Event recap
International Women’s Day 2024
celebration, open market, and social hour
It’s no secret: Utah’s women-led businesses are kind of a big deal. Each year, we partner with the Women’s Business Center of Utah to celebrate them! Thanks to all who joined us for our 2024 event, including our program speakers, entertainment, and bazaar vendors.
march 8, 2024
Program | 2-3:30 pm
Bazaar | 3:30–5 pm
Our enthusiasm (and registered attendees) for this celebration hit max capacity! Since the event sold out, we streamed it live to share the celebrations statewide.
Brought to you by
In partnership with
Naja Pham Lockwood
keynote
RYSE Media
Mother, Investor, Storyteller, Film Producer, Humanitarian Eco-designer
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Naja Lockwood has executive produced multiple documentary and narrative films focusing on social justice issues including 76 Days, Try Harder!, Coming Home Again, Gook and Cries From Syria. She is the founder of RYSE Media Ventures, which supports stories of diverse voices, and is an investor in Impact Partners Films, which has financed the Academy Award-winning documentary Icarus, as well as Won’t You Be My Neighbor and Audrie and Daisy. She financed and co-produced The First Days with StoryCorps, which is a collaboration between StoryCorps and PBS American Experience. It aimed to collect, preserve and celebrate the stories of Vietnamese American refugees and Vietnam veterans throughout America.
Naja graduated with a BA from Boston University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She currently serves on the board of the Utah Film Commission, the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) and the Global Advisory Board of Fulbright University Vietnam.
Jacki
Zehner
keynote
SheMoney/ShePlace
Founder of ShePlace; Investor; Writer; Speaker on Women, Money, and Power
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Jacki Zehner is the founder of SheMoney, a Utah-based company dedicated to advancing women’s financial well-being. She learned a lot about money at Goldman Sachs, where, in 1996, she became the youngest woman and first female trader to become a partner at the firm. After leaving Goldman, she spent a decade in wealth management before co-founding Women Moving Millions, a global philanthropic network whose mission is to catalyze unprecedented resources for a gender-equal world. She is an active investor, writer and speaker on women, money and power. Connect with Jacki on LinkedIn, X, and Instagram.
Photo Credit: Phillip Istomin | MANICPROJECT
MODERATOR
Sui Lang L. Panoke
Zions Bank
SVP, Culture at Zions Bank; Visionary Leader; Social Entrepreneur; International Trainer and Facilitator
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Sui Lang L. Panoke is a visionary leader and social entrepreneur with a passion for empowering today’s leaders to rethink, create and innovate. As Senior Vice President of Culture at Zions Bank, she is responsible for directing a strategic vision to build a culture of community, prosperity, and growth across the bank and in the communities that it serves.
Sui Lang is the founder of Rethink International, Hardware Creative Collective, Rethink Tank, and Women Politics Media. She has trained thousands of leaders around the world, leading in politics, business, government, nonprofits, and the media on a wide range of global leadership, culture, and strategic communications topics.
She holds a BS in political science from the University of Utah and MPA from American University’s Women & Politics Institute. She serves on numerous community and nonprofit boards and was awarded the 2022 Pathfinder Leadership Award by the Salt Lake Chamber.
panel
Women Uplifting Women in Unexpected Ways
Utah Muslim Civic League | Executive Director and Founding Board Member
Luna Banuri
Abby Bowler
Lavanya Mahate
Saffron Valley | Founder, Owner
Rachelle Morris
RevRoad Capital | Managing Director
The celebration featured a bazaar of 20+ local, women-owned vendors
shemoney/sheplace
Salt lake brewing
chunky cookies
Esensually yourz
hush hush farm
Jessica Sketches
julieann caramels
Latebloomer shauna
Luxe-couture
Mui Cui Boutique
naja lockwood design
Nanapuras Peruvian Handicrafts
Niche snowboards
of wonders and tides
Phillips
Raw Eddy's Snacks
the maasai market
Thousand hills artisans
Yawar Cotton
zenzee
About
World Trade Center Utah and the Women’s Business Center of Utah are committed to seeing our state’s women entrepreneurs succeed. By joining forces, we are helping women in business take over the world (in the best possible way, of course)!
For our 11th annual International Women’s Day event, we welcomed Utah’s business community to join us for a celebration of women making an economic impact here in Utah and around the world. Featuring local women-owned companies and leaders committed to furthering opportunities for women and girls around the globe, this event brings together those committed to change.
By catalyzing our shared momentum, we can work to address and solve the challenges women face when growing their businesses globally.
