What a day!
Women in Tech® Switzerland was at DayOne – Healthcare Innovation #DemoDay today and we had such a great time!

👉🏻 meeting wonderful profiles at our booth and discovering how much our reputation is growing in the swiss tech community

👉🏻 crossing the road of our partner Hays represented by Birgit Viktoria Huber , Oliver Matthes and their team. Thank you so much for your support!

👉🏻 getting inspired by the bright Anca del Rio, MSPH on stage #powerfulwoman

👉🏻 having promising exchanges with new members, future volunteers and future partners (Peggy Sacotte , Olivier Schwartz , Karin Sartorius and many more)

🙏🏻 Thanks to my partners in crime Magali Böckem and Barbara Stäuble for the great #teamwork

✨ Last week, our dear Executive Board Member Bettina Bachmann was a speaker at the “Diversity in Leadership and Tech” Event in Chur, where she enjoyed presenting some FACTS & FIGURES about diversity in Switzerland. ✨

ℹ️ We were delighted to contribute to this important event in Graubünden, sharing our data and experiences during engaging discussions and inspiring talks & panels.

📣 “It was an honour to represent Women in Tech® Switzerland at the event https://diversity-gr.ch/. Many thanks to our sponsors and the amazing team that made it all possible – working with you was a real pleasure and I was thrilled by the energy and the truly inspiring conversations!”.

🙌 Thank you David Schmid for having us!

✨“What is a female Hackathon? Why should I participate in one?”

Marlena Valentin-Houtz is the creator and project lead of #herHACK. The event, run by digitalswitzerland, is the largest female-led hackathon in Switzerland and is dedicated to empowering women in the STEM industries. Marlena strongly believes in women’s leadership and problem solving skills – especially when tackling big challenges! Interesting fact: coding skills are not a prerequisite to participate in #herHACK!

Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/e8NHTN5s

🙏THANK YOU ZURICH🙏 🥳💯

Last night was amazing!! Our community came together, getting to know each other and exchanging points of view & possible collaborations. The vibes were absolutely fantastic! 💙💚💜

Grateful for the amazing people Bunty-Louise Honey Lina Piepenstock Alexandra Klein from Deloitte Switzerland & Salesforce Switzerland for making this happen!! Thank you Safia Agueni Dannie Ivanova, Lucie Maillet St-Pierre & Athena Blatsioti for sharing your stories and inspiring us!

📣 Women in Tech Switzerland is excited to announce the launch of our Mentoring Circles!

This is a free Mentoring Program designed to help women in 🇨🇭 achieve their goals in Tech.

✨D-1 “Informatics: How do we prepare girls and boys for the knowledge society?” LIVE Lunch & Learn, tomorrow JUNE 21st from 12:00 to 12:45 pm CEST.

✨Moderated by our very own Barbara Stäuble, register and join us TOMORROW at Women in Tech Switzerland’s LIVE Lunch & Learn. Enjoy your lunch while we chat and learn:

Professor Juraj Hromkovic is an expert in Theoretical Informatics and Informatics Education. Since 2004 he has been the Chair of Information Technology at the Department of Computer Science (D-INFK), ETH Zürich, ETH Zürich. He is responsible for the ETH master program “Lehrdiplom Informatik” dedicated to training future Informatics teachers. He also founded in 2005 the ETH Ausbildungs – und Beratungszentrum für Informatik (ABZ) devoted to sustainable and intellectually challenging Informatics teaching for schools in Switzerland.

And that’s a wrap ! 👏🌟
Yesterday we had the pleasure of kicking off the Women in Tech Switzerland series of ‘Life Science Tech’ with a stunning panel of speakers Angeli Möller from Roche , Elizabeth Theophille from Novartis Franziska-J. Klebôn at Microsoft and Marija Plodinec from ARTIDIS

👉More than 70 participants joined to hear from personal stories and valuable insights around ‘Women forging the future of #AI’ in #lifesciences.

Special thanks to our host Microsoft and Catrin Hinkel for opening up the event at the amazing place of the Circle in #Zurich and to my friends Shalini Trefzer and Muriel Bekto for making this happen.

👉While we got pretty inspired, had the opportunity to finally network with like minded people and learn from each other, that is just the start of a nice journey ahead of us.

Stay tuned and follow us if you want to move to the next step and get into some specific business cases showing how tech is disrupting the Life sciences sector.

We at WOMEN IN TECH – Global Movement truly believe it is the opportunity we should leverage to empower more girls and women to make an impact in the sector !

📆 May 24th, 2022: Spryker EXCITE Berlin 2022 E-Commerce Conference with more than +2000 REGISTRATIONS, +300 PHYSICAL ATTENDEES, 3 PARALLEL STREAMS & +20 SPEAKERS.

📍Successful e-commerce in 2022 is about so much more than just selling online, as market demands are rapidly shifting, and new technologies are changing the game. Gain insights from industry veterans, learn about exciting new and future e-commerce projects, and feel inspired by our amazing line-up at Spryker EXCITE 2022.

Our very own Women in Tech Switzerland Chapter founder Safia Agueni and Ad Board Member Elizabeth Theophille will be on-site to deliver top-notch insights!

✨ So proud! What a milestone for all of us! 💪🙌

🍋 FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Here are some key takeaways from Lucie’s experience on her (career) journey, feel free to tag or comment below.

📍 Be curious
📍 Be willing to write on a blank page
📍 Be authentic
find your values, and design your work and life to align with them
📍 Live with conviction and intention

70% of who you are at the workplace is yourself as you are today, 30% is what you will learn about the products/services, the company you work for. Do not be afraid of Tech, you can learn it, so don’t be deterred by “but I am not familiar with that tech, so I can’t apply at that company”. Innovation is supported by putting tech in everyone’s hands.

How to get more confidence:
📍 Ask for feedback, and take it as a gift
📍 Be kind with yourself
📍 Look for coaching opportunities

A big challenge in the tech industry today is how to create a diverse workplace, where there are opportunities for everyone. Talents come in many forms and diversity warrants innovation. Leaders should really take this at heart, continuously keeping an eye how to foster diversity within their teams, and drive it every day. The pandemic has opened some new doors, with possibilities such as remote work, flexible hours, opening up opportunities that were not there before and that will help people of all talents access work opportunities for the better.