Women in Water: UN International Women's Day
Wed, Mar 08
|Webinar
Meet 6 women who are dedicated to 'fixing' some aspect of the way industry and society manage and/or use water, or manage wastewater.
Time & Location
Mar 08, 2023, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
Webinar
About the event
H2O Global News and Mazarine invite you to join us on March 8th UN International Women's Day for a roundtable discussion featuring 6 women who wake up each day focused on making humanity's relationship with water a little less problematic.
PFAS & lead are public health and safety risks, flooding & drought are being exacerbated due to the effects of changing climate, and polluted lakes and rivers are hampering our efforts to protect our natural environment. Underpinning all of this is the need for water in running almost every aspect of our modern-day economy, spanning: data centers, power generation, fish farming, agriculture, and apparel manufacturing.
Water the 'protagonist', our hero, has now become water the 'antagonist' playing the role of disrupter in our story. Join this discussion to hear how 6 women are pioneers in their respective fields, imagining new ways of doing things and developing creative solutions to address a myriad of water-related challenges.
The theme for International Women’s Day, 8 March 2023 (IWD 2023) is, “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality”. This theme is aligned with the priority theme for the upcoming 67th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW-67), “Innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls”.
Featured Participants
Shirley Ben-Dak, Senior Advisor, Strategy & Innovation, SWAN
Erica Brown, Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer, Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies (AMWA)
Karyn Georges, Managing Director UK, Isle Utilities
Jennifer Loudon, Founder/CEO, Intelligent Water Services, Director of Lab & Water Quality at PVWC
Jessie Mahr, Director of Technology, Environmental Policy Innovation Center
Kelley Vendeland, VP, Marketing and ESG, Energy Recovery, Inc.
Moderators
John Robinson, Mazarine
Abby Davey, H2O Global News