UN Women and SAP Meet Up: Making Innovation Work for Women

The event is by registration only, all registrations need to be confirmed by 8 June 2017.
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The United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was founded on the principle of leaving no one behind. However, existing trends will not result in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and instead shows a growing gender digital divide. At the same time, innovation and technology provide unprecedented opportunities to break isolation, create economies of scale, and change social norms to both close the gender digital divide and accelerate the achievement of the SDGs and gender equality.

UN Women is the United Nations entity dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women. As a global champion for women and girls, advancing women and girls in innovation, technology and entrepreneurship is a strategic imperative for UN Women. UN Women has identified innovation, and information and communication technologies (ICTs) as one of the key drivers of change underlying its new strategic framework, and has established an Innovation Unit to ensure that innovation works for women. UN Women’s Innovation Unit focuses on building market awareness, investment and industry-wide action for innovations that advance women; working with industry partners to take a gender-responsive approach to the innovation cycle; promoting women as innovators; and directly developing innovations and technology that can accelerate the impact of UN Women’s operations to meet the needs of women and girls.

This meet up is the first of its kind and will explore opportunities for how all of us can work to ensure that innovation meets the needs of women and girls.

Date: 9 June 2017

Time: 5.30pm registration; event is from 6 to 9pm EDT

Venue: SAP offices, 10 Hudson Yards, 48th Fl, New York, NY 10001

Agenda

• 30–6pm – Registration and networking
• 6–6.20pm – Making innovation work for women – Fiona Bayat-Renoux
• 20–6.40 – Big data and gender equality – Navin Haram
• 40–7pm – Buy from women enterprise platforms – Fiona Bayat-Renoux
• 7–7.20pm – Blockchain technology in humanitarian contexts
• 20–7.40pm – Virtual skills schools – Anna Falth
• 40–8pm – Taking a gender-responsive approach to innovation – Matt Wallaert
• 8–9pm – Cocktails and networking