Expo Capital Quest, a novel four-session occasion organized by the U.N. Women Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia because the continuation of the EXPO 2022 platform to advertise ladies’s entrepreneurship ecosystem constructing was held within the Seed venue of Istanbul’s Sabancı Museum Thursday.
Envisioned as a platform that might assist the additional proliferation of female-run companies by opening their doorways to potential business traders the occasion introduced collectively 23 chosen ladies entrepreneurs from Europe and Central Asia area.
Out of the roughly 1,600 candidates, the occasion’s fruits gathered the ladies who attended the boot camp, had a sales space on the earlier digital Expo occasion and underwent an Expo mentorship program.
Combining innovation and fashionable advertising methods ladies working tech, instructional, green-blue centered and style companies coming from a number of international locations together with Ukraine, Moldova, Albania, Bosnia-Herezegovina, North Macedonia, Türkiye and Caspain international locations had an opportunity to pitch concepts on the growth of their companies, delivering brief displays of their work by means of the occasion.
Organized by U.N. Women ECA in partnership with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Yıldız Holding as a part of the Women’s Entrepreneurship Accelerator supported by Mary Kay, the expo stands out as an interactive house highlighting the significance of presence within the worldwide enviornment, constructing strong relationships stressing women-empowerment associated applications.
As a part of his opening remarks, Ali Ülker, chairperson of Yıldız Holding one of many main conglomerates within the manufacturing of meals items in Türkiye, underscored the importance of collaboration with the U.N. and stated the expo partnership geared toward acceleration of girls’s entrepreneurship applications as one of many largest on this regard.
Alia El-Yassir, U.N. Women Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia, expressed her pleasure concerning the occasion citing it was an extended journey, not solely by way of the lengthy geographical distances every particular person participant needed to transcend but in addition as a path every feminine entrepreneur needed to take to achieve this milestone.
“From its inception in 2021, the vision was to put the women in the center,” she stated.
“They are the experts on what their need, they are the experts on their priorities and it’s up to the rest of us to support them, implement that for them,” Yassir added.
Speaking to Daily Sabah, Yassir recalled the unprecedented position and the only real objective on which their group was established, being selling gender equality and empowering ladies and ladies wherever they’re.
Answering the query on how the concept for the expo advanced particularly, Yassir stated, “This idea about entrepreneurship really came about at the time of global crisis, COVID-19.”
Yassir talked about the overall impression of COVID-19 on private lives, emphasizing the inequalities that exist on this planet, not least of that are gender inequalities.
Noting that the ladies carried form of the “burden of care” throughout this era, typically being the primary to go away the workforce, Yassir stated that as a substitute of specializing in adverse impacts they’ve seen “that one way to recover is through women’s entrepreneurship.”
Highlighting the undertaken steps as significant not solely by way of reaching out to these in want of support, she moreover drew consideration that this system aimed on the ladies who can stand out in their very own international locations and contribute in a approach to post-pandemic financial restoration.
Yassir additionally underlined the importance of the regional occasion as such, stressing networking and mutual assist amongst contributors as a few of the key components they’ve centered on.
Considering step one in empowering younger people, together with ladies, is to unleash their potential on the nation stage, after which regional and world stage Yassir conveyed hope for constructive outcomes of their work and its affect on future generations of entrepreneurs.
Apart from the representatives of the main companions, the occasion was attended by Women’s Entrepreneurship Accelerator at U.N. Women Meral Güzel, CEO of a worldwide advisory agency Veritas Ventures Vera Futorjanski, worldwide traders and distinguished mentors.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
