Shilpa Shetty, Aditi to participate in Women Economic Forum

Actresses Shilpa Shetty Kundra and Aditi Rao Hydari will be participating in the global conference - Women Economic Forum, an associate of ALL Ladies League.

The six-day conference will have 2000 women participating from more than 100 countries, read a statement from the organisers.

The theme of the conference will be 'Women: Creating, Innovating, Understanding and Driving the Future'. It will commence here on May 8 at Pullman Hotel, and will continue till May 13.

The core objective of the campaign is to get women from all walks of life to meet and discuss social empowerment, education, leadership, economic, business and social issues.

Other prominent speakers participating in the conference include designer-actress Pernia Qureshi, filmmaker Subhash Ghai, Fab India's Managing Director William Bissell, Paytm India's founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma and Facebook India's Managing Director Umang Bedi, among others.

"Women Economic Forum is part of an international movement of empowerment and leadership, a diverse and powerful forum representing the global gathering of women with a heart-centric approach, uniting with a common goal, to love all and serve all with an energy and force the world has never known," said Harbeen Arora, founder and Global Chairperson of ALL Ladies League and Women Economic Forum.

The conference will have sessions on business, economic, political, social and spiritual themes.

--IANS

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