9:00 AM – 9:50 AM

Start your day with intentional connection. Enjoy a curated breakfast, meet fellow founders, leaders, professionals, and innovators, and explore sponsors and partner activations, including community Bingo Icebreakers.

9:50 AM – 10:00 AM

MC: Gift Igbin

Founder & Host: Efe Fruci

Setting the tone for a day of ambition, power, and legacy-building.

10:00 AM – 10:45 AM

Keynote Speaker: Ijeoma Oluo

In this powerful opening keynote, Ijeoma explores how ambition evolves into responsibility and how women transform personal drive into collective impact. She will challenge us to think beyond individual success and toward systems, influence, and mission-driven legacy.

Key Takeaways:

• How ambition matures into responsibility

• Building influence when doors remain closed

• Turning lived experience into long-term impact

10:50 AM – 11:30 AM

Speakers:

Moderator: Stephanie Redivo
Panelist: Noorin Mizuyabu
Panelist: Jessica Dowdall
Panelist: Debbie Oyebanji

This panel examines how women step into leadership with authority, integrity, and foresight. Panelists explore ethical decision-making, navigating complexity, and building institutions, teams, and cultures that last beyond individual tenure.

Key Takeaways

• How women redefine power beyond titles and visibility

• Practical approaches to long-term leadership and governance

• Lessons in leading through complexity and change

11:35 AM – 11:40 AM

Speakers: Kenia Hylton

Every powerful woman can point to a moment that changed everything.

A risk.
A no.
A pivot.
A decision to stop playing small.

Our Spotlight Speakers are sharing their Moments That Matter,
the behind-the-scenes truths that built them into who they are today.

This is where expansion begins.

11:40 AM – 1:40 PM

Where connection becomes opportunity.

This is not a typical lunch break; it’s a structured, high-value networking experience designed to build meaningful relationships through curated networking stations featuring leaders from Microsoft, PwC, Translink, Vancity, KPMG, and more.

Networking Sponsored by Translink.

Vibe brought to you by DJ Chip$

1:45 PM – 2:25 PM

Speakers:

Moderator: Judith Bosire
Panelist: Cassidy Boult
Panelist: Pocket Sun

Economic power looks different at every stage. For some, it’s financial literacy and income stability. For others, it’s scaling businesses and redistributing capital. This panel addresses how women build leverage, whether starting with limited access or holding significant influence.

Key Takeaways

• Wealth-building is stage-dependent

• Ownership is empowerment and responsibility

• Circulating capital expands legacy

2:25 PM – 2:30 PM

Refuel and Bio Break.

2:35 PM – 3:15 PM

Speakers:

Moderator: Rochelle Prasad
Panelist: Esha Kaur Shoker
Panelist: Paula Toledo

Burnout does not discriminate by title. This panel reframes wellness as leadership infrastructure, essential for both those climbing and those carrying executive weight. We explore resilience in the face of uncertainty and sustainability at scale.

Key Takeaways

• Why burnout is a structural issue, not a personal failure

• How well-being directly affects leadership effectiveness

• Tools for building sustainable ambition over time

3:20 PM – 3:50 PM

Fireside chat with Jenn Wophil, Anne Mok, moderated by Gift Igbin

Creativity is not decoration; it is influence. This conversation explores how women use storytelling, media, design, and culture to shape narratives and shift systems.

Key Takeaways

• Narrative shapes opportunity

• Creativity is a leadership tool

• Cultural influence builds a lasting legacy

3:55 PM – 4:00 PM

Speaker: Swathi Sathyaseelan

Every powerful woman can point to a moment that changed everything.

A risk.
A no.
A pivot.
A decision to stop playing small.

Our Spotlight Speakers are sharing their Moments That Matter,
the behind-the-scenes truths that built them into who they are today.

This is where expansion begins.

4:00 PM – 4:05 PM

Refuel and Bio Break.

4:10 PM – 5:35 PM

Workshop Wave 1: 4:10 PM – 4:50 PM

•• The Power of the Pivot

For the woman who has been laid off, displaced by AI, or is ready to make a bold career change. It is a strategic and honest space designed to help you reframe your transition, identify your unique value, and build a clear plan for what comes next. You will leave with a personal narrative, a pivot strategy, and the confidence to own your next move on your own terms.

Speaker: Rachel Maxcy

• Building High-Revenue Businesses:  Scaling sustainably and profitably

Scaling a business requires more than hustle; it requires systems. This workshop explores how to build sustainable revenue models, achieve success without self-betrayal, position offers strategically, and grow without burnout or dependency on trends.

Speaker: Natania Mason

Workshop Wave 2: 4:55 PM – 5:35 PM

• Designing Your Legacy Map: Define your long-term vision and impact strategy

Legacy does not happen by accident; it is designed. This interactive workshop helps participants clarify their long-term direction, align ambition with values, and identify the systems they need to build or redesign to create meaningful impact.

Speaker: Vea Coronado

• Decolonizing Organizations & Leadership: Reimagining leadership through inclusive and equitable frameworks

Decolonizing organizations and businesses isn't a topic many folks talk about, and you cannot build a legacy inside systems that exclude or limit. This workshop explores what it means to decolonize business through discussion, storytelling, and hands-on activity.

Speaker: Ariana Fotinakis + Vanessa Lesperance

4:10 PM - 5:35 PM

Networking with peers and industry leaders & Curated Reflections for attendees not partaking in workshops.

5:40 PM – 6:20 PM

Speakers:

Moderator: Dionne England
Panelist: Aya Ladki
Panelist: Parisa Asgharzadeh
Panelist: Jennifer Charters

AI is not just a technology shift; it’s a leverage shift. This panel explores how women can use AI to amplify their skills, bypass gatekeepers, create proof of work, and unlock new opportunities. Whether you’re early-career, entrepreneurial, or scaling an idea, this conversation focuses on access, not hype. Designing a system where AI and humans are working together to unlock the future.

Key Takeaways

• How to use AI to build credibility without credentials

• Leveraging AI for skill amplification and productivity

• Ethical innovation and inclusive opportunity-building

6:20 - 6:30 PM

Closing remarks + sponsors and team appreciation & Bigger surprise announcements.

We officially close our formal programming.

You now know who’s in this room.

You now know what’s possible.

Connect and impact forward with intention.

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October 19th - 5:30 - 6:30 PM

Join our founder, Efe Fruci, and conference speakers virtually for a month after the conference for accountability, Q&A, mentoring, and check-ins by registering here.