Women In Tech
Loading Future State: She's Done Waiting
You know her.
The version of you who moves through the room with a different kind of presence. Who recognizes her own worth before anyone else does. Who builds from conviction, not fear.
She's not ahead of you. She's been right beside you all along, waiting for you to stop performing the version of yourself you've already outgrown.
Loading Future State is the only event at NY Tech Week designed around that gap between who you are now and who you're already capable of becoming.
Step into on-stage conversations and interviews with the women who've already closed that gap, from billion-dollar unicorn founders to multi-exit investors to operators deep in the work who stopped waiting and started becoming. A dedicated founder and investor lounge where the realest conversations happen off script. Partner activations built to make your future self impossible to overlook. And a room filled with New York's most ambitious women who showed up to do more than network.
You've been preparing. Planning. Almost ready.
It's time to unlock her, together.
LOADING FUTURE STATE — Schedule
12:00 — Doors + Networking
12:15 — Welcome & Opening | Maggie Rose Macar + Karolina Komarnicka
12:30 — Who Are You at the Exit? | Alisha Pennington, Ella Molony Cook, Courtney (Entreprenista), feat. Samantha (School of Hard Knocks)
1:00 — The Human Layer: Why Tech Alone Doesn't Win | Olga Fleming, Maura Charles, hosted by Cris Gordon (MMC)
1:30 — Build Before You're Ready | Base44 Announcement + Fireside: Maggie x Ore x Ella Molony Cook
2:00 — Learning to Trust | Fireside: Meghan Houle x Cris Gordon 2:35 — Money at the Center | Erika Aquino, Jennifer Abele, Ruchi Pinniger, hosted by Alexis Allen
3:05 — Power Is Contagious | Vera Anderson, Ariana Tadler, hosted by Maggie Rose Macar
3:35 — Believing Before Becoming | Mariam K, Kaila Lim (Antler), Aparajita Chauhan (Leftlane), hosted by Karolina
4:05 — HEADLINER: Suneera Madhani with Maggie Rose Macar 4:35 — Bring Them With You | Breen Sullivan (The Fourth Effect), Alison Wyatt (Female Founder Collective), Caroline Dell, hosted by Raquel Madrid (VC414)
4:55 — Closing
5:00 — Networking Hour until 6:00
This event could not be possible without the support of our speakers, partners, and sponsors. Thank you:
MMC PR
We've taken flight since our launch in 1983 as the first agency focused on marketing to women. We still continue rewriting the rules of communications for all audiences by being artfully disruptive.
https://base44.com/ Base44 is an AI app builder that lets anyone turn ideas into working apps in minutes. Using just natural language, you can create tools, back-office apps, customer portals, or complete enterprise products that are ready to use.
https://vc414.com/ VC 414 is an operator-led, women-founded venture firm investing from the center of America in early-stage, high growth potential technology startups that are modernizing the systems that power everyday life. We invest from our area code to yours in frontline industries and workers.
What we do:
Consolidate every contact a founder has into one place
Save context around each contact so they're actually useful
Search + use the network on demand for whatever the founder needs
The story: AI is scaling connecting. Goodword is keeping it human.
As AI commoditizes work, the relationships you've built become your most valuable, durable, and unreplicable asset. In the age of AI, your network is your moat. Start Today
Maude Labs is the brand evolution firm for founders building the brand that gets them booked, busy, and in the right rooms.
We build the brand infrastructure that closes the gap between the work you've done and the way the market sees you — through identity systems, digital presence, pitch decks, and experience design that attract the right clients, command bigger stages, and earn the room before you walk in.
Book a discovery call at maudelabs.com
https://www.entreprenista.com/ our mission is to empower women founders by sharing their stories, offering invaluable business insights, and fostering a vibrant community of support. We believe that success is built through meaningful connections and collaborations, and we’ve created a space where women can learn, grow, and thrive together.
Q29 Video Production: www.q29productions.com Helping you grow revenue by creating Podcasts, Super Reels, Sizzles and Digital Courses for viral exposure.
The Fourth Effect - a management system and marketplace for the advisory economy, helping founders access the right expertise and advisors unlock more impact.