Female Founders Fireside chat – 8 March

Startup Founder Series – with Microsoft Regional Directors

What is this session about?
Being a female entrepreneur is not easy. Have you ever wondered what kind of challenges you need to overcome as a Female Founder?
Have you faced prejudice based on your gender when it comes to raising startup capital, balancing business and family life, and getting respect from your colleagues?
In this fireside chat, we will interview 2 Female Founders who are changing their industry and creating an impact on their communities across two different continents: Europe and Latin America.
Let´s see what challenges and lessons they´ve learned so far in building their growing startups.

Who is it aimed at?
Anyone who wants to get inspired by Female Founders and hear stories about how they’ve succeeded in their entrepreneurial careers.

Why should I attend?
Join us for this fireside chat to learn how to build a successful brand as a female entrepreneur alongside handling business and family life!

For more on this series visit – https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/reactor/eventseries/foundersstartup

Panellists:
Viviane Ribeiro
Viviane is Data & AI Solution Architect Lead, Technical Trainer and Writer, CEO at BI do Brasil and MasterDataLab, Microsoft Regional Director and MVP with more than 22 years of experience in IT and Business. She dedicated the last 20 years on consulting and training, mentorship, and Workshops, including classroom and online, attending more than 20000 students and developing an On-line platform with more than 500 hours of studies on Data Analytics, Engineering and Data Science. Viviane is also focusing on being aligned with the highest technologies being used and getting best practices for entrepreneurs, start-ups, and small businesses. Therefore, every 2 years, for 60 days, she participated in an immersion program in Silicon Valley. Apart from this, she enjoys spending time with her son and hanging out with family and friends.

Karin Fuentesová | Founder, Digitoo
Karin worked in accounting for 13 years, from which 7 years she was in a leadership position for an international organization. She led a 30-member annotation team and set up a neural network learning methodology as Chief of AI dataset. The lack of integration partners in the market has led her to establish her own company, Digitoo- a platform that connects products such as Rossum and integrates them into business processes at three clicks.