2022 IEEE Women in Engineering International Leadership Summit (ILS)|Hyderabad

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Dear Members 

We are very happy to share that the 2022 IEEE Women in Engineering International Leadership Summit (ILS) in Hyderabad, India has been approved. First time  this event is happening at Hyderabad. It's pride and honor to host this event at our place this time.

IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) is one of the world’s largest professional organizations, dedicated to promoting Women Engineers, Scientists, and inspiring girls around the world to follow their academic interests in the domain of Engineering. The mission of IEEE WIE is to facilitate recruitment and retention of women in technical disciplines globally.

IEEE WIE organizes WIE International Leadership Summit (WIE ILS), a globally acclaimed program of IEEE. This summit gives opportunity for women engineers to shape their Life Balancing Stratagems, Leadership & Technical Skills through sessions addressed by proficient world-top speakers. This event is not restricted to women only. This summit mainly provides a platform to identify opportunities for improvement in technical knowledge and global networking. It was first started in 2015 as a pilot event and now paved the way for more summits all over the world. Every year ten summits are organized all over the world. It focuses on Empowerment, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and Emerging/Disruptive Technology.

WIE AG, IEEE Hyderabad Section takes immense pleasure in hosting this prestigious event (ILS-2022) with the theme “Inspiration, Leadership, Empowerment, Entrepreneurship and Humanitarian” during 26^th-27^thAugust 2022

Y.Padma Sai , Chair-WIE AG , IEEE Hyderabad Section |Program Chair|padmasai_y@ieee.org

Y.Vijayalata, Vice-Chair – Student Activities, IEEE India Council & Chair- Education Society, IEEE Hyderabad Section|Vice Chair

S. Harivardhagini, Vice-Chair – WIE AG, IEEE Hyderabad Section

Sangeeta Singh, Secretary – WIE AG & Sensor Council, IEEE Hyderabad Section

V. Priyanka, Treasurer – Sensor Council, IEEE Hyderabad Section

M.Aruna Bharathi, Treasurer – WIE AG, IEEE Hyderabad Section

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Tentative Agenda

Inauguration

• Ayesha Chaudhary, Officer on Special Duty (OSD), Office of the Principal Scientific            Adviser to the Government of India, New Delhi

• Rama Devi Lanka, OSD ITE - Government of Telangana
• Deepthi Ravula, CEO - WeHub Hyderabad
• Emi Yano, Chair - R10 WIE 2019-22, Ricoh IT Solutions
• Lance Fung, IEEER10 Director-Elect (2021-2022)
• Srinivas Jasti, Chair, IEEE Hyderabad Section

Followed by Common  Sessions

1. Cyber Security, Crime and Forensic Investigation|Ramamohan Ukkalam, SP-AP
2. Unlock Power of Cross-Generational Inclusion | Annice Joseph, Sr. HR Director -      Global Diversity and Inclusion Office at SAP

3. Sampathkumar Veeraraghavan , 2022 Global president-elect, IEEE Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN),2021-2022 Global Chair, IEEE Humanitarian Activities Committee (HAC),2019-2020 Global Chair, IEEE SIGHT

Track-1 Innovation & Entrepreneurship

1. Current Approaches to Building Quality into Software Products|Ujwala Sirineni,  Mathworks
2. Women in Healthcare Startups | Varshitha Duvvuru,CEO- VivaLyf
3. Nita Patel, Senior Director Engineering - L3Harris Technologies
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Track-2 Leadership & Empowerment
             

1. Women in Technology - Breaking the Barriers|Viji Ranganna, Googl
2. Technology Careers – Skills landscape|Renu Rajani , Senior IT industry Leader and Director - WomenWhoCode Hyderabad Chapter
3. Engage - Enable – Empower|Trimal Reddy
4. Prasanna Nambiar
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Track-3 Emerging Technologies

 

1. Women leading Cyber Space- Challenges & Opportunities| Sailaja Vadlamudi,
   Application Security Lead & Sr.Director of Security & Data Privacy at SAP
2. Building trust into information and Security and Winning Customers| Radha Sandur Kustigi ,Chief Trust Office - Enterprise Security Architect at SAP Labs
3. New Age Security in IoT MCUs|Archana Madhavan, Silicon Labs
4. Opportunities and Challenges in Emerging Technologies |Rama Devi Lanka, OSD ITE - Government of Telangana
5. Block Chain|Abhishek Bhattacharya, Co-founder, Whrrl
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Track -4 Humanitarian

1. Building Security First Culture is key for Survival in Digital Era |Shilpa Iyer,
   Regional Security & Regulatory Compliance Manager
2. Vijaya Lakshmi Biradar
3. Kiran ,Manger- VJ Hub
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Panel Discussions

Panel Discussion-1 : Topic: Gender Equity and Sustainability Development

                                  Rajashree Jain, Secretary -India Council

                                 Aishwarya Bandla, Chair- WIE AG, Singapore Section

                                  Hiba Latiffe, Chair- WIE AG, Pakistan

                                  Lwanga Herbert, Chair- WIE AG,Uganda

                                 Pramiti Alam, Chair- WIE AG, Bangladesh

                                Isma Faseeh, Chair- WIE AG, Karachi Section

Moderator :Ramalatha Marimuthu| Secretary – IEEE Computer Society
 Panel Discussion-2:Topic :Fostering Women in Leadership

 Moderator :Mini Ulanat, Vice-Chair - WIE, India Council

All Chairs of WIE AG – IEEE, India Council

Networking & Cultural Programs

Keynote Talk followed by Valedictory

                  Jenifer Castillo, Chair - IEEE WIE AG

                  Deepak Mathur, Director- IEEE Region10

                 Celia Shahnaz, Chair Elect – IEEE WIE Committee 2022, Professor-BUET, IEEE  Bangladesh

                 Suresh Nair, Chair Elect – IEEE India Council, India

 

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2022 IEEE Women in Engineering International Leadership Summit (ILS)|Hyderabad

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