The Future of Work Madrid: Female Leaders, Entrepreneurs and Freelancers

Dreamers: this collaborative networking event is for you!

This event is an inspiring, empowering workshop meant for creatives, remote workers, freelancers, entrepreneurs and work-home mamas.

The aim is to share experiences on how to optimise work-life balance, how to find the right productivity tools that can transform how we run our business(es), how to find local mentors and how to support each other.

What to expect?

• Introduction

• A brief talk about our sponsor: Toptal, an exclusive network of top talent around the world

• Panel discussion with female experts from different areas (design, project management, etc. )

• Networking over drinks and tapas

Program:

7:00pm Doors open
7:15pm Welcome and Introduction
7:30pm Panel Discussion
8:15pm Closing remarks and Networking
9:00pm End

Who is this for?

Everyone is welcome to this event. We want to create a supportive network of remote workers, freelancers and entrepreneurs.

This event will be held in English

Host:

• Anak García: Freelancer, UX & Product Designer @ Toptal and Senior Founder of "UX Boards For Mums",
  Anak is a product UX designer who's passionate about a good design for clearly structured navigation. For over the past decade, she's been improving the UX in digital projects, leading teams on the client-side as well as in agencies in London and Madrid. She's worked for clients like Telefonica, Santander Bank, BBC, TalkTalk, BP, Lloyds Bank, and the EU. She's very detail-oriented and focuses on the emotional side as much as the functional.

Panelists:

• Emanuela Mazzone, User Experience researcher at Telefonica Digital and Leader of Ladies that UX Madrid chapter.
  Enthusiastic Interaction Designer with focus on UX research, she's been working in international R&D projects form more than 15 years, and in charge of the Ladies that UX community since 2016.

• Marta Frenna, CEO @ Greyhounders
  Leading GreyHounders Glasses, a project that aims to transform the way people buy prescription glasses.
  She wants to digitize the optical sector thanks to the new technologies (AR for the virtual try-on of the frames).
  KPIs and traction (12 months):
  €70K+ revenue, with a 30% re-purchase ratio. Funding of €200K raised.
  Fully validated MVP. ENISA.

• Paula Schillaci, UX Designer & UX Writer Story.

• Sandra Sanz Lopez: Freelance Journalist, Advertising Creative Copywriter, Digital Nomad.

• Susana Cabrero, Personal Branding Expert.

Organised in partnership with Toptal.