Bengaluru Chapter

Chapters is a framework that includes a cluster of leading organizations that supports WiT in spreading its roots across the country. These organizations invest in generating impact through various social and technical initiatives with focus towards a common objective of increasing the women participation in STEM.

PARTNERS

We have over 31 participants in the Bangalore Chapter led by IBM. These organizations focus on different projects under chapters based on the following pillars:

ENGAGE

WiT in partnership with organizations provides programs to reach out to schools and colleges.
Companies engage with faculty, students and parents with focus to encourage and enhance more girls to join STEM and technology domain. This is being done through specific education programs focused on generating awareness in STEM subjects and through real-time experiential learning.

ENABLE

WiT Allies: WiT provides a platform for organizations to support upcoming talent across industry through mentorship program to enable careers in STEM.
WiT Development Programs: It supports programs for women who are in early-mid career stage and leadership positions. It aims to give them an opportunity to understand workplace challenges such as work-life balance, stereotypes career advancement barriers, workplace harassment etc.

EMPLOY

WiT in collaboration with organizations support in hiring and staffing of talented women in technology.
In order to shift the needle for gender-based hiring in STEM. We conduct ‘career fairs’ with a focus on recruitment activities carried out by organizations.

INITIATIVES & IMPACT

HACKATHON

ACCELERATING THE NEW NORMAL

Participants from:

Reliance Jio, SAP, IBM , Wipro, Optum ,Credit Suisse , Dell , Volvo , Deloitte , KPMG , Infosys , UI Path and OLX.

Partner

Sponsor

Over 425 teams of women technologists across the country came together in May 2020 to find diverse solutions ranging from solving migrant labourer issues, household helping apps, supporting mental well-being and many more during the present crisis.

LEADERSHIP SESSIONS

Increasing women participation in tech roles is high on the agenda of organizations in Bangalore Chapter and IBM has been instrumental in leading the cause in Bangalore.

Leadership sessions were conducted by Shalini Kapoor, Neelam Gori and Sugandha Srikanteswaran of IBM on March 12 and 23 April 2020 on how to build more awareness about opportunities for female professionals in STEM through outreach and providing support, importance of having a Women Tech Entrepreneurs Community and hosting more masterclasses by female industry leaders to inspire women or girls who are interested in getting into STEM fields. A prescient need for upskilling and reskilling were also discussed.

The importance of focusing on Diversity & Inclusion as an agenda even during the time of a crisis like COVID 19 was also a recurring theme.

UPCOMING EVENTS

CHAPTER MEET

The chapter partners will convene and discuss collaborations to further the agenda of gender diversity across the industry on 12th August 2020.

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