Actress Olivia Munn to Speak at First Power Women Breakfast in San Francisco

Olivia Munn will be a featured speaker at the first Power Women Breakfast in San Francisco, TheWrap was proud to announce on Thursday.

The “Mortdecai” star is one of the fastest-rising actresses in Hollywood, an avid investor in technology and a published author.

Munn will also be joined at the event on Friday, May 8, by speakers Kara Swisher, co-CEO and co-owner of Revere Digital and Ruth Vitale, Executive Director of CreativeFuture.

The breakfast will be hosted by TheWrap’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief, Sharon Waxman, and Senior Vice President of Industry Alliances of Box and Founder of Box.org, Karen Appleton. The event is sponsored by Box and CreativeFuture, with media partner Bay Area Women in Film.

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TheWrap is expanding its successful Power Women Breakfast franchise in 2015 to two new cities, San Francisco and New York, allowing leading influential women of entertainment, media, technology and brands in key cities to create, gather, network and connect. The franchise is building a broad network and community of professional women who are decision-makers and mothers, leaders and wives, innovators and activists.

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Past speakers at the Los Angeles breakfast include: Salma Hayek, actress and philanthropist, Nancy Tellem, former entertainment and digital media president of Microsoft, Arwa Damon, CNN Senior International Correspondent, Gail Berman, co-owner and founding partner of The Jackal Group, and Kamala Harris, California Attorney General.

For more information about the Power Women Breakfast franchise and TheWrap events, contact Haley Davis at Haley.Davis@thewrap.com or (424) 248 0662.

Watch video below of past Power Women Breakfasts.

The Scene at TheWrap's Power Women Breakfast 2014 (Photos)

Special guest Salma Hayek spoke about her activism to prevent domestic violence.
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Sharon Waxman, TheWrap Editor in Chief, welcomed guests to the event and interviewed speakers.
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All proceeds from the silent auction went to the International Women Media Foundation, which supports brave women journalists around the world
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Ferragamo donated a black leather handbag to the charity auction to raise funds for the IWMF
CNN Foreign Correspondent and Courage Winner Arwa Damon spoke about her experience reporting from the Middle East.
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Gail Berman, Chairman and CEO of The Jackal Group, was the keynote speaker.
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Guests were treated to breakfast from The Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills before the speakers hit the stage.
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Old friends meet at the breakfast - producer Paula Wagner, Gail Berman, Sharon Waxman, Janet Janjigian
Jon Borland of Ferragamo with Sharon Waxman
Hayek told stories of her mischievous years at a Catholic boarding school.
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Hayek got her start on a Mexican telenovela before moving to America to pursue an acting career.
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The crowd applauded after hearing stories from the speakers at the breakfast, including Jill Calcaterra, marketing chief at Cinedigm
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The 2014 Power Women's Breakfast brings together some of the most powerful women in entertainment, politics, media and business.
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Abigal Spencer introduced CNN's Arwa Damon
Arwa Damon told moving stories about helping a young boy who had been brutally burned in Iraq
The audience was riveted by the speakers' stories
Fox news anchor Christine Devine in the audience
Actress and Women in Film board member Sharon Lawrence
Kathy Connell, Screen Actors Guild Awards Executive Producer and Executive Producer of Awards and National Programming for SAG-AFTRA, listens to the keynote interview
Abigail Spencer
Management consultant Beth Gulas
An auction winner enthuses over her buy of a wine-tasting event
Armani's Wanda McDaniel talks to Waxman after the event
TheWrap Editor in Chief Sharon Waxman welcomes actresses Abigail Spencer and Sharon Lawrence.
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