Women In Technology - Friday Links - 17/01/2025
Hello everybody,
as the clock resets and the new year starts, WIT wish you a Happy New Year!
Here’s to a year of new ideas, interesting projects, and breaking careers!
Here is our selection of Friday links.
WIT activities
The WIT Annual Review will take place on Thursday, January 23 at 12:00. All are welcome to join us as we summarise our activities in 2024, and preview our plans for the coming year. If you are interested in learning more about WIT activities and would like to get involved as a volunteer, this is the perfect opportunity! For more details, including a list of volunteer opportunities, please see the agenda: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1486154/
To help us plan our activities in 2025, we’d greatly appreciate it if you could take a few moments to complete a brief survey and give us your feedback: https://forms.office.com/e/KX98eWm1BZas
The survey is anonymous; although you do need to log in with your CERN account, your responses will not be associated with your account. Please complete the survey by Monday, January 20.
The info meeting about the Mentoring@CERN 2025 edition will take place on 30 January at 17:00 CET online:
https://indico.cern.ch/event/1497017/
And more details about the programme together with the key dates can be found here: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1479276/
Workshop, Conferences and Events
If you - or someone you know - would benefit from help updating their CV or practising interview techniques -> there's a few places left on this online course available through the CERN Welcome Club, starting next week: https://cern.ch/be-inspired
Contact: [email protected]
TH String Theory Seminar by Laura Donnay on Tuesday 21 January 2025 at 14:00 https://indico.cern.ch/event/1492999/
Meet the authors of "Detectors in particle physics” on Tuesday 28 January 2025 at 13:30 https://indico.cern.ch/event/1490863/
FOSDEM 2025 on 1-2 February 2025 is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. You don't need to register. Just turn up and join in! https://fosdem.org/2025/
2025 Tech4Eva Call for Application – A Joint program between EPFL Innovation Park and Groupe Mutuel
Do you have an innovative and disruptive Femtech solution and are you looking to accelerate your progress and gain visibility? Then join the growing Femtech community of Tech4Eva and apply to this 6-month game changing global and virtual accelerator starting in May 2025!
For this 5th cohort, we are looking for 10-15 innovative solutions in one or more of these areas: Pregnancy/post-partum – Mental health/wellbeing – Period health – Fertility/infertility – Endometriosis – Sexual/pelvic health – Oncology – Menopause care – Prevention/treatment – Bone/Brain Health – Immune/Heart Diseases – Nutrition/Hormonal Health – Sportstech…
*Tech4Eva welcomes global solutions of all areas and stages to apply. Preference will be given to start-ups with scientific evidence, having or ideally building a clinical or animal model, or in vitro for the mechanism of action, ideally IP protected or in submission, or having proof of concept / prototype / users / data / early adopters. We look for Founders who are committed to participate in the program activities, open to discussions or suggestions of assigned mentors, willing to share his/her network to benefit others and determined to make progress. More info on the program: www.tech4eva.ch
Deadline to apply is February 15, 2025. Apply here: https://www.tech4eva.ch/acceleration-program
News, Articles and links
The Women in Tech® Global's Founder and CEO, Ayumi Moore Aoki, will join industry leaders from Microsoft and NTT in a strategic discussion on gender parity in STEM at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2025 in Davos, Switzerland during the session on on January 22, 2025. More details at
Greetings,
Adriana
on behalf of CERN WIT Communications
About the Women in Technology (WIT) Community: The aim of this community is to provide an environment in which women are not in the minority when interacting with technology. Our objectives are: to encourage women to play the role of expert; to provide a supportive learning environment; and to build a network between the Women in Technology here at CERN. WIT welcomes members from all genders and all technical fields. Visit cern.ch/wit