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National Women's Enterprise Day 2022

Venue:
Glasson Lakehouse Hotel
 
Date:
13/10/2022
 
Note:
13th October 2022
 
Time:
9:45am to 2:00pm
 
Category:
Seminar
 

Hear inspiring journeys and work out your own route to success at our NWED Midlands event and join us for lunch at the Lakehouse Hotel, Glasson - FREE GOODY BAG FOR ALL ATTENDEES.

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National Women's Enterprise Day 2022 – Midlands Region Event (Longford, Laois, Offaly and Westmeath)

Hear inspiring journeys and work out your own route to success over lunch at the Lakehouse Hotel, Glasson.

Date:           Thursday October 13th 2022

Venue:        Glasson Lakehouse Hotel, Glasson, Athlone

Time:           9:45am-2.00pm (Lunch included)

This event, hosted by the Local Enterprise Offices in the Midlands region, offers an exciting opportunity for participants to learn key tips from the experiences and journeys of all the speakers to apply to the running of their own businesses and the serenic location on the shores of Lough Ree will afford attendees the opportunity to step back from the day to day of running their own businesses and network, learn and share in the experience of other business women from the region.

Theme:        Our Future, Our Way

This event will showcase female entrepreneurs from a spectrum of business sectors and stages of their business journey from across the Midlands.

This ‘On the Couch’ style event will be in informal interview/chatshow format with MC, Sarah Jane Foster in conversation with all our entrepreneurs.  The event will hear from Suzanne Jackson, award-winning blogger and influencer turned businesswoman. Our Regional Ambassador Patricia Gibney will talk us through her entrepreneurial journey and how she became a successful fiction author.

MC Sarah Jane Foster - Sarah Jane Foster is an Irish Entrepreneur. She is the proud the owner of Ireland's top-rated video production company SJF Productions, she is also a Midlands Correspondent on the Jen Zamparelli  show with 2fm.

Guest Speakers:

Suzanne Jackson, SoSueMe - The event will hear from Suzanne Jackson (@sosueme_ie) who is is an award-winning blogger and influencer turned businesswoman. Suzanne is the founder of SOSU Cosmetics & Dripping Gold Luxury Tan and co-founder of Mantra Official.

Patricia Gibney, Fiction Author - Patricia Gibney worked for many years as a public servant and hails from Mullingar and through a series of events, some traumatic, some fortunate, and with focus and dedication, has become a successful crime fiction author selling 11 books in the Detective Lottie Parker Series with over two million sales.  The series is also available in audio format, and paperback editions are published by Sphere UK and Hachette Ireland and foreign translations have sold to Italy, Spain, Norway, France, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Taiwan, and audio to Sweden and Finland. 

FREE GOODY BAG FOR ALL ATTENDEES

Running Order

TimeElement
9:45RegistrationTea & Coffee
10:30Welcome

MC, Sarah Jane Foster

SJF Productions and RTÉ 2FM Correspondent

10:45Opening Address

Christine Charlton

Head of Enterprise, LEO Westmeath

10:55Event Leading Light

Patricia Gibney

Crime Fiction Author

11:10Fashion Showcase
  • Zobi - Fashion Consultancy
  • Boutique Ladybelle
  • Áine's Boutique
  • Claire Guinan - Jewellery and Artist
11:50Keynote Speaker

Suzanne Jackson

Entrepreneur/Influencer/ TV Presenter

12:15Panel Discussion

Facilitated by Sarah Jane Foster

  • Christine Charlton - Head of Enterprise, LEO Westmeath
  • Suzanne Jackson - Entrepreneur/Influencer/TV Presenter
  • Patricia Gibney -Crime Fiction Author
  • Q&A
12:55Closing Comments

Christine Charlton

Head of Enterprise, LEO Westmeath

13:00Lunch

Lunch in Glasson Lakehouse