Aditi Bansal is the vice president for external partnerships for the Women’s Interdisciplinary Society of Entrepreneurship, a student-run organization at Northeastern dedicated to mentoring the next generation of business leaders.
Bansal’s responsibilities include assembling a panel of experts for women in sports conference at Dodge Hall at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business on Sept. 20.
Bansal was originally thinking of a small panel for the event, which she thought would be attended by about 15 to 20 people. That was before she was introduced to Mary Ciampa by Betsy Ludwig, the executive director of Women’s Entrepreneurship at the university.
Ciampa, a 1992 Northeastern graduate and serial entrepreneur, quickly connected Bansal to high-profile panelists. Since then, interest in the event has taken off.
“It’s become as big as it has…