Community: An international women’s networking group attracted more than 300 participants to its Luxembourg launch.
Cathy Peiffer and Marlene Deltgen at “Bo Concept” for the launch of Hub Dot in Luxembourg on Wednesday eveningEleonora Pasti speaking at the launch of Hub Dot in Luxembourg on Wednesday eveningHub Dot’s Carlotta Benedetti, Inma Soto Welch and Francesca BruneauHub Dot founder Simona Barbieri and Stefania IndelicatoNuria Soler Aguilar and Viviane BumbFrom left: Guadalupe Lahoda, Katia Vitale, Maria Berg and Sophie LafleurAdrienne Chang, Vanessa Paul and Jess BauldryAlexandra Van Heule and Valérie Dudois-ChahmerianAnnalisa Pinto and Nicole FunkAnneke Hudson, Janine Notter and Laura FouldsBarbara Giardini, Sabrina Biordi and Francesca de BartolomeoCamilla Sardelli and Fatiha ChartiCecile Valton, Danielle Metzler and Sarah WaltregnyChristine van Marion, Lise Lundqvist and Caroline MillettCristina Sansone and Sabrina BussoDeb Anderson, Catharina Biver, Christine van Marion and Lise LundqvistDeidre Ryan and Tanja ScratchleyElsa Idir, Anne-Marie Holweck and Marie ScobleIsabelle Sauber and Nathalie Le LanchonJulie Braham and Kristel GilissenKelley Viney and Francesca Di PietroLiane Wagner, Caroline Engelmann and France von RoesgenLuisella Moreschi and Federica PacificoMaria Berg, Belen Irazola, Anja Reichert and Francesca de BartolomeoMaria Luisa Alonso, Dorothea Bekker and Irene WilkinsonMarie-An Dehullu and Sara VolterraniNuria Soler Anguilar and Beatriz Fernandez-NebredaPietro Monzini (left), Charlotte Bowen (second from left), Maite Bonifas (second from right)Rakel Sigurdardottir and Sylvia OlafsdottirTeresa Pinto and Marie-Claire SamahaUlrike Hettler, Anne Mignon da Col, Elisabeth Cohaus, Sabrina Agostinucci and Kerstin JaegerSophie Lafleur, Katia Bastian and Maria BergNicola Smacchia (second from left), Flavia Misci (second from right)Maria Grazia Galati (left)Maria Di Giacomo, Pauline Klingler, Grazia Beffi, Claire Fahl, Nawal David, Cecile Valton, Sarah Waltregny and Loisa Belfoul
Photo: Steve Eastwood
After successful starts in the UK, Italy and US, new international women’s networking group Hub Dot launched this week in Luxembourg. The sessions feature ten female speakers from ordinary walks of life, followed by colour-coded networking.
The best moments came from the guest speakers’ “amazing stories that touched people very much”, one of the organisers, Carlotta Benedetti, told Delano following the soirée.
She stated that 350 women participated in the event--which was held Wednesday evening at BoConcept in Bertrange--including those originally from Argentina, Brazil, France, Italy, Luxembourg and Spain, among other places.
Women from Brussels and Rouen, in western France, came to the Grand Duchy event after reading about Hub Dot in a Times article, Benedetti noted.
In fact, the Luxembourg launch was bigger than the group’s Milan kick-off, which attracted about 300, she added. Premieres in London and Naples drew nearly 500 women each.
Simona Barbieri, the original founder in London, devised the group’s signature system of dots to encourage participants to connect more easily, Benedetti explained in the June print edition of Delano. “The women wear the dots. There are five colours, and every colour has a meaning.”
Hub Dot “is a kind of a ‘piazza’ for women to share something. Because every colour has a directed meaning, you can go where you feel at ease,” Benedetti said.
The next step is for Luxembourg organisers to plan a series of “smaller, thematic events”. They will focus on specific topics, such as the arts or entrepreneurship, and be limited to between 50 and 100 people “because it’s much easier to connect” in a smaller circle.
In the meantime, Benedetti was particularly pleased that the group attracted positive response from international residents and native Luxembourgers alike. For instance, RTL TV originally came for a quick interview at the beginning of the event, but “chose to stay and film all evening”, she said.
Benedetti concluded: “It was a very good event for Hub Dot.”
