Women's Day Founder Lab
✨ Celebrate. Connect. Learn. Grow. ✨
Start your Women’s Day with a powerful morning of inspiration, learning, and connection for women founders.
Join us for a breakfast gathering featuring a fireside chat with accomplished women leaders, interactive founder activations, and curated networking designed to spark ideas, partnerships, and momentum.
Whether you’re early in your journey or scaling your next big vision, this is your space to recharge and connect with a community that understands the founder experience.
What to Expect
✨ Fireside Chat – Real stories, honest lessons, and practical insights from women who’ve built and led
✨ Founder Activations – Interactive experiences designed to unlock clarity, confidence, and creativity
✨ Curated Networking – Meet like-minded founders, collaborators, and mentors
✨ Inspiration & Energy – Walk away feeling supported, motivated, and ready to take your next step
Who Should Attend
Women founders & co-founders
Early-stage entrepreneurs
Women building, scaling, or ideating their ventures
Come celebrate your journey, your resilience, and your impact — because when women founders rise, communities thrive.
Save your seat and be part of the conversation.
About ELLA
ELLA was created by York University's YSpace with funding from the Government of Canada's Women Entrepreneurship Strategy (WES). We believe every woman entrepreneur should have access to the community, knowledge, and resources they need to scale their business.
About YSpace
YSpace is York University’s pan-university innovation hub supporting startups and entrepreneurs from a variety of sectors and communities. Our programming spans across scaling ventures through customer and investor capital support.
Our focus areas are in supporting Technologies, Food & Beverage, Women-Led and Black-Led Ventures
For more details, visit https://www.yorku.ca/yspace/programs-streams/
Please be advised that this event will be photographed and recorded. By completing your registration, you acknowledge and consent to the possibility of your image and/or voice being captured and used for promotional or archival purposes.