— BYG WOMEN’S FORUM SERIES 2026
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Final Session · May 16, 2026 · Live
From Transformation to Impact: Shaping What Comes Next
A conversation on moving from insight to action—shaping systems, defining legacy, and building what comes next.
Saturday, May 16, 2026 | 3:00 PM – 5:30 PM
A live convening of voices shaping the future across sectors, communities, and borders.
Engage the Conversation
We continue the conversation we began in 2022—one that challenged us to reflect on women’s leadership, generational influence, and the systems that shape how we show up in the world.
In 2026, under the theme “From Tradition to Transformation: Breaking Barriers, Shaping the Future of Women,” we have moved that conversation forward.
What have we inherited?
What must we challenge?
How do women move from presence to influence—and from influence to impact?
What does it mean to build, not just for ourselves, but for those who come after us?
As this series comes to a close, we shift from reflection to direction.
This final gathering brings us into a shared space—where conversation meets presence, and ideas meet action.
This is not simply about what we have learned—but about what we are now prepared to build.
THE CONVERSATION
Every forum leaves a mark. Tell us what this one left with you.
Conversations that challenge us.. Relationships that sustain us. Visions that call us forward.
The final in-person forum of the Women’s Forum Series 2026 brought this season to a meaningful close at the University of Guyana, the same institution where the journey began weeks earlier.
But what unfolded throughout this series was never simply about panels or presentations.
It was about creating space.
Space for women to speak honestly about leadership, visibility, identity, power, culture, responsibility, and the realities they continue to navigate across professional, personal, and national life.
The final forum carried the depth that has become characteristic of this season—thoughtful moderation, courageous reflections, lived experiences shared openly, and conversations that challenged easy narratives while making room for complexity, wisdom, and hope.
What made the Women’s Forum Series meaningful this year was not only the caliber of the speakers or the importance of the themes. It was the willingness of women from different generations, sectors, and experiences to come together in genuine conversation.
To listen carefully.
To disagree respectfully.
To reflect deeply.
To contribute intentionally.
Again and again, the forums reminded us that transformation does not begin only in policy or institutions. Often, it begins in conversation. In visibility. In relationships. In the courage to speak honestly about what must change and what must be protected.
As this season concludes, we carry forward more than memories of important discussions. We carry forward new connections, new reflections, and a renewed commitment to building spaces where women’s voices, experiences, and leadership remain central to shaping what comes next.
The conversations may pause.
But the work continues.
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From reflection to direction. From influence to impact.
The Women’s Forum Series 2026 closes with a call to carry the conversation forward — into the rooms we enter, the systems we shape, and the futures we choose to build.