International Women’s Day 2023 Activities

One of the many dates throughout each year is International Women’s Day or should I really refer to it as International Women’s Week or even month?

There are so many events and activities set to celebrate the recognition of women not only here in the UK but across the world.  What I like is that we not only recognize the good things women have and are achieving but we take the time to give attention to those areas in our global society where girls and women are still not benefiting from equality, fairness, respect, or opportunities just because of the gender they happen to be born into.

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My activities this year include some listed below and many others that I will be attending.

International Women’s Day 2023 Panel

Exploring Issues of Equality within STEM – Facilitated by Sandra Pollock OBE

On 6th March 2023 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm I will be host a panel discusson on behalf of Inclusive Companies

This year the focus for International Women’s Day is to explore the impact of the digital gap on widening economic and social inequalities.  In this webinar we talk with women who have made their career in the area of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) to learn about their career journey and experiences as they’ve faced the gaps and issues for women in these fields. We also explore what they think organisations can do to improve equality for women in STEM fields.

I will be joined by panalists:

Suzanne Davies

Suzanne Davies is a Consultant at Lux Research, an emerging technology research and advisory firm. In this role, Suzanne delivers bespoke client projects related to technology scouting, technology partnership recommendations, and options to commercialize new technologies in agrifood and consumer packaged goods.

Prior to joining Lux, Suzanne worked at PepsiCo International for more than 6 years in R&D across both long-term research and commercial new product development. At PepsiCo, she was an R&D Scientist and led projects focused on technical unlocks for new business, alternative ingredients, and low-fat technology solutions in the snacks category. Prior to this, Suzanne was R&D lead for Future Brands, an incubator focused on rapid commercialization of new-to-PepsiCo technologies. Suzanne also founded and co-led a team of 80 ambassadors across the PepsiCo U.K. STEM initiative, which in 2019 showcased to 10,000 students STEM opportunities within the food industry. She holds an M.Phil. in Food Science and Engineering and a B.Sc. in Food Science and Nutrition, both from the University of Nottingham.

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Dr Rashada Harry

Rashada Harry is recognised as one of the UK’s Top 100 Ethnic Minority Leaders (Empower and Yahoo, June 2019).

Rashada is known in particular for her thoughts on diversity in the workplace, employee engagement and helping the next generation of talent reach their potential.

Rashada is an enterprise technologist at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the UK as well as being a STEM ambassador and volunteer charity worker, having dedicated her time to projects in both Europe and Africa. Prior to AWS, she spent nine years with Cisco, joining them as the only black female on their highly competitive Europe-wide sales academy programme, where she realised that there was a need for more diverse talent in the technology industry.

She co-founded and launched the award-winning Your Future, Your Ambition STEM initiative in 2012 to help organisations and students connect and to help bridge the diversity gap. Over 6,000 students are involved to date.

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