Tech Ready Women (TRW) and Sydney Startup Hub are excited to host the second inspirational event of Female Founder Connect, a startup community of female founders building scalable startups.

This time we bring a hot topic: GETTING PITCH READY + NETWORKING 🚀

About the event

How do you know when to stop thinking about your idea and start executing? How do you know when you should raise capital? Are you ready to pitch to customers or investors?

All these questions and more will be answered during this interactive Female Founder Connect event! You will hear from special guest speakers who can help reduce the fears around raising capital or attracting new customers.

This event will help you get prepared with:
💥 Pitching advice from a seasoned pitch professionals and investors' panel
💥 Preparation for future opportunities by refining your pitch
💥 [Perk] Getting free access to the e-learning module of TRW Pitch Ready Mini Masterclass - you’ll receive access on the date of the event

You’ll also get:
🚀 Tips on crafting your elevator pitch for your startup to use in general conversations, to potential customers, the media and investors
🚀 Exercises to overcome the barriers to pitching with confidence
🚀 An opportunity to practice your pitch with other female founders in a safe, fun and speed networking session
🚀 A chance to keep connecting during a female founder online networking session

Guest Speakers

EXPERT GUEST SPEAKER: Tracey Hamilton - Product Innovation at Publicis Groupe AUNZ | Tech Investor & Strategic Marketing Advisor | Co-founder NEKE wearable sensor technology

Tracey is a world-class expert in innovation, brand marketing, communications strategy and business-building capabilities to growth focussed firms. With over 20+ years building, launching and growing brands, products and platforms globally, she is the go-to-advisor for rapidly scaling businesses and Governments. Tracey has helped some of the world's fastest-growing firms grow faster - Facebook, Google, YouTube, Spotify, Uber, Unilever, J&J, Heinz, Energizer, Corona, General Motors, Samsung, HP, GE, Standard Chartered Bank, VISA, ANZ, Australian Unity, Qantas, SEEK.com and many more.

Tracey is an ally and an advocate for access. She is the mother to two awesome Maori children, an aging cat, a cheeky puppy, and the partner in life and business to a wonderful coffee roaster, Damian. Together they run (men’s mental wellbeing) social impact business, Pirate Coffee.

FEMALE FOUNDER GUEST SPEAKER: Hayley Saddington - Co-Founder & CEO Peak Medical | Technology and STEM Keynote Speaker | Health Technology | Sustainability

Hayley is Co-Founder of Peak Medical, a company that incorporates Artificial Intelligence with software solutions to positively impact the 46-Billion-dollar Orthopaedic Industry, reaching to help over 3 million joint replacement patients by 2030. Changing the experience of healthcare for patients, both in the public and private systems is embedded in their daily mission.

With studies in an Executive Education program at Harvard University and a Sustainability program at Standford University, Hayley is an award-winning innovator, being also the winner of the People’s Choice Award with her medical device on the New Inventors program on ABC-TV and SharkTank Australia. Hayley also participates as Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum.

INVESTOR GUEST SPEAKER: Georgina Healy - Investment Associate at x15ventures | Award-winning engineer

Georgina is an award-winning engineer with 7+ years of management consulting experience in Australia, Germany, UK, USA. In 2021 designed, created and released a mobile app for parents of young children to help them find and filter playgrounds and in 2022 was selected to be part of an early-stage VC program as CEO of Possum Playtime. Before being accepted into Antler, Georgina was in the first cohort of Tech Ready Women's Female Founder Startup program in 2021. Now using her passion for start-ups, Georgina is Investment Associate at x15 ventures.

About Female Founder Connect

Female Founder Connect is a startup community created to support women at all stages of the startup journey. Members of Female Founder Connect get access to top-class mentors, exclusive workshops, introductions to programs, grants and investors, networking events, and a community of wonderful and supportive female founders.

To learn more and apply, head to our website.

Who is this event for?

If you’re a woman testing, launching or scaling a startup, then this event is for you. Men are also welcome by all means!

What is the cost?

👉 For the general public, the ticket fee is $30.

👉 Members of the Female Founder Connect community get a discounted ticket of $15

Spots are limited to 50 attendees so get your ticket now!

What to expect

12 PM - 12.30 PM Event formalities & how to craft your elevator pitch (30 mins)

12.30 PM - 1.15 PM Panel + Q&A (45 mins)

1.15 PM - 1.45 PM Speed Networking (30 mins)

1.45 PM - 2 PM About Female Founder Connect (15 mins)

Place and date

📍Online event

🗓️ Friday, 25 November from AEDT 12 PM AM to 2 PM

Who are we

Tech Ready Women supports females to receive world-class tech and entrepreneurship education and mentorship, through our 8-week Female Founder Startup Program and now Female Founder Connect Community.

We are excited to see you there! 💛