GEIT May 2020 Virtual Events

GEIT Working Committee

Gender Equitable Investment in Tech

During this time of uncertainty, remote working, and social distancing, strong and compassionate leadership is crucial for leading effective teams and businesses. Coming back from COVID will require our global community to be innovative, flexible, thinking, combined with a willingness to change. It will also require that we appreciate each other's differences and make smart decisions with them. We will have to achieve all this in a socially-distanced world, where we can no longer rely on many of the cues that face to face communications provides our teams but instead must function by using a better managed often-distributed team collective intelligence.

In order to help you meet these challenges, the EQUALS GEIT Working Committee is excited to announce three upcoming EQUALS affiliated webinars this month. Continue reading to find out more and we look forward to virtually seeing you.

- The GEIT Working Committee

Accessing Investors and Capital during COVID-19
May 14, 2020 | 10:30 AM EDT

UN Women, EQUALS and Women2.0 present a GEIT supported virtual panel on "Accessing Investors and Caputal during COVID-19". The last several weeks have changed the startup and investing world drastically. One of the most prominent issues for founders who were either in the fundraising process or have fundraising on their roadmap for 2020 is how access to investors and capital and what the next 12 months could look like.

This virtual panel of industry experts will showcase opportunities for small and medium-sized startups and companies, especially for those led by women. We'll highlight the current landscape, opportunities for both venture capital and alternative finance, and how you can best prepare yourself.

Register for the webinar today or visit empowerwomen.org to learn more.

Combinate Leadership Training for Collective Intelligence
May 20, 2020 | 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT

Combinate, a GEIT affiliate, presents a leadership webinar on maximizing team effectiveness through collective intelligence during COVID times. The Combinate Leadership Training for Collective Intelligence training becomes all the more critical in COVID-19 time. Research and experiences show that biases and discrimination get amplified by stress, moving teams towards greater self-selection and homogeneity. This self-selecting behavior while comforting to our natural emotional triggers actually leads to the marginalization of more team members. Ironically while this behavior is a natural response to stress, the results are counter-productive in terms of organizational performance.

Combinate clearly links leadership for business outcomes and performance to collective intelligence and provides easily actionable interventions that everyone can practice without disruption. This training focuses on teaching leaders the skills they need to unleash their organization's collective intelligence and potential for innovation, through the effective measurement and management of organizational collective intelligence, which also results in greater diversity, inclusion, and equity.

Register for the training today or visit combinatecapital.com to learn more.

SheTrades Investment Webinar on the Right Finance
May 26, 2020 | 7:00 AM EDT

Enjoying the EQUALS 2020 Webinar Series? Join us for the next session on Tuesday, May 26, 2020 where we will discuss how to identify the right financial instruments for your technology company.

Participants will have access to a series of five webinars for this course on topics related to “Access to Finance for Women in the Tech Sector” via the WebEx platform. All webinars will be recorded for access at a later time and posted as links at www.EQUALS.org. Participants who complete all five webinars and complete the final course assignment will receive a course completion certificate from the EQUALS Global Partnership. In addition, participants who successfully complete the course can register for a one-on-one mentorship opportunity with industry professionals.

Register for the webinar today or visit www.EQUALS.org to learn more.