WiTaR: Women in Telecommunication and Research
Tuesday, 4 June 2024, 11:00-13:00, Room Gorilla Room 1
Session Chair:
- Bahare Masood Khorsandi (Nokia, DE)
- Marie-Helene Hamon (Orange, FR)
- Irene Alepuz Benaches (UPV, ES)
- Ishita Mishra (Institute PIIU, IT)
- Pooja Mohnani (EURESCOM, DE)
- Marja Matinmikko-Blue (Univ. of Oulu, FI)
- Didier Bourse (Nokia, FR)
Women in Telecommunications and Research (WiTaR) is an EU-level initiative that promotes gender equality, inclusion and empowerment in the 6G Research & Innovation (R&I) community. The group started its activity as part of European 6G flagship project Hexa-X, extended to all projects in 5GPPP. As of 2024, WiTaR is officially a 6G-IA working group. This Convened Session, leveraging the Convened Session organized during EuCNC & 6GS 2022 and 2023, aims at communicating the WiTaR initiative up-dates and plans to the European and global 6G R&I community, further raising awareness of gender inclusivity and engaging different stakeholders and EU projects to discuss possible actions to improve gender diversity and inclusivity in the R&I activities especially in the Smart Network and Services (SNS) Joint undertaking (JU).
Programme
The proposed structure is envisioned for the 1h40 minutes slot:
- Video(s) from female leaders around Europe stating the importance of gender inclusivity in deep tech and 6G
5-10 minutes – Didier Bourse
- Intro and Activities of WiTaR (including the analyze and current statistics in SNS in aspects of women participation as well as using EUCNC conference as a use case)
10 min Bahare M. Khorsandi & Marie-Helene Hamon
- WiTaR collaboration opportunities with other SNS projects
5 – 10 min Pooja Mohnani
- Industry and academia’s view and practice to encourage gender diversity – 10 min each speaker
- Accademia TBC
- Industry TBC
- SNS TBC
- Interactive session with the audience
30 min – host TBC
- Open discussion on various topics including the speakers
- Showing the result of survey (Pooja Mohnani)
- Conclusion
10 min – Bahare M. Khorsandi & Marie-Helene Hamon
- Wrap up and further action points
