My experience attending WCW: Women Changing the World
This year I had the opportunity to work in the coordinating team of the largest women’s technology event in the Dominican Republic: WCW: Women Changing the World or MCM: Mujeres Cambiando el Mundo, in Spanish. This year with the slogan: “For more girls in Science and Technology”.
The event took place last Saturday, March 23 at the Technological Institute of Santo Domingo (INTEC), where there were a little over 200 attendees, including both men and women.
This meeting, which takes place every year, was attended by fourteen native speakers, four international speakers alongside five special guests for the panels: Microsoft MVP Dominicans and Women Changing the World.
These events are organized by the community of women in technology Mujeres Tics, that seek to inspire and help the insertion of more girls in the technology of the Dominican Republic.
All the talks and panels that I attended were very inspiring to me and safe for the other people who attended. I had the opportunity to connect with women who are changing the world. Just to name a few:
Barbarita Lara, the Chilean of the year who created a device that allows communication without the need for a signal and that led her to be the first Chilean to be on the world list of innovators under 35 years of the MIT Technology Review.
Tania Vaca, the Colombian who works to create Digital Transformation in companies, developing and implementing solutions that streamline and facilitate processes.
Elena Aguilera, the Honduran winner of the Mujeres Transformando Honduras award that founded Guala, the association that creates a 3D prosthesis for people with limited resources.
Lesly Zerna, the Bolivian director of the School of AI who seeks to promote experiences on applied artificial intelligence and is also a teacher of AI in Platzi.
María Shrayber, the Russian based in DR, an expert in lighting that is impacting on the matter of the correct use of artificial lighting to avoid health problems.
Along with other wonderful women that spoke about different topics at the event.
My work in WCW
I was fortunate enough to partake in this opportunity and work with a wonderful group of women of Mujeres Tics, consisting of the coordination’s team and volunteers who put all their love and commitment to the event to fulfill its mission.
It’s been about three years since I decided to be a part of this awesome community, where it was not until January of the year in process that I was appointed Director of Communications by Julissa Mateo (President of Mujeres Tics). From that moment I thought and told myself this has to be an event created with a lot of love and professionalism to make it one of the best. And this is how I was very involved with everything related to the design, communication, and logistics of the event.
Being this is part of my responsibilities. I put all my effort and knowledge in creating MCM as a brand that inspires and motivates people to attend. The brand had to be consistent in all publications and documents that I created (from t-shirts to banners).
The very first thing I did was decide upon what we wanted to express to our target (women and girls) and the main goals were: inspire, motivate, educate let them know they could also be a part of the group of people who were changing the world for good.
Then, after meetings and meetings, the team and I, set up what we needed to spread the word and impact not only women but the companies and organizations that could support our cause since the Mujeres Tics is a non-profit community.
The results: A beautiful day full of emotions, where everybody seemed motivated we had a great satisfying feeling: We did it!.
We were able to reach out to so many people and impact them so that they can continue with our mission to create, alongside making them feel capable of changing their world.
In conclusion, I would like for these types of events to continue to be organized, not only in the Dominican Republic but in the rest of the Latin American community’s and the world, little by little we can close the digital gap so that more girls are motivated to study STEM careers, if they can become good at it, they can create new things, they can change the world.
I invite everybody to do their best in what they do and keep working even if the things are not as easy as they thought at the beginning.
If you want to know more about the community and the work we are doing, you can find us at @mujeresticsrd or our webpage www.mujeresticsrd.org
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Have a great day!
Kenny ❤
I’m a Digital Communication Specialist and UI|UX Designer from DR.
