Forum

Championing women in GRC industries

65
Speakers

24
Sessions

22
Hours of content

According to Adeva IT, as of 2018, women held only 25% of all the jobs in the tech industry, despite women making up almost half of the total workforce. What’s worse, this number is lower than the percentage of tech jobs held by women back in the 1980s.

Research from Entelo also shows there are around 19% of women in entry level and mid-level roles in the tech industry.

At the senior level, however, women hold only 16% of positions. As you go even higher, this number drops even lower, with women holding just 10% of executive level positions.

The Women in GRC Forum brings together the great and the good of Governance, Risk and Compliance for a day of learning, insight, guidance and debate.

Focusing on the key areas of leadership, the role of HR in business and career progression, the Women in Governance, Risk and Compliance Forum provides a platform to challenge the status quo for women in GRC and help lead the charge in changing these statistics.

With research from the PwC Women in Technology research study showing that only 27% of female respondents would consider a career in Technology, compared to 62% of males, and only 22% of respondents able to name a famous woman in the tech industry, there is a clear need for a platform to encourage and inspire the next generation of female leaders.

Topics include

How can we encourage more young women into more male dominated roles?

Wellness in the workplace: Menopause and beyond

Why women are ideal as great leaders within GRC

Your most valuable asset: Strategies to retain and promote women employees

Men as allies to women in a male dominated workplace

Responding to microaggressions: How to deal and manage difficult situations at work

Previous speakers include

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Fiona Hathorn
Founder and CEO, Women on Boards
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Amii Barnard-Bahn
Executive Coach and Consultant and Author of “The Promotability Index”
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Anjali S Menon
Compliance and AML Specialist
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Dr Saritha Arunkumar
Executive Security Advisor, IBM
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Heather Dean
Director, Business Information Security Officer, Data Governance, BNY Mellon
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Emerald de Leeuw
Global Head of Privacy, Logitech

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Video
The Recruitment Process: Attracting more women to technical roles
Encouraging more women to apply for more technical roles has continued to be a challenge in all sectors. For example, figures show that just 17% of people working in the tech sectors in the UK are female.
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Your most valuable asset: Strategies to retain and promote women employees
The cost of hiring a replacement employee is on average $5k, but it can often be more. That’s why when you have high quality staff members it’s so important to look after your employees. And with the challenges of the pandemic often leading to more commitments for women, women could experience dips in confidence.
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How can we encourage more young women into more male dominated roles?
There’s no question that the Information and cybersecurity industry is a male-dominated one.
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Wellness in the workplace: Menopause and beyond
More and more women are working through their 50s and into their 60s, and employers are facing a new challenge on how to support employees experiencing menopause whilst at work.
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In conversation with Dr Ann Cavoukian, Executive Director, Global Privacy & Security, by Design Centre, former Canadian Privacy Commissioner
Dr. Ann Cavoukian is recognised as one of the world’s leading privacy experts. Dr. Cavoukian served an unprecedented three terms as the Information & Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada.
Video
The Importance of ESG: The Role for Women’s Leadership in Organisations
The leadership role of women is being demanded more and more in organizations. In this line, the metrics of the World Economic Forum itself stand out in the White Paper “Measuring Stakeholder Capitalism Towards Common Metrics and Consistent Reporting of Sustainable Value Creation” that point to these guidelines.
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Women Supporting Women: Creating a wider circle of women at the professional and executive levels
We need to reverse the stereotype that women don’t support other women.
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The Future is Female: Advice from leaders on how to succeed and how to progress in a GRC role
This session will take place with leaders in GRC roles sharing their experience of progression in their careers and what advice and guidance they would give to younger women to look at developing a career in Governance, Risk and Compliance.
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Responding to Microaggressions: How to deal and manage difficult situations at work
A study from SurveyMonkey and Fortune shows that 68% of Americans believe microaggression in the workplace to be a serious issue - and that’s just the start!