Welcome to the first joint Women in Electrical Engineering (WEE) and IEEE Women in Engineering (WiE) conference! Come and join us on May 3rd from 4:00p.m. to 8:00p.m. at the 3rd floor of the Huang Engineering Center (Mackenzie Room) in what proves to be an extremely inspiring, educational and entertaining event.
Developing economies, such as in Africa, India, and Brazil, will see the highest GDP growth in the next decade. However, this growth often comes at the expense of greater socio-economic divide. Well-designed technology products, such as economical healthcare tools, better connectivity (via internet/cell phones), and accessible education, present a huge potential to bridge the socio-economic divide in developing economies and especially empower women in these economies. While technology products may not be an answer to all their problems, good design of technology products will ensure their widespread impact in developing economies in terms of improving their standards of living.
The Engineering Welfare & Innovation in Developing Economies (EWIDE) conference aims to discuss the challenges and future road map in designing engineering technologies that can empower developing economies, especially women in such economies. The conference will bring together social entrepreneurs, industry leaders, researchers, and students from a wide variety of engineering disciplines to spark a lively debate on the design aspects, successes and failures in technology design for developing economies. We hope that the conference will motivate you to think about technology design from a humanistic perspective and network with others working toward this goal.
This is the time to envision a wider impact of technology in advancing humanity and fostering a strong community of compassionate engineers! Come to EWIDE and learn from those who have worked or are working on such technologies!
The EWIDE speakers have successfully led such projects and include Dr. Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg (Founder and Executive Director of Akili Dada, Winner of Obama Champions of Change Award 2012), Christina Pate (Google Africa), Pooja Upadhyaya (Founder, Mobilizing Health) and Eva Enns (Stanford Researcher in Health Policy for developing economies) .
Join us! Experience an event guaranteed to inspire you! You don't want to miss out!