Innovation and Gender Equality in Businesses - Foundation Office Greece and Cyprus
Workshop
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With what tools can we identify and bridge the pay gap?
How can we attract and retain women in industrial jobs and other traditionally male-dominated professions?
What solutions can facilitate the reconciliation of employees' professional and personal lives?
How can we change old working cultures and eradicate gender bias more effective within a business?
Can we find new ways to prevent and deal with sexual harassment and cyberbullying?
Can technology help eliminate the unconscious bias that often impedes the recruitment and promotion of capable women?
How do we invent modern alternatives to the quota for equal representation?
By what means can we calculate the profit or loss of a business from the promotion or absence of equality and inclusion?
Want to work on some innovative idea that can answer one or more of the above questions?
Do you want to work with people in technology, HR, design, communication and business management to develop sustainable solutions and tools that can make the business environment a more equitable work environment?
The join us in the Design Jam “Innovation and Gender Equality in Businesses”
Program
Friday 21 February 2020
17.00h Registrations and welcoming coffee
17.30h Welcoming Remarks
Maria Syrengela, General Secretariat for Family Policy and Gender Equality
Henri Bohnet, Director, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Greece and Cyprus
Stella Kasdagli and Pinelopi Theodorakakou, Co – Founders, Women on Top
18.00h Keynote
Christos Dimas, Deputy Minister for Research and Technology
18.15h Panel discussion on the challenges that businesses face in their quest
for equality & inclusion in the workplace
Corporation’s Representatives
19.00h Review Design Jam Agenda and Round of Pitches
Janina Sundermeier, Assistant Professor of Digital Entrepreneurship and Diversity | Founder of Digital Entrepreneurship Hub & WoMenventures
19.30h Voting on Preferred ideas and formalizing Teams
20:30h Cheese and Wine and Networking
Samstag 22 Febuar 2020
9:00h Breakfast and Teams space allocations
Idea Building and Refining
Janina Sundermeier, Assistant Professor of Digital Entrepreneurship and Diversity | Founder of Digital Entrepreneurship Hub & WoMenventures
13.00h Lunch
14.00h – 18.00h Sessions with Mentors | Design thinking and Prototype Testing
18.00h Coffee break
18.30h Final pitches & Award announcement
19.30h Closing remarks
20.00h Dinner with Start Uppers from the Greek scene
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