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Today’s international conference officially inaugurates the 2015 edition of Pink Cloud. The programme then continues with a guided tour of the Milan Expo.
The Fondazione Mondo Digitale, an initiative partner, is in Milan with 2600 female students from 8 Italian regions and 12 countries (Austria, Greece, England, Germany, Holland, Japan, Latvia, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey and Vietnam) [see news: Tomorrow’s Pink Expo].
May 19, 2015
Opening Event | Technology: Mind Food
10.30 am – Teatro Carcano
Corso di Porta Romana, 63 – Milan
Our lives have become digitally enhanced. This has generated opportunities, wellbeing and development. However, during the development of digital culture, the gender gap has continued to weigh on equal opportunities, women and their ability to enjoy a full professional opportunity and provide greater value to society in general.
The Pink Cloud opening event intends to demonstrate, via short and concrete experiences, how technology can inspire new ideas and promote innovative projects that will help young women grow and become tomorrow’s professionals.
The meeting will present international guests and the stories of young women who have faced extraordinary challenges, the experiences of women who are scientists, entrepreneurs and managers. These are stories that united women and technology, which connect our mind to our heart, and show how digital reality can improve gender equality in industry, economics, politics and an active social life in general.
After the welcome by Roberta Cocco, National Plan Director Western Europe Microsoft, and the various institutional greetings, speeches will be held by:
- Bernadette Andrietti, Vice President, Sales and Marketing Group Director, Europe, Middle East and Africa Marketing, Intel
- Enrica Arena, Co-fondatrice di Orange Fiber
- Sonia Bahri, Chief at UNESCO’s Science Policy and Capacity-Building
- Jennifer Breslin, Knowledge, Innovation and Technology for Development Coordinator, United Nations Women
- Silvia Grassi Damiani, Vice Presidente del Gruppo Damiani
- Rana Dajani, Associate Professor Molecular Cell Biology Visiting Professor Cell Therapy Center, University of Jordan Biology Department, Hashemite University (via Skype)
- Toni Townes-Whitley, Vice President Public Sector Microsoft Corporation
- Francesca Fedeli, founder at fightthestroke.org
- Sarah Parkes, Chief, Media & Public Information, International Telecommunication Union
- Caroline Petit, Deputy Director United Nations Regional Information Centre
- Anna Puccio, Segretario Generale Fondazione Italiana Accenture
- Monique Shivanandan, Chief Information Officer and a member of the Group Executive, Aviva
- Suzanne Williams, VP Sales Support, Healthcare, Avanade
