Over 100 women owned businesses attended the Seattle Women Entrepreneurs Summit at Renton Technical College on March 5. The event was sponsored by the Small Business Administration (SBA) and was focused on setting priorities on the challenges facing women entrepreneurs, promoting dialog and networking among the women’s business community and guiding national policy objectives for Congress and the White House on how to support women entrepreneurs.
Below, from left to right, are Sari Crevin, BooginHead LLC, Cosette Gibon-Pfaff, South Sound Regional Business Incubator, Ana Harvey, Office for Women Business Ownership with the SBA, Tina Vlasaty, Office of Economic Development, Laurie Simon, Ombrella, Inc. & Women Impacting Public Policy, and Audrey Godwin, The Godwin Group. OED’s Tina Vlasaty moderated the opening panel on the State of Women Entrepreneurship. Following are more pictures from the event.