Bakersfield Women’s Business Conference

The Board of Directors of the Bakersfield Women’s Business Conference (BWBC) announced today that Olympian Dara Torres will be the 2015 conference keynote speaker. Torres entered her first international swimming competition at age 14 and competed in her first Olympics Games a few years later in 1984. As the 2008 Beijing Olympics, she became the oldest swimmer to compete in the Olympic Games, taking home three silver medals.

“The theme for the 2015 Bakersfield Women’s Business Conference is ‘Strength of a Woman.’ Speakers and workshops will highlight all different areas of a woman’s strength, including emotional, physical, mental, and professional,” said Leigh Pozas, Chair of the Board of Directors of the 2015 Bakersfield Women’s Conference. “We feel that Dara embodies all these key areas of a women’s strength and know that she will motivate and inspire all of our attendees to find and promote all of their individual strengths.”

Twenty-five years ago, a group of industrious like-minded women recognized that everyone who works inside the home or out, needs time to recharge as we face the rigors of the business world and balance of home life, and that women would thrive by having a space of their own to do so. As a result, in 1989, The Bakersfield Women’s Business Conference was founded and the first conference was held at Bakersfield College. The conference has been held annually since then, and has grown in attendance and workshops every year, with thousands of women coming together for one special day to learn, be inspired, recharge, and relax.