Registration
Anyone interested in attending should register their interest here.
Please note: due to the sheer number of bookings we’ve moved the venue to the Clore Lecture Theatre.
Overview
We are currently witnessing the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ that is fundamentally changing the way we live, work, and relate to one another. We already have billions of people connected by mobile phones and the Internet, giving rise to unprecedented connectivity, knowledge and data processing power. This revolution is already transforming societies and the global economy with disruptions like Facebook and Airbnb already here and more to come soon with breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics, Internet of Things (IoT), autonomous vehicles, and quantum computing.
Studying computer science can empower young people, making them both the creators and great beneficiaries of the future, but it is a stark reality that the UK currently has the lowest percentage of female computer engineering professionals in Europe. This is deeply concerning, as this new technology could have a disproportionately greater negative impact on women concerning jobs in particular.Attention is needed urgently, now.
Taking place on International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) on the 23 June, Women in Computer Science will address how knowledge of computing plays a major role in our future, how studying computing may empower young people, and how the pressing issues gender gap presents to society needs to be tackled.
Speakers and Panel Members
Introduction: Prof Maja Pantic, Affective & Behavioural Computing, Imperial College London
Chair: Saadia Zahidi, Head of Education, Gender and Work, World Economic Forum
Dame Wendy Tan, General Partner, Entrepreneur First, Co-Founder and CEO, Moonfruit, Board Trustee Alan Turing Institute
Professor Sharon Goldwater, University of Edinburgh School of Informatics, BCS Roger Needham Award 2016
Dr Sabine Hauert, Lecturer in Robotics, University of Bristol, President & Co-founder, Robohub
Dr Holly Cummins, IBM Bluemix Garage London, Technical Lead
Maxine Mackintosh, Co-founder and Director, One HealthTech, Data Science PhD student, UCL
The panel discussion will run from 18.00 to 20.30 on National Women in Engineering Day (NWED) on 23 June, at Computing Department (LT311), Imperial College London.
Registration
Anyone interested in attending should register their interest here.