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UK – Indonesia Tech Hub and Endeavor network in the Asia Pacific region teamed up to conduct a webinar focusing on the challenges facing women on Friday, December 3, 2021.

Dubbed EndeavHER: “Having-It-All” - The Art of Maintaining Health for Women Leaders, the webinar will discuss and share experiences of how female executives can rise to the challenge of managing their physical and mental health, and how their approach influences the way they lead their businesses.

A report by Endeavor Insight with support from Google for Startups draws lessons from successful women founders to better understand pathways they took to scale their businesses, and strategies for overcoming some of the most common challenges that women entrepreneurs face.

The report found several tangible steps that can be taken to better support women founders, including curated programs and events to increase female founders access to high-quality female mentors, as well as connecting female founders so they have strong peer support networks.

The UK is aiming to provide just this through the recently launched Nurture to Scale programme, which will support the growth of start-up entrepreneurs in Indonesia by providing them with wide access to resources, insights, successful founders, key industry leaders and mentors - all in order to scale-up their businesses.

EndeavHER, as an Endeavor signature programme to support and elevate female founders accelerate the growth of their companies, is one of the most exciting events within the Nurture to Scale programme, with a goal to inspire the next wave of female entrepreneurs in the region and globally.

Notable speakers are women founders and entrepreneurs from five countries, who lead companies in variety of industries namely Levana Sani, from Indonesia, Co-founder of Nalagenetics, who help people to make better health decisions by giving them access to personalized prescriptions; Amina Sugimoto, from Japan, Co-founder & CEO of Fermata, who help transform taboos into triumphs with technologies that can clarify and inform women about their own bodies; Amy Zheng, from Malaysia, Co-founder & CEO of Amazin’Graze, one of Southeast Asia's early homegrown health food brands with a mission to change the way people eat; Denise Keller, from Singapore, an international travel host, director and producer best known for her work as host for Discovery Channel, TLC and MTV; Denise Sandquist, from Vietnam, Co-founder & CEO Fika, a female-focused dating app that uses state-of-the-art AI.

“Through this event, women will inspire women to achieve their full potential. Dispersed over a wide geographic area, it is even more essential that Indonesia’s female entrepreneurs are connected and can access role models and support networks," Owen Jenkins, British Ambassador to Indonesia and Timor Leste said in a release on Thursday.

"This event is part of our efforts to deliver exactly that. The UK is delighted to support Indonesia’s women and their entrepreneurial talents participating in Indonesia’s tech sector through our  UK – Indonesia Tech Hub," he said.

The online event will also include Nurture to Scale’s Virtual World, a virtual exhibition that enables people to engage and connect with 35 of the most promising start-ups in Indonesia, as well as watch webinars in a virtual auditorium

Registration for the program is available at bit.ly/endeavherapac04 and the webinar will be accessible through the www.nurturetoscale.org website. (VOI)