2012 Conference
Connecting to Success
Opening Reception | May 2nd, 2012
Two Day Conference and Showcase | May 3rd and 4th, 2012
Matrix Hotel | Edmonton, AB
- Fuel Your Passion - build on the spark that ignited you to be an entrepreneur.
- Seize the Opportunity - work on your business and achieve more.
- Mutiply Your Network - connect in-person with peers and experts.
Featuring keynote speaker Jessica Jackley, Co-Founder of Kiva.org, the world's best known micro-lending website.
Register Now and catch the Early Bird Price of $500
(regular price $600)
and that's not all...
Everyone who registers by February 3, 2012, will also be entered to
*WIN - 1 Night's Stay at the beautifully modern Matrix Hotel*
the venue hosting Connecting to Success 2012 and a prize valued
“I have been to the annual conference every year for three years. I love it!
It's a chance to meet women who are just like me."
- Elvie Reinson, Ballast Environmental Consulting Ltd.
Keynote Speaker Jessica Jackley co-founder of Kiva.org
The world's first peer-to-peer online microlending website
THE LATEST: Jessica Jackley has officially launched her new venture, ProFounder, which helps small U.S. businesses raise funds through crowdsourcing. Read more here.
Jessica is a Founder and former Chief Marketing Officer of Kiva, the world's first peer to peer microlending website. Kiva lets users lend as little as $25 to poor entrepreneurs around the world, providing affordable capital for them to start or expand microenterprises. Named one of the top ideas of 2006 by The New York Times Magazine, and praised by Oprah, Bill Clinton and countless others, Kiva is one of the fastest-growing social benefit websites in history. Since its founding in 2005, it has loaned nearly $200 million from lenders to entrepreneurs across 206 countries. (By 2012, total loans on Kiva to the world?s working poor are expected to reach $1 billion.) For all its success, Kiva remains focused on a simple mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty, one person at a time.
Currently, Jackley is Founder and CEO of ProFounder, a new platform providing innovative ways for start-ups and small business entrepreneurs in the U.S. to access start-up capital through crowdfunding and community involvement.
Click to view a great video on the intercontinental exchange of Kiva's financing:
Intercontinental Ballistic Microfinance from Kiva on Vimeo.
Keep watching for more Speaker and Program updates....