Tribune News Network
Doha
Sweden is celebrating International Women’s Day in Stockholm by hosting 20 women from seven countries to take part in ‘Women in Tech’, a multilateral tech conference promoting leading female perspectives within the IT-field.
This initiative is founded on Sweden’s strong and continuous efforts of emphasising women’s role in all parts of society.
Qatar is among the few countries represented at the conference. Two Qatari female leaders have been selected to the international expert group attending the conference. They are: Maryam al Kuwari, AGM Development and User Services, QNB; and Aisha al Mahmoud, IT director at Qatar Stock Exchange.
The conference features keynote speakers such as world-renowned Sandra Alba Cauffman, deputy director of the Earth Science Division, NASA, and Sophia Bendz, former global marketing director at the Swedish digital music service company Spotify, now an investor and advisor to startups as well as a board director.
In line with this objective of being a platform of knowledge sharing and a hub for technical innovations and entrepreneurship, ‘Women in Tech’ is designed for women in the tech industry with the goal of intensifying dialogue, and creating greater knowledge exchange and broader lasting and reciprocal relationships between international decision-makers and Swedish industry, government agencies, academia, start-ups and entrepreneurs.
Ambassador of Sweden to Qatar HE Ewa Polano is very proud to have invited the two leading Qatari women to this conference. She said, "Qatar and Sweden are both small countries with high ambitions in encouraging more women to enter leading roles in general and in the tech industry specifically, and to promoting the ones already active. ‘Women in Tech’ with its bilateral knowledge sharing approach supports the progressive Qatar National Vision 2030.”
Doha
Sweden is celebrating International Women’s Day in Stockholm by hosting 20 women from seven countries to take part in ‘Women in Tech’, a multilateral tech conference promoting leading female perspectives within the IT-field.
This initiative is founded on Sweden’s strong and continuous efforts of emphasising women’s role in all parts of society.
Qatar is among the few countries represented at the conference. Two Qatari female leaders have been selected to the international expert group attending the conference. They are: Maryam al Kuwari, AGM Development and User Services, QNB; and Aisha al Mahmoud, IT director at Qatar Stock Exchange.
The conference features keynote speakers such as world-renowned Sandra Alba Cauffman, deputy director of the Earth Science Division, NASA, and Sophia Bendz, former global marketing director at the Swedish digital music service company Spotify, now an investor and advisor to startups as well as a board director.
In line with this objective of being a platform of knowledge sharing and a hub for technical innovations and entrepreneurship, ‘Women in Tech’ is designed for women in the tech industry with the goal of intensifying dialogue, and creating greater knowledge exchange and broader lasting and reciprocal relationships between international decision-makers and Swedish industry, government agencies, academia, start-ups and entrepreneurs.
Ambassador of Sweden to Qatar HE Ewa Polano is very proud to have invited the two leading Qatari women to this conference. She said, "Qatar and Sweden are both small countries with high ambitions in encouraging more women to enter leading roles in general and in the tech industry specifically, and to promoting the ones already active. ‘Women in Tech’ with its bilateral knowledge sharing approach supports the progressive Qatar National Vision 2030.”