Workshop 2

Thursday April 22, 09:00 – 11:00

The road towards a more diverse post-covid era: challenges and opportunities

This event is organized as a workshop in the format of a panel session, and aims to discuss and promote diversity and inclusion in the research community in the post-covid era. The speakers will talk about the challenges and opportunities regarding diversity in research. In particular, they will discuss the effects of COVID-19 on the policies employed to promote diversity in the industry and academia.
The workshop aims at answering and the discussion will be driven by the following questions:

  • How will COVID-19 impact the future career and diversity?
  • Which are the policies to guarantee diversity in the industry and research community and how will they change after COVID-19?
  • Did COVID-19 affect only negatively or did it also bring opportunities to women in research?
  • Are new roads and different perspectives envisioned/opened/included?

This event is open and free of charge for everybody. Interested attendees not registered to the conference must register here (“Workshop 2 – Women in Engineering (Wie) event” option).

Click here to download the full program of the workshop.

Workshop chair

Michela Svaluto Moreolo,
Centre Tecnològic de
Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC),
Spain

Workshop presentations

9:00 Workshop opening
Michela Svaluto Moreolo, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain; Ligia Moreira Zorello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy 

9:05 Introduction to WIE
Dajana Cassioli, WIE AG Italy Section, Università degli Studi dell’Aquila

9:10 An OFC for the History Books: the final weeks leading up to OFC 2020
Jun Shan Wey, ZTE TX, USA

9:40 Exploring opportunities for change in research and education
Fatima Gunning, Tyndall National Institute & University College Cork, Ireland

10:00 StrongHer, the Nokia women community for facing difficulties together and paving the way to new opportunities
Annalisa Morea, Nokia, Italy

10:20 Is the Digital Transformation accelerating or is it just a temporary crutch?
Roberto Saracco, IEEE FDC Chair Industry Advisory Board / co-Chair Digital Reality, Italy

10:40 Panel
Co-Chaired by Michela Svaluto Moreolo, Ligia Moreira Zorello 

10:55 Closing 

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