Each quarter, members of the Diana International Research Institute (DIRI) and other interested stakeholders participate in virtual educator roundtable calls with experts from around the world to discuss best practices, teaching materials, and pedagogies for educating women entrepreneurs.
Join us for a series of virtual researcher roundtable discussions with experts from around the world to explore inspiring new research directions, theoretical lenses, methods, and approaches that can lead to new understandings of women’s entrepreneurship.
Multiple times each year, DIRI members and other interested stakeholders participate in virtual roundtable calls centered around venture capital and investment, with opportunities to learn from and ask questions about the challenges and successes that entrepreneurs have faced during their fundraising journey.
Established in 1999 by five founding scholars, the Diana International Research Conference is the premier international research conference on women’s entrepreneurship, gathering the collaborative network of researchers studying women’s entrepreneurship from more than 60 countries. Moving to a new global location each year, over 100 scholars from around the world join this annual forum to share global research dedicated to asking and answering questions about women entrepreneurs and how they grow their ventures.
The Diana International Research Institute Impact Day is the first global convening of researchers, educators, investors, policymakers, women entrepreneurs, and other disrupters who are dedicated to advancing women's entrepreneurship through the collective discussion of the unique challenges that these founders are facing. The theme for the inaugural 2019 Impact Day was Catalyzing New Models and Innovations for Financing Women Entrepreneurs where 215+ stakeholders from 14 states and eight countries came together to collectively explore practical solutions, develop best practices in acceleration and funding, and generate needed policy solutions to leverage one of the largest economic opportunities of our time. The day led to the Diana International Impact Report January 2020 (pdf) calling for new models of funding for entrepreneurial women and documentation of the continued disparity in funding by gender.
Speaker: Julie Castro Abrams, Founder and Managing Partner of How Women Invest
Speakers: Dr. Karen Hughes, Dr. Candida Brush, Dr. Amanda Elam, Dr. Mahsa Samsami
Speakers: Dr. Diana Hechavarria, Julia Voss, Eunice Cascant, Dr. Maribel Guerrero, Riccarda Joas
Speakers: Anushka Daunt, Dr. Heatherjean McNeil, Dr. Kathrin Hanek, Dr. Barbara Orser
Speaker: Dr. Amanda Elam
Speakers: Dr. Susan Coleman, Dr. Colette Henry, and Dr. Naomi Birdthistle
Speaker: Mary Jacobs, Assistant Dean of Graduate Programs and MBA Program Director, Saint Mary’s University
Speakers: Laurel Taylor of FutureFuel.io, Marian Leitner-Waldman of Archer Roose, and Ziad Moukheiber, President of Boston Harbor Angels
Speaker: Vishal K Gupta, Associate Professor, The University of Alabama
Speakers: Anita Shankar, Associate Scientist in the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health & Executive Director and Lead Trainer, Self-Empowerment and Equity for Change (SEE Change) Initiative and Paul Spurzem, Lead Trainer and Program Director, SEE Change Initiative
Speaker: Dr. CV Harquail, Co-Founder of Feminists At Work & Author of Feminism: A Key Idea in Business
Speaker: Dr. Susan Coleman, Professor of Finance Emeritus, University of Hartford
Speaker: Dr. Barbara Orser, Full Professor and Deloitte Professor in the Management of Growth Enterprises at the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa
Speaker: Dr. Doan Winkel, John J. Kahl Sr. Chair in Entrepreneurship at John Carroll University. Co-Founder of TeachingEntrepreneurship.org; President-Elect, USASBE
Speaker: Dr. Patti Greene, Former Director of the Women’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor
