HERHOOD, the female town at ruhrSUMMIT 2023 in Bochum, Female founders, female entrepreneurs, female startups

Your Town for Female Empowerment

13th June 2023
at ruhrSUMMIT | Jahrhunderthalle Bochum

Gründerallianz Ruhr x ruhrSUMMIT 2023

Welcome to HERHOOD

As part of the ruhrSUMMIT 2023 metropolitan concept, Gründerallianz Ruhr hosts your town for female empowerment. 

At HERHOOD, we offer female founders and women in leadership a platform to talk about their challenges and solutions, create a safe space to network and enhance the visibility of female rolemodels. True to this year’s motto, PASSION.POWER.PEOPLE, we welcome women with important perspectives on female leadership and entrepreneurship on our HER Stage.

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WE WANT YOU!

BECOME OUR NEXT STARTUP SWEETHEART

Female Founders watch out – the 90s are knocking at the door and make our hearts beat fast

We all remember the TV gems of our youth with Kai Pflaume. But at HERHOOD we play this kind of matching game a different way!We are looking for our Startup Sweetheart live in the HERHOOD at ruhrSUMMIT 2023. Three female founders will get the chance for a business blind date for profound advices with a female investor who carries startups at heart. Don’t worry – we are already well experienced with this kind of match making from HODcon 2022 and promise – it won’t get cheesy.

Apply until 1st June 2023 and catch the chance to convince us live at ruhrSUMMIT.

News

30.05.2023, 09:45

It’s officially revealed – Pamela Kelbch, Angel Investor and female entrepreneur is sitting on the other side of the wall, looking for her startup sweetheart. Apply now and get the chance for a business blind date with Pamela Kelbch. More information see above!

22.05.2023, 01:40

Do you need child care during your visit at HERHOOD at the ruhrSUMMIT 2023? Gründerallianz Ruhr initiated CHILDHOOD, powered by ruhrHUB and Techniker Krankenkasse and provided by the female led startup heynannily, to give parents without child care opportunities during the event the chance  to be part of ruhrSUMMIT 2023. You only need to chose the option for child care while buying your ticket here.

05.05.2023, 08:05

New citizens at HERHOOD arrived! WELCOME to Dr. Léa Steinacker as Keynote Speaker in our town 🚀

Live on her stage

Speaker

You can expect high-quality keynotes and inspiring panel discussions with real-world perspectives from women in leadership, academia and the startup scene. With the guest format #HowSheDidIt, hosted by Janna Prager, you will also get insights into outstanding success stories of female founders.

All keynotes and panels will be held in German language. 

Magdalena Rogl

Magdalena Rogl

Lead Diversity & Inclusion @ Microsoft

Dr. Léa Steinacker

Dr. Léa Steinacker

Co-Founder & CIO @ ada Learning GmbH

Nora Breuker

Nora Breuker

Founder @ Runaway Redhead

Janna prager

Janna prager

Host of #HowSheDidIt

Birthe Bruckhoff

Birthe Bruckhoff

Hub-Manager @ BMR

Vanessa Westphal

Vanessa Westphal

Founder @ Choosy

Can-Su Koutentaki

Can-Su Koutentaki

Co-Founder @ AVAILY

Alicia Reimer

Alicia Reimer

Projektmanager @ Antropia

Svenja Bremer

Svenja Bremer

Founder @ WHO:IN

Beate von Miquel

Beate von Miquel

Executive Director of the Marie Jahoda Centre for International Gender Studies

Conny Steenblock

Conny Steenblock

Freie Universität Berlin

Dr. Shabnam Fahimi-Weber

Dr. Shabnam Fahimi-Weber

Co-Founder @ DUBIDOC

Martina Schuster

Martina Schuster

Co-Founder @ ai.dopt

Nine Heine

Nine Heine

Co-Founder @ shit2power

Vanessa Meyer

Vanessa Meyer

Co-Founder @ KNOWbody

Özge Efendi

Özge Efendi

Co-Founder @ BliBlaBlub Verlag

Julia Kahle

Julia Kahle

Co-Founder @ heynannily

Pamela Kelbch

Pamela Kelbch

Managing Partner & Angel Investor @ PDT Invest GmbH

Rebekka Bracht

Rebekka Bracht

Startup Ecosystems & Corporate Partnerships @ Gründerallianz Ruhr

Dr. Britta Julia Dombrowe

Dr. Britta Julia Dombrowe

Programm Lead Startup Activities @ Gründerallianz Ruhr

Jacqueline Kos

Jacqueline Kos

Lead Communications @ Gründerallianz Ruhr

Kevin Kessler

Kevin Kessler

Startup Ecosystem Manager @ Gründerallianz Ruhr

Programm

her stage 

11:00

WARM WELCOME

Dr. Britta Julia Dombrowe, Lead Startup Program Activities | Initiativkreis Ruhr

11.05

Keynote: From bold idea to reality – How artificial intelligence is changing us 

Dr. Léa Steinacker | Co-Founder & CIO at ada Learning GmbH

Dr. Léa Steinacker will highlight the latest developments in Artificial Intelligence and their far-reaching consequences. She uses concrete use cases to show how this type of automation is disrupting workflows and communication, and how important it is to shape this future with diverse perspectives.

11.35

#HowSheDidIt | Janna Prager 

We are happy to welcome Janna Prager, hosting her popular panel on female success stories from the Startup Ecosystem Ruhr.

until 13:00

BREAK

13:00

KEYNOTE: Emotional Leadership

Magdalena Rogl | Lead Diversity & Inclusion at Microsoft Germany

Awareness of our own and others’ emotions can make us more successful and happier. For this, we need emotional intelligence – and unlike IQ, we can train our EQ and thus develop resilience. If we as a society and as teams want to make full use of our possibilities and abilities, we have a responsibility to change outdated structures so that all people feel emotionally safe and can use their feelings.

13:30

PANEL: How To Create Resilient Female Networks | Dr. Britta Julia Dombrowe

Be it in a social context, such as family or friends, that support us, or on a professional level – everyone relies on resilient networks. But for female founders, building and expanding as well as accessing resilient networks continues to be a hurdle that needs to be overcome. With this panel, we address this challenge and talk about different experiences and approaches.

14:10

PANEL: How To Feminize The Startup Ecosystem Ruhr | REBEKKA BRACHT

Although the share of female startups has increased on a national average, we are lagging behind in the Ruhr region: Only 12.1% of startups were led by female founders in 2022, and we are still far from parity on a national level. How can we motivate women in the Ruhr region to be more courageous in founding startups? And how can we make the Ruhr region more accessible to female founders?

14:50

LIVE PITCH: GRÜNDERALLIANZ RUHR X BRYCK: FEMALE BOOSTER

Attention to all investors, business angels and corporates! In April five startups are taking part in the Gründerallianz Ruhr x BRYCK: Female Booster to push their startups to the next level, together with experienced mentors and industry experts. On HER Stage they will show off what they are capable of and why you should count them in for the future.

15:50

Female Booster Award

With taking part in the Gründerallianz Ruhr x BRYCK: Female Booster, the female led startups have the opportunity to be awarded by the Initiativkreis Ruhr. With celebrating the great final of the Female Booster, the winning startup will be awarded live at ruhrSUMMIT 2023 on HER Stage.

16:05

Startup Sweetheart

The slightly different way of match making. You probably remember the famous tv blind dating show. On HER Stage we will give female led startups the chance for a business blind date with a female investor. You think you got the potential? Apply here.

Program

Open Sessions

In our Open Sessions, experienced female founders, investors and experts will be available to answer your questions on the topics of “Start”, “Invest” and “Grow”. Just drop by at HERHOOD and take a seat in the dedicated slot.

12:40 h

Start

Angelika Klimaszewski

Angelika Klimaszewski

Start-up Consultant @ Bochum Wirtschaftsentwicklung

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Coming soon

Janina Ostendorf

Janina Ostendorf

Incubation and Partnership Managerin @ Archimedis New Ventures

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Janina Ostendorf has started her own business as WINGWOMAN Jules to use her strengths for a more female business world and especially for a more female the start-up scene. 
 
In the triad  CONNECT - INSPIRE - EMPOWER she combines her heart topics: Partnership Management, Talent Acquisition & Retention and Female Empowerment.
 
Jules brings over 15 years of experience from consulting, industry and academia. Most recently, she was Partnership Manager at Founders Foundation in Bielefeld, Germany. She is familiar with numerous startup ecosystems and founding opportunities and specializes in supporting Female Founders in the startup phase. 
 
Professionally, she is Incubation and Partnership Manager at Archimedes New Ventures GmbH, the Corporate Venture Capital unit of the Böllhoff Group. Thus, Jules not only lives Female Entrepreneurship, but also Intrapreneurship.
Doris Kasten

Doris Kasten

Gründerinnenzentrum Stadt Dortmund

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Doris Kasten is an administrative specialist and project manager of the Business Start-Up Center of the Economic Development Agency Dortmund. She has been part of the Wirtschaftsförderung Dortmund since May 2012 and is responsible for advising female founders at the Gründerinnenzentrum Dortmund and for planning and implementing the center's events. Since 01.08.2018 also start-up pilot at the Startercenter NRW. Main tasks there are the initial consultations of female and male founders of new businesses as well as event planning. With her experience, Doris is the right person for you to discuss, where you can start, if you want to found your startup. 

TBA

TBA

Coming Soon

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Coming Soon

13:40 h

Invest

Judith Mertens

Judith Mertens

NRW Bank, Project Manager win NRW.BANK Business Angels Initiative

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Judith Mertens is linked to the start-up scene for almost twenty years and has accompanied and advised start-ups in different functions during the development of their business models. As project lead, she was lately responsible for the NUK business plan competition in the Rhineland. Since 2021, Judith Mertens has connected capital-seeking companies and potential private investors (business angels) throughout NRW as project manager of the win NRW.BANK Business Angels Initiative in the field of equity financing.

Svenja Bremer

Svenja Bremer

WHO:IN, Founder & CEO

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Svenja Bremer is the founder of WHO:IN, the digital ecosystem for female founders. The independent online portal aims to bring clarity to the startup jungle and actively connect all startup actors. It takes up the entire start-up offer of Germany and prepares it in such a way that beginning foundresses arrive directly at the desired information and above all at the correct partner inside.

Before founding her own company, she worked for several years in various positions at KfW, as an independent start-up consultant, and as a management consultant for the Chamber of Crafts. Svenja holds her Master in Business Consulting & Digital Management and loves to combine strategies, analysis and creativity on a daily basis.

As an approachable and open-minded visionary, she would like to familiarize many more women with the start-up topic, motivate them to decide to start a business and support them in building a successful business. In doing so, it is very important to her not to make any distinction between the different "types of founders". The start-up path of a craftswoman, for example, may be different from that of an innovative start-up, but the hurdles and challenges are often the same.

Tanja Rosendahl

Tanja Rosendahl

F-LOG Ventures, Managing Director

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Since 2011, Tanja has headed the Tech & Digital team of NRW.BANK Venture Fonds and was responsible for the seed and series A investments in this area. At the same time, Tanja helped set up Gründerfonds Ruhr and was its managing director until 2017.Until November 2019, Tanja Rosendahl worked at Network Corporate Finance, an M&A consultancy, advising companies with a focus on technology & digital as well as start-ups on financing and capital transactions. Since December 2019, Tanja has established F-LOG Ventures as Managing Director. F-LOG Ventures is an independent venture capital fund with a focus on the field of LogTech.

Linda Erb

Linda Erb

Coparion, VC Investment Associate

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Linda is an Investment Professional at coparion – an agnostic VC fund investing from Seed to Series C. She is based in Cologne and when evaluating investments, she primarily focusses on Unit Economics, customer data and of course the team executing the vision.

14:40 h

Grow

Ann-Cathrin Sieren

Ann-Cathrin Sieren

Senior Creative Concept Developer @ BRYCK

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When Ann-Cathrin Sieren builds brands, things can get wild, but her portfolio speaks for itself. After her graduation from Folkwang University of the Arts, she was part of some of the best-known agencies in our region helped building several brands successfully. Among them, one of the youngest and brightest of our start-up ecosystem Ruhr: BRYCK. In short, Ann-Cathrin switched sides and became part of the BRYCK team as Senior Creative Concept Developer. Since then she is not only one of the creative heads of the Innovation Hub but also an experienced Startup Brand Consultant. To lend weight to her expertise, she is currently also working scientifically on the topic of brand building in startups. At HERHOOD, she supports female founders in our Open Sessions "Grow" with her know-how around brand building in startups.

Paula Brandt

Paula Brandt

Founder @ The Impact Leader Company

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Paula Brandt is mentor, speaker and author for a new generation of impact entrepreneurs. She is convinced that the future belongs to agile owner-managed companies that do business with contribution and responsibility for their environment - and often enough even become market leaders outperforming the large corporations.

Until 2017, she was a manager at Microsoft and owner of a fast growing tech company. 5 years ago, she founded THE IMPACT LEADER COMPANY, helping purpose-driven entrepreneurs to grow with impact and to become market leaders.

Joanna Funck

Joanna Funck

Senior Incubation Manager Venture Lab EMEA @ Niterra Ventures

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For Niterra Ventures, I develop sustainable business models in the areas of health, mobility and utilities.
Currently I am building a venture in the Femtech sector, where we have developed a platform for pregnant women to enable them to be more secure and confident during pregnancy.
Our team works globally, 50 people focused on identifying real problems, developing solutions, testing and independently building companies to enter the market.

I bring experience from 15 years of product development, innovation management and business model development to my role. What excites me most about it is the opportunity to create new things to make life more enjoyable and to connect the different perspectives of product, marketing, business and tech.

I am convinced that we can all learn from each other, which is why I am also involved in mentoring young professionals and training systemic coaches.

Natalie Temming

Natalie Temming

Sales Managerin @ Techniker Krankenkasse

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Natalie Temming is known for her optimism and energetic nature - the best prerequisites for becoming the team leader for the start-up teams in the Ruhr region at Techniker Krankenkasse as a sales manager and topic manager.

Her versatility led her into freelancing alongside her actual job. Here she assists her own clients as a nutritionist with a focus on nutritional psychology and mental coaching. In addition, Natalie brings experience from project work in the area of Lean Startup and Design Thinking.

With her adopted home in Dortmund, the Münsterländer has given her heart to the startup scene in the Ruhr area, which is why we are already looking forward to her participation in the Open Sessions.

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GründerAllianz RUHR x BRYCK:

FEMALE BOOSTER

With business models at socially decisive interfaces such as education, social affairs, medicine and health, female startups tie in with traditional topics resulting from the montan industry. As a result, they often deal with challenges that pay into a livable future. In order to carry the founding spirit of the past into the future and to include innovations by women in social, economic and ecological transformation processes, Gründerallianz Ruhr and BRYCK teamed up, to promote female startups with their Gründerallianz Ruhr x BRYCK: Female Booster. 

To give them the stage they deserve, our Female Booster startups will be part of our HERHOOD program at ruhrSUMMIT 2023 and get a chance to show you what they are capable of in their pitches live on HER Stage.

Initiators & Partners

Networking Partners

Contact

Program Management

JACQUELINE KOS

JACQUELINE KOS

Communication & Program Contents​

jacqueline@gruenderallianz.ruhr

Ciro deL Core

Ciro deL Core

Event Management & Organisation

ciro@gruenderallianz.ruhr

HERHOOD is part of the ruhrSUMMIT 2023