Starting in 2008, Idea Builders Initiative took it annual Women Symposium, a day-long conference, national. Each year, about 600 outstanding women and girls are given the tools to discover themselves and initiate social ideas to change their lives and their immediate community.

The symposium demonstrates, through a variety of issue discussions and panel sessions, what social change is and shares leadership stories of outstanding change-makers. The event provides attendees with the chance for up, close and personal interactions with leading women and experts in business, government, human rights, as well as social enterprise.

This year's event is in partnership with Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (www.kind.org) and the theme is Women Leading Enterprise & Nation Building. This event will hold as follows:

Date: Wednesday, May 5, 2018

Time: 9am

Venue: Afe Babalola Auditorium, UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS, Akoka, Lagos.

AGENDA

09:00-09:30am: Registration

09:30-09:45am: Welcome ('One Billion Rising' (OBR) video, Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited & US Public Affairs Section

09:45-10:00am: Opening Address (Youth Trade) by Hafsat Abiola-Costello, Special Adviser on MDG to Ogun state government

10:00-10:45am: Keynote Address: Women Leading Enterprise by Jumoke Adenowo

10:45-10:50am: Video Presentation: Mentoring Women - the missing link

10:50-11:10am: Mentoring Awards (Etheralda Award for Most Outstanding Mentor, the Most Outstanding Mentee & Plaques/Certificates for 2011 Mentors and Mentees)

11:10-12:20pm: Session 1 - Women Leading Nation Building - a male perspective (Gbenga Sesan, Fela Durotoye and Taiwo Akinlami)

12:20-2:20pm: Session 2 - Group Mentoring Session (Chisom Mbonu, Kemi Ogunleye, Funke Bucknor-Obruthe, Esther Ijewere and Ore Somolu)

02:20-02:50pm: 'Shine Ya Eye': Cervical Cancer

02:50-03:50pm: Lunch and Raffle Draw

03:50-04:00pm: Closing Remarks

04:00pm: Bazaar (will be open throughout the event)

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SPEAKERS & FACILITATORS

Ore Somolu, Funke Bucknor-Obruthe, Kemi Ogunleye,  Chisom Mbonu, Esther Ijewere, Gbenga Sesan, Jumoke Adenowo, Taiwo Akinlami and Fela Durotoye.

EVENT ANCHOR

Ebele Yough

TO REGISTER

Send your name, email address, phone number, occupation and the word 'symposium' to kokomma@ideabuilders.org

(REGISTRATION/ATTENDANCE IS FREE)