Women in STEM fields spend years and countless amount of hours acquiring skills to enter and thrive in the tech industry. Despite those accomplishments, women leave the industry twice as often as men do, according to research from the Association of Women in Science. In our panel, senior leaders from top companies will address how they moved past microaggressions, bias, and sexism to stay in their roles and advance to leadership positions in STEM.
Moderator
- John McCalla-Leacy, Partner & Head of ESG, KPMG
Panelists
- Dr Eva-Peggy Best, Senior Auditor, BMW Group
- Homa Siddiqui, Managing Director, Credit Suisse
- Dr Lamia Chaffai, CEO, Education for Employment
- Shilpi Saxena Bhatt, Director of Engineering, Sky
- Sylvia Mulinge, Chief Consumer Business Officer, Safaricom