Programme

08:00 – Registration

09:00 – Welcome from WISE

Dr Laura Norton, IET Head of EDI and WISE Managing Director

09:15 – Keynote: What’s stopping you?

Professor Dame Athene Donald DBE, FRS, Professor Emerita of Experimental Physics, University of Cambridge

09:45 – Q&A: Questions from the audience, chaired by Laura Norton

10:00 – How can WISE help get more women into STEM?

Dr Laura Norton, IET Head of EDI and WISE Managing Director

10:25 – Interactive panel discussion: How do we increase the number of women in STEM by 2030?

11:15 – Comfort break (refreshments severed in rooms)

11:30 – Interactive breakout sessions

Led by WISE, STEPS, MegaWatt, the WISE Young Professionals’ Board, and the IET

12:30 – Networking lunch and exhibition

14:00 – Flash talk series and Q&A: No time to dither anymore: turning outreach on its head

Elena Rodriguez-Falcon, Study Group

  • Becky Kalam, Playground Games – The importance of inclusion and accessibility in games and technology
  • Elena Rodriguez-Falcon, Study Group – No time to dither anymore: turning outreach on its head
  • Paul Williams, Bloomberg – Activating Agency
     

15:30 – Comfort break

15:45 – Interactive breakout sessions

Led by WISE, STEPS, MegaWatt, the WISE Young Professionals’ Board, and the IET

17:00 – Close of sessions, followed by networking drinks reception and exhibition

18:00 – Close of conference

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