Name: Celebrating International Women's Day 2021 #ChooseToChallenge
Start: 2021-03-15T18:45:00+01:00
End: 2021-03-15T20:45:00+01:00

*REMOTE: The event will happen via zoom and the link will only be visible to people who RSVP here on meetup. If no spots are left on meetup, sign up here: https://www.linkedin.com/events/6773220915451838464/
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A challenged world is an alert world and from challenge comes change.
So let's all choose to challenge.

How will you help forge a gender equal world?

Let's celebrate women's achievement, raise awareness against bias and take action for equality. Join moinworld's meetup and be part of an inspiring evening with thought-provoking talks.

Discover more about moinworld: https://moinworld.de/en/ and be part of our community.

Are you interested in developing your career? Starting a career in tech / IT? Are you passionate about helping others to grow? Join our mentoring program as a mentor or mentee: https://moinworld.de/en/mentoring/

⏰ Agenda:
▶ 18:45 Moin and welcome by Anja Schumann, moinworld founder

▶ 19:00 Talk #1 by Oyidiya Oji: Discover how unconscious bias affects us as women

Oyidiya is a former international athlete and a fresh data scientist from Barcelona. She is passionate about data and her curiosity made her discover that tech products are not yet made for everyone. She loves giving awareness about this and other issues as well as empowering tech leaders and users to fight for change in the tech industry.

▶ 19:20 Talk #2 by Barbara Surmanowicz: Empathic leadership for healthy and high performing teams

Barbara found her passion to understand IT, leadership and business models from various perspectives and she is combining them to create innovative solutions. Currently she is working as Senior BI Product Manager at New Work SE, where she builds up centralized data solutions to gather insights on B2B and B2B customers of the corporation.

▶ 19:40 Talk #3 by Naomi Ceder: Confessions of a true impostor

Naomi earned a Ph.D in Classics several decades ago, but switched from ancient human languages to computer languages sometime in the last century. Since 2001, she has been learning, teaching, writing about, and using Python.

An elected fellow of the Python Software Foundation, Naomi is the immediate past chair of its board of directors. She also speaks internationally about the Python community, and on inclusion and diversity in technology in general.

By day she leads a team of Python programmers for Dick Blick Art Materials, and in her spare time she enjoys sketching, knitting, and deep philosophical conversations with her dog.

▶ 20:00 Talk #4 by Tebogo Mazibuko: Digital ethics - It's everyone's business

Director: International Business, Compliance & Law at valvisio international AG, a management and strategy consulting firm headquartered in Nürnberg.
Living in Germany for ca. 2,5 years, having successfully completed a MBA (International Management) degree at Munich Business School and bestowed an academic award in 2020.

Tebogo is a multi-lingual South African citizen, professionally with more than 10 years’ work experience in corporate (South African and multinational), social organisations & the South African state. Describing herself as a student of life for life and passionate also about matters pertaining to diversity, inclusion, cross-cultural discourse and the impact of increased digitisation on these.

▶ 20:20 Talk #5 by Isabel Henschen: Creating a world without sexual & domestic violence through tech

Isabel is the founder and CEO of Lou&You, an impact startup based in Berlin that applies digital technology to problems concerning sexual and domestic violence. Her mission is to help anyone affected find support, increase reporting rates and sustainably decrease gender-based violence globally. When Isabel is not fighting for women’s rights, the art historian reads up on anything contemporary art and the art market.

Discover more about Lou&You here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y06LGU5Qz1A
Trigger warning: sexual & domestic violence

▶ 20:40 Closing

▶ 20:45 Thank you and see you soon 👋

Anja Schumann

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*REMOTE: The event will happen via zoom and the link will only be visible to people who RSVP here on meetup. If no spots are left on meetup, sign up here: https://www.linkedin.com/events/6773220915451838464/

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