Events: Now on its Second Year, the Largest Filipina Business Summit “Entrepinays Summit”, Expands to 2 Days in San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Entrepinays Summit now in its second year, is an annual, inclusive, community-minded gathering for Filipina entrepreneurs and professionals. The event takes place on October 5-6 at conference space Bespoke (inside the Westfield Shopping Center), in San Francisco’s Filipino Cultural Heritage District, SOMA Pilipinas. Due to popular demand, the summit has extended to two days and at a larger venue this year. With over 200 attendees expected, participants will attend workshops related to purpose and practice such as “Brown Girls Budget: Money Tips We Never Learned” and “Where Business Meets Social Good: Can You Build A Company That’s Profitable AND Responsible?” Guest speakers for this year’s summit include Pinay powerhouses such as Passion Planner & CEO Angelia Trinidad, HeyBerna founder and “financial hype woman” Berna Anat, award-winning conscious fashion company Cambio & Co. founder Gelaine Santiago, and many others.

“Since attending the Entrepinays Summit last year, our business has grown exponentially and we’ve deepened our relationships with the Filipino community,” says Gelaine Santiago, founder of Cambio & Co. “At the summit, not only did I get to meet many of our existing customers. I also got to connect with inspiring individuals who went on to become some of our most passionate Cambio community advocates. Being at the summit also showed us the power of the Filipina community, and helped give us the foundation to launch our second business Sinta & Co.”, shares Filipina Canadian, Santiago.

The summit, created by Make it Mariko Events founder and ​former Google X Head of Marketing Events​ Gina Mariko Rosales, welcomes self-identified Entrepinays (Filipina/Pinay entrepreneurs) who currently run a business, aspiring Entrepinays who wish to start a business, general pinay supporters who want to learn about and participate in a positive community and LGBTQIA+ and gender non-conforming pinxys and visionaries. Rosales created Entrepinays Summit with a vision of building an accessible and meaningful community, exploring identity, exchanging ideas, healing intergenerational trauma, empowering pinays and supporting their visions for change.

“I’m so excited about our 2nd year of Entrepinays Summit. Last year, we launched with a dream to bring together the many pinay entrepreneurs that we were discovering as a direct result of the UNDISCOVERED SF Filipino Night Market in San Francisco. In only one year, the #Entrepinay movement has taken on a life of its own and there are pinays from all over the world using the hashtag and claiming this movement. From @entrepinayship in LA, to @entree.pinays in Australia, to the many jetsetting pinays doing big things and traveling the world — pinays are making our mark in business, and more importantly, uniting together under a shared vision of sisterhood and PINAYISM. That is what the goal of Entrepinays Summit is — to bring pinays together, and empower us to own our own businesses,” says Gina Rosales, founder of Entrepinays Summit.