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ABOUT THE STANDARD BANK TOP WOMEN CONFERENCE

Top Women and Standard Bank are both equally committed to driving inclusion, equal opportunity and women empowerment across the globe. Together with Standard Bank’s commitment to accelerating gender diversity and advancing women, we can ensure this vision becomes a reality.

The Top Women awards, moving into its 20th year, along with the Top Women Leaders publication, in its 19th year, collectively hold 1000’s of award-winning case studies. It is through these case studies that the conference was born in order to showcase these awardwinning companies who are passionate about embodying and driving gender empowerment in South Africa. The Standard Bank Top Women Conference aims to kick start the global economy, creating a movement by connecting women entrepreneurs bringing together global

thought-leaders and experts to offer inspiration, practical solutions, networks and support to 1000’s of women entrepreneurs in Africa.

A full 2-day conference with global leaders in industry, futurists, award winning entrepreneurs, policy makers, industry bodies and philanthropists will engage and share valuable insights and tools to assist and inspire 1000’s of women and girls across the globe.

With multiple breakaways with experts on topics such as financial literacy, skills for the future, how to pivot your business anad reinvent your career this is the must attend event for women entrepreneurs and decision makers to create hope and inspire lifelong learnings.

For the 7th annual Top Women Conference that took place virtually on the 12th & 13th of

October in 2022, hosted by Leanne Manas, we discussed “rising above the noise” with Top Women which included Former Miss Universe and UN Women Brand Ambassador, Zozibini Tunzi, Former Executive Director for the UN Women, Dr. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Award winning Journalist, Devi Sankaree Govender, Margaret Nienaber, the Chief Operating Officer at Standard Bank, Tsakani Maluleka, Auditor-General of South Africa, Dr Judy Dlamini, Chairman of the GBV Response fund & Chancellor of Wits University and Chairman of the Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre as well as Josina Machel, GBV Activist, Survivor & Founder of Kuhluka Movement and Director at the Graça Machel Trust and Shiphra Chisha, President and Co-Founder of the African Women in Business (“AWIB”), Director of Programmes at Graça Machel Trust…to name but a few.

“Ensuring we are building a future ready generation to become changemakers.”

Our goal for 2023 is to amplify its success, by bringing together strategically selected thought leaders whose presentations will resonate with business decision-makers locally and abroad. Standard Bank Top Women has strategically partnered with the Commission for Gender Equality and the UN Women and is set to host the 8th Standard Bank Top Women Global Virtual Conference on 18 & 19 October 2023.

Attended by 1000’s of award-winning women entrepreneurs, judges and finalists whose careers and companies have grown exponentially; this is anticipated to be the biggest global hybrid event for women both live in-person and on a virtual platform, allowing unprecedented access, networking and engagement of world icons.

Together with Standard Bank’s commitment to accelerating gender diversity and advancing women, we can ensure this vision becomes a reality.

ABOUT THE STANDARD BANK TOP WOMEN AWARDS

Celebrating Top Women and the companies behind them

On the evening of 10 November 2022 at 6pm, the 19th annual Standard Bank Top Women Awards took place as a black tie gala dinner at Emperors Palace.

In 2014 Standard Bank of South Africa took up the platinum naming rights to the Top Women Awards; hence the official title, the Standard Bank Top Women Awards, South Africa’s leading awards platform for the advancement of women in leadership.

The Standard Bank Top Women awards honour and applaud outstanding leadership, inspiration, vision and innovation, in organisations that play a role in advancing women to the forefront of the economy. Covering all major economic sectors, and awarding businesses from SMME to national-level, fundamentally, the awards ceremony inspires young entrepreneurial women - the backbone of our future economy - to follow the lead of those who have already carved out their road to success, often during the years long before gender parity was adopted as a pressing issue on the national stage

The Standard Bank Top Women Awards have an alumni of women leaders and women-led organisations, thus motivating the pursuit of full gender parity in all spheres of our society.

This year we honoured two Top Women icons, Top Women in Business Lifetime Achiever for 2022; Gloria Serobe and the Top Women in Public Sector Lifetime Achiever for 2022; Honourable Minister, Naledi Pandor. Both of these awards are sponsored by Standard Bank.

Previous recipients include Epainette Nomaka Mbeki (Ma Mbeki), Yvonne Chaka Chaka, South African singer, songwriter, entrepreneur, humanitarian and teacher,

Adv. Thuli Madonsela, Former Public Protector; Nkosazana Dlamini- Zuma, Former Chairperson of the AU and current Chancellor of the University of Johannesburg; Sophia Williams De Bruyn, former anti-apartheid activist; Graça Machel, and Irene Charnley, to name a few.

The 20th annual Standard Bank Top Women Awards is set to take place on the 16th of November 2023 in Johannesburg where we will once again, acknowledge the most sustainable and most successful gender empowerment strategies of organisations and individuals and across all sectors. n

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ABOUT THE STANDARD BANK TOP WOMEN LEADERS PUBLICATION

Standard Bank Top Women Leaders celebrates South African organisations in both the public and private sectors that prioritise gender empowerment within their business strategies. Our well-established platform – comprising of a publication, awards and virtual conference – drives awareness locally and internationally around the value and impact of women in leadership.

Backed by 19 years of research, the annual Standard Bank Top Women Leaders publication is the country’s authoritative source on top gender empowered companies.

The publication includes listed and unlisted companies with a turnover of above R35-million, SMEs with an annual turnover that ranges from R5-R35 million, as well as public sector organisations.

Only qualifying companies are profiled in the publication. Measured against rigorous criteria, organisations achieve scores based on the representation of women in senior positions. The annual Standard Bank Top Women Leaders digital-first publication profiles over 2800 researched and qualified top gender empowered organisations every year, with a global distribution of +40 000. n

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Delegates registered

“THAT’S

The Speaker Board of 2022

Have a look at our collection of esteemed speakers who rose above the noise and took part in this year’s Standard Bank Top Women Virtual Confernce.

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THE DELEGATE | BADGE

VIRTUAL | PHOTO BOOTH

Over 800 photos taken by delegates in 2021

Over 1500 photos taken by delegates in 2022

SOCIAL MEDIA | FOLLOWING FROM JANUARY UNTIL AFTER THE CONFERENCE

INSIDER | COMMUNITIES

Facebook: started at just over 300. Now at 865 as of 1 December 2022. LinkedIn: went live in August with 0. As of 1 December 2022. 448 members.

SOCIAL MEDIA | STATISTICS

SOCIAL MEDIA | DELEGATE POSTS

CONFERENCE | HIGHLIGHTS

CONFERENCE | HIGHLIGHTS

“Very value-adding; great work. This was my first one; I loved how seamless the process was to register online and I found the virtual platform to

AUDITOR GENERAL | TSAKANI MALULEKE

[2022-10-13 15:48:15 UTC] Tsakani Maluleke: Thanks Leanne, Speakers and Moderators [2022-10-12 08:55:37 UTC] Tsakani Maluleke: Closing the gender pay gap is critical for women empowerment [2022-10-12 08:29:05 UTC] Tsakani Maluleke: Africa is our home, we drive her growth

[2022-10-12 08:32:49 UTC] Tsakani Maluleke: Wear your different type of shoes with pride [2022-10-12 09:09:58 UTC] Tsakani Maluleke: Lead from where you are by Thandi [2022-10-12 09:05:41 UTC] Tsakani Maluleke: Execution from leadership is what is needed to support women

[2022-10-12 08:29:05 UTC] Tsakani Maluleke: Africa is our home, we drive her growth [2022-10-12 09:30:51 UTC] Tsakani Maluleke: Can’t wait for movie directed by Terry one day [2022-10-12 09:29:47 UTC] Tsakani Maluleke: My love language is empowerment. Powerful Terry

[2022-10-12 08:05:43 UTC] Tsakani Maluleke: Good Morning. #RiseAboveTheNoise. Looking Forward to the conference

[2022-10-12 09:18:12 UTC] Tsakani Maluleke: Zozi & Terry

[2022-10-12 08:39:19 UTC] Tsakani Maluleke: Thanks for the inspiration [2022-10-12 13:07:57 UTC] Tsakani Maluleke: Learn to rise [2022-10-12 10:59:41 UTC] Tsakani Maluleke: #RiseAboveTheNoise #Topwomen [2022-10-12 12:24:41 UTC] Tsakani Maluleke: Great idea on profiling women leaders

CONFERENCE | HIGHLIGHTS

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DELEGATE FEEDBACK | POST EVENT SURVEY

“The event was top notch! Incredible, amazing with Remarkable speakers who provided very rich content. The event was a true reflection of a World class event. The platform is super user-friendly and eliminates the reality that it is Virtual. It felt like “on-premises’ ‘ event. Keep it up SBTopWomen”

“I felt like I was part of something great. I really felt empowered and inspired especially after hearing from different women in their highest order discuss relatable topics to women. I felt included that other women go through what I go through too. “

“I loved every bit and learnt a lot I came out a different person looking forward to the bright future ahead”

“It was my 1st time and I gained so much from the conference. There is so much that Women are doing in the different Sectors of business it was really inspirational “

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Never wanted it to end; wish there was one more day. My mind is blown I’m still reminiscing on what just happened. I’m hoping for live interactions next time. A job well done to you guys.”

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CERIFICATE | OF ATTENDANCE

The recipient of this certificate attended the Standard Bank Top Women Virtual Conference 2022. They have been exposed to and contributed to conversations that seek to empower women in Africa, and the world at large.

The 2 day summit facilitated continuous professional development around policy and solutions based skills development.

In case you missed it, our annual Standard Bank Top Women Conference took place on the 12 -13 October 2022. Here is a look at just some of the highlights throughout the 2-day conference:

We trended No. #1 on South Africa’s Twitter trends throughout the conference We dropped our very first Swag Bag - and completley sold out!

Over 47 000 views on our Instagram Filters and Stickers

JUDGES

Standard Bank Top Women Awards 2022

“IT’S THE WRONG TIME TO EXPAND YOUR BUSINESS”

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