Women Inspire-2025 (Accelerating Impact for Women)

Women Inspire-2025 (Accelerating Impact for Women)

In honor and celebration of the International Women’s Day, Casa Foundation presents her 6th Edition Women in Business Forum (Women Inspire)

By Casa Foundation for Int'l Development

Date and time

Mon, Mar 10, 2025 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM EDT

Location

The Quay

100 Queens Quay East #3rd Floor Toronto, ON M5E 1V3 Canada

Refund Policy

No Refunds

About this event

Accelerating Impact: Business Women


In honor and celebration of this year’s International Women’s Day, Casa Foundation for International Development will host the Women in Business and Leadership, as a showcase of Women Who Inspire. Casa Foundation will host the Forum at the Toronto, World Trade Centre, Toronto, Toronto Region Board of Trade. The Forum will focus on women who have advanced Canada’s trade and economic development landscape and will Centercelebrate inspiring who in Canada who have distinguished themselves in the business and trade in.

The Forum’s sole purpose is to advance professional women and support women-owned businesses while empowering women to run businesses by connecting resources (social, capital, human) to ideas. The Forum will provide a platform to showcase lessons from Canada’s businesswomen who inspire and empower other women. The Forum will also serve as a knowledge-based learning platform to share successes, best practices, lessons learned, networking and hold robust debates on how to cultivate new partners, new relationships, and new markets for business growth.


Who should join us?

This event is of interest to:

  • Practitioners
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Influencers
  • Start-ups
  • Creative collaborators
  • Youths in established businesses
  • Pioneers with women-led businesses
  • All women in business and trade


Key Speakers


  • Honorable Ministers from the Government of Canada
  • Members of Parliament
  • Ambassadors and Diplomats
  • Hon. Dr. Jean Augustine, President, Jean Augustine Centre for Young Women’s Empowerment & Member, Queen’s Privy Council
  • Prof. Wendy Cukier, Founder, Diversity Institute, Ted Rogers School of Management, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Toronto Metropolitan University
  • Senior VPs and Economic Experts from, Financial Institutions and Boards of Trade, in Canada
  • Dr. Olutoyin Oyelade, Founding Partner, InVcap & President, Casa Foundation
  • Senior Vice President, TD Bank
  • Senior Vice President Scotia Bank
  • More Speakers to be Confirmed.


Key Sponsors and Partners


  • Federal Economic and Development Agency of Southern Ontario (FEDEV)
  • Center for Advancement and Skills Acquisition
  • Diversity Institute at Ted Rogers Business School
  • Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub (WEKH), Toronto Met. University
  • Entrepreneurs Point
  • TD Bank
  • BDC
  • World Trade Centre, Toronto

What to expect at this event Join us for an In-person Roundtable, Panel, and Case Studies sessions on gender, business, and leadership development. Get ready for great networking sessions.

Meet Senior Corporate and Government leaders, business professionals, new connections, and more.

Who should attend? This event is calling all Women Founders, startups, entrepreneurs, and business professionals. Bring an open mind and plenty of business cards for networking in the business sector.

Only 600 spots are available to create an intimate session.

Pictures from Women Inspire, 2021, 2022

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Casa Foundation for Int'l Development

About Casa Foundation for International Development.

Casa Foundation is a Canadian Registered Non Profit organization focused on advancing women, youths and emerging leaders, through economic, entrepreneurship, and business development initiatives. Casa Foundation offers support to vertical sectors in the area of health, infrastructure, and education. Casa foundation’s social impact programs and initiatives these three-fold segments of the economy. Casa Foundation started operations in April, 2011.

Casa foundation provides her charity support programs through designated Shelters Homes for the needy, and community support groups. Casa foundation’s Educational programs support University, College, and International students in business related studies in Canada by bridging the gap in required learning resources. Casa provides tuition scholarships -through its designated Colleges, tutoring, training, educational materials and conferences to students of her partner Universities and Colleges. The education support program aims to provide grants to innovative students to augment the cost of tertiary and graduate education where available. Casa foundation’s Health support programs is executed by international Partners who provide medical equipment to teaching hospitals, health and immunization awareness programs-under her “Mother & Child” program.

Casa Foundation holds strategic economic, business, and entrepreneurship forums, conferences, workshops, training, and seminars. These sessions aim to create a robust platform for discussion of economic, business, and entrepreneurship development initiatives that could expand small businesses and improve access to resource requirements for leaders, women and startup groups. Her platforms seek to develop business initiatives and mentoring support for women, youths, and potential leaders that could strengthen private participation in economic development. Facilitators are drawn from expert panel teams from institutions in the public and private sector and companies operating in the sector focus for each year.

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