Empowering Women in Global Trade With Technology – SOTA | Los Angeles, CA

Please join WITA, in partnership with WIT-LA and WIIT-DC, for an in-person event on Wednesday, June 8, 2022, featuring the Ambassador Eleni Kounalakis discussing women’s empowerment with technology. This program will highlight technological advances in global trade and showcase successful women at the forefront of these advances.

Panelists will discuss:

- Innovations in technology and tech-based solutions for international trade that help empower women.

- A discussion on how future jobs will require digital connectivity, digital skills, and greater diversity, equity and inclusion.

- Need for women technology experts and entrepreneurs to address the next pandemic, the growing climate crisis, to contribute to emerging technologies such as biotech and AI and take their rightful place as innovators and leaders.

- Current and future access to digital skills that empower every women-led business to expand, become global entrepreneurs, or join global value chains.

Keynote Speaker

Ambassador Eleni Kounalakis, Lieutenant Governor and Trade Representative of California

Don Graves, Deputy Secretary of Commerce, U.S. Department of Commerce

Panelists

Marisela Caraballo DiRuggiero, Director, Trade Development Port of Los Angeles

Kristina Matthews, National Account Manager, DHL (DC)

Martha Montoya, CEO, Agtools Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Simona Racek, Director, Global Trade Getting to Global

Moderator: Kristine Pirnia, Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, PA

For more information, please visit the link below.

https://www.wita.org/events/women-trade-tech/

Host or Publisher Washington International Trade Association - WITA