Investing Women take to the skies with EIE 2019 partnership

This year’s event will be staged under the theme ‘The Sky’s No Longer the Limit’ with a number of internationally-renowned and highly inspiring speakers.

They include Jaime Nieto, director of people and a leading figure within Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic; Shelley Kerr, manager of the Scottish women’s football team and Mary-Anne Daly, UK chief executive at Cazenove Capital.

The conference will also showcase the finalists of this year’s AccelerateHER Awards, which recognise the most promising female-led businesses in Scotland.

Aimed at Scottish-based businesswomen, aspirational female and male business founders, investors and advisers, the conference will be held at Edinburgh’s Informatics Forum on Tuesday, 23 April in association with EIE 2019, Scotland’s premier technology investor showcase which takes place the following day.

As part of its close association with EIE 2019, Investing Women’s conference will include a discussion with FinTech entrepreneur Ana Stewart and Dr Steve Ewing, Director of Operations at University of Edinburgh’s Informatics Ventures, on the importance of attracting more women into Scotland’s technology sector.

Jackie Waring, CEO of Investing Women, said: “We’re delighted to be staging this year’s conference in association with EIE 2019. There’s an ideal synergy between the work we do to support and promote female business founders and EIE’s position as a leading event bringing together emerging technology companies and investors.

“This partnership brings real value by opening up further channels to our growing network of businesswomen and budding female entrepreneurs and to EIE’s stakeholder community, which includes emerging tech firms, investors and business advisers. We look forward to working with them to bring a new dimension to our respective conferences and ensure that both will be a major success.”

EIE’s Director of Operations, Dr Steve Ewing, said: “This year’s formal partnership with Investing Women builds on a long term relationship between both organisations. The group’s focus on promoting emerging female business founders is an ideal fit alongside our efforts to support growth of the wider technology sector across Scotland.”