
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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You can expect high-quality keynotes and inspiring panel discussions with real-world perspectives from women in business, 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.

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Nora Breuker
Founder @ Runaway Redhead
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As the founder of Runaway Redhead, Nora Breuker supports companies, organizations and initiatives in building their online and offline communities and supports them in developing digital marketing strategies.
In her adopted hometown, the Ruhr region, she has built up “Digital Innovation Ruhr”, one of the largest meetup communities for IT, marketing and startups in the region.
Nora was also co-founder of the Los Angeles-based social startup “From Fat to Finish Line” and still leads one of the largest online communities for overweight runners there. For many years now, Nora has been on stage, mentoring startups and encouraging other women to start their own businesses.

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Vanessa Westphal
Founder @ Choosy
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Vanessa Westphal is the founder of the Bochum Startup Choosy and will take part in our panel discussion”How To Feminize The Startup EcosystemRuhr”.

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Alicia Reimer
Projektmanager @ Antropia
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Alicia Reimer has been working in the fields of innovation management and entrepreneurship for over five years. During this time, she has worked in Marketing & Communications at digihub – an accelerator for digital business models.
She is currently completing her Master of Arts in Innopreneurship while working as a community and project manager at Anthropia gGmbH. There she also moderates pitch events and gives workshops in the areas of personas, prototyping, ideation and business modeling, among others.
Due to Anthropia’s orientation towards impact-oriented business, her focus is especially on startup consulting for social and sustainable startups. Furthermore, she is committed to networking and cooperations within the Rhine-Ruhr area.
Program
HER STAGE
11:00
WARM WELCOME
Dr. Britta Julia Dombrowe, Lead Startup Program Activities | Initiativkreis Ruhr
11.15
KEYNOTE
TBA
11.40
#HowSheDidIt
We are happy to welcome Janna Prager with her popular panel hosting female success stories from the startup ecosystem.
12:30
BREAK
14:00
KEYNOTE
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14:20
How To Create Resilient Female Networks
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.
15:00
How To Feminize The Startup Ecosystem Ruhr
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?
15:40
FEMALE BOOSTER PITCH
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.
16:40
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.

13 th June 2023
BE PART OF THE RUHRSUMMIT 2023
Visit the ruhrMETROPOLIS at ruhrSUMMIT 2023 on 13th June 2023 at Jahrhunderhatte | Bochum.
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.
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Program Management

JACQUELINE KOS
Communication & Program Contents

Ciro deL Core
Event Management & Organisation