Recent York City Economic Development Corporation is rolling out the subsequent phase of its Women.NYC initiative with “The Network.”

As its name suggests, the platform is designed to attach women in the town’s five boroughs to assist them advance and pinpoint opportunities in emerging fields like technology, the green economy, life sciences and offshore wind. Participants can pick from three sorts of program, comparable to virtual one-on-one office hours, small group discussions, or shadowing more seasoned executives. They will even have the possibility to become involved through quarterly events.

The goal is to attach greater than 1,000 women across all of The Network’s channels in the primary 12 months. A NYCEDC spokesperson said via email Monday that The Platform broadly ties into fashion and its work in manufacturing and technology. “We’re keeping this system broad across industry sectors with a give attention to sustainability, tech and the green economy.” 

Despite comprising greater than half of the population [in New York City] and one-third of the workforce, women “remain underrepresented within the high-wage, high-growth sectors of technology, life sciences, the green economy and offshore wind,” said NYCEDC president and chief executive officer Andrew Kimball in a press release.

With digital advancements comparable to AI and cybersecurity top-of-mind across all sectors, the brand new platform has authorities to assist participants get a greater grasp on how technology can play into their businesses — for higher or for worse. For the debut, The Network, NYCEDC and Women.NYC will host a panel discussion and meet-and-greet Tuesday that’s open to the general public for free of charge. The event on the Recent York Genome Center will highlight how The Network offers women access to profession mentors, business executives, and industry leaders to assist them find their way. How you can break through in these emerging fields, connect with key contacts and share profession targets, dilemmas and challenges are a couple of of the initiative’s prime goals.

FINTECH.TV anchor Alicia Nieves will moderate the discussion. BCPartners Tech’s chief executive officer and cofounder Rosario Casas will share her insights with Tinia Pina, CEO of Re-Nuble, an agricultural tech company that converts unrecoverable vegetative food right into a platform of sustainable technologies, and Joan Fallon, founder and CEO of Curemark, a biopharmaceutical company.

Together with the aforementioned panelists, the primary round of advisers for The Network will include Miho Shoji, CEO and cofounder of the AI-powered employment engagement technology company Moodbit; Fatima Brown, founder and CEO of Reclassify AI; Fabianna Rodriguez-Mercado, cofounder of Latinas in Tech and chief of staff for cyber security at Citi; Regina Gwynn, cofounder of Black Women Talk Tech, and Ingrid Busson, head of worldwide regulatory investigations at Paypal. There will even be other advisers including Gayle Hennings, CEO of the WocStar Fund; Cathleen Trigg-Jones, founder and CEO of iWomanTV, and Sonam Velani, founder and CEO of StreetLife Ventures, amongst others.