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The Women's International Networking Conference (WINConference) is a women's networking conference. It runs annually in capital cities in Europe. The focus of the conference has been women, female empowerment and leadership.The Guardian has described it as a part of a trend they named "Sisterhood 2.0." It is one of the largest conferences of its kind, according to Financial Express.

The Women's International Networking Conference was founded in 1997 by Norwegian social entrepreneur Kristin Engvig. Together with a group of corporate women and expatriates she invented the WINConference which was held at Palazzo delle Stelline, IBM Center in Milan in 1998. The conference is attended by business people, executives, academics, NGO representatives and others. WINConference also conducts research about women in management and business and the way they balance work and life.

The conference is run annually, and had around 500 attendees from around the world as of 2009. WINConference holds global and local conferences, such as the Japan WIN Conference and WINConference Nigeria. The first time the conference was held in India was in 2013. As of 2016, the global conference has gathered more than 13 000 participants of 129 different nationalities.


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