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International Women's Day: From Challenge Comes Change

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From challenge comes change, so today we choose to challenge

 

2020 tested us beyond anything we could have imagined at the start of the year. But without it we risk becoming complacent – when we are challenged, we are forced to think, to adapt, to innovate. 

 

Ahead of International Women’s Day 2021, join our panellists as we ask - how do we take this moment to reset the agenda?

 

Register to join us as we move the debate from one of representation to one of genuine equality, addressing the barriers (and opportunities) that Covid-19 has highlighted for us all.

Speakers

Gillian Channer

Chief Product Officer, Software Division at Capita & Vice Chair at In2scienceUK

Cameron Glennon

Transformation Consultant, Capita

Julia Lalla-Maharajh OBE

Founder, Orchid Project

Madeline Howard

Director at Cyber Cheltenham (CyNam)

Matt Stagg

Data & AI Solutioning Lead, Capita

Katie Hile

Head of Economy & Public Spending Communications at HM Treasury

Mike Maddick

Director of People and Culture, The Children’s Trust

Will Serle

Chief People Officer at Capita

Hermione Way

Chief Marketing Officer at Sportside

Grainne Watson

Centre of Excellence for Digital, Capita

Sally Bourner

Former Chief Superintendent, West Midlands Police

Aimie Chapple

Chief Executive Officer - Customer Management at Capita

Jo Brown

Director of Content, Capita

Stella Duffy

Playwright and author

Louise Hannah

Head of Content at Capita

Dr Cath Green

Associate Prof Chromosome Dynamics Wellcome Centre Human Genetics, Sr Research Fellow Exeter College

Chantal Free

Executive Officer, People Solutions

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Hosted by

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