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The School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE) of the University of Essex in UK holds a Bronze Athena Swan chapter award, expressing the institution's commitment to support gender equality in STEMM careers (science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine). The Athena Swan Charter was created in the UK and has spread globally as a framework to support and transform gender equality within higher education and research.

In a project financed by the British Council, professionals from the School of CSEE of the University of Essex are sharing their experiences in promoting gender equality in order to facilitate the development of knowledge and policy to support women’s career progression and development at the Computer Science (CS) groups of two Brazilian partners: ITA and UNIFESP.

A first joint workshop in May 2022 presented and discussed experiences related to "Women in Computer Science" careers in the UK and Brazil. This second workshop will broaden the audience and is collocated with the I International Conference on Women in STEAM, on 21 and 22 of October, 2022. The professionals will expose their professional careers and their experiences in initiatives related to fostering Women in computer science and engineering. Similar projects financed by the British Council will also be presented.

We have 100 spots for the second workshop and invite interested public to subscribe themselves at the following link until September 30th, 2022:

Program

• 10/21/22 - 9:30 to 17:30
  • 09:30 to 10:00 Coffee
  • 10:00 to 10:30 Reception and registration
  • 11:30 to 12:30 "Painel female leadership", with the participation of Prof Maria Fasli, University of Essex
  • 12:30 to 14:00 Lunch time
  • 14:00 to 15:30 - Session 1
    • Openning: Prof Ana Carolina Lorena, ITA 14h00 - 14h30: "A discussion on female participation in CS"
    • Talk: Prof Letícia Rittner, UNICAMP 14h30 - 15h00: "Unbiased AI starts with unbiased teams
    • Talk: Prof Paula Dornhofer Paro Costa, UNICAMP 15h00 - 15h30: "Shifting focus from Women to Children: 30 years living the lack of Women in STEAM"
  • 15:30 to 16:00 Coffee break
  • 16:00 to 17:30 - Session 2
    • Talk: Prof Lilian Berton, UNIFESP 16h00 - 16h30: "Female achievements in STEM in Brazil"
    • Talk: Prof Emilia Colonese, ITA 16h30 - 17h00
    • Talk: Prof Ana Matran-Fernandez, University of Essex 17h00 - 17h30: "Supporting women’s careers: building the WCSEE group"


• 10/22/22 - 09:30 to 16:00
  • 09:30 to 10:00 Coffee
  • 10:00 to 12:30 - Session 3
    • Talk: Prof Flávia Noronha Dutra Ribeiro, USP 10h00 - 10h30: "The emergence of the discussion on equity in universities: my experience at EACH-USP"
    • Talk: Prof Camila de Toledo Castanho, UNIFESP 10h30 - 11h00: "Female representation among UNIFESP staff"
    • Talk: Prof Renata Wassermann, USP 11h00 - 11h30
    • Talk: Eng Paula Borges Olivio Cerdeira, EMBRAER 11h30 - 12h00: "AI in Future Flying"
    • Talk: Prof Caterina Cinel, University of Essex 12h00 - 12h30: "Towards a culture of women in STEM"
  • 12:30 to 14:00 Lunch time
  • 14:00 to 15:30 Discussions about the Athena Swan projects
  • 15:30 to 16:00 Coffee

Women in STEM initiatives At UoE, ITA and UNIFESP

• Women in CSEE
• Mulheres em STEM²D ITA
• Mulheres nas Exatas
• Videos from the previous edition of the Workshop Women in Computer Science:
  • Prof Ana Carolina Lorena (ITA): Female participation in Computer Science at ITA and UNIFESP
  • Prof Lilian Berton (UNIFESP): project Women in STEM UNIFESP
  • Prof Ana Carolina Lorena and Eng. Mariana Tarifa (STEM2D-ITA): project Women in STEM2D ITA
  • Prof Ana Mattran (University of Essex): Living the dream? My life as a woman in Computer Science
  • Prof Maria Fasli (University of Essex): carving your career path in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
  • Prof Flavia Santoro (Inteli): Introduction to Inteli education model

Local

• Parque Tecnológico
  
  • Estrada Dr. Altino Bondensan, 500, Eugênio de Melo, São José dos Campos - SP, Brasil, 12247-016.

Contact

• Tel: +55 12 3947 5896 (com Thaís Ramim)
• Whatsapp: +55 12 99700-6180
• Email: wcomp@ita.br

Organization

Professor Fasli, a computer scientist with a background in artificial intelligence, data science and big data, is Executive Director of the Faculty of Science and Health at the University of Essex in the UK and UNESCO Chair in Analytics and Data Science (with support from the ITA). In 2014, she founded the Institute for Analytics and Data Science in Essex, and in 2020, she was included in the top ten female data science leaders list by leading science and technology website Siliconrepublic.com.

Professor Ana Carolina Lorena is a computer scientist with specialization in artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science. Since 2018, she has been an Associate Professor at the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, in the Computer Science Division (IEC). She has an h-factor of 24 in the Scopus database and 31 in the Google Academics platform, is CNPq productivity grantee and author of 54 journal articles. She is co-author of the book "Artificial Intelligence: a Machine Learning approach" (in Portuguese), winner of the 2012 Jabuti award in the Technology and Informatics category.

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