About the Conference

The Women’s Entrepreneurial Conference is a one-day educational conference for Utah women business owners featuring general sessions, breakouts and grant pitching competition. The conference helps women develop skills, access resources and build relationships in order to run more scale-able and profitable businesses. All profit from the annual conference is reinvested back into women-owned businesses through grants to help fund growth.

2020 Theme – Driving Growth: Strategies to Kick Your Business Into Gear

Our planned 2020 Breakout Session Topics include:
Maximizing Your Financials – Hiring Your First Employee – Hiring Tips & Tricks; Protecting & Building Your Business (Contracts, Exit Strategies, Business & Individual Insurance, Etc) – Finding Funding: Traditional & Non-Traditional Resources – Understanding & Managing Your Sales Funnel; Social Media 101 – Referral Programs & Customer Appreciation Events – What’s New in Social & Digital Media?; Check-in starts at 8:00 a.m. and the Conference begins at 8:30 a.m. The day will be filled with guest speakers, breakout sessions, lunch and wrapped up with this year’s Pitch Competition that will award over $ 23,000 in grants to women owned businesses.

2020 Grant Orientation Events:

November 21st – 2020 WEC Grant Application Orientation – 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. – Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce. Register here: https://www.utwng.com/events/wec-grant-orientation/

December 4th – 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. 2020 WEC Grant Application Orientation – In Spanish & English – Suazo Business Center

January 7th – 10 a.m. FB Live event – 2020 WEC Grant Application Orientation –  WEC FB Page Live Stream

Pitch Presentation Workshop on Friday, February 28th at 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
at the SLCC Miller Campus – Miller Corporate Parntership Center – Building # 5 – Room 102: 9750 S 300 W, Sandy, UT 84070