Global Women’s Journey

When: March 27^th, 5:30pm-8:30pm

Location: Uber, 900 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto, 94304

All proceeds of this event will be donated to nonprofit organizations founded by Brazilian female entrepreneurs in the Bay Area

It will take 108 years to close the gender gap across the world.

That’s the somber conclusion of the 2018 World Economic Forum study.

Despite a number of initiatives to promote equality, by public and private sectors, across the globe women continue to earn less, work more, have less participation in the labor force and are under-represented at the executive level of large corporations.

According to the study, the most challenging gender gaps to close are the economic and political empowerment dimensions, which will take 202 and 107 years to close respectively.

“When it comes to political and economic leadership, the world still has a long way to go. Across the 149 countries assessed, there are just 17 that currently have women as heads of state, while, on average, just 18% of ministers and 24% of parliamentarians globally are women. Similarly, women hold just 34% of managerial positions across the countries where data is available, and less than 7% in the four worst-performing countries (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Pakistan).”

Although modest, it’s important to notice that there are bright spots.

In the 2018 U.S. midterms, more women than ever were elected to the Congress. And, history is in the making at the 2020 Democratic presidential primary: it has the highest number of female candidates ever.

Moreover, the 2017/18 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) report shows that the female entrepreneurship rate increased by 6.6%.

The best performing regions for female entrepreneurship are Latin America with an average female Total Entrepreneurial Activity (TEA) rate of 16.7% followed by North America at 12.8%.

A few of these entrepreneurs will participate in the 11^th edition of BayBrazil’s Global Women’s Journey series!

We launched the series in 2011 and have been shedding a light on women’s advancements & challenges ever since.

On March 27^th meet international female leaders and join an inspiring dialogue on tech innovation & entrepreneurship.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Iris Choi
Partner at Floodgate

For the past 6 years, Iris has been a leader at Floodgate, a VC firm which invested in Twitter, TaskRabbit, Lyft among others.

She drives corporate relationships and works closely with portfolio companies on a range of strategic areas, including business development and financings.

Iris has a BA from Harvard University, MBA Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and before Floodgate she spent 10 years in investment banking.

Inspired by the GEM study findings, our 11^th edition will feature Brazilian founders.

Meet our guest speakers, learn about their companies and vision on female entrepreneurship progress in Brazil.

Camille Almeida Levi
Founder & CEO
FLEXHANGER

Camille is a lawyer, entrepreneur and inventor with several patents in Brazil, the USA and China. With a passion for design, technology, innovation, she founded FLEXHANGER, a foldable hanger with a patented mechanism which she designed and produced.Read More

Previously, co-founded Imperio Tech, a startup that develops educational mobile apps and launched “Lallalandia” in six languages and “Think Healthy App”, a cognitive therapy technique developed by a Brazilian MD. She also co-founded WECAP Tech, a company that focuses on innovation in the education sector in Brazil. Camille holds an LL.M (Master of Laws) in US Law with emphasis in Intellectual Property Law from Santa Clara University, California.

Fernanda Tovar-Moll
Co-Founder & VP
IDOR

Fernanda co-founded IDOR in 2019. The D’Or Institute for Research and Education is a Brazilian not-for-profit institute aimed at promoting scientific research and technological progress in healthcare and excellence in education. It offers professionalRead More

training, academic internships,medical residency programs and focuses its research focuses on Neurosciences, Intensive Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics and Oncology. Fernanda is also an adjunct professor at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences and the director of the Bioimaging Unit for Small Animals (CENABIO) at UFRJ. She earned her MD degree and PhD in Morphological Sciences from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

Mirelly Vieira de Moraes

Co-Founder & CEO
Verbena Flores

Mirelly transformed her passion for flowers into the third largest flower business of São Paulo. She co-founded Verbena Flores in 2011, e-commerce and a brick and mortar flower boutique serving clients such as Dior, Ferragamo, Chanel, and Valentino Read More

among others. Mirelly has a BA in, Business from FGV. Before founding Verbena in 2011, she spent 7 years in the financial market, working at CitiBank, where she managed $2.2 billion in assets as a trade finance manager, and at Banco Patria, Brazil’s leading private equity firm. She has been living in the Bay Area since 2016.

Tonia Casarin
Founder & CEO
Fireworks.Edu

An educational entrepreneur, Tonia founded Fireworks.Edu in 2016, a platform to develop 21st-century skills and social and emotional skills during lifetime span to prepare people to be better individuals and better professionals to build a better world. In 2017Read More

she won Singularity University’s Global Impact Challenge in Brazil as a result of her work to improve the lives of people in Brazil and beyond. Tonia holds a Master’s degree in Education from Columbia University and is the author of “I Have Monsters In My Tummy” a resource for children to learn to recognize their emotions.

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