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Girls Who Code

Girls Who Code

Today, at 11 am, the Fondazione Mondo Digitale and the United States Embassy in Italy, in collaboration with Microsoft, will present the fifth edition of Coding Girls, the programme created to overcome the gender divide in technological fields and promote female careers in the digital economy.

 

 

CODING GIRLS 

Young Women Programming the Future

Press Conference

Rome, Oct. 4, 2018, 11:00 am

United States Embassy in Rome – Young Room, Via Sallustiana 49

 

  AGENDA

 

11:00 am | Welcome

  • Lewis M. Eisenberg, United States Ambassador to Italy

 

11:10 am | PRESENT AND FUTURE OF THE CODING GIRLS PROGRAMME

  • Mirta Michilli, Director General, Fondazione Mondo Digitale

 

11:20 am | SUCCESS STORIES

  • Barbara Cominelli, Director, Marketing & Operations Microsoft Italy, and the “Ambizione Italia” Project

 

11:30 am | AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & GENDER DIVERSITY.

  • Marzia Francisci, General Counselor, American Chamber of Commerce in Italy

 

11:40 | THE VOICE OF THE PROTAGONISTS!

The experience of students and teachers participating in the initiative.

  • Valeria Cristino, Computer Engineering Student, Sapienza University of Rome
  • Vittoria Sasso, Student, Liceo Peano, Monterotondo
  • Gabriella Cecchetti, Professor, IIS Croce Aleramo, Rome

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