Genevieve Thiers to Speak at TECH Cocktail CONFERENCE
Tuesday, May 13, 2008FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Chicago, Ill.) - Genevieve Thiers, founder and CEO of Sittercity.com, America's largest and most trusted online source for caregiving, will be a featured speaker at TECH CONFERENCE on Thursday, May 29, 2008. The topic of the panel Thiers is participating in is Understanding your Audience: The Female Perspective.
TECH CONFERENCE brings access to a day full of amazing speakers, great perspectives and advice in an intimate environment where speakers are approachable. The goal of the conference is to assist attendees by bringing them essential business startup tips, advice and knowledge from a super-cast of successful founders, developers and entrepreneurs. The focus of the conference is taking a "no nonsense" approach to building a business that can flourish by leveraging technology and the Web.
The conference will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in Kasbeer Hall at Loyola University's Water Tower Campus in Chicago. Thiers' panel will begin at 2:25 p.m.
About Sittercity.com
Sittercity.com®, the inventor of online caregiving, is America's most trustworthy source for child care, pet care, senior care, housekeepers and tutors, dedicated to making the process of finding a caregiver fast, easy, safe and fun. With access to hundreds of thousands of sitters nationwide, families and individuals can find a wealth of qualified caregivers in their area by using Sittercity's four-step screening process, which includes references, parent-to-parent feedback, personal interviews and free access to background checks. Registration for sitters is free, and care seekers pay as little as $8 per month for a membership, which gives them unlimited ability to post jobs, and search, contact and hire sitters in their areas. A true pioneer in its field, Sittercity.com has been featured by hundreds of media outlets, from the Today Show to the Big Idea with Donny Deutsch to the Wall Street Journal. Sittercity won first place in the 2007 UPS Small Business "Out of the Box" contest as well as a 2007 International Davey Award. Sittercity also won the U.S. Small Business Administration Champion Award in 2006 from President Bush, a 2006 Stevie award, received a Webby Worthy Award in 2005 and won the 2005 Women's Business Development Center Rising Star Award. For more information, visit the company Web site at www.sittercity.com.
