Tue 07. Oct 2025 · 18:00-22:00

Female Founders Event

@InnoDom Cologne | Weyertal 109, 50931 Köln

This year, we are once again hosting a major networking event on the topic of female entrepreneurship!

Look forward to an exciting keynote speech by Gülsah Wilke, co-founder of 2hearts and partner at DN Capital, and to female founders who will share their diverse experiences from an intersectional perspective.

We are also bringing together a diverse network of various female entrepreneurship associations, investors, founders, and scientists from the Gateway Universities Cologne.

Please note that the EM*power Safe Space Meeting will take place beforehand, to which all EM*power scholarship holders and mentors are exclusively invited. Registration information will follow soon!

Preliminary program:

6:00 p.m.: Check-in, food & drinks

7:00–8:30 p.m.: Stage program

• Keynote by Gülsah Wilke, co-founder of 2hearts & partner at DN Capital
• Panel discussion
  Birte Kattelmann-Jagdt, Strategy Advisor und Impact Investor
  Miriam Mertens, Co-Gründerin & CEO, DeepSkill
  Natalie Steger, Gründerin von BADESOFA
  Host: Prof. Dr. Monika Engelen
• Awards ceremony for the mentors of the EM*power program

8:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Networking, food & drinks

Program extras:

Our Network Garden invites you to connect with various female entrepreneurship associations and organizations.

Our Start-up Blackboard gives female start-ups the opportunity to introduce themselves, find co-founders, and scout for additional skills.

Accessibility: our event takes place on the ground floor and all rooms are barrier-free. In addition, sign language interpretation will be provided.

FLINTA are welcome: We welcome all people who identify as FLINTA and/or queerfeminist.

Kids are welcome: we want to make it easier for women* who provide care work to participate in the event with their child or children and will provide a designated area with coloring books for children.

Female empowerment: the vast majority of the service companies we are working with at the event are run by women!

Registration for this event is closed.