This year's summit will engage women's funds and experts across sectors in new ways, including open space dialogues, peer-sharing opportunities and workshops focused on the theme, "Women, Economics and Peace: A Summit of Women's Funding Network". Join us at the Millennium Biltmore Los Angeles [1], CA [1] on May 3-5, 2012 for deep learning about economics, peace and our role in advancing justice through women's philanthropy. Registration will go live February 15th, save the date and look for more program details coming soon.
Join our Marketplace!
Each year our annual conference features a marketplace where women-owned businesses can sell their fair-trade, handmade and sustainable products. Join us this year as a marketplace vendor, click here [2] for more information or email Alanna Ford, Marketing and Communications Fellow, at: aford@womensfundingnetwork.org [3].
Announcing Opening Keynote: Saskia Sassen 
World-renowned expert on globalization, Saskia Sassen will open the 2012 WFN Summit. Sassen is a professor of Sociology at Columbia University and is a member of its Committee on Global Thought. She frequently advises international agencies and just completed a study for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Introducing Pathable
As an attendee of our Summit you will have access to Pathable, an online community and social network that will help our attendees connect and stay in touch --before, during and after the event. The tool allows you to easily connect with other Summit attendees and to schedule one-on-one meetings. You can engage in rich online discussions, connect with your LinkedIn contacts and Twitter followers, and meet new people who share similar interests. Pathable also allows you to access the Summit program from your smart phone in order to manage which workshops and plenaries you will attend.
Pathable Tour Video [4] from Pathable, Inc. [5] on Vimeo [6].
