Connect & Thrive Women’s Conference
The Connect & Thrive Women’s Conference (CTWC) brings ambitious women, entrepreneurs, business owners, professionals, and emerging leaders together for meaningful connections, practical insights, valuable resources, and opportunities for personal, professional, and entrepreneurial growth.
Conference Highlights
Connect & Thrive is designed around the conversations, resources, relationships, and opportunities that matter to women building businesses, advancing careers, leading organizations, and navigating what comes next.
From Start to Scale
Hear firsthand lessons from an accomplished founder who has built and grown a business from the ground up, including the decisions, challenges, setbacks, and turning points involved in securing clients, increasing revenue, strengthening operations, accessing funding, and preparing for long-term growth.
Leadership & Career Growth
Gain real-world perspective from an accomplished leader on professional advancement, increasing responsibility, career transitions, leadership challenges, professional visibility, influence, and creating new opportunities.
Funding Your Future
Explore funding opportunities, financial readiness, investor preparation, financial planning, and strategies for accessing capital to support business growth.
AI & the Future of Business
Explore how women entrepreneurs and professionals can use AI thoughtfully to improve productivity, strengthen operations, reach customers, make better decisions, and compete in an increasingly AI-driven marketplace.
Health, Wellness & Resilience
Hear from licensed and credentialed professionals across women’s health, mental health, nutrition, and physical health on preventive care, resilience, recovery, burnout prevention, hormonal health, sleep, and long-term well-being.
Trailblazing Entrepreneurs
In partnership with Camp S.W.A.G., two high school female entrepreneurs take the stage for individual founder spotlights, sharing their businesses, lessons learned, challenges, and what they hope to build next.
Connection & Networking
The Connect & Thrive Connection Program, conference networking opportunities, and Networking Reception create intentional ways for attendees to meet women across industries, professions, businesses, and stages of their journeys.
Marketplace & Conference Experiences
Attendees will also experience curated meals, the Women Entrepreneurs Marketplace & Exhibitor Showcase, awards and recognition, and additional opportunities to connect throughout the conference.
Why Sponsor Connect & Thrive?
CTWC sponsorship gives businesses and organizations opportunities to increase visibility, engage directly with attendees, support specific conference experiences, and align their brand with a professional audience of women entrepreneurs, business owners, professionals, leaders, and emerging voices.
Brand Visibility
Depending on the sponsorship level, recognition may include conference signage, website visibility, digital event materials, email promotion, livestream exposure, social media acknowledgment, and selected event branding.
Audience Engagement
Connect with women across entrepreneurship, business, corporate leadership, professional development, wellness, finance, technology, and other industries.
Business Development
Create opportunities to introduce your organization, products, services, resources, or expertise to an engaged in-person and virtual audience.
Relationship Building
Build connections through exhibitor participation, sponsored experiences, networking opportunities, attendee resources, and selected conference activations.
Sponsorship Opportunities
Sponsorship opportunities are designed for businesses and organizations seeking defined brand visibility, attendee engagement, exhibitor access, conference experience placement, or livestream exposure.
Presenting & Corporate Sponsorships
Receive prominent conference recognition and expanded brand visibility across selected in-person and digital conference platforms.
Conference Experience Sponsorships
Support a defined part of the attendee experience such as the Networking Reception, breakfast or lunch, a conference panel, attendee resources, or another selected conference experience.
Women Entrepreneurs Marketplace & Exhibitor Showcase
Bring your business, products, services, resources, or organization directly to conference attendees through an exhibitor or marketplace presence.
Livestream Sponsorship
Extend your organization’s visibility beyond the room through the Connect & Thrive livestream and related digital conference communications.
Supporting Sponsorships
Participate at a more focused sponsorship level while receiving defined conference recognition and visibility.
Customized Sponsorship Opportunities
Not every organization has the same goals. Customized sponsorship opportunities may be developed around selected conference assets and experiences.
Livestream Sponsorship Opportunities
The Connect & Thrive livestream creates additional opportunities for sponsors to reach women participating virtually.
Session Sponsorship
Associate your organization with a selected keynote, panel, or conference conversation with appropriate sponsor acknowledgment.
Pre-Roll or Break Video
Feature an approved sponsor message during designated livestream programming or conference breaks.
Livestream Branding
Receive sponsor recognition on selected livestream pages, digital communications, or virtual event materials.
Digital Resources
Provide an approved informational resource, special offer, guide, or other digital material for virtual participants.
Multi-Channel Recognition
Extend sponsor visibility through selected conference website, email, social media, livestream, and digital communications.
Grow Your Network While Helping Us Grow Ours
Not every relationship with Connect & Thrive begins with sponsorship. CTWC also works with women, businesses, professional communities, networking groups, event organizers, media platforms, and other organizations that are actively building their own audiences, relationships, visibility, and professional networks.
Community Partners
Women-led communities, professional groups, networking organizations, business communities, and event organizers can help introduce CTWC to women who would benefit from attending while expanding their own connections within the broader Connect & Thrive community.
Promotional Partners
Podcasts, newsletters, community platforms, media outlets, content creators, and event hosts may collaborate with CTWC through approved cross-promotion and audience outreach.
Business Partners
Women-owned businesses, independent professionals, consultants, and other growing businesses may participate in partnership opportunities that create relevant visibility, relationship-building, and introductions to new professional audiences.
In-Kind Partners
Businesses may support selected conference needs through approved products, services, resources, attendee items, food and beverage support, printing, photography, technology, or other contributions that add value to the conference experience.
Why Become a CTWC Partner?
Partnership opportunities are reviewed individually to ensure there is meaningful alignment and value for both CTWC and the prospective partner.
Sponsor or Partner With Connect & Thrive
Whether you are interested in sponsoring the conference, supporting a specific experience, exhibiting, reaching the livestream audience, or developing a mutually beneficial partnership, we welcome the opportunity to discuss how your business, organization, or community could participate in Connect & Thrive.
Leon-Claude Hobson-Coard
Project Managing Director, The Lady’z Lounge
Thank You to Our Sponsors
We appreciate the organizations supporting the Connect & Thrive Women’s Conference and helping create opportunities for women to connect, grow, and thrive.
