Next Wednesday, the 26th of June, CMU Portugal, in collaboration with the Gender Balance group of Instituto Superior Técnico and INESC-ID, is organizing a session dedicated to discussing gender equality in the fields of science, engineering, technology, and mathematics.

The event will take place at 11:00 AM in the Salão Nobre of the Alameda Campus and will feature an initial lecture by guest speaker Jeria Quesenberry from Carnegie Mellon University on the topic "Breaking Barriers in Technology: Women in Computing at Carnegie Mellon and Global Perspectives."

Following the initial lecture, there will be a roundtable discussion with the participation of Ana Paiva, Secretary of State for Science; Anália Cardoso Torres, Professor at ISCSP; Inês Lynce, Director of the CMU Portugal Program and President of INESC-ID; João Peixoto, Vice-Rector of the University of Lisbon; Leonor Barreiros, student at Instituto Superior Técnico and Luís Lemos Alves, Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico. The discussion will be moderated by Sara Sá, a science communicator, under the title "Gender imbalance in STEM: The Portuguese academia experience."

More information and registration HERE.

(image: CMU Portugal)