Monday 19^th September

WIE Inspiration Day

Hosted by:  Sarah Brown, Arianna Huffington & Donna Karan

Location – 82 Mercer, 82 Mercer St, New York

Time: Registration begins at 7AM.  Day ends at 7: 00PM

Keynote

 Dr Jill Biden
Educator & Wife of
Vice President
Joe Biden

Carol Jenkins in Conversation with Abby Disney

Abby Disney
Documentary
Filmmaker

Carol Jenkins
Founding president of
the Women’s Media Center

MC’s

 Cynthia Garrett
Television Host & Author

Alina Cho
National correspondent for CNN

 Sessions A & B

Getting Women off the Sidelines In Business and Public Life – Effecting Real Change

 Senator
Kirsten Gillibrand
Senator For New York

 Donna Karan
Vice President

 Deborra Lee Furness
Actress & Philanthropist

 Lisa Gersh
President, Martha Stewart
Living Omnimedia

Michelle Ebanks
President Essence
Communications

Men playing their part for women and children’s health – Sarah Brown

Moderated by
Sarah Brown

 Babatunde Osetimehin
Director of UNFPA

 Ray Chambers
UN MDG Advocate

 Mark Dybul
Co-Director of Global Health
Law Program, Georgetown University

John Tedstrom
President of
the GBCHealth

Tony Porter
Co-founder of A Call to Men

The future of girls education

Moderated by
Wendy Kopp
Founder of Teach
for America

Petra Nemcova
Founder Of Happy
Hearts Foundation

Isobel Coleman
Council on Foreign Relations
Senior Fellow

Charles Best
Founder & CEO, DonorsChoose

Moms for Social Good

Christy Turlington
Supermodel &
Philanthropist

Alisa Volkman
Co-Founder, Babble.com

Heather Armstrong
Founder of Dooce.com

Catherine Connors

Mary Alice Stephenson

The Green Revolution

Moderated By
Cheryl Heller
CEO: Heller Designs

Paulette Cole
Founder of
ABC Homes

Van Jones
Environmentalist
& Author

Mary C Pearl
CEO of Garrison
Institute

Natalia Allen
Design Futurist

Almudena Fenandez
Spokeswoman: Oceana

Brooke Farrell
Founder Recycle Match

Global Leadership workshop – Doing good, doing well

Blair Miller
The Acumen Fund

Maris Segal
Prosody Creative Services

Workshop: Pitching, Selling & Making a Difference

Jack Hidary
Entrepreneur & Philanthropist

Stephanie Ruhle Hubbard
MD Global Markets Relationship
Management, Deutsche Bank

Girls Not Brides – a global partnership to end child marriage

Mabel van Oranje
CEO, The Elders

Jennifer Buffett
President and Co-Chair of
The NoVo Foundation

Anju Malhotra
VP of Research, Innovation,
ICRW

Dr. Jamela Saleh Alraiby
Paediatrician Deputy
Health Minister of
Public Health and
Population, Yemen

Molly Melching
Executive Director of Tostan

New Solutions for Africa – moderated by Jacqueline Novogratz

Moderated by
Jacqueline Novogratz
Founder: Acumen Fund

Sinothole Mbatha
21 yr old South
African honor student

Mellana Haile
Kauffman
Foundation

Tiffany Persons
Shine on Sierra Leone

Sharon D’Agostino
Vice-President,
Worldwide Corporate Contributions
and Community Relations,
Johnson & Johnson

Toyin Saraki

Mind Body & Sprit – Creating calm in the chaos – Donna Karan

Moderated by
Donna Karan

Elizabeth Lesser
Founder of Omega Institute

 

Kris Carr
Author/Activist

Lisa Oz
Producer/Writer/Actress

Agapi Stassinopoulos
Author and motivational speaker

Women of The UN

Pattie Sellers
Editor at Large, Fortune Magazine
in session with …

Baroness Amos
UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs
and Emergency Relief Coordinator and

Josette Sheeran
Executive Director of the UN
World Food Programme

What it means to be a woman now

Moderated by
Dee Poku
Co-Founder WIE Symposium

Alina Cho
National correspondent for CNN

Laura Brown
special projects editor,
Harpers Bazaar

Mikki Taylor
Cover & Beauty Editor
of Essence Magazine

Yaya Da Costa Johnson
Actress

Reshma Saujani
Deputy Advocate for Special Initiatives at
the New York City Office of the Public
Advocate and the Executive Director
of The Fund for Public Advocacy

Barbara Bush
Founder of The
Global Health Corps

Session C

Entrepreneurship: Talk’in about our Generations

Moderated by
Rachel Shechtman
Founder of Cube
Ventures

Alexandra Wilkes Wilson
Co-Founder of
Gilt Group

Eva Ho
Co-Founder Applied Semantics
& Factual.com

Cynthia Rowley
Designer &
Entrepreneur

Katia Beauchamp
Co-Founder of Birchbox

Philanthropy, Social Enterprise & Corporate Social Responsibility

Moderated by
June Sarpong, MBE

 

Shawn Covell
Qualcomm Wireless
Reach

Cynthia Ryan
Schooner Foundation

Jane Wurwand
Founder of Dermalogica

Shauna Robinson
Co-Founder Crowdrise

Renu Bhatia
VP of Sales of Strategic
Accounts, Marvell

Amir Dossal
Founder of the Global
Partnerships Forum

Philanthropy in the Creative Community

Moderated By:
Katie McGrath
Chief Strategy Officer
Bad Robot

Nancy Lublin
Founder, Do Something

Heather Lylis
VP, Sunshine Sachs

Malaak Compton Rock
Philanthropist

Ali Wentworth
Actress & Host

Unstoppable Women

Moderated by
Cynthia Kersey
Motivational Speaker & Author

Fran Drescher
Actress & Founder
of Cancersmancher

 

Mary Morissey
Motivational Speaker
& Author

Abby Disney
Documentary
Filmmaker

Sylvia Rhone
Recording Industry Pioneer

Ambassador Nancy Brinker
CEO & Founder of
Susan G Coleman
Foundation

Women Internet Entrepreneurs – Is There a Women’s Ghetto

Moderated by
Gina Bianchini
Co-Founder of Ning

Randi Zuckerberg
Founder of RtoZ Media

Danni Levy
Founder of Daily Candy

Lauren Leto
Bnter and Texts from Last Night

Closing speech

Deepak Chopra

Meditation Sessions:

Deidre Hade
Healer

Yogi Cameron
Ayurverdic Practitioner

Award Winner & Participants

Iman
CEO: Iman Cosmetics

Dr Eva Schloss
Anti Hate Campaigner

Zainab Salbi
Founder: Women for Women

Topaz Green
Founder: Lunchbox Fund

Padma Lakshmi
Host & Author

Candice Bushnell
Author

Rosario Dawson
Actress & Campaigner

Ted Turner
Businessman and Founder & Chairman
of the UN Foundation

Fearlessness: A Bold Vision for the Next Generation of Women in Media

Moderated By:
Christina Norman
Christina Norman – Executive Editor,
HuffPost BlackVoices

Hilary Rosen
CNN Contributor and
communications specialist

Hanna Rosin
Atlantic magazine,
Founder/Co-editor of
Slate’s DoubleX

Pat Mitchell
President and CEO of
the Paley Center for Media

Lori Leibovich
Executive Women’s Editor,
Huffington Post