07 February 2018
Bilbao Campus
The submission deadline ends on the 20th of March
The following people took part at the presentation of the Ada Byron Award in Madrid: the Head of Innobasque Leire Bilbao; the responsible of Relations University-Enterprise from Deusto Engineering Faculty, Cristina Giménez; the Counselor of Orange Espagne, María Luisa Jordá; The Ada Byron Award 2017, Regina Llopis; the President of Microsoft Spain, Pilar López; the Dean from Deusto Engineering Faculty, Asier Perallos; the Secretary of State of Research, Development and Innovation, Carmen Vela, the Head of The Women Basque Institute-Emakunde, Izaskun Landaida, the Head of IK4-IDEKO, Nerea Aranguren; the Deputy of Employment, Inclusion and Equity in the Foral Council of Bizkaia, Teresa Laespada; Idoia Maguregui, the assistant director-general of Media in Sareb; and Iñaki Ortega, Head of the Deusto Business School in Madrid.
The Engineering Faculty from the University of Deusto has presented in Madrid the V edition of the Ada Byron Award. This initiative is looking forward to providing visibility to women’s work at the scientific and technological field, to promote the vocation of women in the field of Research and Development and advertise the importance of the technology for the economic growth as a future value for society.
The deadline for the submission of the candidatures finishes on the 20th of March. The award, which constitutes 3.000 euro will be given through the opening ceremony of the VI edition of FOROTECH, Deusto Week of Engineering and Technology, which will take place in Bilbao from 25 to 27 April.
At the presentation of this prestigious award, which has been celebrated at the headquarters of Deusto in Madrid for the first time, the following people have taken part the State Secretary of Research, Development and Innovation, Carmen Vela; the Deputy of Employment, Inclusion and Equity in the Foral Council of Bizkaia, Teresa Laespada; the Head of the Women Basque Institute-Emakunde, Izaskun Landaida; the Head of Innobasque, Leire Bilbao; the Head of IK4-IDEKO, Nerea Aranguren; and the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Deusto, Asier Perallos.
After the presentation a round-table discussion entitled “Women and technology, an indispensable tandem” was held. The Head of Microsoft Spain, Pilar López; the Ada Byron Award 2017, Regina Llopis; and the Counselor from Orange Espagne, María Luisa Jordá took part. The discussion was moderated by Iñaki Ortega, Head of the Deusto Business School in Madrid.
The award counts with the sponsorship of the Foral Council of Bizkaia, IK4 and EMAKUNDE-Women Basque Institute; as well as with the collaboration of Innobasque and Basque Health Cluster.
In the first four editions the awarded were: Montserrat Meya, expert in artificial technology and automatic translation; Asunción Gómez, researcher of the so called “semantic technologies”; Nuria Olivar, hear of the Development and Research Telefónica; and Regina Llopis, PhD in Applied Mathematics to Artificial Intelligence by the University of California Berkeley (United States).
