Seminar: Sustainable Development Goal #5: Gender Equality through Technology (København)

The SDGs are a collection of 17 global goals that are a call to action from the member countries of the United Nations for a more equitable and sustainable world. Women’s empowerment and gender equality are essential to achieving the SDGs. This is reinforced by the fact that issues and targets around gender equality are reflected throughout the agenda in addition to there being a specific goal — SDG#5— on gender equality. SDG#5 on gender specifically  includes a target on women’s use of enabling technology, as a means of implementing the goal.

This meet-up will have a focus of highlighting the direct link between women and technology for achieving SDG #5, with the aim to inspire companies and leaders to contribute to SDGS#5. 

No matter how large or small, and regardless of their industry, all companies can contribute to the SDGs.There are huge business opportunities inherent in tackling the world’s toughest problems, but so far only a handful of companies have shown they understand that. 

These few leaders stand to benefit from recognizing the SDGs and gender equality as a powerful catalyst for the innovation, partnerships and market transformations that build businesses.

Host and speakers

Speaker, Pernille Erenbjerg, CEO and President, TDC –Pernille holds a Master of Science in Business Economics and Auditing from Copenhagen Business School. Since joining the TDC Group in 2003, Pernille has held multiple leadership positions which led her to become Group CFO and join the Executive Committee in 2011. In 2015 she accepted the role as new Group CEO. Pernille is a member of Gender Diversity Roundtable Denmark.

Speaker, Camilla Hillerup, HR Director, Microsoft Denmark – Camilla Hillerup is the HR Lead since 2016  at Microsoft. Previously she was the HR Manager of KPMG from and  former lawyer in Denmark’s leading law firm for employment law; Norrbom Vinding. She has extensive experience in legal HR combined with a strategic insight into Human Resources.

Speaker, Caroline Rusten, UN Women – Ms. Caroline Rusten takes up the role as Director (a.i) of the UN Women Nordic Office in Copenhagen on 1 September 2018. She has been in UN Women since May 2015 as Chief Humanitarian in New York with responsibility of UN Women’s normative and coordination work within the humanitarian sector and well as on how innovation and technology can be used to address the disproportionate impact of crises on women and girls

Moderator, Laura Vilsbæk is a self-employed digital consultant and a member of 3 professional boards and 2 advisory boards, working to bring digital transformation to Danish SMEs. She is also a member of Bestyrelseskvinder, an organisation committed to bringing more women into the board rooms of Danish SMEs.

Your host, Ivana Audia is a Copenhagen based food tech entrepreneur and a technical expert. Selected as an UNLEASH 2018 talent,  she is engaged in energy-related policy issues such as global climate change and sustainable development. Engineer and economist by training, she is a board member of Women in Tech DK and currently working at the partnership between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Intrigued by inspiring startup and growth stories, she is constantly aiming to learn from charismatic leaders and passionate innovators.

Co-hosted by Signe Hjorth Hansen and Lucy Ellen Gregersen.

Tilmelding

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