Riga TechGirls: Meetup #2

Ladies and gents! Riga TechGirls are back from summer vacations and we'd like to invite you to our second meetup. Language: English. Participation is free. Agenda: 19:00 Intro 19:10 Daina Gailiusaite By 2022 IT and engineering sector will lack 16 000 employees, and these are the stats only for Latvia. To make things worse, last year an OECD report on gender equality found that less than 1 in 20 girls considered careers in STEM. Recently Tele2 Shared Service Center has conducted a research among 8 grade students in Riga trying to find the answers about children perception towards IT and how it can be changed. Research findings are shocking, so join the meet-up and be the first to know how we can challenge the existing situation together! 19:30 Dmitry Lebedev What are innovations? Are innovations something that tied to a gender? Are innovations something that tied to HiTech? Should innovations be always backed up by science? When should we unleash your creativity and when should we stick to the devil we know? If you look at top 10-20-30 innovators - 90% (or even may be 95%) of them will be males from HiTech. What I’m offering is to look at innovation from a different angle, learn about non-HiTech innovations, learn how pie-chart saved thousands of lives, learn how being too innovative could kill you, etc. 20:00 Ediite Millere A short story about how someone with background in social antroplogy and education, with no digital skills, ended up working as IT business advisor in Ghana and is now working towards making digital skills more available in Latvia for everyone, who never thought that they will ever want to take a class in coding or data analytics! 20:30 Networking. Snacks and drinks provided by our partner Tele2 SSC will be waiting for you :) See you at The Mill Brivibas street 33, 2nd floor