A star-studded line-up will lead this year’s new-look Grand Women’s Summit.
Dame Sarah Storey, Olympic medallist Sam Quek and ITV Racing’s Alice Plunkett are set to join the panel for its third year at the Grand National’s Ladies Day.
JLT, the new sponsors of the event at Aintree Racecourse, will also be represented on the panel by its UK marketing director Ellie Mickleburgh.
BBC Breakfast’s Sally Nugent, who will host the event, said: “I’ve been coming to Aintree Racecourse since I was a child, so I am delighted to be involved in the Grand Women’s Summit.
“It’s important to encourage more women to play their part in sport at every level.
“From supporting to competing to running the show. I’m really looking forward to it.”
Hailed a huge success since its original event in 2015, the Grand Women’s Summit will celebrate women in horseracing, sport and business and provide guests with an informative educational, career and networking opportunity.
Sam, Ellie and Alice will discuss ways to get more young people into sport and physical exercise and debate various aspects of gender balance and diversity in sport and business from participation to corporate and board level.
Following the panel discussion in the O’Sullevan facility, overlooking Aintree’s world famous Parade Ring, delegates will also be treated to an exclusive walk around the iconic Grand National course.
Irish Grand National winning jockey Katie Walsh, former Grand National jockey Carrie Ford and 1990 Grand National winning trainer Kim Bailey will all take part in the course-walk.
Additionally, Aintree and Women in Racing will also be adding a champagne lunch and networking event in Paddock Lodge before the day’s racing starts.
Tickets for the 2017 Grand Women Summit on Friday, April 7 will be priced at £89 and can be bought through randoxhealthgrandnational.co.uk or by calling 0344 579 3001.
A ticket includes a Lord Sefton Terrace ticket for Ladies Day, a private facility in the Paddock Lodge after the panel discussion in O’Sullevans, a Grand National course walk by Katie Walsh, Carrie Ford and Kim Bailey, a champagne lunch and the Grand Women Summit.