Inspire.
Educate.
Empower.
Our mission is to inspire, educate, and empower future and rising women leaders on how to bring compassion to their career and industry.
We Host Events
VWS hosts several events per year with the goal to foster conversation amongst ambitious rising leaders working to bring compassion to their careers.
The Vegan Women Summit is our annual flagship in-person conference.
We Build Community
We are shaping the future by empowering the next generation of compassionate leaders to build a kinder, more sustainable world.
The VWS Community reaches over 50,000 members across six continents and inboxes across 31 different countries.
We Provide Industry Insights
Thousands of founders, investors, and industry leaders around the world get the information they need to succeed from our newsletter and publications.
VWS is supported by leading CEOs, founders, investors, athletes, & nonprofit leaders from around the world.
We Are HERE FOR EVERYONE
VWS strives to provide an inclusive environment for all and defines “women” and “female” as including all individuals who identify, have identified, or have been identified as women or female.
Attendees of all backgrounds, including all genders, are invited to participate in the VWS events.
MEET OUR FOUNDER:
Jennifer Stojkovic
Jennifer Stojkovic is a food-tech leader, founder of Vegan Women Summit (VWS), and author of The Future of Food is Female.
After spending years in the tech industry, Jennifer saw what can happen when the potential of women, particularly women of color, is left untapped. Jennifer founded VWS because she believes there is a better way to build an industry—and there is no more urgent need than the future of our food system.
Jennifer Stojkovic has built her career as an internationally-recognized community relations leader for the world’s largest tech companies in the capital of innovation, San Francisco. During her career in tech, Jennifer became increasingly interested in blending her passion for change in the food system with her experience and network in Silicon Valley. In early 2018, Jennifer launched a “Future of Food” series of partnerships bringing together CEOs and founders from leading tech brands, including WeWork and Airbnb, with emerging CEOs from the burgeoning food tech industry to establish food as the “Tech 2.0”.
Quickly, Jennifer became aware of the inequities facing female founders in the food tech industry — and the unfortunate parallels drawn from the same experiences she has combatted in her career as a woman at the intersection of tech and politics in the Valley.
Drawing on these experiences, Jennifer launched VWS in early 2020 with a sold-out global conference, the Vegan Women Summit. Focused on building equitable and diverse representation of women leaders from around the world and partnering with major tech brands, VWS is the world’s first events and media organization dedicated to empowering, educating, and inspiring women to bring compassion to their careers. With a thriving, fast-growing community of energetic female leaders around the world, VWS features programming with the world’s leading vegan CEOs, celebrities, investors, Olympians, and more.
Jennifer has been featured as a speaker both domestically and internationally at many conferences, including the world’s largest tech conference, Dreamforce, and the acclaimed World Knowledge Forum in Seoul, South Korea. She has travelled internationally as a government-appointed tech delegate in multiple missions, most recently in Germany, and is regularly featured in the national press.
When she is not building a kinder food system and empowering female leadership, Jennifer can be found diving, hiking with her dogs, or perfecting the world’s most delicious seitan recipe. An avid athlete and fitness enthusiast, she’s always down for a pushup contest—and to prove the power of plant-based protein. She is an ethical vegan, a Canadian by birth, and a big fan of Led Zeppelin.
Vegan Women Summit® (VWS) is a global events and media organization created to empower women to build a kinder, more sustainable world.
VWS strives to provide an inclusive environment for all and defines “women” and “female” as including all individuals who identify, have identified, or have been identified as women or female. Attendees of all backgrounds, including all genders, are invited to participate in the VWS community.
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