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Women in Tourism (WiT) will celebrate International Women’s Day with their annual lunch event on Friday 6 March at the State Library of NSW.

Tourism Tasmania Director Michelle Cox will join Business Events Sydney CEO Lyn Lewis-Smith and Head of Telstra’s startup accelerator Julie Trell to discuss the ways we can actively choose to challenge stereotypes, fight bias, broaden perceptions and celebrate women’s achievements.

The global theme for International Women’s Day 2020 is #EachforEqual – this theme will be adopted for this celebration in March.

This is Women in Tourism’s sixth annual International Women’s Day lunch in Sydney and sees WiT partner with Laissez-faire Catering and the State Library of NSW to host this year’s lunch event.

All men and women working in the travel and tourism industry are invited to attend.

About the event

Where: State Library of NSW

When: 12pm – 2.30pm, Friday 6th March

Tickets are $120pp and include welcome drinks and canapés, a two-course lunch and attendee gift.

Click here to purchase tickets: https://www.stickytickets.com.au/n6so8

About the speakers

Michelle Cox

Michelle Cox has held leadership roles in the Travel, Tourism and Hospitality sector for over 25 years. She is currently a Director on the Board of Tourism Tasmania; a Non-Executive Director on the board of ASX listed tourism adventure company Experience Co; and continues to be a shareholder in the marketing communications agency group Bastion Collective, she part-founded seven years ago.

Passionate about living an unconventional life and encouraging us all to embrace imperfection more, in December Michelle released a book series of short, impactful books centred around topics we don’t often talk about. It’s called The Wabi Sabi Series and the first three books are available now in hardcopy and e-book form.

Lyn Lewis-Smith

Lyn is a Non-Executive Director, Chair and CEO with more than 20 years’ leadership experience spanning banking, resources, transport, public private partnerships, tourism and sport.

As CEO of BESydney, Lyn leads a global team of professionals spanning Europe, North America and Asia who are charged with securing global meetings of economic, social and educational benefit to Sydney, Australia. In the last five years under Lyn’s leadership, BESydney has secured events generating commercial outcomes greater than $1 billion.

Julie Trell

Julie is the Head (and Human API) of Telstra’s startup accelerator, muru-D. She comes to the role with a vast and varied background spanning education, startup, not for profit and corporate environments. Through serendipity, Julie has been fortunate to combine her passions for technology, philanthropy, education and play and forge a rewarding non-linear career path spanning nearly two decades.

Julie was a founding member and Vice President of All Things Fun, Meaningful & Rewarding at Salesforce.com Foundation for a large part of her career, bringing fun and a measurable community impact to the company.

Julie has been an advisor of startups from San Francisco to London, she’s helped companies integrate meaningful philanthropy programs into their businesses and was instrumental in launching SheEO Radical Generosity, (a global initiative to transform how we support, finance and celebrate female entrepreneurs) in the USA in 2016 and most recently in Australia in 2018. Julie’s path continues to impact local and global communities at large.