On Tuesday, May 11, the online platform of the Delphi Economic Forum will host, for the second consecutive year, the Inclusivity Lounge online, organized by Women On Top, with the support of the US Embassy in Athens. The Inclusivity Lounge online is organized under the auspices of the General Secretariat of Family Policy and Gender Equality.

The Inclusivity Lounge online will again this year be a space for thinking, exchanging ideas and networking around inclusive leadership as well as important gender aspects of technology and the future of work. The aim of the initiative is to put the issues of gender equality, diversity and inclusive leadership at the heart of the Delphi Economic Forum, one of the most important meeting and decision-making platforms, at a critical time for the national and global recovery from the crisis of the pandemic, through investing in a more sustainable future.

Selected speakers from politics, media, technology and business industries, from around the world, will analyze topics such as the equal representation of women and their role in the recovery from the COVID-19 crisis, the importance of participation and inclusive leadership in the development of ethical technologies, the ways the pandemic is shaping the future of work, the funding gap, the promotion of female entrepreneurship, and the gender gap in the digital skills that define our present and future.

Program

17.25-17.40 Welcome remarks

• U.S. Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey R. Pyatt
• Yianna Hormova, Secretary General for Demographic Family Policy and Gender Equality

17.40 -18.10 Uniting power with purpose: A She-Covery for all

• Chiara Corazza, Managing Director, Women’s Forum for the Economy & Society, France
• Cecilia Ronan, CEO, Citi Country Office, Citibank Europe Plc, Citi Ireland

Chair: Stella Kasdagli, Co-Founder Women On Top, Writer

18.10-18.40 Ethical tech & bias in AI

• Antigone Papanikolaou, Legal & Corporate Affairs Director at Microsoft Greece, Cyprus and Malta

• Dr Beth Singler, Junior Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence at Homerton College, University of Cambridge
• Kathleen Walch, Managing Partner & Principal Analyst at AI Focused Research and Advisory firm Cognilytica
• Artemis Seaford, Public Policy Manager, Cybersecurity Policy at Facebook

Chair: Stella Kasdagli, Co-Founder Women On Top, Writer

18.40-19.10 Female Entrepreneurship & the Financing Gap

• Myrto Papathanou, Partner at Metavallon VC | Kauffman Fellow
• Cheryl Miller Van Dÿck, Head of EU Delegation and expert on Digital Equity and Women’s Entrepreneurship for the W20 engagement group
• Zina Mavroeidi, Managing Director at E-fresh.gr

Chair: Stella Kasdagli, Co-Founder Women On Top, Writer

19.10-19.40 Mastering digital literacy & (re)skilling

• Stella Psarrou, Director at SocialInnov
• Γιώργος Νικολετάκης, CEO @100mentors
• Claire Spiller, Senior Manager – AWS re/Start Programme EMEA at Amazon Web Services (AWS) UK
• Robbie Melton, Founder Tech4Teach US

Chair: Pinelopi Theodorakakou, Co-Founder Women On Top

19.40 -20.10 Inclusive leadership in tech & innovation

• Marily Mexi, Consultant, Int’l Labor Organization; Head, Platform Economy Initiative, Graduate Institute Geneva
• Marianna Skylakaki, Editor-in-Chief , athiNEA
• Sarita Varouch, Head, UBER, Greece
• Konstantina Psarrakou, Director Marketing & Digital, Papastratos, Greece

Chair: Maria Gianniou, Co-Founder, Women Act, Greece

Social media: #InclusivityLoungeDEF
For more info: info@womenontop.gr