Members of the media are invited to cover the 11^th Annual New Jersey Women Business Leaders Forum, powered by Citizens, which will be held at DoubleTree by Hilton Somerset Hotel and Conference Center on Sept. 17-18.

The two-day event, the largest statewide conference of its kind in New Jersey, will feature inspiring executive TED-style talks with leading executives, dynamic breakout sessions featuring more than 100 speakers and panelists to help attendees succeed professionally, and extensive networking opportunities.

The event brings large corporations, entrepreneurs, not-for-profits, and students together to inspire and empower them, form an agenda that will increase diversity in corporate leadership, and build successful businesses.

Monica Slater Stokes, United’s lead government relations executive in the Northeast, will be honored by NJBIA with the prestigious Caren Franzini Leadership Award.

Other awardees include:

• NJBIA Good Guy Award: South Jersey Industries President & CEO Mike Renna
• NJBIA Public Service Award: Assemblywoman Shavonda Sumter (D-35)
• NJBIA Community Impact Award: Junior Achievement of New Jersey President & CEO James Horne Jr.

To read the full conference agenda and the bios of the more than 100 prominent women who will be speaking at the conference, go to NJBIA’s WBLF page here.

Members of the media who are interested in covering the 10th annual Women Business Leaders Forum should contact Bob Considine prior to the start of the event.

Sponsors helping to make this event possible include:

• ALEXENA Consulting LLC

• Amazon

• Association Member Trust

• Atlantic City Electric

• AT&T

• August eTech

• BCG Securities

• Berkeley College

• BND Consulting Group

• C3 Workplace

• Capital Health System

• Carpenter Contractor Trust

• CGI

• Citizens

• Delaware Business Solutions

• Delta Dental

• Disrupt The Gap

• FemGevity

• Fidelity

• Focus NJ

• Forvis Mazars

• Girl Scouts of Central & Southern NJ

• HealthCare Institute of New Jersey

• Holman

• Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey

• HR 4 Your Small Biz

• Integris

• Jersey 1st

• JP Morgan

• Junior Achievement

• Just Think Hospitality, Inc.

• K & L Gates

• Kessler PR Group

• Larc Norcross School

• Laura Bishop Communications

• Manufacturing Counts

• Marotta Controls

• McDonald’s (Dorno)

• Minding Your Business TV

• New Jersey Business Action Center

• New Jersey Business Magazine

• New Jersey Council of Community Colleges

• New Jersey Education Association

• New Jersey Economic Development Authority

• NJM Insurance Group

• New Jersey Restaurant & Hospitality Association

• New Jersey Society of CPAs

• New Jersey State Women’s Chamber of Commerce

• OceanFirst Bank

• Optimum

• OU LA Restaurant & Bar

• Parker McCay

• Paychex: Payroll & HR Solutions

• Peoples Security Bank & Trust Company

• P.J. Whelihan’s Restaurant Group

• Planet NJ

• Plymouth Rock

• PNC Bank

• pocstock

• Primepoint HRMS & Payroll

• RWJBarnabas Health

• Saiber LLC

• Skalli Events

• SKC & Co. CPAs, LLC

• South Jersey Industries

• Spencer Savings Bank

• Stockton Women's Leadership Council

• Switlik Survival Products

• United For Alice

• United Way of Northern New Jersey

• Wakefern

• Web-Cote Industries

• WGL Energy Services, Inc.

• Women's Alliance Network (WAN) at Rowan University

• WorkDynamX

• YWCA Northern New Jersey

• ZAGO Manufacturing Company