It’s about money, power and influence that evening. And about these topics are female. 120 participants – almost exclusively women – met on Tuesday evening in Berlin for the “Female Impact Summit” to discuss health economics, quantum technology and corporate culture, among other things.
The host is the Chinese entrepreneur Yu Zhang. Only those who were invited to the event are specifically invited. The résumés of the panelists read accordingly impressively. Mona Ghazi, for example, started studying at the age of 14 and founded her first own company two years later. Verena Bentele is a twelve-time Paralympics winner. The computer scientist Sonja Pierer is the managing director of Intel in Germany. Among other things, Elisa Czerski studied philosophy and leads a start-up that produces automated robots.
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The participants all work in high positions in business, politics and society. Investors are in the process of company chiefs, ambassadors. The Noble China Club in the Hotel Adlon serves as a backdrop, while some replace a little old school business cards and turn the other videos for your social channels. Many do not see themselves for the first time this evening and welcome themselves warmly. “It’s like a class party today,” you hear a participant say.
“Female Impact Summit” takes place in Berlin for the third time
For the third time, Yu Zhang is now organizing her business meeting for the inner circle of female success stories. You do not agree on all questions here, and this is also wanted when influential people from such different areas meet. The audience and panel guests debate critically, but solution -oriented and at eye level. Nobody needs macho habit here, self-confidence and respect for each other do it too.
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Moderators, speakers and listeners ask each other big questions that evening: How much or little regulation do new technologies need? Do you need the perfect strategy or a big dreams and tackling mentality to found it? And how do you deal with prejudices? “Everyone has a different definition of what a successful founder is,” says a discussion participant. You can’t make it right.
„Gender Health Gap“
A panel revolves around women’s health as an economic factor. It is about the care and insurance system, artificial fertilization and the “gender health gap”. White men are best dealt with in emergency rooms, in the case of women, heart attacks would be recognized less frequently than in men. Astrid Lurati, the attendant for finance and infrastructure at the Charité, reports on the specially founded Institute of Gender Medicine, which is one of the first of its kind of this research area.
Men are a small minority at the Female Impact Summit, which is in the nature of the matter. Individual male colleagues are invited – most of the men that evening are part of the service team.