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On 1st April 2017, Women's Web held the #BreakingBarriers Bangalore event, the 1st among this year's series of our flagship event. A participant writes an account.
Yesterday Women’s Web held the #BreakingBarriers Bangalore event, the 1st among this year’s series of our flagship event. A participant writes an account.
I attended the #BreakingBarriers event organized by Women’s Web yesterday at Bangalore.
#BreakingBarriers is an event which brings together a lot of like-minded ambitious women, inspires them through each other’s stories, and provides a great networking platform. This is the 5th edition of the event and after the Bangalore event, is being held in Mumbai and Gurugram next.
Held at the Target office in Manyata Embassy Business Park, today’s event at Bangalore saw panel discussions with eminent marketeers and inspiring women on topics like content marketing, personal branding, breaking the real barriers of life to move ahead, along with a good sprinkling of information on personal wellness, growth hacking, and creating brand ambassadors.
The panel discussions involved extremely strong and successful women like Monica Samuel (Content Knockout), Srividya Sen (Tech Mahindra), Jonali Saikia Khasnabish (Heeya Crafts), Anju Maudgal Kadam (WebTV), Shalini Singh (Galvanise PR), Lakshmi Dasaka (Dropkaffe). Mangal Karnad (Fablesquare) talked about creating a personal brand. Kavita Jhunjhunwala (Click Asia & Avocado Tree Digital) perked up the post-lunch session with inspiring stories of breaking barriers from the audience. Ravi Sangtani (Director, Target Accelerator) also enlightened the audience about growth hacking in the entrepreneurial industry. Aparna Singh (Founder & CEO, Women’s Web), and Anju Jayaram (CMO, Women’s Web) spearheaded the entire event with aplomb.
What came across as striking was that every woman I met, every woman I interacted with showed passion. Passion for what she wants to achieve, passion for what she believes in, and passion in breaking the barriers that come across her way. We were left speechless when we found a cancer survivor among us who has relentlessly fought on with her life and resumed her passion of writing and dancing even after suffering from a broken leg too!
The stories from the event made me realize that we, as women, often face a lot more challenges and rejections in life than we expect to. However, it is the never-say-die attitude and a fiercely positive outlook that helps us dash through the doors, fall face down but get up and run again. It’s the spirit that matters.
The spirit of #BreakingBarriers.
(Do register for the subsequent Mumbai and the Gurgaon events here).
Published here earlier.
Founder of mayodip.com (which is into Virtual Reality), Ex-googler, Mom, Writer. read more...
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