The AusMumpreneur Conference and Awards is underway in Sydney

SYDNEY - Yesterday, 160 women in small business attended the first day of the AusMumpreneur Conference at Sydney’s State Library.

The two-day workshop and conference finishes this afternoon and is followed by the AusMumpreneur Awards which will take place tonight at Doltone House, Sydney. More than 660 000 Australian small business owners are women and over 330,000 are mothers in small business.

Peace Mitchell said, “We are so excited for the awards tonight! It’s our biggest awards ever with over $200 000 in prizes and 275 people from all over Australia going to attend. It’s going to be spectacular.”
 
Yesterday, mumpreneurs attended workshops with Catherine Langman from Productpreneur Marketing, Louise Marshall from Reckon, Karen McDermott from Serenity Press, Candice Meisels, a PR expert specialising in start-ups and affordable PR, Helen Butler, a professional organiser and Katrina McCarter from Marketing to Mums.

While the workshops were running, finalists met with judges for a series of interviews which will determine the winners of the prestige AusMumpreneur Awards.

On Thursday afternoon, each AusMumpreneur of the Year finalist presented to the audience and judges. Each finalist then had to answer questions from the judges and the audience.

Today, delegates will listen to:

Amy Taylor-Kabbaz from Happy Mama, Karen Gee, Jacinta McDonnell, Urban Yoga and The Human Kind Project, Emeli Paulo, Collective Potential, Rhian Allen, Healthy Mummy, Monique Filer, b.box, Mrinalini Chakrabarty, Google and Peace Mitchell and Katy Garner, the co-founders of the AusMumpreneur Network.
 
Some interesting statistics:
 
The AusMumpreneur Network is the number one network for Mums in Business across Australia, according to the Federal Productivity Report 2015.
 
There are currently 660 000 women in business in Australia. 330 000 are mumpreneurs.

 
Start Up Smarter Report 2016

About 70 percent of startup founders are aged between 30-40 and the number of female founders are on the rise predicted to increase to 31 percent of founders in 2017 from just 16 percent in 2014. 

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