Join us for the finale of the Nordic Women in Tech and Innovation Fall 2020 series connecting the Nordics and Silicon Valley!

You are warmly welcome to join us for the Nordic Women in Tech and Innovation online seminar. We will bring together an exciting panel consisting of Nordic women of Silicon Valley, featured with inspiring keynotes.

This event offers a great opportunity to connect and grow network with likeminded attendees!

AGENDA

AI for Gender Equality Hackathon: We will hear summary and findings from an initiative launched by Vinnova, Nordic Innovation House-Silicon Valley together with AI Sweden and Women in AI. Through an interactive and engagement sprint over a week, we will build a community generating ideas, designing solutions, and creating future businesses around the 6 specific challenges.

Silicon Valley perspective: what Silicon Valley and USA can learn about Nordic innovation policy models, and leadership to better serve women, families and children. Robert Strand, UC Berkley, Sustainability Professor; Executive Director at Berkeley-Haas Center for Responsible Business

PANEL DISCUSSION

Nordic female founders and technology leaders discussing about their learnings and experiences in technology field, sharing their insight and advices.

Stay tuned as we confirm further speakers and panelists, register now!

How can you leverage diversity as and advantage and make a difference when investing and engaging in startups?

Join us for an in depth conversation and learn from Carol Sands, Kristin Odfjell and Johan Odfjell, impactful investors and thought leaders in the Silicon Valley and Nordic ecosystems.

Hear what are their most important learning experiences, tips and tricks for how to make a difference, how to leverage diversity as an advantage, or simply how to secure financial return through investing and engaging in tech startups. And what are their ambitions and strategies for future impact in the field.

The discussion will be lead and moderated by Gro Eirin Dyrnes, Regional Director of Innovation Norway, Americas.

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Nordic Women in Tech and Innovation #NWTI2020

Nordic Innovation House-Silicon Valley has for the past years hosted several initiatives to support inclusion and equality in tech and innovation. This fall our NWIT2020 program includes a series of online events supporting women in getting engaged in the entrepreneurial, business and investment ecosystems. We will give insight and tools for individuals, leaders, and policymakers for driving gender equality in tech and innovation.

Visit our NWTI website and sign up for updates.

About this Event

Within the area of AI, gender related topics have mostly focused on the underrepresentation of women in the field of AI and gender-related bias related to AI-systems.

The focus of the project AI for gender equality, however, is to explore how AI can be applied in order to increase gender equality. Our main speaker Sophia Ivarsson will present the background and results from this project and invite project leaders from the AI for gender equality portfolio to present their work.

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Diversity & Inclusion are on the agenda for many organizations. How do you make most impact with limited resources?

About this Event

Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) programs, and perhaps most prominently those addressing gender inequality, are gaining more attention in high tech. While larger companies, such as Google, NVIDIA or Qualcomm, offer attractive programs ranging from employee groups to childcare and fertility treatments, smaller companies with less resources often find it hard to address gender inequality in meaningful ways.

The semiconductor industry is notorious for its lack of gender representation: While roughly one fifth of its employees are women, less than 1% rise to or above director level. Moreover, those in leadership positions are often in non-technical fields such as human resources or marketing. (GSA & Accenture, 2019)

This session introduces some strategies and a practical roadmap for designing impactful and customized D&I programs for high tech. Case examples from Axiado Corporation, a cybersecurity processor startup launching its Diversity & Inclusion at Axiado (DIA) program this fall and a Finnish female-led startup community, Innovation Home Finland.

Nordic Women in Tech and Innovation #NWTI2020

Nordic Innovation House-Silicon Valley has for the past years hosted several initiatives to support inclusion and equality in tech and innovation. This fall our NWIT2020 program includes a series of online events supporting women in getting engaged in the entrepreneurial, business and investment ecosystems. We will give insight and tools for individuals, leaders, and policymakers for driving gender equality in tech and innovation.

Visit our NWTI website and sign up for updates.

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The Nordic countries are viewed as forerunners on gender equality and women’s labour force participation. There still is plenty to improve.

About this Event

For the past two years Nordic Innovation House-Silicon Valley has strenghtened our stronghold in inspiring and connecting women between the Nordics and Silicon Valley.

2020 is not slowing us down, and this fall we are launching #NWTI2020 program; a series of virtual events to support and inspire women to be engaged, find initiatives to join, and tools to act for diversity and inqlusivity.

Join the first webinar of the fall and hear more about the #NWTI2020 program and opportunities for Nordic women!

STATE OF NORDIC WOMEN IN TECH AND INNOVATION

Nordic Innovation published a report Female Entrepreneurship in the Nordics 2020 - looking at the current entreprenurial landscape in the Nordics. Sigrid Hernes (Menon Economics) will give us insights to the study and key takeaways to stimulate female entrepreneurship.

The study is part of the Nordic Female Entrepreneurship initiative, running from 2018 - 2021.

INITIATIVES IN THE NORDICS

We will also introduce some Nordic initiatives for inclusiveness and diversity and how you can get connected.

Visit our #NWTI2020 website and stay up to date on the upcoming activities.

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