Gender Profitability

Ever wondered about the relationship between gender diversity and the financial performance of organisations?🤔 Ever considered instruments that can help organisations measure and monitor gender equity, gender-equity-based results, and have a frank and constructive conversation on gender? Business models rarely incorporate considerations towards gender equity or fairness. 👩👨

Join us as we dive into the topic, and have a look at some relevant concepts, facts, and figures, while also hearing valuable opinions from business owners, industry executives, researchers, and civic actors focusing on the issue. 💡

🏢 This meetup is organised together with Transilvania IT Cluster.

Panelist:

• GINA LUPU - Founder and CEO of Wolfpack Digital. Gina is the founder and CEO of Wolfpack Digital, an award-winning web and mobile design and development company that reached Gender Parity. She also co-founded the Women in Tech Cluj community and she is part of the Board of Directors of the Transilvania IT Cluster.
• ANDRA TĂNASE - Green and Digital Strategist @Transilvania IT Cluster
  Currently serving as Green and Digital Strategist and Senior Project Manager at Transilvania IT Cluster. Andra works on strategic program design, capacity building, policy design, and input as well organisational development from the perspective of collaborative leadership. Whether she engages in facilitating an Innovation Camp, the development of a Digital Twin which focuses on Net Zero standards, gender sensitivity guidelines, or a digital maturity assessment in a company, her passion is to create environments of excellence, personal, organisational, and societal strategic and systemic learning, and development.
• ELENA-MANUELA BÎRSĂNUC - Associate Professor BBU Cluj-
  Napoca. With her doctoral studies focused on Feminist Geography, Manuela later focused her research activity on the link between local development and gender inequalities. Currently, she combines spatial analysis with the analysis of gender inequalities in international projects and didactic activity, and looks with enthusiasm at the possibilities of contributing to the understanding and combating of gender inequalities, including in the business and tech fields.
• OANA RAITA - Researcher INCDTIM, Director TREC, President Smart Transilvania. Oana is a scientific researcher at INCDTIM (National Research and Development Institute for Isotopic and Molecular Technologies), executive director of the Transylvania Energy Cluster, and president of the Smart Transilvania Association, which represents the interests of the clusters in Northern Transylvania. Oana is involved in research projects, contributing to discoveries and innovations that have a significant impact on the scientific and technological field. Through her work, Oana aims to transform cities and communities in Transylvania into more connected, sustainable, and innovative places.
• ALIS COSTESCU - Project Manager la PATRIR (Peace Action Training and Research Institute of Romania) - Alis is an activist and practitioner with policy, research and awareness-raising expertise in human rights, gender equality, and democracy. As an MA and PhD student at Babeș-Bolyai University, she was involved in research and activist projects focused on the socio-economic inclusion of vulnerable groups, seminars, and workshops for raising awareness on racial and gender discrimination.
  For more than 10 years she has worked in the nongovernmental sector, developing and implementing projects and programs addressing institutionalized discrimination, active citizenship, democracy consolidation, political participation, collective memory, freedom of expression, rights, and inclusion of migrants and refugees.