december, 2020

09dec16:3018:00AWARDS CEREMONY DEDICATED TO WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS, WOMEN INVESTORS AND WOMEN LED VCS16:30 - 18:00 Event Type:Conference Session in cooperation with EUTOP50 and Knowco Collabwith

Time

(Wednesday) 16:30 - 18:00

Location

Zoom Virtual Debate

Event Details

Description

We want to recognize efforts and contributions to equal investment opportunities for women led innovative business and women led VCs. Also, we want to recognize the efforts to reduce the women investment equality gap, and change the status-quo as a woman investor and as a Venture Capital, and create a different decision making process. At the same time, we want to recognize woman entrepreneurs in the innovation arena who are driving change with their technologies and innovative solutions in the area of sustainability, deep tech and digitization.

We are happy to announce that Ms Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, confirmed her participation for the Award Ceremony on 9th December, 16:30h.

EUTOP50 Awards

  • Women Entrepreneur Award for a Sustainable Innovation
  • Women Entrepreneur Award for Deep Tech Innovation
  • Women Entrepreneur Award for Digitalization Innovation
  • Women Investor Award for Supporting Women Entrepreneurs
  • Venture Capital Award for Being Inclusive and Investing in Women

In order to participate please register here.

Organizer

Conference Session in cooperation with EUTOP50 and Knowco Collabwith

Host

Maria Graça Carvalho, MEP, Chair of the K4I Forum, EPP, Portugal

Lina Gálvez Muñoz, MEP, Member of the K4I Forum, S&D, Spain

Susana Solís Pérez, MEP, Member of the K4I Forum, Renew Europe, Spain

Karen Melchior, MEP, Renew Europe, Denmark

Speakers for this event

  • Jara Pascual

    Jara Pascual

    Founder and CEO, knowco by collabwith

    Founder and CEO, knowco by collabwith

  • Karen Melchior

    Karen Melchior

    Member of the European Parliamne, Renew Europe, Denmark

    Member of the European Parliamne, Renew Europe, Denmark

  • Lina Gálvez Muñoz

    Lina Gálvez Muñoz

    Member of the European Parliament, S&D, Spain

    Lina Gálvez Muñoz is a Member of the European Parliament since July 2019. In the EP, she is Vice-chair of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and member of the Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA). She also belongs to the committees on Employment and Social Affairs and Women's Rights and Gender Equality. Lina Gálvez Muñoz PhD, European University Institute (Florence) is Economic History and Institutions Full Professor at the Economics Department at Pablo Olavide University (Seville). She has also been professor at the Universities of Reading (Reading), Carlos III (Madrid), and as a visiting professor at Centre for time use research at Oxford University (Oxford). She has more than hundred scientific publications and she has also been Vice-Rector of her university from 2007 to 2012 and served as Regional Minister of Knowledge, Research and University of the Government of Andalusia from 2018 to 2019.

    Member of the European Parliament, S&D, Spain

  • Maria da Graça Carvalho

    Maria da Graça Carvalho

    MEP, EPP, Portugal

    Maria da Graça Carvalho is currently member of the European Parliament (2019-2024). In the European Parliament she is a full Member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) and a substitute Member on the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) and substitute member on Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM). She follows as well the parliamentary Delegations for relations with the United States, for relations with the countries of Central America and Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly. As a MEP, she was appointed rapporteur of the Specific Programme Implementing HORIZON 2020 and of the report on Simplification of the Rules of Participation in the European Programs for Research and Innovation. In 2011, she was awarded the Prize for the best MEP in the area of Research and Innovation.

    MEP, EPP, Portugal

  • Mariya Gabriel

    Mariya Gabriel

    EU Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education, and Youth

    Mariya Ivanova Gabriel is a Bulgarian politician and a member of the GERB party serving as European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education, and Youth since 2019. She was previously a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 to 2017. In the European Parliament, she served as Vice-President of the European People’s Party (EPP) group, Vice-President of EPP Women, and head of the Bulgarian EPP delegation. She was first appointed to the European Commission in 2017 as European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society to fill a spot left vacant by the departure of Kristalina Georgieva.

    EU Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education, and Youth

  • Roland Strauss

    Roland Strauss

    Managing Director, Knowledge4Innovation

    Managing Director, Knowledge4Innovation

  • Susana Solís Pérez

    Susana Solís Pérez

    Member of the European Parliament, Renew Europe, Spain

    Born in Avilés, Spain, 1971. Susana Solís is an Industrial Engineer from the University of Oviedo, Machine Engineer from the Fachhochschule de Osnabrück (Germany), and holds an MBA from the Business Institute and a Master's Degree in Marketing Management from the Instituto de Empresa (Madrid). She has over 18 years of professional experience in several multinationals in Germany (Mercedes Benz, Robert Bosch) and in Spain (Rexel, Essilor and Johnson & Johnson). In May 2015, she was elected Deputy in the Parliament of Madrid, being the spokeswoman for Ciudadanos in the Committee on Budgets, Economy, Finance and Employment. Since May 2019 she is MEP in the European Parliament in the Renew Europe Group and a member of the ITRE, REGI, ENVI, and FEMM Committees.

    Member of the European Parliament, Renew Europe, Spain

Speakers

Keynote Speaker

Mariya Gabriel, EU Commissioner for Innovation, Research,  Culture, Education, and Youth

 

Moderator

Jara Pascual, Founder and CEO, knowco by collabwith

Roland Strauss, Founder & Managing Director, Knowledge4Innovation

 

 

 

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