International Women's Day: From Challenge Comes Change
Speakers
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Capita
We are a consulting, digital services and software business, driven by our purpose of creating better outcomes for our clients and their customers. Every day we help millions of people around the world by delivering innovative solutions that transform and simplify the connections between businesses and customers, governments and citizens. We partner with private and public sector clients, giving them the insight and cutting-edge technologies that free them to focus on what really matters: making people’s lives easier, simpler and better.
Booths
The female scientist who helped develop the Oxford University/AstraZeneca Coronavirus vaccine
Professor Green heads the Nuffield Department of Medicine's Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility at Oxford University
Capita
Women in Tech
Opening Keynote
Welcome and introduction to what we hope we can achieve in our first live IWD event for Capita.
If I Could Tell You Just One Thing; notes to my younger self
If you could go back and offer your younger self some advice, what would you say?
Why are we still talking about girls in STEM?
By April 2020 it was clear that the only way out of lockdown,was a vaccine – and as teams all over the globe started to work on finding one frantically, there was an unspoken fear that it was impossible task
Why were women worse hit in a global crisis - and how do we stop it happening again?
We are not all in the same boat. While Covid-19 has proved more fatal for men it is clear that it is women who are more likely to bear the brunt of the social and economic consequences of the pandemic
Has female leadership been more successful in a global crisis?
Fiascos ranging from NASA’s Columbia Shuttle disaster in 2003 to the 2008 financial system collapse have brought into sharp relief the unique challenge that ambiguous threats pose to leaders. Covid-19 is the ultimate example of an ambiguous crisis.
Tales Our Mother’s Told Us
The stories we tell, the language and tone we use, the narrative we create have more impact than we know – what happens when those stories are myopic?
Closing
Closing session with Chantal Free