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5 April 2023 13:00-14:30Innovation City Cape Town

Why Backing Women Can Mean Prosperity for Your Business 

Learn about the unique challenges faced by women in the business world, as well as the innovative solutions and strategies that women entrepreneurs are employing to overcome these obstacles. 

The discussion will also cover the ways in which investing in women can create more equitable and inclusive communities and contribute to sustainable economic growth.

The event will offer practical tips and advice for investors and entrepreneurs alike, including how to identify promising women-led ventures, how to effectively support and mentor women entrepreneurs, and how to measure the impact of these investments. 

Participants will also have the opportunity to network with like-minded individuals and learn from the experiences of successful women entrepreneurs.

The event promises to be an engaging and informative discussion that will inspire attendees to take action towards supporting women-led businesses and ultimately contribute to a more diverse and prosperous economy.

The event features WomHub's Co-Founder Naadiya Moosajee and COO Victoria Harris, who will share insights and expertise on how supporting women entrepreneurs can lead to increased profitability and success.

All you need to know

What: How To Make More Money Backing Women

When: 5 April 2023

Time: 1pm - 2:30pm

Where: Innovation City Cape Town

Details: Join us for an opportunity to learn about the advantages of investing in women-led businesses featuring WomHub's Co-Founder Naadiya Moosajee and COO Victoria Harris, Wednesday April 5th 1pm - 2:30pm at Innovation City.

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Speakers

Naadiya Moosajee
WomEng & WomHub Co-Founder Qualification: MSc Transport Engineering BSc Civil Engineering

Naadiya is a serial entrepreneur by passion, an engineer by training, is Co-Founder at WomHub, a boutique advisory firm and incubator supporting clients reach diversity and inclusion & building future talent pipelines as well as working with female founders to support growth of women owned STEM businesses. 

She serves as the Chief Innovator with her focus being on entrepreneurship, gender, future skills and the future of work, AI and cybersecurity. WomHub has built the first female founder innovation space in Africa. Naadiya co-founded WomEng, a global social enterprise developing women and girls for engineering and tech. She is also the Co-Founder of Cybherfence – a cybersecurity firm looking to keep people safer online by understanding vulnerability to cyber threats. She was a Co-Chair for the Saudi Arabia B20 Task Force on the Future of Work and Education and the B20 Italy special taskforce on women empowerment & B20 Indonesia Taskforce for Women Empowerment.

She is venture partner at Five35 Ventures, a pan African venture capital fund investing in women in tech businesses across Africa. Naadiya serves as an independent board director at the Momentum Metropolitan Foundation, a Trustee of the Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance, A member of the Expert Council for the Aspen New Voices Fellowship and is an emeritus board director for the International Youth Foundation, the former chair of the board at the TQMF trust and board member at Pegasys Strategy and Development. Naadiya serves as an advisory board member for the University of Cape Town Faculty of Engineering, and was a Global Future Council Member with the World Economic Forum: Gender, Education and the Future of Work.

She was a global shaper with the World Economic Forum and Curator of the Cape Town Hub. Naadiya co-owns a successful restaurant group in Cape Town designing and building out the business for 3 restaurants. Naadiya is a renowned speaker and was named “Top 20 Young Power Women in Africa” by Forbes Magazine as well as one of the top people in tech in Africa by Los Echos (the French version of the Financial Times). Naadiya has worked across 26 countries to revolutionise the face of engineering through diversity, inclusion, innovation, entrepreneurship and education leaving no one behind in a tech-enabled future. She is passionate about cybersecurity, equitable technology, fostering prosperity in emerging economies and engineering better societies.

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Victoria Harris
Entrepreneur at heart I Building fintech ventures I Supporting sustainable entrepreneurship

Victoria Harris is a dynamic individual with extensive experience in the entrepreneurial and innovation space. She is currently the Chief Operating Officer at WomHub, a position she has held since January 2023. 

Prior to this, she worked as a Go-To-Market + Growth Specialist for E Squared Investments on a freelance basis from July 2020 to present. Victoria has also worked as an Incubation & Programme Specialist for Solve4X since November 2022, and as an Entrepreneur in Residence for the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation on a contract basis from January to December 2022. 

Her experience in the corporate world includes working for AlphaCode as Head of Incubation from January to December 2022, and as a Business Mentor from January 2018 to December 2021. She also served as Head of Programmes for Naspers Labs in South Africa from August 2020 to March 2021, and as Head of Entrepreneurship from July 2019 to August 2020. Victoria previously worked as a Regional Director for Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) from August 2017 to July 2019. 

In addition to her corporate roles, Victoria has been involved in several entrepreneurial ventures, including as Founder and CEO of Evention, an innovation and event agency from 2006 to 2018. 

She was also a Founding Partner of Kikoi, a locally-produced luxury brand focusing on Afro-centric designed round towels and beach apparel from 2014 to 2017. Victoria has also served as Director of Marketing and Operations for the prestigious Cape Town Club from January 2015 to December 2016, and as Co-Founder of NetHub, a digital startup providing tech solutions for brand experiences, from 2015 to 2016. 

Prior to these roles, she worked as an Executive Chef and Founder of Raw Cafe from 2006 to 2009, and as a Consultant for urbantonic, an event solutions provider, from 2005 to 2007.Share

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