Charlotte Fors, President and co-Founder

Women in Wireless Mission

To empower and develop female

leaders in mobile and digital media.

We do this through leadership development,

mentoring, inspirational series of panels and webinars,

job boards, philanthropic support for relevant charities

and networking events.

Goals

THE leading community of female influencers and decision makers in the mobile industry

THE organization that trains and develops both current and future mobile industry leaders

THE place to learn about what is going on within the mobile industry

THE must join group for women in mobile and digital media

Main Accomplishment for 2011

Incorporated the company and grew to +3,000 members (from 700) Website, News Letter and Twitter launch - 1,062 followers and one

active voice Developed speaker database and placed industry leaders on panels

at multiple conferences, CTIA, DPAC, Digiday Social, etc Successfully launched the NYC Mentoring Pilot which got extended

into a 12 month program Launched the Women Innovate Mobile (WIM) Accelerator with Kelly

Hoey and Deborah Jackson Successful networking events at all key industry industry events

such as Adtech, CTIA, MMA, etc with +100 attendees as each event First International event, six-city Women in Wireless Event: London,

SF, NYC, Calgary, Toronto, Edmonton Successfully launched the WiW Educational series in NY covering

Negotiation and Presentation Year-long support of Grameen’s Recycle to Eradicate Poverty

Program.

The WiW advisory board

Kimberly Bassett, Executive Director of The Wireless Foundation CTIA

Darcy Frisch, Vice President of Strategic Investments Hearst Interactive Media

Deborah Jackson, Founder and CEO JumpThru and My Tech Letter

Jennifer Hill, Senior Associate at Gunderson Heidi Lehman, Founder and CEO MoxieQ Laura Marriott, CEO & Board Chairperson at

NeoMedia Technologies Nihal Mehta, CEO and co-Founder of

LocalResponse

3000+ members

47% directors or above 40% have a graduate degree 53% work for startups

Brands Agencies Mobile carriers/aggregators Publishers/media companies

Want to develop their skills within Building professional relationship Negotiation Manage your personal brand

Eight committees

Women Innovate Mobile

The first start up accelerator and mentorship-driven program

Designed for women-founded companies in mobile technology

100 applications $18,000 in funding, free office space,

product development and design support, mobile-marketing promotions, and access to an incredible network of mentors, funders and advisors

Objectives for 2012

Committee Mission Objectives 2012

Careers Increase awareness of job opportunities and promote career advancement for women

• Create a mentoring/careers event/initiative

• Implement paid job board

Communication and outreach

Support the organization’s overall efforts through strategic branding and communications

• Build out blog posts and raise awareness of WiW events

• Continue “Spotlight On” series• New survey to better

understand membership base

Fundraising Establish long-term relationships companies to achieve funding

• Generate $150k in sponsorship

• Find organizational sponsors (beyond the one of event sponsors)

Local and international chapter

Enable international and local groups to engage within WiW

• Launch 3-6 Local Chapters, launch 1- 3 Regional Chapters with supporting processes

• Annual International, multi-city event with branded title

Objectives for 2012

Committee Mission Objectives 2012

Mentoring To empower and develop women through mentoring opportunities

• Launch mentoring program in London and San Francisco

• Create a library of mentoring guidelines

Networking Arrange quality events and create a forum for engagement and interaction between members and sponsors

• Host national events on a larger scale than 2011

• Create a platform for local events

• Work closely with fundraising to secure sponsors for each major event

Philanthropy and membership

Grow an engaged membership base with a connection to charity

• Continue to support Grameen’s recycle

• +10,000 members

Panels and inspiration

To inspire, educate, connect and promote women of all levels

• Create partnership with conference organizers

• Increase the number of panels with female speakers

• Raise awareness of women in leadership roles in digital

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