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CIGRE e-session24 August > 3 September 2020
The 4th CIGRE Women in Engineering Forum will be held on 28 August 2020 during the CIGRE e-session. The aim of this forum is to inspire women engineers to take active participation within CIGRE activities.
The 2020 e-session seeks to divulge on the importance of diversity and how to embrace diversity from both leadership
point of view, to those who need to step up and acknowledge what the change brings.
The need to have discussions and practical solutions around inclusion and retention of women in the engineering
sector remains relevant and will form part of this 2020 seating. Come and find out more on how to be actively involved while networking with world thought leaders. W
iEWiE 2020 FORUMCIGRE Women in Engineering
For more information on CIGRE WiE, visit
Under the Theme:
Embracing Change, overcoming barriers“ ”
CONTACT: Dioka Khayakazi [email protected]
CIGRE Women in Engineering FORUM>>>>>>>> Friday 28 August >>>>>>>> From 2:00 AM to 4:00 PM Register at: https://www.cigre.org/article/GB/events/cigre-e_session/e-session-programme
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Women in Engineering e-Session 28 August 2020, 14:00 – 16:00
Embracing Change and Overcoming Barriers
CIGRE WiE 2020 e-Session will be focusing on Embracing Change and Overcoming Barriers.
Embracing change is never easy, especially the kind you do not see coming. In this session we will
look at how change gives us an opportunity to think differently, step out of our comfort zone and
embrace a post COVID world.
We will also go through some of the milestones we have achieved as CIGRE WiE and pave a way
forward in a quest to close the gender gap within CIGRE structures. In order to encourage other
national committees in starting a local WiE forum, WiE Chairs have put together what each
established national committee WiE has been up to and what other members’ involvement is within
the CIGRE structure. The aim is to change the picture on the wall by role modelling.
One of our goals is to remain connected to the rest of the engineering bodies, while cross-pollinating
skills, knowledge and sharing common goals in advancing women participation in the engineering
sector. WePOWER (South Asia Women in Power Sector Professional Network), a world bank
initiative to support workforce participation of women in energy projects and institutions, and
promote normative change regarding women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
(STEM) education, will be sharing their roadmap and how this initiative is striving to promote top
female engineers and leaders. This presentation will include WePOWER’s approach in: (i) assessing
the status of women’s employment in South Asian energy sector; and (ii) in motivating WePOWER
Partners to implement gender activities that support women’s employment in energy-sector
projects and institutions and increase women’s enrolment in STEM education.
The IEEE-CIGRE relationship has been established for many years now, and this year we have an
honour of our former CIGRE WiE Chair Dr Ruomei Li, who is currently the Chair for IEEE PES Women
in Power (WiP) to share the WIP approach in embracing change and overcoming barrier within the
IEEE PES structure.
Our 2020 WiE keynote speaker comes from Israel, a Minister of Strategic Affairs, MK, Adv Orit
Farkash – Hacohen. This Faculty of Law graduate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has been
active in leadership positions for over two decades. Some of the positions she occupied include
Chairperson and Director General of the Israeli Public Utilities Authority (Electricity), where she
opened the market for electricity production to competition in Israel, as well as encouraged the birth
of the clean electricity industry from renewable energies in Israel. In recent years, Farkash Hacohen
she was a partner at Goldfarb Seligman, a leading law firm in Israel, where she directed the Energy
and Infrastructure practice. CIGRE WiE will be honoured to host Minister Farkash-Hacohen.
The last 30 minutes of the program is reserved for a panel discussion. In this panel session, you’ll
have the opportunity to hear from four amazing women from varies CIGRE national committees.
Together they will explore and discuss the importance of diversity, recommended strategies, and
future considerations, and will be on hand to answer your questions.
Be sure to join us as we will be live on GoToMeeting webinar on the 28th August 2020, 14:00 – 16:00
as part of CIGRE Paris Session.
Session Program
Activities & Time Speaker details
14:00 – 14:30
Opening Address
Moderator – Alaa Alkiyumi (GCC) - [email protected]
Online chat moderator – Gen Li (UK) - [email protected]
CIGRE President – Rob Stephen (RSA) - [email protected]
CIGRE Secretariat – Philippe Adams (France) [email protected]
CIGRE WiE Chair – Khayakazi Dioka (RSA) – [email protected]
WePOWER – Maria Beatriz Orlando, Lead Social Development
Specialist and Gunjan Gautam, Operations Officer. -
[email protected] and [email protected]
IEEE PES Women in Power – Ruomei Li - [email protected]
14:30 – 14:45
CIGRE WiE National
Committees
Feedback
CIGRE WiE NCs combined video
14:45 – 15:00
Keynote Speech
Minister Mrs Orit Farkash Hacohen – Minister of Strategic Affairs –
Israel - [email protected]
15:00 – 15:30
Panel Discussion
Moderator – Claire LAJOIE-MAZENC (France)- claire.lajoie-
On-line co-moderators:
Mani Chopra (India) - [email protected]
Gen Li (UK) - [email protected]
Panelists
Olga Frolova (Russia) - [email protected]
Elizabeth LaRose (USA) - [email protected]
Susanne Stjernfeldt (Sweden) - [email protected]
Alexandra Khalyasmaa (Russia) – [email protected]
15:30 – 15:40
Closure & Way
Forward
Khayakazi Dioka (RSA) – CIGRE WiE International Chair