Ivanka Trump attends plenary session on Day 2 of GES

Hyderabad Nov 29: The Global Entrepreneurship Summit was inaugurated on Tuesday by PM Modi, US President Ivanka Trump and CM KCR have attended the inaugural event.The second day of the summit has begun grandly with a plenary session 'We Can Do It! Innovations in Workforce Development and Skills Training'. The session was attended by US president Advisor Ivanka Trump, ICICI Bank, Managing Director and CEO, Chanda Kochhar, Cherie Blaire, and Karen Quintos. The session was moderated by Telangana IT minister KTR.

Speaking at the plenary session Ivanka has said that "Women make up half of the world’s population. Need to think of these issues, not as women’s issues but human issues.Excited about the work we are doing internationally to create opportunity for the entrepreneurs"



She has added that "We need a policy that supports the modern working family.“Having equal gender representation is a financial positive to businesses today besides being a social responsibility.We need to get more men in women-related work fields and more women in work fields such as STEM."

Finally, Ivanka has added that "Technology is a great driver of entrepreneurship because it emboldens women to start their own businesses, reduces barriers to starting new businesses, and creates flexibility for the modern working family."