Prepared by Susana Lau, IEEE Entrepreneurship Vice-Chair for Regional Engagement April 2026 Women in STEM are driving research, solving complex technical problems, and leading innovation across sectors. Yet many still face barriers when moving from technical expertise to entrepreneurship, whether that means limited access to mentors, investor networks, commercialization support, [...]
Annual WIEMPOWER events have been conducted from January to April for the last six years. This year, the annual WIEMPOWER WEEK was proposed from 27 January to 33 February 2025. Students immersed themselves in a week of events designed to foster innovation, knowledge and professional growth. These events offered [...]
The IEEE Returning Mothers Conference held on 15 & 16 November, 2024 at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India, was a resounding success. It marked a historic milestone with the inaugural celebration of International Returning Mother’s Day launched by The World Bank, WePower Network, and RMC. 2024 [...]
The IEEE St. Joseph’s College of Engineering Student Branch organized the "Changemakers Unite" event, an international webinar session held from August 16th to September 6th, 2023, with a primary focus on empowering women worldwide. This event featured esteemed speakers from the IEEE community who shared their expertise on topics related [...]
The second edition of the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Annual Congress, held in Monastir, Tunisia, on September 30th and October 1st, 2023, was a monumental celebration of women's achievements in STEM fields. Organized by IEEE WIE ENIS and IEEE WIE ENET’COM Student Affinity Groups, the event focused on the [...]
The 2023 Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits sponsored by Japan Society of Applied Physics, IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS), and IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) was held at RIHGA Royal Hotel Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan from June 11-16, 2023. During the conference, the Diversity Panel Luncheon (co-sponsored by SSCS WIC [...]
Overview The representation of women in engineering and other professional careers has been a much-debated evergreen topic since the efforts of various governments, organizations and even social enterprises in this arena are still on the increasing side. Women are still not well represented in the [...]
Overview This camp is mainly initiated to encourage pre-university students to have hands-on experience with emerging technologies. For this 1st Edition, we focused on providing hands-on training sessions with diverse competition on “Website Development without Coding”. We created this program as a motivational tool for pre-university students to give them [...]
