Grand Opening - DLI Digital Innovation Centre for Girls & Women

Join us on 9 March 2015 in Brussels to celebrate International Women's Day and the grand opening of DLI's Digital Innovation Centre for Girls & Women - a first of its kind in Europe! We will celebrate this landmark event with fun, hands-on digital activities for all ages, a high-level roundtable with Brussels, Belgian and European stakeholders, and a reception for all in attendance. If you or your organisation would like to support DLI in preparation of our launch, please visit here. Otherwise, please save the date and be sure to join us for this very special occasion!

Draft Agenda:

16:00-18:00: Open House with Digital Activity Stations:

• 3D Design & Printing
• Creative Coding with Processing
• Digital Music & DJing
• Robot Missions
• Bits, Bytes and Machine Code
• Etc.

18:00-18:30: Official Opening Ceremony of the DLI Digital Innovation Centre for Girls & Women - a permanent digital space for our communities of girls (g-Hive.org) and women (inQube) - with:

• Miss Manon Van Hoorebeke, 2014 European Digital Girl of the Year
• Ms. Esther Roure Vila, 2014 European Digital Woman of the Year
• Ms. Rosanna Kurrer, DLI Digital Literacy Lead & G-Hive Manager
• Ms. Silvana Precup, DLI, Digital Strategy & inQube Manager
• Ms. Katja Schipperheijn, DLI Digital Communities Director

18:30-20:00: High-level Roundtable on "Women Driving Digital Innovation": Announcement of conclusions from the 2014 Ada Lovelace Conference and discussion with high-level representatives of the Brussels, Belgium and European public and private sector on the contribution of girls and women to digital innovation across Europe.

Speakers & Panelists:

• Ms. Bianca Debaets, State Secretary of the Brussels Capital Region for Equal Opportunity and ICT
• Ms. Jasmin Battista, Member of Cabinet for European Commission VP Andrus Ansip, responsible for the Digital Single Market
• Ms. Pascale Van Damme, Managing Director Belux, Dell Belgium & Luxembourg and 2014 "ICT Woman of the Year" (DataNews)
• Ms. Esther Roure Vila, Technical Service Cisco Belux, and 2014 European Digital Woman of the Year
• Miss Manon Van Hoorebeke, Belgium Age 11, 2014 European Digital Girl of the Year
• Ms. Laure Le Bars, SAP Strategic Research & Innovation, Research Projects Director
• Ms. Ilse Bracke, Business Unit Manager, CIPAL

Moderator: Ms. Cheryl Miller, Founder, Digital Leadership Institute
Rapporteur: Ms. Silvana Precup, Digital Leadership Institute

20:00-21:00: Reception