Register today for the final program of the Women’s Entrepreneurship Symposium. In this session, speakers, including Ceata E. Lash, Founder, Inventor, and Co-CEO of PuffCuff LLC, and Georgia Grace Edwards, CEO and Co-Founder of SheFly Apparel, share how they turned ideas into commercial successes. Learn about their secrets to success and how they overcame obstacles in their journeys.

The afternoon’s final conversation on innovative women brings together the USPTO leadership and Abi Olukeye, founder and CEO of Smart Girls HQ, which promotes science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education by providing engaging content and facilitating exciting experiences that enable young girls to achieve STEM career literacy by age 12.

Agenda

(All times ET)

2–2:05 p.m.  Welcome and overview

• Sean Wilkerson, Innovation Outreach Program Manager, USPTO

2:05–2:55 p.m.  Finding innovation: Learn how exceptional innovators discovered their inspiration for success and commercialization

• Georgia Grace Edwards, CEO and Co-Founder of SheFly Apparel
• Ceata E. Lash, Founder, Inventor, and Co-CEO, PuffCuff LLC
• Hope Shimabuku, Director of the Texas Regional Office of the USPTO (moderator)

2:55–3 p.m. Break

3–3:30 p.m. A conversation on enabling success for the next generation of innovative women to succeed

• Abi Olukeye, Founder and CEO, Smart Girls HQ

3:30–3:35 p.m. Thank you and wrap-up

• Sean Wilkerson, Innovation Outreach Program Manager, USPTO

This program is presented by the USPTO’s Office of Innovation Outreach. For more information, please contact WES@USPTO.GOV.

The content and opinions shared by our guest speakers during this program are not those of the USPTO, nor are an endorsement of any persons, products, programs, or policies mentioned therein.