International Women's Day - Innovation Insights Series - Celebrating Women in Innovation

International Women’s Day (IWD) is a time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate the achievements of women.

To celebrate IWD, the Sydney Knowledge Hub and INCUBATE will be hosting a series of talks and Q&A sessions under the theme: Insight, Inspiration and Innovation.

Hear from four inspirational women share their insights into their success, the innovation industry, and the future of gender equality.

Schedule of events:

Monday 7th March - 12:15pm – 1:00pm - Investor Expert: Jenny Li, Partner at Scalare Partners
Jenny Li is a strategy-focused and results-orientated finance leader, with more than 15 years of experience in improving financial governance, working in and advising multinational businesses to high growth start-ups undertaking rapid change and growth. As someone who overcame many challenges as a young immigrant woman growing up in Australia, Jenny is passionate about sharing her story with likeminded people and promoting inclusion, cultural diversity and gender balance within technology entrepreneurship.
Tuesday 8th March - 8:15am - 9:00am - VC Expert: Natasha Rawlings - Investment Manager at Uniseed
Natasha is a tech entrepreneur who has led, founded and mentored early and mid-stage tech start-ups, with a particular focus on creating revenue through sales and marketing. Natasha is passionate about making new ideas – whether products, services or new ways of doing things – real.
Wednesday 9th March - 12:15pm – 1:00pm - Research commercialisation Expert: Dr Amani Batarseh - Chief Scientist at BCAL Diagnostics
Dr Amani Batarseh is BCAL's Chief Scientist and our Research Commercialisation expert. Amani's versatile profile of expertise combines molecular biology with lipidomics and mass spectrometry to answer biological questions. Her work at BCAL is helping to develop novel blood screening test to improve the early diagnosis and monitoring of breast cancer that is safe, cost effective, accurate and available to all women regardless of age, race and geographic location.
Thursday 10th March - 12:15pm - 1:00pm - Founder Expert: Aivee Robinson - Co-Founder at Catalyser
Aivee Robinson is an accomplished social tech entrepreneur helping people change the world from their workplace. Aivee's professional experience spans education, human rights and international development with the United Nations, public sector and not-for-profit organisations in Asia, the UK and Australia.

This event will be held on Zoom, with the potential of some in person attendance pending NSW Health regulations.

This event is for EVERYONE! As we all celebrate the accomplishments of women and work towards changing the climate of gender equality.

Uniseed - is Australia’s longest running venture fund, operating at the Universities of Melbourne, Queensland, Sydney & New South Wales, and the CSIRO, with investment capital provided by these research organisations. Making up over 40% of the total research spend in all research organisations in Australia. Find out more.

Scalare Partners - are on a mission to create a greater impact by building a collaborative network that connects exceptional founders, advisors and investors in a unique and powerful partnership, because real transformation and growth takes more than money. Find out more.

BCAL Diagnostics - BCAL is developing a novel blood screening test to improve the early diagnosis and monitoring of breast cancer that is safe, cost effective, accurate and available to all women regardless of age, race and geographic location. Breast cancer is the most common cancer amongst women, therefore, improving the effectiveness of the screening and diagnosis technology used is a high priority. Find out more

Catalyser - Catalyser is a female-led tech company backed by Telstra and EY. Catalyser was founded to transform employee giving through greater engagement. The Catalyser platform has been designed to give global workplaces the power to connect their people to each other through purpose and to make a culture of community and giving a central part of the employee experience. Find out more