Last Saturday was held at the Municipal Theater "15 de Febrero" the Binational Meeting of Women Entrepreneurs and Professionals of Uruguay and Brazil organized by the group of Women Entrepreneurs and Professionals of Rivera (MEPRI) and sponsored by the Ministry of Industry and Energy, the Departmental Municipality of Rivera, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining, the Uruguayan Chamber of Information Technology (CUTI), Uruguay XXI and the Shopping Siñeriz.
The event began at 13:30 and lasted until late at night, with the presence of many participants. In addition to the lectures, where the exhibitors told their experiences, there was a business round, tasting of regional products made by women entrepreneurs, raffles of gifts and networking.
Among the speakers, we highlight the participation of Larissa Kroeff, from Florianópolis, co-founder of the project "Meu copo eco". A marketing specialist, she studied at the University of Valladolid (Spain), with a master's degree in event management at the University of Pierre Mendes (France) and a specialist in tourism. He told of his experience of making ecological cups that do not harm the environment. Silvia Nane is Director of T-Machine, a company that provides software testing services, member of the Uruguayan Chamber of Information Technology (Cuti), social trainer of the International Software Quality Institute, of the board of directors of the Hispanic America Software Testing Qualification Board.
Mariel Romero is a rural producer, founder and CEO of Cabaña Cambapytá, Aberdeen Angus breed. In ten years she was elected six times the best herd of the year. She has carried out thirty-two auctions in Uruguay and Brazil, and has sold more than 7,900 breeding cattle in more than three hundred commercial rodeos and herds in the Mercosur. Mariel is a native of Rivera, but her herd is in the Department of Artigas. When telling her experience she got very emotional remembering her parents and the people who helped her along the way.
The meeting required enormous efforts of its organizers and many hours of insomnia and nervousness but it ended with total success and good repercussion among those who were there, so much so that they have already set dates for the next event.
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