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USPTO event: Trends and Opportunities (Women's Entrepreneur Symposium)

Wednesday, March 16, 2022 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Trends and opportunities
MAR

16

Women’s Entrepreneurship Symposium, part two: Trends and opportunities

 
by The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
 
Free
This USPTO event focuses on the economic impact of women in business and how social trends are affecting their professional growth and business opportunities. Panelists include Tené Dolphin, Executive Director of the National Women’s Business Council, and Adji Fatou Diagne, Ph.D., an economist at the U.S. Census Bureau’s Center for Economic Studies in the Survey and Economic Research, Demographic Research Area.

 

Agenda
(All times ET)

2–2:05 p.m. Welcome and overview

  • Sean Wilkerson, Innovation Outreach Program Manager, USPTO

2:05–3 p.m.   Economic social trends of women in business

  • Adji Fatou Diagne, Ph.D., Economist, Survey and Economic Research, Demographic Research Area, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau 
  • Tené Dolphin, Executive Director, National Women’s Business Council  
  • Andrew A. Toole, Ph.D., Chief Economist, USPTO (moderator)

3–3:05 p.m.  Thank you and wrap-up

  • Sean Wilkerson, Innovation Outreach Program Manager, USPTO

Women’s Entrepreneurship Symposium. This event focuses on the economic impact of women in business and how social trends are affecting their professional growth and business opportunities. Panelists include Tené Dolphin, Executive Director of the National Women’s Business Council, and Adji Fatou Diagne, Ph.D., an economist at the U.S. Census Bureau’s Center for Economic Studies in the Survey and Economic Research, Demographic Research Area.

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