In conjunction with the awards ceremony, Cartier curates several sessions which allow the participants to empower each other.

Themed &#39;The Ripple Effect&#39;, the 2019 edition of <a href="https://www.lofficielmalaysia.com/art/cartier-21-finalists-for-2019-cartier-women-s-initiative">Cartier Women&#39;s Initiative Awards</a> ceremony took place at Fort Mason Center for Arts &amp; Culture in San Francisco, the heart of the global start-up and innovation scene.

This was where&nbsp;Cartier&nbsp;awarded seven outstanding women out of the 21 finalists as the laureates of 2019, where&nbsp;they were each gifted with prize money of&nbsp;US$100,000 to fund their projects and businesses.

Ahead of&nbsp;the official award ceremony, Cartier also hosted several programmes that&nbsp;bring together different professionals and allow them to empower one another.

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First, there was the &#39;Meet &amp; Learn&#39; round table session, where the discussions involve empowering women and the ecological transition with regards to economic transformation.

Helen Walters, Head of Curation at TED also&nbsp;led a series of live talks, featuring microbiologist Karen Lloyd, urban landscape architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom, rural social worker and founder of Bodhi Tree Foundation Ashweetha Shetty and artistic duo Climbing PoeTree.

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The event is then followed by the two panel conversations on women&rsquo;s empowerment and gender equality, also women&rsquo;s entrepreneurship and women in the workforce at large.

The inspiring conversations are hosted by Hillary Kerr, co-founder and content editor of the multi-media brand Clique, participated by Lupita Nyong&rsquo;o, Kenyan-Mexican actress; Maria Schriver, American journalist and writer; Cyrille Vigneron, CEO of Cartier International; Oulimata Sarr, Acting Regional Director of UN Women for West and Central Africa; Kelsey Robinson, Partner at McKinsey &amp; Company in San Francisco and Ilian Mihov Dean of INSEAD.&nbsp;

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This year, seven laureates stood out from nearly 2900 applicants from over 142 countries, including Japan and Switzerland. They include&nbsp;Yeon Jeong Cho (SAY Global), Carmina Bayombong (InvestEd), Zineb Agoumi (EzyGain), Liza Velarde (Delee), Hibah Shata (Maharat Learning Center), Ran Ma&nbsp;(Siren), Manka Angwafo (Grassland Cameroon Ltd.)

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Watch the video below to find out more about them:

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Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards 2019 names 7 laureates in San Francisco

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