• ROOM 1: Science careers in interorganizational and international collaborations

o Faculty Governance Matters: Understanding Collaborative Decision-Making and Equity within University Departments
Laurel Smith-Doerr, Professor, Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
o Advancing academic careers through international collaborations
Kathrin Zippel, Professor, College for Social Science and Humanities, Northeastern U, USA
o Understanding career pathways and professional preparations of PhD holders
Mangala Srinivas, Cenya Imaging BV and Chair (Outgoing) of Young Academy Europe,
o GENERA Network for gender equality in physics
Thomas Berghöfer, Senior Scientist, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) and Coordinator of GENERA Network, Germany

Moderator: Elisabeth Pain, Science Careers Contributing Correspondent, Europe

• ROOM 2: Science and engineering in digital space

o Defining, measuring, and efficiently mitigating the (un)fairness of a decision-making process regarding people from different sensitive groups
Isabel Valera, Professor, Department of Computer Science of Saarland University, Saarbrücken and Group Leader at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen
o Impact of COVID-19 on women in engineering and technology: Results of a Survey
Roberta Rincon, Associate Director of Research for the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), USA
o Gender inclusivity in engineering education
Sally Male, Director of the Teaching and Learning Laboratory in the Faculty of Engineering and IT, and Professor of Engineering and Technology Education at The University of Melbourne
o Disruptive engineering education
Şirin Tekinay, Professor and Dean of Engineering, American University of Sharjah

Moderator: Claudia Canali, Associate Professor, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Enzo Ferrari, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia

• ROOM 3: Risks of re-emergence of gender stereotypes

o Gender Differences in Tertiary Education: What explains STEM Participation?
Sandra McNally, Professor, U Surrey and Director of the Centre for Vocational Education Research, LSE
o The conceptual framework for the Female Achievement Index and Female Disadvantage Index
Eleni Papadimitriou, Senior Policy Analyst, European Commission, DG JRC
o A Digital helping hand? The Sociotechnical imaginaries of campus sexual assault and data in reporting technologies
Kate J. Sim, DPhil Researcher, Oxford Internet Institute, U Oxford
o Confronting stereotypes by strategically investigating intersectionality
Isabelle Caron, Assistant Professor, Dalhousie U, Canada

Moderator: Daphna Joel, Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology, at the School of Psychological Sciences and the Sagol School of Neuroscience at Tel-Aviv University

• ROOM 4: Questions for research: what we need to know about violence against women and femicide

o The Collaborative on preventing sexual harassment in Higher Education
Frazier Benya, National Academies of Science, USA
o What do we (need to) know about different types of sexual perpetrators?
Gunda Wössner, Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
o Countering gender backlash. Monitoring the implementation of Council of Europe Convention
Marceline Naudi, President of the Group of Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (GREVIO)
o Combating gender-based violence: Cyber violence
Evelyn Regner, Chair of the Gender Equality and Women’s Rights Committee (FEMM), European Parliament

Moderator: Niall Boyce, founding Editor of The Lancet Psychiatry

• ROOM 5: Effect of the corona crisis on societal relevance of STEM

o Vaccine hesitancy and gender during the COVID-19 pandemic
Daniel Allington, Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural Artificial Intelligence, Kings College London,
o The COVID experience and impact on science in Brazil
Maria Zaira Turchi, Director, Director for Institutional Cooperation – Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development - CNPq
o Lessons for science institutions and research careers
Janice Bailey, Professor and Scientific Director Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT), Canada
o COVID-related gender and digital inequality issues in South Africa’s universities
Jonathan Jansen, Professor and President of Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAF) and Cyrill Walters, Postdoctoral Fellow in Higher Education, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Moderator: Elizabeth Pollitzer, Director of Portia and founder of Gender Summit

This session will ask how fundamental is the autonomy of science and scholarship for the quality of research – and is there a gender dimension? What does it take to ensure and guarantee scientific freedom – with a gender dimension? Could the discourses on academic freedom and gender be linked to further both causes?

o Towards non-biased exploration of human values and freedom
Nil Mutluer, Einstein Foundation Scholar, Diversity and Social Conflict Department, Humboldt University
o Media, extremism, and free expression
Katrin Kinzelbach, Professor of Human Rights and Initiator of Academic Freedom Index, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
o Assessment of academic freedom worldwide
Robert Quinn, Director, Scholars at Risk Network.
o Threats to academic freedom and autonomy of higher education institutions in Europe: Action at the Council of Europe
Terence Karran, Professor, Lincoln University, UK

Moderator: Ira Harkavy, Associate Vice President, Founding Director, Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships, University of Pennsylvania