Founder Marcia Mitchell knows firsthand how tough it is to navigate the early stages of creating and managing a tech startup.
Her goal is to create a destination for women like herself; talented visionaries from diverse backgrounds – and provide them with the tools, connections, and opportunities they need to succeed.
We're inviting entrepreneurial women of color for a day packed with inspiration: emboldening talks from industry experts, empowering workshops and rare networking opportunities.
Danielle is a female futurist and serial entrepreneur dedicated to empowering women through her global work in business, social impact, writing and public speaking.
Through her company GreyFire, she advises governments, companies and startups on how to integrate forward-looking initiatives. She is an advisor to social impact startups and a mentor to Columbia University’s business accelerator.
Danielle is a frequent speaker on CNBC, at the United Nations, TEDx, Google, General Assembly and other conferences. Danielle is also the author of "The Silent Rise of the Female-Driven Economy" a white paper that re-positions women as central to the future of business and innovation.
"Why Products Designed by Women are the Next Big Thing" Forbes
After graduating from Tufts University with a bachelor’s in economics, Marcia landed on the fixed income derivatives desk at Morgan Stanley. Within the last three years, she has helped to create innovation consulting firm Hello Q and founded Berkshire Collective, a digital strategy and web development consultancy.
She is currently working with the Cognitive and Immersive Systems Lab (CISL) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to help build the next generation Cognitive and Immersive Situations Room to augment group intelligence. The project builds on existing efforts to pull relevant data regarding startups from the Crunchbase API and bundle this into an online agent using the IBM Watson AI / machine learning framework.
As part of a class in the Technology Commercialization & Entrepreneurship master's program at RPI, she will be hosting the #WOCWorkshop on April 7th, 2018 to address the needs of tech entrepreneurs; specifically, women of color and diverse teams.
Giselle is a graduate student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute studying Technology, Commercialization, and Entrepreneurship. She has a Bachelor’s of Science in Game Simulations, Arts, and Sciences, also from RPI. As an undergrad, she worked on several research projects: a visual novel designed to help students learn Chinese, an interactive novel used as a study in empathetic game design in conjunction with West Virginia University, and an experimental project exploring the collaboration of artificial intelligence and human creativity in designing games.
In the future, Giselle would like to have her own independent game company focusing on telling diverse stories. She is currently on the planning committee for "The Business of Digital Games" a workshop for game designers interested in entrepreneurship.