Second Workshop – at Kaptár, Budapest on November 28, 2017

Participants: 80 with 15% men

The second workshop by the WOMEN/BUSINESS/ANGELS association and its coalition partners was held with 80 participants (full house!) in the Kaptár Community Office in Budapest. The series of workshops is designed to encourage women to want and be able to be involved in an increasing number in innovation-related business decision making. Hungary’s competitiveness and growth potential could be greatly improved by widening the pool of female entrepreneurs and angel investors. Women and men angels want to work together with men. The collective take-away from the first workshop (w/ 20% men) was that the number of business angels can be increased through network and training. With that in mind, the second workshop provided an insight into two life strategies: how you can build your own innovative financial business, and how you can create companies in Hungary while pursuing your career at a global enterprise. The showcased examples. A networking session.

Speakers: Dr Eszter Varga, General Manager of Pannonhitel Zrt., Kristóf Baltay Managing Partner of Develor. The workshop also introduced two members of the Coalition, namely Beatrix Bedő, co-founder of ImpactHub, and Zsófia Barcsik, President of Business Women Network. The building of global connections was ensured by three presenters: Selma Prodanovic, the driving force behind RisingTide of EBAN via skype, Dita Přikrylová, founding general manager of Czeckitas (the Czech Republic), and Kathrina Ramberg, First Secretary/Deputy Head of Mission at the Royal Embassy of Norway in Budapest.

Media:

Hungarians continue to build a co-ed angel investors’ network

First Workshop – at Impact Hub, Budapest on 9 October, 2017

Participants: 110 with 22% men
Outcome of the World Cafe part: women want network and training

„A special workshop held in Budapest was designed to encourage women to become business decision makers, investors or owners of businesses capable of successfully competing in the global arena. As a general rule, women are underrepresented in these roles in most of the places, particularly in Hungary. The Women/Business/Angels initiative used this event to launch collective brainstorming and community building towards making a change happen, looking for ideas on to how to involve more women – and men-beginners – in providing market-based financing, using their own funds, for innovative startups in Hungary and the CEE region.
To fill the gap in the Hungarian innovation ecosystem and to promote a more balanced gender representation among business angels, Antal Károlyi, President of the Hungarian Business Angels Network (HunBan) asked Eszter Szabó, the first female member of HunBan (and an angel investor of edUcate) to help mobilize women. Angel investors play a key role in the ecosystem as typically they are the ones who provide first-round investment for startups.„ Out of 100 participants more than 20% were gentlemen.
Speakers included
Candace Johnson, President of the European Business Angel Network, Orsolya Párkány Cofounder of joinmywedding, Katalin Ivánka Ivánka Designbeton co-founder, Lénárd Horgos, Partner at Absolvo Consulting, Veronika Pistyur, MD of Bridge Budapest moderated a panel of successful businesswemen. Alain Nadeau, Head of Office in EIB, Hungary.

Media:

http://www.eban.org/competitiveness-innovation-wont-happen-without-women
https://forbes.hu/uzlet/versenykepesseg-es-innovacio-a-nok-nelkul-nem-fog-menni/
https://profitline.hu/Angyali-toke-budapesti-luktetesben-369630