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Wednesday, September 28 • 2:00pm - 3:30pm
(REF 28808) Session 3 Title: Rapid-Fire Lightening Talks: Female Trailblazers Making Moves to Solve Local Challenges with STEM

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Youth make up significant parts of the population in the Global South and beyond. Women in STEM are still a minority everywhere across the planet. What are young, female changemakers in tech doing to create local solutions? How are they ensuring their voices are heard?

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avatar for Hadjer Benmeziane

Hadjer Benmeziane

Hadjer is a machine learning enthusiast who dedicates all her free time to learning and implementing different deep learning models and sharing her knowledge with others equally passionate about the power of artificial intelligence. She’s an In-Memory Computing Research Intern... Read More →
avatar for Lella Halloum

Lella Halloum

Digital Changemaker, IBM
I believe that no decision about my generation — the digital generation — should be made without us.That's why I'm passionate about ‘tech for good’ & closing the digital divide. I am the youngest EVER IBM Z Champion in the programme's history for my efforts to demystify the... Read More →
avatar for Sandra Phiri

Sandra Phiri

Global youth ambassador, Theirworld
Sandra is a champion of digital inclusion in her home country of Malawi, where she recently represented women in STEM at the prestigious Youth Summit in Kigali, Rwanda. One of her most recent accomplishments is being part of one of the winning teams that participated in the prestigious... Read More →
avatar for Melissa Sassi

Melissa Sassi

Partner & Chief Evangelist, P3 Network
Dr. Melissa Sassi is the CEO & Founder of Skills Hustle, an edtech & innovation venture aiming to solve the skills gap through practical, interactive & gamified learning focused on entrepreneurship, digital skills & habitudes (habits + attitudes = life skills).As Founder & CEO of... Read More →
avatar for Kelly Lovell

Kelly Lovell

CEO, BridgingTheGap Ventures
​​An acclaimed youth mobilizer, global strategist and woman entrepreneur, Kelly is passionate about building programs of impact that bridge opportunity gaps to prepare young people for the future and solve global challenges—having reached 330 million young people worldwide and... Read More →
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Kaoutar El-Maghraoui

Technical Leader, IBM T.J Watson Research Center in Yorktown
Dr. Kaoutar El-Maghraoui is a principal research staff member and technical leader at the IBM T.J Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. She is a member of the AI engineering research team at IBM Research AI where she is working on research at the intersection of Systems... Read More →
avatar for Ben Younkman

Ben Younkman

Regional Director of Europe, Village Capital,
As Regional Director of Europe at Village Capital, Ben works on bringing Village Capital’s tools, network, and methodology to the European region to support mission-driven entrepreneurs and grow the existing impact economy.He’s particularly interested in exploring how transformativ... Read More →
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Sadaffe Abid:

CEO, CIRCLE
I am a social entrepreneur leading CIRCLE, a social enterprise working on women's empowerment & inclusion through technology, leadership development & entrepreneurship. With only 26% women in the formal economy, I designed CIRCLE's flagship initiative, #TechKaro initiated in 2018... Read More →
avatar for Krshtee Sukhbilas

Krshtee Sukhbilas

Krshtee Sukhbilas is a university student from Mauritius studying economics and finance at the University of Mauritius. Passionate about social issues and entrepreneurship opportunities, she is the Founding Curator of the Global Shapers Hub in her locality, a Generation Connect Africa... Read More →
avatar for Lena Ostlund

Lena Ostlund

Project Officer, International Telecommunication Union
Lena Ostlund is part of the United Nations’ branch that supports the ICT sector and Member States - International Telecommunication Union – or the ITU. Lena spearheads initiatives and projects within the ITU focused on bringing digital inclusion and greater digital gender equality... Read More →
avatar for Natalja Rodionova

Natalja Rodionova

Founder, Sisters of Code
Natalja is the founder & managing director of Sisters of Code, a non-profit educational program for female students in Cambodia. Sisters of Code aims to inspire girls to discover new opportunities in tech and empower them to learn digital skills to secure a better future.Sisters of... Read More →
avatar for Abdullateef Aliyu

Abdullateef Aliyu

Vice President -IEEE Smart Village (AWG), IEEE
Hailed from the second-largest city in Nigeria, Kano State, Abdullateef is the General Manager of projects in Phase 3 Telecom, an aerial fiber-optic network infrastructure provider in West Africa, and also the Vice President of  IEEE Smart Village Africa Working group. He received his bachelor’s degree from Bayero University Kano (BUK), and master’s in ICT from the Northern University of Malaysia with Honors. He is an Alumnus of the United States telecommunication training institute (USTTI), Washington DC.He worked as... Read More →
avatar for Mistura Muibi-Tajani

Mistura Muibi-Tajani

Founder, VertSTEM
Mistura is a Research Engineer at Digital Pulse Technologies, and a co-founder at Dronagro, Lagos, Nigeria. She earned an MSc. in Computer Science from the African University of Science and Technology, Abuja, and a BSc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University... Read More →
avatar for Phallideth Phen

Phallideth Phen

Phallideth is an incredibly passionate female engineer from Cambodia focused on making tech more gender inclusive. As a young changemaker in STEM from Cambodia, Phallideth is the first university graduate from her family. She received a full-ride scholarship, and is currently working... Read More →


Wednesday September 28, 2022 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
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