The Best Of! Day event is an annual conference organized by EuropeanPWN that aims to empower women and support their career progression through keynote speeches, workshops, and panel discussions on topics of interest. This year's theme is "Success through collaboration: Women & men at work." The full-day event in June will include sessions on gender and leadership, diversity, assertiveness training, and a closing plenary on collaboration between men and women in the corporate world. There will also be networking opportunities through a tradeshow with sponsors and women's organizations. The event provides professional women with tools and insights across multiple industries.

1. European Professional Women’s Network is a vibrant growing pan-European federation of 20 women’s networks with
over 3000 members. Our common objective is to provide women with the tools, networks and support they need to assume
leadership. We aim to share knowledge across Europe, and are participating in several Europe-wide initiatives. We combine
a sophisticated online networking platform, linking several thousand business women throughout Europe, with regular,
offline events in many cities across Europe and beyond, notably via an outreach program to professional women in Asia
Pacific commencing with exchanges with Singapore.
For women: we propose cross-sectoral networking and training for professional women with an international outlook.
We also offer an established mentoring program, special interest clubs and social events.
For companies: Becoming a sponsor of the event is a fantastic opportunity to support sustainable career paths for
women and men, at every professional level. Sponsors will enjoy visibility outside EuropeanPWN with a variety of quality
international media, within our Paris network of 1300 international profile women and finally during our annual Best Of !
Event.
For Networks: we provide a highly sophisticated online platform that removes a considerable amount of the back office
administrative functions that take up so much volunteer energy in many associations. Member networks have among other
access to: full member directory, online event calendars and registration, management of new member applications, online
payment for membership and events.
What is the Best of! Day Event?
The Best Of! Day event highlights the mission of EuropeanPWN to provide women with tools, networks
and support they need to progress in their career. The Best Of! Day event offers a day for women to be
empowered and learn from others through key note speakers, workshops and panel discussions. Each year
there is a new theme to highlight the mission of EuropeanPWN. This year’s Best Of! Day event’s theme is:
"Success through collaboration: Women & men at work." The Best of Day event will cover topics of
interest to all professional women whether they are solopreneurs, entrepreneurs or working in companies – in
France or elsewhere in the world.
Program best of! 2012
Friday, June 15—Chalet de la Porte Jaune, Vincennes
8h00-9h00 Registration & Coffee
9h00-10h45 Morning Plenary—A historical and anthropological perspective
9h15-10h30 Introduction and facilitation by Alison Smale Journalist & Executive Editor at from IHT
Part I-A historical perspective of women at work (In French)•Françoise Milewski, Sciences Po
Part II-What anthropology can teach us about diversity? (In English)•Pascal Picq, Paleoanthropologist
at College de France
10h45-11h15 Coffee Break
11h15-12h30 5 Break-out Sessions: Be Inspired, and Choose One of the Five Sessions.
The break-out sessions are run in parallel, so you can only choose one
1. Gender and Leadership Styles (in French)
•Valérie Petit–professor at Edhec
2. Men and Women on Board (in English)
•Marie-Claude Peyrache, Co-lead, BoardWomen partners
•Bertrand Richard, SpencerStuart-co-lead of the Board Services Practice in Europe.
3. Political Savviness (in English)
•Valérie Rocoplan, CEO Talentis
4. Male and Female Entrepreneurs (in English TBC)
•Denis Jacquet, President of «Parrainer la croissance» and CEO of Yatedo
5. Men and Women Using Social Media (English or French depending on audience preference)
•André Dan, Social Networking Expert - Evangelist & Strategist - for Open and Enterprise Social Networks
•Yann Gourvennec - Director, Web Digital Media & Social Media at Orange Group
•Fadhila Brahimi, Director of FB &Associés, Speaker at Tedx, co-author of «Moi 2.0»
•Jean-François Ruiz, Blogger, Entrepreneur, co-founder of Poweron, co-author of
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12h30-14h00 Lunch
14h00-14h50 5 Workshops-first round
Workshops run in parallel. There are 50 minutes sessions run twice which enables you to choose two different workshops
14h50-15h10 Pause
15h10-16h00 5 Workshops-second round
1. Developing your assertiveness (in French)
•Laurence DiLouya–CEO of Arrêt sur Image
2. Playing with gender stereotypes (in French)
•Aude Bohu-Talentis (in English)
3. Learning how to use social media (in English)
•André Mechaly-Marketing & Communications VP, West & South Europe at Alcatel-Lucent
•Stéphane Lapeyrade–Corporate Social Media & Corporate public relations at Alcatel-Lucent
4. Personal Branding (in English TBC)
•Laurence Bret-Stern, Marketing Director EMEA, Linkedin
5. Body Postures (Language TBC)
•Véronique Schapiro, former ballet dancer
6. Speed mentoring for Women on Board (in English): Individual mentoring session for women who want to
join boards organized by the Women on Board club–led my Miriam Garnier–with pre-registration
16h00-16h30 Coffee Break
16h30-18h00 Closing Plenary Session: Men and women in collaboration in the corporate world (in English)
Introduction and facilitation by Véronique Auger from France 3
•Françoise Gri, president, Manpower Group France (in English)
•Gérald Karsenti, president, HP France (in English)
17h30-17:45 Introducing Prix Entrepreneur Responsible (PER) 2013
•Florence Hardy - Lead of the Prix Entrepreneur Responsable EuropeanPWN Paris
17h45-18h00 Closing
10h30-16h30 Tradeshow
We will offer a tradeshow space where you will be able to discuss with our event sponsors, EuropeanPWN Paris
corporate sponsors, friends women networks as well as clubs. You will also find a bookstore where you can find
books from EuropeanPWN as well as from our speakers. We will also have a make-up and photo corner.
contact
For further event inquiries, please contact the following EPWN members:
General event inquiries: Agnès Bensoussan (team leader)• agnes.bensoussan@gmail.com. • Tel: +33 (0)6 1486 0297
Sponsors: Anne-Pierre Guignard• annepierre.guignard@gmail.com • Tel: +33 (0)6 8809 6991
Speakers: Gayle Gorvett• ggorvett@gmail.com • Tel: +33 (0)6 0946 0308
Marketing & Communication: Susan Lewis•susan@susan-lewis.com • Tel: +33 (0)6 0984 7206
Logistics: Sylvie Oudin•sh.oudin@orange.fr•Tel: +33 (0) 6 07 66 98 33
Tradeshow: Tanya Le Nan•tanya.le.nan@gmail.com•Tel: +33 (0) 6 24 80 33 69
Pre-event logistics: Pamela Strawgate• strawgate@noos.fr• Tel: +33 (0)6 1598 0489
General EPWN inquiries: Karine Tarsitano• information@epwn.net • Tel: +33 (0)9 5366 7268
thanks to our Best Of! Sponsors