BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20191114T173000Z DTEND:20191114T223000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:WIN Conference - November 14\, 2019 DESCRIPTION:Join professional women and women business owners for this year's WIN (Women's Insight Network) Annual Conference at the Worthington Renaissance Hotel! \n\n\n\nTheme: inspireHER - Connecting Women in Business\n\n\n\nAgenda: \n11:15am Registration Opens and Lunch Buffet\n\n12:20pm Welcome & Keynote Speaker Presentation\n\n1:15 2pm: Roundtable discussions\n\n2 - 2:30pm: Afternoon break with snacks and refreshments in the lobby. \n\n2:30 4:15pm Panel discussion with Q&A \n\n4:15 - 4:30pm - Closing Remarks\n\n\n\n4:30pm Event Ends\nKeynote Speaker: Theia Smith\, Gender Inclusion Advocate and Strategist\n\nManaging Director\, Workforce of the Future\, PwC\n\nFounder of Atlanta's Women's Entrepreneurship Initiative\n\nSee her bio below:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTheia's Topics:\n\n\n How to find inspiration in unexpected places.\n How all women can tap into their individual power to create more opportunity for other women "at the table". \n\nAs the founder of the nation's first city-funded business incubator for ventures that are 100% womenowned\n\nand women-led\, Theia Smith champions for equal access to economic self-sufficiency for women and\n\ngirls\, particularly those whose talent is often overlooked and underestimated.\n\nTheia launched the award-winning Atlanta's Women's Entrepreneurship Initiative in 2014\, positioning\n\nAtlanta as the first U.S. city to financially invest in creating an incubation space and curriculum\, for early\n\nstage women entrepreneurs. Their developed a first-of-its-kind blueprint to equip women entrepreneurs\n\nwith unprecedented access in three core capital areas: financial\, human and thought - to accelerate them\n\nfrom 'solopreneur' business models\, to viable high growth ventures.\n\n\n\nTheia developed the programming\, community outreach efforts and partnerships for WEI\, which included\n\nThe Women's Chamber of Commerce\, Emory University Impact Investment Group\, The James Beard\n\nFoundation\, WeWork and the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC). Under Theia's leadership\, WEI\n\nreceived recognition from numerous national and international reports from research-leading institutes on\n\nentrepreneurship and economic inclusion\, including The Center for an Urban Future\, Progress Cities\, the\n\nEwing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative.\n\nPrior to launching WEI\, Theia's professional portfolio includes more than a decade of executive-level equity\n\nand inclusion efforts in the Fortune 100 landscape\, as well as intersecting innovation opportunities with the\n\nBillion Dollar Roundtable\, for women and minority-led startup ventures.\n\n\n\nPanel Speakers: "Susan Says"\n\n\n\nSusan Gruppi\, Co-President\, M2G Ventures\n\nSusan Roberts\, CPA\, Principal\, CLA Fort Worth\n\nSusan Sheffield\, Executive Vice President and CFO\, GM Financial \n\n\n\nTheme: Learn from industry experts on how they have been inspired to create lives and careers that they love. \n\n\n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom left to right: Susan Gruppi\, Susan Roberts\, Susan Sheffield\n\n\n\nSusan Gruppi is the founder and co-president of M2G Ventures\, a commercial real estate investment\, development\, and consulting company based in Fort Worth\, Texas. Guided by the leadership of Susan and her partner\, Jessica Miller Essl\, the fast-growing company carefully invests in distinctive\, mixed-use\, and industrial development projects primarily located in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. She has a grand passion for large-scale intentional public art that desires to inspire the community in which she lives. She has a servant's heart when it comes to supporting people in pursuing their dreams.\n\n\n\nPrincipal Susan S. Roberts enhances CLA's corporate leadership through her extensive knowledge and experience providing customized solutions for manufacturing and distribution enterprises\, along with serial entrepreneurs. With an ability to assess important aspects of external and internal financial reporting needs---and to gauge their impact on efficiencies and productivity---Susan's agile interaction and absolute attention to detail are invaluable. \n\nShe has a remarkable depth of understanding of each industry and more than 20 years in public accounting\, providing a particular penchant for strategic consulting on corporate taxation\, entity selection\, and multi-state taxation issues. Serving CFOs in mid-size companies\, Susan capitalizes on her talents ranging from tax planning and avoidance to acquisition and divesture structuring.\n\n\n\nSusan Sheffield has been Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since April 2018. She previously served as Executive Vice President and Treasurer\, a role she assumed in June 2014. Prior to that\, she served as Executive Vice President\, Corporate Finance\, from 2008 to 2014. She served as Senior Vice President\, Structured Finance\, from 2004 to 2008 and Vice President\, Structured Finance\, from 2003 to 2004. Ms. Sheffield joined the company in 2001 as part of the Investor Relations department. Prior to joining the company\, she worked in corporate and commercial banking for 13 years\, primarily for JPMorgan and Wells Fargo Bank. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join professional women and women business owners for this year'\;s WIN (Women'\;s Insight Network) Annual Conference at the Worthington Renaissance Hotel!  \;
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\nTheme: inspireHER - Connecting Women in Business
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\nAgenda: \;\n

11:15am &ndash\; Registration Opens and Lunch Buffet

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12:20pm &ndash\; Welcome &\; Keynote Speaker Presentation

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1:15 &ndash\; 2pm: Roundtable discussions

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2 - 2:30pm: Afternoon break with snacks and refreshments in the lobby.  \;

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2:30 &ndash\; 4:15pm &ndash\; Panel discussion with Q&\;A \;

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4:15 - 4:30pm - Closing Remarks
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\n4:30pm &ndash\; Event Ends

\nKeynote Speaker: Theia Smith\, Gender Inclusion Advocate and Strategist
\nManaging Director\, Workforce of the Future\, PwC
\nFounder of Atlanta'\;s Women'\;s Entrepreneurship Initiative
\nSee her bio below:
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\nTheia'\;s Topics:\n\n\nAs the founder of the nation&rsquo\;s first city-funded business incubator for ventures that are 100% womenowned
\nand women-led\, Theia Smith champions for equal access to economic self-sufficiency for women and
\ngirls\, particularly those whose talent is often overlooked and underestimated.
\nTheia launched the award-winning Atlanta&rsquo\;s Women&rsquo\;s Entrepreneurship Initiative in 2014\, positioning
\nAtlanta as the first U.S. city to financially invest in creating an incubation space and curriculum\, for early
\nstage women entrepreneurs. Their developed a first-of-its-kind blueprint to equip women entrepreneurs
\nwith unprecedented access in three core capital areas: financial\, human and thought - to accelerate them
\nfrom &lsquo\;solopreneur&rsquo\; business models\, to viable high growth ventures.
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\nTheia developed the programming\, community outreach efforts and partnerships for WEI\, which included
\nThe Women&rsquo\;s Chamber of Commerce\, Emory University Impact Investment Group\, The James Beard
\nFoundation\, WeWork and the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC). Under Theia&rsquo\;s leadership\, WEI
\nreceived recognition from numerous national and international reports from research-leading institutes on
\nentrepreneurship and economic inclusion\, including The Center for an Urban Future\, Progress Cities\, the
\nEwing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative.
\nPrior to launching WEI\, Theia&rsquo\;s professional portfolio includes more than a decade of executive-level equity
\nand inclusion efforts in the Fortune 100 landscape\, as well as intersecting innovation opportunities with the
\nBillion Dollar Roundtable\, for women and minority-led startup ventures.
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\nPanel Speakers: "\;Susan Says"\;
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\nSusan Gruppi\, Co-President\, M2G Ventures
\nSusan Roberts\, CPA\, Principal\, CLA Fort Worth
\nSusan Sheffield\, Executive Vice President and CFO\, GM Financial \;
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\nTheme: Learn from industry experts on how they have been inspired to create lives and careers that they love.  \;
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\nFrom left to right: Susan Gruppi\, Susan Roberts\, Susan Sheffield
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\nSusan Gruppi is the founder and co-president of M2G Ventures\, a commercial real estate investment\, development\, and consulting company based in Fort Worth\, Texas. Guided by the leadership of Susan and her partner\, Jessica Miller Essl\, the fast-growing company carefully invests in distinctive\, mixed-use\, and industrial development projects primarily located in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. \;She has a grand passion for large-scale intentional public art that desires to inspire the community in which she lives. She has a servant&rsquo\;s heart when it comes to supporting people in pursuing their dreams.
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\nPrincipal Susan S. Roberts enhances CLA&rsquo\;s corporate leadership through her extensive knowledge and experience providing customized solutions for manufacturing and distribution enterprises\, along with serial entrepreneurs. With an ability to assess important aspects of external and internal financial reporting needs---and to gauge their impact on efficiencies and productivity---Susan&rsquo\;s agile interaction and absolute attention to detail are invaluable. \;
\nShe has a remarkable depth of understanding of each industry and more than 20 years in public accounting\, providing a particular penchant for strategic consulting on corporate taxation\, entity selection\, and multi-state taxation issues. Serving CFOs in mid-size companies\, Susan capitalizes on her talents ranging from tax planning and avoidance to acquisition and divesture structuring.
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\nSusan Sheffield has been Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since April 2018. She previously served as Executive Vice President and Treasurer\, a role she assumed in June 2014. Prior to that\, she served as Executive Vice President\, Corporate Finance\, from 2008 to 2014. She served as Senior Vice President\, Structured Finance\, from 2004 to 2008 and Vice President\, Structured Finance\, from 2003 to 2004. Ms. Sheffield joined the company in 2001 as part of the Investor Relations department. Prior to joining the company\, she worked in corporate and commercial banking for 13 years\, primarily for JPMorgan and Wells Fargo Bank. LOCATION:The Worthington Renaissance Hotel - Downtown 200 Main Street\, Fort Worth\, TX 76102 Please valet park. The cost for this is included with your ticket price. UID:e.1802.12192 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260406T153136Z URL:http://business.fortworthchamber.com/events/details/win-conference-november-14-2019-12192 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR