SoCal Women’s Leadership Keynoter Examines Women in the Workplace
At the Nov. 10 SoCal Women’s Leadership Summit, presented by Women in Technology Hollywood (WiTH), Mount Saint Mary’s University’s Kimberly Kenny, associate VP of external relations and institutional advancement, will deliver the opening keynote of the day’s event: “State of the Union – Women in the Workplace.”
For a decade now the Los Angeles university has produced an annual “Report on the Status of Women and Girls in California”, with the intent of providing a complete picture on where women and girls are thriving and what obstacles they continue to face.
Kenny will provide highlights from the research on how the pandemic has impacted women and girls and offer recommendations to consider for attendees’ own diversity programs. Following her keynote, she’ll site down with a major organization to discuss their evolving diversity journey.
The SoCal Women’s Leadership Summit is designed to inform, engage, and inspire attendees, with a focus on diversity, leadership, and technology issues, especially as it relates to the effects of the pandemic.
The half-day, closed-door event runs from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. PT, and will feature presentations and breakout sessions tackling the impact of bias, both human and algorithmic. The 2020 edition of the SoCal Women’s Leadership Summit saw more than 250 attendees, with more than 70 percent representing the media and entertainment industry and tech-adjacent companies.
Other sessions and presentations include:
• AI & Algorithmic Bias: Information Technology Ethics
• Considerations for Reducing Bias in Applying AI
• Changing the Game to Reduce Unconscious Bias
• Customer Experience: Leadership Through Design Thinking
• The Needs for Diversity Communities
Confirmed speakers include: Michele Spitz, voiceover artist, audio description narrator, and media accessibility advocate; Tobias Baer, consultant, coach and author of the book “Algorithmic Bias”; Christine Meinders, associate professor at the California Institute of the Arts and founder of Feminist.AI; Asia Brown with Microsoft and co-chair of DEI for the WiTH Foundation; and Gemi Bertran, CEO and founder of Nourish the Brain Institute.
For regular program updates, visit the event website here. To register, click here.
To sponsor SoCal Women’s Leadership Summit 2020, contact Evie Silvers at [email protected], or Garrett Finley at [email protected].