Womennovator (Gvriksh) organized a W-TALK – Bengaluru on 21st September, 2019 at National Association of Software & Services Company (NASSCOM), Bengaluru, Karnataka with support of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) from 10:30 A.M.
W-TALK events are gathering momentum and greater visibility ,with each successive event, where W-TALKers participating in W-TALK events, share their inspiring and extraordinary stories, thoughts, ideas and experiences. It helps the audience to become aware about how women entrepreneurship has become a boom in India thus triggering a cascading effect on their zeal and enthusiasm. Currently, women entrepreneurs may not be much visible on the radar, in overall women occupy 30% of corporate senior management positions, which is notably higher than the global average (24 percent). It is a great opportunity to learn and get enlightened by amazing WOMEN TALKers and Speakers.
The W-Talk Session was inaugurated by Tripti Shinghal Somani, Founder Womennovator who enlightened the audience about Womennovator 2019-20 with support of Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME). Womennovator is the First Virtual Incubator for Women, determined to support the cause of women empowerment and entrepreneurship and has endorsed the women empowerment principles of UN Goals – SDG 5: Achieve Gender equality and empower all women and girls.
Ms Tripti also shared about the 3 % mandatory procurement policy for Micro and Small and Medium enterprises owned by women which was proposed by her this year. She shared that this has opened tremendous gateways for women owned businesses to work as Vendor with every Central Ministry /Department / Public sector undertakings and Govt offices. During the W-talk she made attendees aware of other govt. and financial institutions support schemes for women.
The event was moderated by Ms. Tripti Shinghal Somani. The speakers shared their motivational stories and how they could climb the ladder of success, including Ms. Tripti Shinghal Somani, Founder Womennovator, MD KGS advisors – Moderator, Mr. R. Gopinath Rao, IEDS Deputy Director, MSME Development Institute; Ms. Ruparani Ravindran, Founding President, FIWE (Karnataka Chapter), Influencer – Bengaluru, Womennovator; Er. S. Sakamma, PW & WR Department, Karnataka Government; Mr. Irfan Malik, Founder & Director, InQ Innovation, Ms. Sowmya Keshava, Partner, Vidstatus; Ms. Indrani Mukherjee, Co-founder and MD, Bamboooz; Ms. Mahua Mukherjee, Co-founder & Director, The Star in me and Ms. Rina Barreto Shankar, Founder & CEO, Cheree Tree Concepts.
The speakers gathered at the event shared their own life stories. Some extracts from the words of these great speakers are: Ms. Tripti Shinghal Somani shared that the 3 % mandatory procurement policy for Micro and Small and Medium enterprises owned by women has opened tremendous gateways for women owned businesses to work as Vendor with every Central Ministry /Department / Public sector undertakings and Govt offices.
About Womennovator:
Womennovator is a virtual incubator for women, was started in the year of 2014 with the motive in mind to make a virtual incubator for women entrepreneurs or women who do have exceptional ideas and want to get a platform to grow. It is an initiative with the goal of helping women entrepreneurs to grow local economies by providing business education and training, mentoring and networking, win new revenue contract – domestically and internationally through interaction with Industry leaders, embassy connect, provide media reach (digital and print) through their story on exclusive YouTube Channel, access to capital and Govt. Support schemes across the country.
