Women at the Table

Opening remarks by H.E. Sabine Nӧlke, Ambassador of Canada to the Netherlands

Remarks by H.E. Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji, President of the ICC

Panel discussion moderated by H.E. Heinz Walker-Nederkoorn, Ambassador of

Switzerland to the Netherlands

• H.E. Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the ICC

• H.E. Sheikh Mohammed Belal, Ambassador of Bangladesh to the Netherlands

• Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, Executive Director, Women@TheTable, IGC Co-Founder

• Hans de Boer, Chairman, Confederation of Netherlands Industry and Employers

(VNO-NCW)

Closing remarks by H.E. Peter Lewis, Registrar of the ICC

To kick off a full week of events commemorating

Back by popular demand the Graduate Institute / International Gender Champions Geneva Gender Debate.

Inger Andersen, Director General, International Union for the Conservation of Nature IUCN, newly appointed Head of UN Environment

H.E. Ambassador Michael Gaffey, Permanent Representative of Ireland to the UN and International Organizations in Geneva

Arancha Gonzalez, Executive Director, International Trade Centre

Elhadj As Sy, Secretary-General, International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies

Moderator: Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, Women@theTable

Promoting gender balance in public-private finance

OMFIF is launching the sixth annual Gender Balance Index, which tracks the presence of women in senior positions at central banks and sovereign funds.

Alexandre Fasel, Ambassador, Embassy of Switzerland in the United Kingdom

Keynote:

Monika Bütler, Member of the Bank Council, Swiss National Bank

Speakers:

Ghadir Cooper, Global Head of Equities, Barings

Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, Founder and Executive

Director, Women@TheTable

Martin Taylor, Member of the Financial Policy Committee, Bank of England

.Technology with gender at its core - SMART Cities Enabling More Connective Human Experience

Hosted by Women@theTable & ITU

Moderator: Ambassador Makeda Antoine-Cambridge, Permanent Representative of Trinidad & Tobago to the UN Office at Geneva

Panel: Commissioner Adolfo Cuevas, Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones, Mexico

Tatiana Delgado Fernandez, Vice President, Union of Informatics Professionals Cuba

Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, CEO/Women@theTable

The Sports Forum’s first day will begin with a session dedicated to gender equality. Even though equestrian is the only Olympic sport in which men and women compete on equal terms at all levels, improvements, especially regarding representation in governance-related positions (Committees, NFs, etc.) can be improved.

Women@theTable is thrilled to participate on the opening panel with the President of the Equestrian Federation, one of our International Gender Champions.

Women@theTable is overjoyed to be the co-host of the Huairou Commission's Grassroots Academy for over 35 women leaders from Asia, Africa, and Latin America for two days of strategy & advocacy in advance of the formal global platform for disaster risk reduction taking place in Geneva.

The International Telecommunication Union together with Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions Secretariat, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, UN Environment, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UN Global Compact, United Nations Human Settlements Programme, United Nations Industrial Development Organization and UN-Women is organizing the 13^th Symposium on ICT, Environment and Climate Change. The theme of this year's Symposium: “The role of frontier technologies in combating climate change and achieving a circular economy".

Our own Caitlin Kraft-Buchman will speak on the panel: Frontier Innovators: Are We There Yet?

speaking about The Smart Feminist City 3.0

International Standards Bodies, governmental authorities, regional and intergovernmental organizations, NGOs, UN organizations, academic and research institutions will sign on to the Gender Responsive Standards Declaration in the making since 2017.

Women@theTable is delighted to be participating in a series of events at Women Deliver, the triennial conference on women's health now focused on power, and gathering over 8,500 feminists from across the globe to connect and take action on the issues critical to women having agency and influence.

Panel: “Career Trajectories - A Lifetime of Challenges”

This 2nd international workshop for women in big data brings together a multi disciplinary group working on Big Data research in academia and industry.

Organized as part of the National Research Program “Big Data” (NRP 75), administered by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). The focus of NRP 75 is on Big Data research from multiple disciplinary perspectives, tackling a variety of technical, societal, regulatory, and ethical research issues.

WiBD 2019 cuts across disciplines. It brings together international scholars working on Big Data research with NRP 75 women for talks, posters, panel discussions, as well as informal exchanges. The workshop invites women working on Big Data research to connect with each other, to discuss the challenges they face in their careers as well as in research, and to allow for potential exchanges leading to future research collaboration.

Keynote: Caitlin Kraft-Buchman Women@theTable

Triple A - Affirmative Action for Algorithms: A concrete call for action

Marshall McLuhan, the Canadian media theorist, famously stated that “We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us”.

If algorithms are fed with sexist data from skewed databases, the writers of algorithms are not taking bias into consideration, AND the algorithms are impossible to audit, what can we do to ensure we do not bake in bias so deeply we will be unable to remove it from machine learning systems.

This keynote will propose Triple A: Affirmative Action for Algorithms, a concrete call to action to correct the real life bias and barriers that prevent women from achieving full participation and rights. We will examine actions ranging from universities to government to private sector initiatives, pledges, actions, and the opportunity to catalyze a movement.

The Human Rights Council plays a significant role in highlighting issues of concern for the international
community, encouraging States and UN bodies and agencies to take action to overcome
situations of discrimination, and setting forward recommendations that promote that agenda.
In this sense, the HRC can play a fundamental role in overcoming the historic inequality
faced by women when it comes to participation and representation in international bodies.

A discussion on the scope and impact of women’s
underrepresentation in international bodies to explore the different contributions +
actions that the HRC, and other UN bodies, agencies, and mechanisms, could undertake to
promote gender parity in international bodies.

• Opening Remarks: Meskerem Geset Techane, Chair, WG Discrimination against Women in Law & in Practice
•  
• ​Baroness Helena Kennedy, Director of the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI)
• Verónica Birga, Chief of the Women's Human Rights and Gender Section of the OHCHR 
• Diego Ruiz Gayol, Permanent Mission of Mexico to the UN in Geneva
• Claudia Martin, Co-Director Academy for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law, GQUAL Campaign Secretariat
• Moderator: Caitlin Kraft-Buchman Women@theTable

This annual forum brings together action-oriented policymakers, business leaders, entrepreneurs, activist and academics to generate key policy ideas and support the work of the Women 20 (W20) and other international forums.

The central idea behind the forum this year is solutions to re-shape the world of work so that it works not only for women but for society as a whole.

Women At The Table is very proud to be participating with our Call to Action for Affirmative Action for Algorithms on Session Three: Women driving the digital revolution

Digital technology is fundamentally changing the way we work and live, bringing tremendous opportunities to support the public good, but also risks and new challenges. Blockchain technology, for example, offers a powerful tool to fix sustainability problems in many fields such as supply chain traceability, migrant labour and financial inclusion. But, given the low level of participation of women in the design and development of digital technologies, how can we prevent the amplification of gender discrimination by biased data-sets, models and algorithms in Artificial Intelligence (AI)? This session will examine how we can build ethical, moral, and human values into the future of AI and what governance mechanisms must be in place to minimize AI’s potential harm and maximize its benefits.

Panel                    

Mark Blick, Head of Government Solutions, Diginex, Hong Kong

Allison Gardner, Lecturer, Keele University, Co-Founder Women Leading in AI

Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, CEO/Founder, Women at the Table, Switzerland

Janneke Niessen, Founder, Capital IT, The Netherlands

Moderator: Emily Taylor, Associate Fellow, International Security Department, and Editor, Journal of Cyber Policy, Chatham House; CEO, Oxford Information Labs

The 2019 panel discussion theme ‘Gender-responsive initiatives to accelerate gender equality’ will focus on gender parity as a key element of gender equality and how it contributes to the integration of a gender perspective in the work of the Human Rights Council and its mechanisms.

The panel will analyze new gender-responsive initiatives, such as gender responsive assemblies, and how they have potential to drive effective change within the HRC and its mechanisms.

• Women@theTable & Founder Caitlin Kraft-Buchman  have been asked to 

Moderate the Annual Panel Discussion  

with

•  Ms Elizabeth S. Salmón, Chair of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee
•  Ms Alejandra Vicente, Member of the Secretariat of the GQUAL Campaign and Head of Law at REDRESS, and others. 
• Ms Kate Gilmore, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights will provide an opening statement at the panel discussion.

Opening Remarks H.E. Ambassador Barbara Zvokeli, Permanent Representative of Slovenia to the UN, OSCE, and other International Organizations in Vienna

Introductory Remarks Yury Fedotov, Director-General/Executive Director United Nations Office at Vienna, and UN Office on Drugs and Crime

Intervention Arancha Gonzalez, Executive Director International Trade Centre, and Chair of IGC Global Board

IGC Impact Groups, Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, Co-Founder IGC, CEO / Founder Women@theTable

Interactive Champion discussion on IGC Impact Groups

Launch of the <A+> Alliance Website

aplusalliance.org

with Women@theTable and wonderful partner Ciudadania Inteligente

Frontline women from

• the Egyptian Family Planning Association,
• Reproductive and Family Health Association of Fiji, 
•  CIES Centro de Investigacion, Educacion, y Servicios, Bolivia 

will share personal stories about their day-to-day work and shine a spotlight on the human rights challenges women and girls face daily in the intersection of their work and the broader human rights and development agendas.

Seeking to move beyond traditional conversations this briefing is in an opportunity to hear directly frontline women on how peace-building, civic space, health, education, climate change, sustainability and indigenous rights are all inextricably linked to the rights of women and girls including SRHR.

The discussion will be held under Chatham House Rules. Invitation Only.

A light lunch will be served.

'Coding Gender Equality: Affirmative Action for Algortihms'

a Learning Forum at MozFest led by our partners at Ciudadania Inteligente to explore our <A+> Alliance Declaration and Action Plan.

The theme of the Mozilla Festival this year is

"Healthy AI"

& the <A+> Alliance will be there

with a side event featuring our new Alliance and what developers can do to take action and join.

'Explore how machines are making decisions for us now, and what AI advances are on the horizon. Together we’ll brainstorm ways to bring more social responsibility, ethics, and user agency to AI... today, and in the future.'

How Innovation will Change our Cities?

A full two days in Helsingborg, Sweden at the H22 Summit in one of the smartest cities in the world.

Women@theTable is incredibly proud to be there 'In Conversation' with a Deep Talk onstage on 'AI & Equality'.

The International Gender Champions take the stage again after being picked as one of the ten projects the Paris Paris Forum chose to honor and follow in the first year of Paris Peace Forum existence 2018-2019.

The Reykjavík Global Forum is where women leaders discuss and share ideas and solutions on how to further advance society,

annually co-hosted by Women Political Leaders (WPL), and the Government and Parliament of Iceland.

Each year the Forum invites 450 leaders from around the globe, including Presidents and Prime Ministers and other public figures, as well as leaders from business, academia, civil society, arts, media and more who are playing a vital role in their respective fields sharing ideas, insights and experiences.

Women@theTable is thrilled to be invited this year.

Standards Conference, featuring the BSI Standards Awards, to focus on future trends and a global perspective.

Closing Plenary

The theme of the discussion for the closing panel will be addressing human needs in standards, including how to be inclusive of human diversity/differences.

• Nike Folayan - Chairperson, Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers 
• Wilson Wong - Head of Insight & Futures, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
• Caitlin Kraft-Buchman - CEO / Founder, Women@TheTable
• Stephanie Eynon - Standards-Makers Development and Engagement Manager, BSI

<A+> Alliance is honored to have its official launch during the Internet Governance Forum co-hosted

with and by GIZ, the service provider for economic cooperation and development of the German government.

Launch <A+> Alliance

26 November

0930-1130

Betahaus

Rudi-Dutschke-Str. 23

10969 Berlin

Private Briefing

Data Scientists & Social Scientists

27 November

1330-1400

Room Estrel 4 at IGF

Oak: building a strong and vibrant movement of women who are empowered individually and collectively to challenge patriarchal norms and tackle the root causes of inequality.

A leadership network that brings together female & male decision-makers to break down gender barriers for system change.

w@tt is extremely proud to be the Gender Platform working with the Swiss Government to highlight the Geneva Gender Experience in multilateral fora.

w@tt is grateful for the support of the Republique et Canton de Genève.

Chosen to be one of ten projects followed by the Paris Peace Forum over the year. IGC will help open the 2019 edition.

Co-Chairs w/ w@tt & Sweden of the IGC Representation Impact Group

Co-Chairs w/ Iceland & Botswana of the IGC Trade Impact Group

Initiative for Gender-Responsive Standards

Co-Chairs w/ Ireland, Canada, Namibia of the IGC Disarmament Impact Group

bringing one million women to market by 2020

Working on w@tt's idea for Open Source Software that can track women's participation & influence in international fora

w@tt is extremely proud to have achieved ECOSOC status at the UN in 2018.

Increasing the visibility and recognition of women’s contributions to global health & achieving gender equality in global health leadership.

Stories of ordinary women creating extraordinary change in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with partner Julienne Lusenge, recipient of  French Legion of Honour, Amnesty International’s Ginetta Sagan Award & 2018 International Women's Rights Award.

Our partner in Wamama Tujenge, Media Matters for Women is at the forefront of harnessing the potential of mobile phones to address the unmet information needs of women and girls in rural Africa. 

A global coalition empowering grassroots women leaders in development and policy-making around the world.

Thomson Reuters Foundation’s global pro bono legal programme connecting high-impact NGOs and social enterprises working to create social and environmental change with the best law firms and corporate legal teams to provide them with free legal assistance and groundbreaking legal research.