Women in Engineering Workshop
This Workshop is sponsored by the
Women in IES Technical Committee
Workshop Program
13.30-13.40 Welcome and Introduction to the Women in IES
initiative
Prof. Lucia Lo
Bello, University of Catania, Italy, IES
representative for Women in Engineering
PART I: Diversity, Talent and Excellence in Academia
and Industry
Session Chair: Prof. An Braeken – Vrije Universiteit
Brussel
13.40-14.05: Invited Speech
Anneke
Hunninck, Academic Business Manager VUB.
Title: “From Academic Research to Societal Benefit”
14.05-14.30: Invited Speech
Kathleen Dupont, HR Director Agidens.
Title:“ Talent Development & Boosting Intrinsic Motivation“
14.30-14.55: Invited
Speech
Laurence Jacobs,
Business Relationship Officer AGORIA and Women in Tech Ambassador.
Title:“ The Future of digital is female - a case for more women in Tech“
14.55-15.20: Invited
Speech
Prof. dr. Johan Stiens – Head of Electronics and Informatics Department and director of the Biomedical Engineering program
at VUB
Title:“ STEM initiatives for Low Income
Countries: Creating a sustainable collaboration bridge for knowledge transfer
between Academia and the South”
15.30-16.00: Mingle and Coffee Break
Part II: Research and Demo Presentations
Session Chair:
Larissa Dunai
16.00-16.25: Invited Speech
Prof. Dr. Mª Cristina Rodríguez-Sánchez, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos,
Spain
SmartE2–Improving the Quality of Life in an Accessible and Simple Way.
16.25-16.50: Invited Speech
New trends in materials for high performance electrical machines
Prof. Claudia Martis Universitatea Tehnica Cluj-Napoca, Romania
16:50-17:30 Demo paper presentations
17.30-17.40: Closing Speech
Prof. Lucia Lo Bello, University of Catania, Italy
Contact:
Prof. Lucia Lo Bello, IES WiE representative. Email: lobello@unict.it
Event registration: Attending the Women in IES Workshop is free but registration is mandatory,
please register using the registration page of the conference (https://iecon2022.org/register/). In case of questions on the registration, please contact Prof. Lucia Lo Bello
(Email: lobello@unict.it)