WE Convention 2025 To Bring Global Icons To Dubai
Anna Wintour, Global Editorial Director, Vogue, and Candace Bushnell, author, Sex and the City, are among more than 100 speakers set to gather in Dubai for the WE Convention 2025 in November.
Dubai is all set to host this year's edition of the Women’s Empowerment Convention (WE Convention) from November 1–2, 2025, at Atlantis The Royal.
Organized by the WE Council, a global community of female leaders focused on personal and professional growth, the convention is expected to feature more than 100 speakers and draw over 2,000 attendees.
WE Convention 2025, which will be held under the theme “All In: Career, Money, And Life,” will focus on how financial independence shapes women’s lives and explore paths to achieve it. The two-day program will include speeches, business discussions, themed workshops, and networking sessions.
Reflecting on this year's theme for the event, Mila Smart Semeshkina, founder of the WE Council and a keynote speaker at the WE Convention, said, "It is a call for women to embrace ambition in every dimension of their lives. We no longer need to choose between professional success, financial freedom, or personal fulfillment—we can claim them all with clarity and purpose. At the WE Convention, guests will be inspired by women who’ve redefined what’s possible, and leave equipped with bold, actionable strategies to lead, earn, and live entirely on their own terms."
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The confirmed speakers for WE Convention 2025 include Dame Anna Wintour, Global Editorial Director of Vogue and Chief Content Officer (CCO) at Condé Nast, as well as Candace Bushnell, an author, journalist, television producer, and stage performer perhaps best known for her Sex and the City columns, which became both a bestselling book and an HBO television series by the same name.
The speaker line-up also includes Dr. Maky Zanganeh, co-CEO and President of Summit Therapeutics, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Grand Slam tennis champion and designer, HE Hala Badri, Director General of Dubai Culture and Arts Authority, Mary Gukasyan, Managing Director of Kraft Heinz Middle East and Africa, Mirna Arif, General Manager for Middle East and Africa Growth Markets at Microsoft, Rana Alnasir-Boulos, Chairperson of Global Women Forum, Alina Nazarova, Director of Premium and Private Banking at Alfa-Bank, Hanan Mohsen, Business Director of the Energy Institute in the Middle East, and Demet Ozer, founder of Migems Dubai.
The program will also include a WE Night on November 1 at estiatorio Milos at Atlantis the Royal, with this evening for select speakers and VIP ticket holders including a red carpet arrival, musical performances, dinner, networking, as well as the WE Awards ceremony.
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Mila Smart Semeshkina, founder of the WE Council at WE Convention 2024. Image courtesy WE Convention.
