For full details and registration: https://www.allisonbishins.com/services/conference

Sustainability Summit for Women in Business

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Join over a dozen community partners for a unique conference focused on sustainability - and what it means for women in business in the South Sound. Topics include sustainability & equity, greening your supply chain, communicating your sustainability goals, and more! Speaker information will be added as they are confirmed.

AGENDA
9-9:30 Check-in and coffee
9:30-9:45 Introduction
9:45-10 Using Social Media to Advocate for Change
10-11 Keynote speeches
11-11:15 Break
11:15- 12 Breakout Sessions
12-1 Lunch and Mingle
1-1:45 Breakout Sessions
145-245 Nurture Small Group Networking
245-3 Closing Remarks
3-4 Mingle, Network and Mini Eco Market

Ticket prices include a vegan + gluten free lunch, coffee, and more! Tickets are on a sliding scale; please pick the highest ticket level your business can afford; this allows us to offer some deeply discounted tickets for new businesses, as well as full scholarships for self-identifying women from historically underrepresented groups and industries. There are only 10 tickets available at each of the two lower levels, so if you would like a reduced price ticket, get yours ASAP!

TICKET PRICES:
$25 new/microbusiness/recent graduate
$50 small business
$75 full price ticket
$125 full price + partial sponsorship of another attendee.

TOPICS

Intro: Social Media for Advocacy: Allison Bishins, Allison Bishins Consulting and Handmade PNW

Keynote #1: Environment + Race: Saiyare Refaei, PLU

Breakout sessions (each session happens twice, so you get to choose two!)

• Finding Agency and Pathways to Change: Kaitlyn Daniels, Learning to Lead
• If Customers Can't Park, They Can't Shop! Kristina Walker, Downtown on the Go
• Local Business as Sustainable Business: Gwen Kohl, Spaceworks
• Valuing Vulnerability in Alliance Building: Maria Palamar, Resolve Conservation
• Self Care as Sustainability: Casey Hubbell, Yoga Wild
• Reducing Waste from Your Business, Britt McGrath

Please contact allisonbishins@gmail.com if you have any questions.  If you belong to an historically marginalized community and would like to be considered for a full scholarship, please email me with a sentence or two about your business, why you want to come, and what community you identify with.  You will hear back within a few days either way!

SPONSORS at all levels will be thanked online, in the printed agenda, and at the opening of the conference. Nurture and Sustaining Sponsors confirmed prior to 9/17 will be included on the public poster. If you as a sponsor would like to send a staff member to the conference, you do not need to purchase a ticket - just email allisonbishins@gmail.com with the name of the attendee and business name, prior to October 5.

SPONSORSHIP LEVELS:

$125: This includes 1 ticket plus sponsoring 1 additional attendee

$150: Community Level

$250: Nurture Level

$500: Sustaining Level