Women Code Festival

Categories: Event
Date: 08/10/2018 to 14/10/2018
Time: 18 h 00 - 21 h 30
Location: Google Atelier Digital
Links: iCal - Google Calendar

One week to discover the coding world and innovation sector !

The 4^th industrial revolution is a great opportunity to change the world, restore a new society based on gender equity and a vector of human development. However, women are still missing from this new sector industry.

That’s why Women in Tech launched in 2017 the Women Code Festival.

The purpose of the Festival is to promote coding and digital sector to women but also giving them the opportunity to access freely initiations, workshops, debates and other activities.

During this 2018 edition, more than 20 activities during the week will be proposed to young girls and women in every part of Brussels by our partners.

8th of October – Opening Ceremony Program :

18h – Door opening

18h30 – Welcome speech by Loubna Azghoud (Women in Tech COO)

18h35 – Official Opening of the Festival by the Minister of the governement of the Brussels-Capital region responsible for the Economy & Employment, Didier Gosuin.

18h40 – Rosanna Kurrer introduction speech – European Code Week ambassador

18h50 – Keynote : The importance of women in Tech and digital sector – Sara Elnusairi – Public Affairs Manager, EU Public Policy at Google

19h05 – EveryGirl Everywhere presentation by Diana Popp/Dan Nechita – Women in Tech Partner in Romania – “Everygirl Everywhere is an project commited to reduce the gender gap in the digital sector and to ensure girls and women take up a digital career” More details https://www.everygirl.ro/

19h15 – Partner’s Video

19h30 – Drink & Networking

Program during the rest of the days:

1. Introductory training sessions – From 8th to 12 of October
2. Film Projection & Debate – 8th of October
3. #Invest4She Business lunch – 9th of October
4. ESCAPE ROOM for 6th Grade Primary School – 9th of October
5. Programming initiation session at school (non-public event) – 10th of October
6. Workshops for 9-13 y.o girls to promote STEM studies – 10th of October
7. FABLAB BUS – 10th of October (Non-public event)
8. LADIES PITCH NIGHT “Women in A.I” & ‘SHE STARTED IT” film documentary – 10th of October
9. Breakfast Round Table: “I am Remarkable” and Digital Marketing Workshops – 12th of October
10. Workshop : Learn the Basics of Web development in 1 day – 12th & 13th of October
11. SHE LOVES TO CODE – 13th of October
12. EDIT-A-THON – 13th of October
13. Coding workshops for women – 13th of October
14. Film Projection – ” Code : Debugging the Gender Gap” & Debate – 19th of October
15. Conference on Women in A.I – 23rd of October
16. Talented Women in ICT – 25th of October
17. Kick-off of Pixy’s Beta Users Lab – 11th of OctoberWorkshops on Tech, Diversity and Inclusion – 12th of October

Make sure to check out their website or their Facebook page to get informed about all the possible activities.

The entrance is free upon registration.