NEXT Women in Innovation Panel

2 West Washington Street,Greenville SC 29601

14 March, 2023

Description

Founders Forum is a new educational series from NEXT designed for entrepreneurs, created to educate founders in core disciplines relevant to all startups and activate the ecosystem at large. Learn how you can improve your efforts as a founder, walk away with outcomes you can apply directly to your business, and strengthen your relationships with peers and content experts. Women in Innovation Panel Get inspired this Women's History Month by hanging out with Greenville's most innovative women! Come to our NEXT Women in Innovation Panel and hear their stories of resilience and success. Learn about their companies, hear their experiences as founders, and discover the unique challenges they've faced as female entrepreneurs. The panel will be moderated by Tina Zwolinski, Cofounder and CEO of Skillsgapp. Skillsgapp is a workforce pipeline development company that engages youth in career and pathway awareness and access through geolocation-based mobile gameplay. Panel guests include: Nathalie Baulain, Innovation Lead at Michelin, a French multinational tire manufacturing company, and Founder of Nathurally Stylish LLC, a company that helps artisans from third world countries to access a larger market. Nicole Johnson, Cofounder of Boyd Cycling, a craft wheel manufacturer dedicated to producing the highest quality bike wheels. Erin Mehagan, Founder of Livi Lu Lane, a women's intimates company created to empower women to create the shape they want when they want it. Cecilia Zapata-Harms, Chief Business Intelligence Officer at Sync.MD, a mobile solution and cloud-based dashboards for secure verification of identity, document storage and document sharing, and Cofounder and Managing Partner of 3rdEyeBio, LLC, an accelerator supporting life science innovators.