Why do we still need Women In Tech events?

Name: Why do we still need Women In Tech events?
Start: 2020-06-24T18:30:00+01:00
End: 2020-06-24T20:00:00+01:00

Lisbon
Wed, Jun 24, 2020, 6:30 PM (WEST)

About this event

The 2018 Women in Tech Index has ranked Portugal one of the best countries for women pursuing a career in technology.

We have invited Rosa Monteiro, Portugal's Secretary of Estate for Citizenship and Equality; Rita Piçarra, CFO for Microsoft Portugal; Helena Geirinhas, the Coordinator of the Gender Balance Project at Instituto Técnico de Lisboa; and Inês Santos Silva, the founder of Portuguese Women in Tech, to address important topics that affect Women in Tech everywhere. - Rosa Monteiro, Portugal's Secretary of Estate for Citizenship and Equality won't be able to join us tonight.

Join us in a riveting panel where we will discuss how we can break down the stereotypes that make women less likely to pursue careers in an area where they are a minority, thus making it challenging to feel like they belong. We want to talk about Ada Lovelace and the pioneers of computing, as well as the artificially generated gap, and why having more women in tech is beneficial for the bottom line of companies.

We are looking forward to seeing you all at the event and benefiting from your unique perspectives on this topic.

Panelists

Helena Geirinhas

Instituto Superior Técnico

Professor

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Rita Piçarra

Microsoft Portugal

CFO

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Inês Santos Silva

Portuguese Women in Tech

co-Founder and Chief Activist Officer

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Helena Geirinhas

Instituto Superior Técnico

Professor Helena Geirinhas is responsible for the Gender Balance Project of Instituto Superior Técnico. One of the project's main objectives is to expand the recruitment universe by increasing the percentage of candidates who enter Técnico: students, employees, researchers and teachers.

Rita Piçarra

Microsoft Portugal

Rita Piçarra is the new Chief Financial Officer of Microsoft Portugal. In the company since 2005, and with a professional experience of more than 17 years, she has performed transversal and distinct functions in the company.

Rita Piçarra has travelled the world with Microsoft, with the various positions she has played, always in the Financial area, taking her to destinations such as Madrid (Spain), Miami (USA), São Paulo (Brazil), Paris (France) and Redmond (USA). In her words and, honouring the Portuguese saying “the good son always comes back home,” Rita Piçarra thus returned to the national territory, having in her baggage - in addition to her vast international experience - multiple distinctions, as Best Financial Manager at Microsoft Latin America (consisting of 35 offices, from 20 countries, and more than two thousand employees). As an ambition for the new position, the Rita intends to actively contribute to the fulfillment of the technological mission in the country and proposes to increase the digital literacy of Portuguese people and enhance the Digital Transformation of organizations, creating more personal experiences, developing a cloud platform and reinventing productivity and business processes.

Inês Santos Silva

Portuguese Women in Tech

Inês is a Co-founder and Chief Activist at Portuguese Women in Tech, a community focus on attracting more women to tech and on supporting those that are already working in technology.