The Anita Borg Institute (ABI), a non-profit organization focused on advancing women in computing, has announced the 4th edition of the Women Entrepreneur Quest (WEQ) 2014, which will be held during the 5th annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing India (GHCI) conference.
The annual conference, presented by the Anita Borg Institute and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM-India), will take place from November 19-21 in Bangalore. WEQ is a contest designed to promote and showcase early-stage ventures with a technology component, founded or led by women entrepreneurs in all technologies, according to a company statement. It focuses on talented women technologists in the founding or leadership team of early stage start-ups who have applied technology in innovative ways to solve meaningful business problems, the statement added.
The winner of the WEQ 2014 contest will be awarded a grand cash prize of Rs 5 lakh. Geetha Kannan, India Managing Director of the Anita Borg Institute said that the development of high-potential women entrepreneurs is extremely critical to India’s economy.
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