Every comprehensive business starts with a comprehensive and well thought out business plan. A business plan helps you clearly define your business idea, set goals, analyze your market, develop strategies, project financial viability, and attract potential investors, essentially providing a roadmap to guide your business towards success. 

The WIT WBO 2025 event series is a highly interactive and hands on experience that will help you build your very own business plan. Each session will focus on developing a particular section of your business plan until it is complete. You will be given a framework to help you develop your content for each event and will be able to get feedback from successful entrepreneurs. 

This first session will introduce the series, describing the content and cadence of each event and level or participant involvement.

• 6:00-6:10 PM      Welcome and Introduction to WIT/WBO
• 6:10-6:35 PM      Series Overview
• 6:35-6:55 PM      Importance of Business Plan
• 6:55-7:15 PM      Introduction of First Topic
• 7:15-7:30 PM      Establish Cohorts and Give 1st Assignment

Registration Fees
FREE for WIT Members
$25 Non-members

Speakers

Tiffany Hosey
Partner, CEO/Founder, CTBIM, Keynote Speaker

Attorney Tiffany Hosey worked as President of a family construction management company for 7 years before creating BuilDATAnalytics (CTBIM). A former holder of a Class A Contractor’s license from the Commonwealth of Virginia and a US Army Corps of Engineers Construction Quality Management for Contractors Certificate, she worked on construction sites for years experiencing frustrations common on complex construction projects. 

CTBIM was created to address her need to track and record the construction and inventory of over three thousand doors, frames and hardware while working on the construction of a 2 million square foot building under a Department of Defense project. CTBIM was successfully utilized by field crew and proven as a revolutionary construction tool. Her background also enabled her to include features in CTBIM that highlight the usefulness of an evidenced based method of construction aiding stakeholders in closing the gap between construction schedules and real-time construction activities.

Tiffany, proficient in written and spoken Japanese, holds a J.D. from The George Washington University Law School and a B.A. from Georgetown University.

Kara Dickey
Co-Founder and CEO, SmartCom Solutions, Inc., and Chair, Women Business Owners Committee

For over two decades Kara has helped SmartCom Solutions’ clients gain a competitive advantage through technical innovations and reduce costs through efficiencies and modernization. Kara brings a breadth and depth of experience in employing automation to solve organizations’ mission critical business needs. These efforts typically required full scale business process reengineering, as well as custom application development. Kara has extensive experience managing and participating in all phases of the system development lifecycle. Kara has diverse application and industry experience including Mortgage Origination, Mortgage Services, Mortgage Securitization, Mutual Fund Processing, Financial Management and Accounting, Supply Chain Management, and Claims Processing. In her capacity as Chief Executive Officer, Kara is also responsible for setting the direction of the company, business development, marketing, and obtaining/managing resources. Kara holds a B.S. in Decision Sciences (computer science concentration) from George University and an MBA (finance concentration) from Marymount University.

Anu Jekal
Co-Founder and President, Data Surge LLC, Vice-Chair, Women Business Owners Committee

Anu Jekal is the Co-Founder and President of Data Surge, a 8(a) woman owned small business, specializing in end-to-end data, AI/ML and MLOps pipelines at big data scale. Anu is leading the company’s strategic direction, overseeing all aspects of operations and implementing its long and short-term goals.

Anu has lead multiple teams in her past experience and with more than 15 years of experience in the big data, AI/ML and engineering industry, she has a proven track record of managing, developing and implementing complex enterprise software applications. Anu holds a Masters degree specializing in Wireless Networking and Communications from George Mason University.

Anu believes strongly in a people-first culture where employees are encouraged to share ideas and participate in setting the culture and organization policies. Anu mentors young women as part of the Women in Big Data organization and supports the Women in Technology’s (WIT) mission in empowering women from classroom to the boardroom.