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Listen, Learn and Connect: Future Founders Summit

Feb 24
2022
7:00pm - 8:30pm
100% Virtual Event, via Zoom.

Career & Civic Engagement Center presents Bryn Mawr and Prime Movers Lab's Future Founders Summit (#FFS) virtual event.

Prime Movers Lab is a start-up created to spread abundance and human prosperity across the globe. They invest in breakthrough scientific startups that reinvent valuable resources.

Register on Handshake and on the Prime Movers website.

Listen, Learn and Connect with inspiring women scientists and founders who are building or investing in world changing companies; companies that are delivering massive impact and transforming lives. Are you interested in the many ways you can apply your degree in science and explore postgraduate paths? Are you curious how science can be applied to company creation? The Future Founders Summit will present to you this very experience. You will learn from some of the most amazing women scientists and founders who are building or investing in world-changing companies; companies that are delivering massive impact and transforming lives.

Please join us and take advantage of this tremendous opportunity to understand what other innovative scientists are creating and the effect it is having on our world. Explore what is possible for you. Come with an open mind and ask questions.

Panelists

  • Itai Madamombe, Co-Founder Oceanix: Itai Madamombe is the co-Founder of OCEANIX, a bluetech company that designs and builds floating cities for people to live sustainably on the ocean. Itai is a former diplomat and global strategist. For a decade, she held various key positions in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General of the UN.
  • Jane Poynter, Founder, Co-CEO & Chief Experience Officer at Space Perspective: Jane is a serial space entrepreneur, author, and speaker.  Co-Founder and Co-CEO of multiple innovative space companies. Jane and her husband and business partner Taber MacCallum have been dubbed ‘Masters of the stratosphere,’ by Bloomberg Businessweek. Jane Poynter is one of only eight people to live for two years in Biosphere 2, a closed ecological system designed to advance possibilities for maintaining human life in outer space.
  • Sassie Duggleby, CEO and co-founder, Venus Aerospace: Sassie Duggleby is the CEO and co-founder of Venus Aerospace. Before launching Venus, she was Launch Systems Engineering and Mission Management Consultant at Virgin Orbit, where she also developed and tested launch software and telemetry systems, helping to launch rockets from the wing of a 747.

Moderators

  • Suzanne Fletcher, Prime Movers Lab, General Partner: Suzanne is a General Partner of Prime Movers Lab. She has 20 years of experience working in the technology and investment space. Most recently, she spent five years at StartX, the Stanford University focused entrepreneur community, managing the Stanford-StartX Fund, and working directly with hundreds of entrepreneurs.
  • Liz Stein, Prime Movers Lab, Systems Engineer & Partner: Liz Stein is Systems Engineer and Partner at Prime Movers Lab. While her background is in Aerospace Engineering, she provides in-depth technical diligence more broadly to the energy, transportation, infrastructure, and manufacturing investment verticals.
  • Alexandra Kosslyn: Alexandra Kosslyn has nearly two decades of experience in investor relations across long-short equity and venture capital. She was most recently head of investor relations at Prime Movers Lab, which focuses on breakthrough scientific startups.

Additional Program Highlights

  • Explore postgraduate options
  • Discuss the process of company startups
  • Partake in a conversation on innovative leadership and career development

For more information visit primemoverslab.com.

Audience: For Students
Type(s): Discussion
Contact:
Sharon Kenny

Bryn Mawr College welcomes the full participation of all individuals in all aspects of campus life. Should you wish to request a disability-related accommodation for this event, please contact the event sponsor/coordinator. Requests should be made as early as possible.