BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Paris BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230326T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231029T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10 TZNAME:CET END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20231206T065636Z UID:41E46987-808B-49FF-A1DE-1741DC685DCF DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231026T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231026T170000 DESCRIPTION:Thursday 26th of October the IEEE Lille Student Branch and the Women in engineering affinity group is honored to host Madam Françoise Ch ombar\, CEO and cofounder of semiconductor Melexis for a talk entitled “ Innovation and Inclusion: a Yin-Yang?”.\n\nInnovation and inclusion are complementary\, interdependent and necessary for sustainable business grow th. Diversity and inclusion in teams drive innovation and have a positive impact on the economy and society of tomorrow. This is why more diversity is needed in STEM. But what can we do now to make an impact on this?\n\nFr ançoise Chombar is one of the co-founders of the top Belgian semiconducto r company Melexis and is currently Chairwoman of Melexis’ Board of Direc tor and was CEA from 2003 to 2021. She is also president of the STEM platf orm\, an organization working with the Flemish government to encourage you ng people to pursue a Science\, Technology\, Engineering\, or Mathematics education. Madam Chombar has a long-term commitment on promoting more gend er balance in STEM believing it has a positive impact on society. She rece ived many national and international awards for her career and work. She h olds a master’s degree in interpreting in Dutch\, English and Spanish fr om the University of Ghent.\n\nThis conference is an opportunity for stude nts and professionals to have an insight about the challenges of inclusion in the semi-conductor industry as well as in STEM disciplines and share t he experience of a significant actor of the industry. The talk will be fol lowed by a Q&A session with Madam Chombar.\n\nConference will take place a t JUNIA-ISEN engineering school\, 41 boulevard Vauban Lille.\n\nRoom: C304 \, Bldg: ISEN\, 41 Boulevard Vauban\, Lille\, Nord-Pas-de-Calais\, France\ , 59000\, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/378244 LOCATION:Room: C304\, Bldg: ISEN\, 41 Boulevard Vauban\, Lille\, Nord-Pas-d e-Calais\, France\, 59000\, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/3782 44 ORGANIZER:mathieu.chene1@junia.com SEQUENCE:14 SUMMARY:“Innovation and Inclusion: a Yin-Yang?” --- Françoise Chombar URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/378244 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p style="color: #000000\; font-family: 'Time s New Roman'\; font-size: medium\; font-style: normal\; font-variant-ligat ures: normal\; font-variant-caps: normal\; font-weight: 400\; letter-spaci ng: normal\; orphans: 2\; text-align: start\; text-indent: 0px\; text-tran sform: none\; white-space: normal\; widows: 2\; word-spacing: 0px\; -webki t-text-stroke-width: 0px\; text-decoration-thickness: initial\; text-decor ation-style: initial\; text-decoration-color: initial\;">Thursday 26th of October the IEEE Lille Student Branch and the Women in engineering affinit y group is honored to host Madam Fran&ccedil\;oise Chombar\, CEO and cofou nder of semiconductor Melexis for a talk entitled &ldquo\;Innovation and I nclusion: a Yin-Yang?&rdquo\;.</p>\n<p style="color: #000000\; font-family : 'Times New Roman'\; font-size: medium\; font-style: normal\; font-varian t-ligatures: normal\; font-variant-caps: normal\; font-weight: 400\; lette r-spacing: normal\; orphans: 2\; text-align: start\; text-indent: 0px\; te xt-transform: none\; white-space: normal\; widows: 2\; word-spacing: 0px\; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\; text-decoration-thickness: initial\; tex t-decoration-style: initial\; text-decoration-color: initial\;">Innovation and inclusion are complementary\, interdependent and necessary for sustai nable business growth. Diversity and inclusion in teams drive innovation a nd have a positive impact on the economy and society of tomorrow. This is why more diversity is needed in STEM. But what can we do now to make an im pact on this?</p>\n<p style="color: #000000\; font-family: 'Times New Roma n'\; font-size: medium\; font-style: normal\; font-variant-ligatures: norm al\; font-variant-caps: normal\; font-weight: 400\; letter-spacing: normal \; orphans: 2\; text-align: start\; text-indent: 0px\; text-transform: non e\; white-space: normal\; widows: 2\; word-spacing: 0px\; -webkit-text-str oke-width: 0px\; text-decoration-thickness: initial\; text-decoration-styl e: initial\; text-decoration-color: initial\;">Fran&ccedil\;oise Chombar i s one of the co-founders of the top Belgian semiconductor company Melexis and is currently Chairwoman of Melexis&rsquo\; Board of Director and was C EA from 2003 to 2021. She is also president of the STEM platform\, an orga nization working with the Flemish government to encourage young people to pursue a Science\, Technology\, Engineering\, or Mathematics education. Ma dam Chombar has a long-term commitment on promoting more gender balance in STEM believing it has a positive impact on society. She received many nat ional and international awards for her career and work. She holds a master &rsquo\;s degree in interpreting in Dutch\, English and Spanish from the U niversity of Ghent.</p>\n<p style="color: #000000\; font-family: 'Times Ne w Roman'\; font-size: medium\; font-style: normal\; font-variant-ligatures : normal\; font-variant-caps: normal\; font-weight: 400\; letter-spacing: normal\; orphans: 2\; text-align: start\; text-indent: 0px\; text-transfor m: none\; white-space: normal\; widows: 2\; word-spacing: 0px\; -webkit-te xt-stroke-width: 0px\; text-decoration-thickness: initial\; text-decoratio n-style: initial\; text-decoration-color: initial\;">This conference is an opportunity for students and professionals to have an insight about the c hallenges of inclusion in the semi-conductor industry as well as in STEM d isciplines and share the experience of a significant actor of the industry . The talk will be followed by a Q&amp\;A session with Madam Chombar.</p>\ n<p style="color: #000000\; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\; font-size: me dium\; font-style: normal\; font-variant-ligatures: normal\; font-variant- caps: normal\; font-weight: 400\; letter-spacing: normal\; orphans: 2\; te xt-align: start\; text-indent: 0px\; text-transform: none\; white-space: n ormal\; widows: 2\; word-spacing: 0px\; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\; t ext-decoration-thickness: initial\; text-decoration-style: initial\; text- decoration-color: initial\;">Conference will take place at JUNIA-ISEN engi neering school\, 41 boulevard Vauban Lille.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR