The Capability Is There. The Ambition Is There. Now the Access Is Here.

There’s no shortage of women-led businesses ready to supply. There has been a shortage of access to the buyers who should be working with them.

SheChain Live changes that.

Recognition is the spotlight. This is the gateway.

Since 2011, the Enterprise Vision Awards has celebrated women building exceptional businesses.

Now we take the next step.

SheChain Live is where visibility turns into commercial opportunity. Where conversations become contracts. Where women move from recognised… to commissioned.

The Table Is Set. The Buyers Are Coming. The Suppliers Are Ready.

We’re bringing together the organisations shaping future supply chains with the women-led businesses ready to work with them.

Partners. Buyers. Procurement teams. Investors. All in one room. Focused on action. One day. One room. One purpose.

Driving business to women. At scale.

WEConnect International is a global nonprofit helping women-owned businesses access buyers, supply chains, and procurement opportunities worldwide.

Operating across 135+ markets, the organisation connects women entrepreneurs with major corporations through certification, supplier development, education, and strategic business connections.

Despite women owning around one-third of businesses globally, less than 1% of procurement spend reaches women-owned businesses. WEConnect International is working to change that by opening doors to opportunity, visibility, and growth at scale.

Confidence on Camera with ITV

Visibility changes everything. At SheChain Live, we’re bringing ITV into the room to help you step forward as an expert voice; with confidence, clarity and authority.

Led by Lucy West, Head of ITV News Granada Reports and double BAFTA winner, this will give you real, on-camera experience with one of the UK’s most respected broadcasters.

The media is actively looking for credible experts. Too often, women aren’t the ones being seen or heard. This is your opportunity to change that.

If you have expertise to share and want to raise your profile, this is your space. Build confidence on camera, speak with authority, move from behind the business… to being recognised as the voice of it.

This isn’t about becoming someone else. It’s about showing up as you; clearly, confidently and with purpose. Because your voice doesn’t need permission. It needs a platform.

Essential Sourcing is a procurement and commercial strategy consultancy with over 25 years of hands-on experience across private and public sector supply chains. Founded by Mick Ramsden, the business works with organisations to turn procurement from a cost function into a commercial lever – improving margin, reducing risk, and opening new markets.

Mick is also the founder of The Pro Club, a peer-led learning community for business owners and commercial leaders, meeting monthly in Blackburn and Lancaster. The Pro Club brings together procurement professionals and the businesses that sell to them – creating the kind of honest, commercial conversation that doesn’t happen anywhere else. In 2026, Mick partnered with Paul Aisthorpe of Scale-Ability to develop The Pro Club further, combining deep procurement expertise with Scale-Ability’s commercial growth methodology to build a community designed to grow beyond its founders and deliver lasting value to its members.

SheChain Live is the UK’s awards-linked supply chain activation event for women in business, held alongside the Enterprise Vision Awards to maximise commercial opportunity for finalists, partners and the wider ecosystem.

It brings together supplier-ready women-led businesses with the buyers, corporates, investors and decision-makers actively shaping future procurement, partnerships and supply chain spend.

Importantly, it also helps prepare women-led businesses to be pitch-perfect ready, equipping them with the insight, confidence and commercial understanding needed to present, position and secure opportunity.

This isn’t theory. It’s commercial connection built to move businesses from visibility into buying pipelines.

The Experience

High energy. Access driven. Commercially focused.

You’ve built something credible. You’re ready to supply, pitch, partner and grow. This is your route in.

At SheChain Live you can expect direct routes into the rooms where buying and partnership decisions are made, through:

• Meet the Buyer sessions – connect face to face with procurement teams and corporate partners
• Live pitch opportunities – present your business directly to decision makers
• Procurement insight and readiness support – understand frameworks, tenders and entry points
• Funding and investment conversations – access investors and growth capital partners
• Partner showcases – discover organisations actively seeking suppliers and collaborators
• Collaboration spaces – built for partnership building, not just networking
• Curated networking – intentional connections with commercial outcomes in mind

Whether you sell into retail, supply services to corporates, or are preparing for procurement frameworks: This is where access starts.

For Buyers, Partners and Corporates

If you’re serious about supplier diversity, innovation and growth: This is where you find it.

We are bringing together a pipeline of credible, ambitious women-led businesses across sectors, ready to engage, pitch and deliver.

Not databases. Not directories.

Real businesses. In the room. Ready to talk.

Meet our Exhibitors

Why This Matters

Women-led businesses represent just a fraction of UK suppliers accessing corporate and government procurement spend despite influencing the majority of consumer purchasing decisions.

The capability exists.

The innovation exists.

The commercial readiness exists.

But access remains limited. SheChain Live bridges that gap placing women-led businesses directly in front of the organisations with the power to buy, commission and partner.

Unlocking access doesn’t just change businesses, it strengthens the economy.

Powered by the EVAS Ecosystem

Held the day before the Enterprise Vision Awards, SheChain Live builds on the momentum, energy and national reach of the UK’s largest celebration of women in business.

The EVAS Awards night recognises who is leading. SheChain Live creates the pathways to work with them.

Together, they form a powerful two-day platform for visibility, opportunity and economic impact connecting recognition with real-world commercial access.

• Women-led businesses ready to scale Supplier ready and positioned for procurement, partnership and growth
• Corporate buyers and procurement leaders Actively seeking innovative, diverse suppliers
• Investors and funding bodies Looking to back high potential women-led enterprises
• Innovation and enterprise agencies Supporting scale, export and sector growth
• Policy and partnership organisations Shaping inclusive economic development
• Supplier diversity and ESG advocates Driving equitable supply chain change

If you’re serious about driving business to women, this is where that commitment becomes action.

Not Ready Yet? Come Anyway.

You don’t have to be procurement-ready to be in the room. SheChain Live is also built for the women who are almost there. You’ll leave understanding:

• What buyers are actually looking for
• How procurement works
• What “ready” really means
• How to position your business for opportunity

Clarity first. Then contracts.

From strategic partnership to exhibitor presence, we create high-visibility opportunities for organisations committed to driving business to women through procurement, investment and collaboration.