On Sunday, October 6th we had our second day of the Entrepinays Summit – an addition that emerged as part of the feedback we received from last year! Our community asked for more time to take a deep dive into topics and to have more time to reflect and this year we were lucky enough to have the space to do so. 

We had in-depth workshops like Raynelle Rino’s Kapwa Healing Hike, Ning Recio’s public speaking workshop “Speak Up: Presence & Impact”, Darlene Rabena’s “Get Woke On Legal Issues Affecting Your Business”, Jana Lynne Umipig’s de-colonizing business workshop, Jennifer Navarro-Marroquin’s “Flip Your Money Script” workshop, Gretchen Carvajal of BRWNGRLZ’s spoken word workshop, and #Entrepinoy Anthem Salgado’s business plan workshop.

We closed with a Pulutan Party sponsored by the generous San Miguel at Covo and closed with a unifying “Isang Bagsak” that reminded us both of our shared history and the strong Pinays who came before us as well as the future that we’re all helping build together. 

The 2nd Annual Entrepinays Summit has left us feeling overwhelmed with gratitude for the incredible community that we’re surrounded by. Make it Mariko is proud to be a Presenting Sponsor of Entrepinays Summit every year. On October 5th, we had over 250+ Pinays from across the Bay Area and beyond sharing space at the beautiful Bespoke Event Space for our first day of a weekend summit. This was only our 2nd year, and already we had double the # of days, doubled the workshops, and the people!

Featuring “How I Entrepinay” Lightning Talk Speakers like Allison Tinati aka HUEMAN, Angelia Trinidad the CEO of Passion Planner, financial hype woman Berna Anat of Hey Berna, community leader Raquel Redondiez of SOMA Pilipinas, the Filipino Cultural District in SF, scholar and professor Dr. Allyson Tintiango-Cubales, and so many more amazing womxn, it was a day full of bonding, tears, and learning to stand in our power as Entrepinays. 

Planning for this year’s Summit started all the way back in February when we launched Planning Committee applications, and continued for 8 months. We were nervous about expanding the weekend and knew it was going to be a huge experiment to see how large we could grow the event, without losing the intimate connection that we had at Year 1. (Will post a longer blog on this exact topic at a later date.)