her. A well-educated personality who graduated in marketing as her 1st degree and has 3 master’s degrees in Managerial Psychology, Business Administration and Social Works. She has over 30 years of working experience covering the entire value chain of the oil & gas industry. She is a member of the Nigerian Institute of Management, African Business School, Institute for Social Work and Cue iatric studies and Certified Institute of Development studies. Lami Ahmed is a social worker, well-travelled and a member of the International Association of Lions Clubs where she rose through the ranks of leadership to become the Multiple Council Chairperson MD 404 Nigeria (Number One Lion) 2018/2019. She is an advocate of human right, justice, equity and peace. Mrs. Lami Angela Ahmed is a business guru and an administrator who has excelled in many offices of high responsibility. Her passion and commitment to helping the less privileged has motivated her into forming a Non-Governmental charity organization called Lift Up Care Foundation (LUCAF) to cater for the needs of the less privileged focusing on women, girl child, youth and the aged groups. She is a lover of sport and great golfer who also rose to the position of Lady Captain of the prestigious IBB International Golf and Country Club. She was appointed to the Board of the NNPC in June, 2020.
Additional Resources:
Find more Startup Events and learn more about FI's Female Founder Initiative, a growing community of women in tech with access to additional mentors and workshops.
Find more Startup Events and learn more about FI's Female Founder Initiative, a growing community of women in tech with access to additional mentors and workshops.
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The Founder Institute is the world’s most proven network to turn ideas into fundable startups, and startups into global businesses. Since 2009, our structured accelerator programs have helped over 6,000 entrepreneurs raise over $1.75BN in funding. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 95 countries, our mission is to empower communities of talented and motivated people to build impactful technology companies worldwide.
The Founder Institute is the world’s most proven network to turn ideas into fundable startups, and startups into global businesses. Since 2009, our structured accelerator programs have helped over 6,000 entrepreneurs raise over $1.75BN in funding. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 95 countries, our mission is to empower communities of talented and motivated people to build impactful technology companies worldwide.
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