Starting A Business With Flexibility, Shaping The Future: Diverse Paths For Entrepreneurs

Keynote and Panel Discussion | Part of Global Entrepreneurship Week

How can women founders and entrepreneurs successfully navigate change while staying true to their own vision? What strategies help them identify new market opportunities, respond to changing customer needs, and build future-ready businesses?

At our event you can look forward to inspiring insights, personal experiences, and practical perspectives from women who are actively shaping entrepreneurial change.

The Future Starts with You: Clarity Within. Impact Beyond.

The evening opens with a 20-minute keynote by Julia Ritter entitled “The Future Starts with You – Clarity Within. Impact Beyond.” She will explore why future readiness begins with self-leadership and how inner clarity can help us make bold decisions, shape our own paths with intention, and actively embrace and influence change.

Following the keynote, four founders and entrepreneurs from different industries will join a panel discussion to share how they respond to market changes, identify emerging customer needs, and develop their businesses in a flexible and forward-thinking way. They will offer insights into their own experiences, share practical strategies, and demonstrate the many different paths entrepreneurship can take.

Meet Our Panelists

  • Anika Hollwedel – Expert in brand design and brand development
  • Cindy Karlsen – Data-driven recruitment for startups, scale-ups, and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with Framewoorks
  • Manuela Di Bari – Founder of mitMaCh and KlarpressWerk
  • Annika Schmidt – Founder and Managing Director of Wachstumspfleger GmbH

     

Event Details

  • Date: Wednesday, 18 November 2026
  • Time: 6:30–9:00 pm (doors open at 6:00 pm)
  • Venue: Kukoon Kulturzentrum, Buntentorsteinweg 29–31, 28201 Bremen, Germany
  • Format: Keynote and panel discussion
  • Admission: Free of charge

Register here

Our Cooperation Partners

This event is organised in cooperation with:

  • afz – Business start-up consultancy for women in Bremerhaven
  • belladonna – Culture, education, and business for women
  • BRIDGE – Start-ups from Bremen’s universities
  • FAW – Frauen Arbeits Welten