Paula Zahn, a former ABC News, CBS News, Fox News and CNN anchor, will moderate this year”™s Annual Business Breakfast, sponsored by the Stamford-based Women’s Business Development Council.
The event is Nov. 13 at the Stamford Plaza Hotel and Conference Center in Stamford. It is the 13th WBDC annual breakfast.
WBDC”™s business breakfast is expected to bring together more than 500 women and men, including CEOs, legislators, entrepreneurs and community leaders, “to engage in a dialogue about leveraging women-owned businesses to bring positive and lasting economic change.”
The theme, “Connect”“Grow”“Influence: Women With Impact,” will highlight entrepreneurship as the new women”™s movement.
“Women will create over half of the 9.72 million new small-business jobs expected to be established by 2018,” said Fran Pastore, WBDC president and CEO, in a statement. “And according to Forbes magazine, 92 percent of female entrepreneurs agree the stage is set for even more women to launch businesses this year.”
U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-New Haven, will serve as honorary chairwoman.
Zahn will lead a panel of executives and entrepreneurs that includes Carla Harris, President Barack Obama”™s appointed chairwoman of the National Women”™s Business Council and managing director at Morgan Stanley; Amy Millman, founder and CEO of Springboard Enterprises; and Rose Wang, founder and CEO of the Binary Group and named one of Fortune magazine”™s 2013 “Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs.”
“Nationally based research identified four areas which will form a successful foundation in support of this unprecedented growth: access to capital, access to markets, job creation and growth, and data,” Pastore said. “Our panelists will explore these topics as they pertain to their own successes in business as well as the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead.”
For information about sponsoring WBDC”™s 13th Annual Business Breakfast, contact Christopher Landino, WBDC director of development, at 203-353-1750 or via email at CLandino@ctwbdc.org.
