--- title: "Talent Women in Innovation panel, GCC Juárez, 2019 | NDA" description: "Liz Pasillas joined GCC's Talent Women in Innovation panel during its 2019 innovation week in Juárez." url: https://newdiscovery.agency/news/talent-women-in-innovation-gcc-2019/ language: en --- Panel 2 min read # Liz Pasillas on GCC's Talent Women in Innovation panel Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua's innovation week put four local leaders on a panel about women in innovation. She was one of them. Article Details Category Panel Published September 2019 Read Time 2 min Author New Discovery Agency Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua's innovation week put four local leaders on a panel about women in innovation. She was one of them. [Back to News](https://newdiscovery.agency/news/) Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua ran its Semana de la Innovación from September 9 to 13, 2019, and on the Thursday evening it seated Liz Pasillas with Lourdes Tejada, Cristy Márquez and Diana Parada for a panel called "Talent Women in Innovation", at Technology HUB in Ciudad Juárez. The session was organised through ADN Concreto Juárez, GCC's innovation arm, and ran alongside a HeForShe talk by Guillermo Asiain. Registration was free. GCC later published the panel on its own channel. "Innovation and technology offer unprecedented opportunities to break trends and reach the people at most risk of being left behind," Pasillas wrote about it, framing the panel around UN Women's case for developing markets for innovations that advance gender equality. ## What she brought _was a track record, not a theory._ She had spent the previous two years in accelerators in Miami — [CREATE](https://newdiscovery.agency/news/create-demo-day-idea-center-miami-dade-college-2017/) at Miami Dade College and Babson's [WIN Lab](https://newdiscovery.agency/news/win-lab-miami-babson-college-2018/), a program built specifically for women founders — before the company moved back to Ciudad Juárez. GCC had both founders back the following year, for its 2020 innovation week. The panel GCC's recording of the panel. More News [ Award Technology HUB covered the Bridge Accelerator win Technology HUB reported the win, the $10,000 seed award, and Liz Pasillas on why the team stopped selling one-off VR builds. Read ](https://newdiscovery.agency/news/gana-agencia-local-de-vr-en-the-bridge-accelerator/) [ Talk Liz Pasillas opened HUBtalks 2024, on marketing and AI Technology HUB's first talk of the year could have been a lecture about AI. She made the room open accounts and build things instead. Read ](https://newdiscovery.agency/news/hubtalks-2024-digital-marketing-ai/) [ Industrial Proof New Discovery showed VR and AR at Bosch's Innovation Day Bosch opens one day a year to a short list of regional suppliers. In 2019 immersive training was on the table. Read ](https://newdiscovery.agency/news/new-discovery-at-bosch-innovation-day/) From news to proof ## The coverage tells the story. _The case studies show the work._ Each case study shows the system, the technology, and the impact behind what makes the news. [See case studies](https://newdiscovery.agency/case-studies/)