The Advantages Derived from Female Presence in Working Realities
Friday September 20th, 9:00 – 10:30 (during IEEE RTSI 2024)
Panel with IEEE WIE AG international
Resp. Efthymia Koutsiana Arvaniti, Dajana Cassioli, Patrizia Lamberti
The IEEE Italy Section Women in Engineering Affinity Group organizes panel session “The advantages derived from female presence in working realities” on Friday September 20th 2024 (from 9:00 up to 10:30 am) at Politecnico di Milano – Polo territoriale di Lecco – Building 10, Via Ghislanzoni, 22 – Lecco (LC).
The panel is focused in the presentation of direct experiences with respect to the socio-economic advantages derived from the presence of women in the working reality. International and national experiences will be referred by four speakers coming from different working realities. A final debate will be used to share the best practices and to define the strategy aiming to cover the knowledge gap with respect to the topic.
The panel will be held within the IEEE RTSI 2024 – 8th International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry that is planned for September 18-20, 2024.
The RTSI forum has been the flagship conference of the IEEE Italy Section for 6 years (History). In 2021 R8 approved to make this conference a R8 portfolio conference because of its industry focus.
The main objective of RTSI is to bring together researchers and industry professionals in the technical fields covered by IEEE in order to:
- promote and strengthen partnerships and cooperation between academia and industry;
- increase understanding and awareness of how engineering and technology can have a positive impact on quality of life;
- promote discussion between the research community and government agencies on effective and successful research policies;
- disseminate the latest progress, discoveries and innovative applications;
- promote cooperation between researchers working in different fields of research.
9:00 – 9:05 – Welcome and opening session
Patrizia LAMBERTI, WIE AG IEEE Italy Section Chair, University of Salerno, Italy
Gianbattista GRUOSSO, Conference General Chair, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy
Efthymia Koutsiana ARVANITI, WIE Region 8, HILTI- Liechtenstein and Switzerland Global IT Project Manager
09:05 – 09:10 – IEEE WIE Region 8 Activities presentation
Efthymia Koutsiana ARVANITI, WIE International
09:10 – 09:15 – IEEE Diversity and inclusion activities presentation
Dajana CASSIOLI, IEEE Italy Section Diversity Equity and Inclusion Activities Coordinator
09:15 – 09:20 – Commitment chart 3.0 by WIE AG
Patrizia LAMBERTI, WIE AG IEEE Italy Section Chair
09:20 – 09:35 – My experience as a female in academia and as a Swiss government employ
Maria-Alexandra Paun, Telecommunication Engineer
09:35 – 09:50 – My experience as founder of a private-based small company
Immacolata TORTORA, CEO of ATE-Automazione srl
09:50 – 10:05 – The Sew-Eurodrive experience
Luisa Apicella, Application Engineering Consultant
10:05 – 10:20 – The Emerson experience
10:20 – 10:30 – Discussion and conclusions