Date: 12.05.2022 // 10.30am – 8pm CEST

Venue: ICM International Congress Center Munich (Germany) 

The international Women Energize Women Conference warmly invites women and men working in the energy sector from across the globe to travel to Munich (Germany) for the chance to take part in discussion rounds, workshops and other innovative formats on energy and gender topics with exclusively female speakers. You can find more detailed information about the programme and speakers on the conference website.

This one-day conference deals with the pressing energy transition issues across the world by looking at them from a female perspective and actively involving female change makers. It facilitates professional networks and mentoring opportunities for women in the energy transition. 

This event is part of the Women Energize Women (#womenenergize) campaign, a communication initiative of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK), and implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) in cooperation with The smarter E Europe and BSW Solar within the scope of BMWK’s global project Bilateral Energy Partnerships and Dialogues.

Join in to

• connect with other female energy experts,
• gain more visibility on international fora,
• and shape the global discussion on the energy transition.

Moderator:

• Geraldine de Bastion, CEO & founder Konnektiv Kollektiv

Registration

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Date: 25.04.2022 // 2pm – 3.30pm CEST

Venue: Online - Event Link will be available after registration

As we explored in the January #womenenergize event, female entrepreneurs are faced with numerous gender related obstacles. Many of these obstacles are institutionalized and reflect the domination of male narratives in the business world. Especially when trying to obtain financing for a business, women have a noticeable disadvantage. This event aims to bring together experts on investment and financing and to let them answer the questions of female participants. How do I get investment ready? Which types of funds exist for me? What do I have to do to make my portfolio stick out? How can I tackle gender biases in the investor’s interview?
After a short presentation of the experts and their respective areas of expertise, the audience will be invited to ask all their questions. This event aims at supporting female entrepreneurs in their quest to obtain investments by opening a space for questions on best practices, dos and don’ts and useful tips for the search of investors.

Moderator:

• Geraldine de Bastion, CEO & founder Konnektiv Kollektiv

Speakers:

• Terezia Jacova, Head of Investment Relations and Education & Co-founder, LUMUS Investment
• Divya Balakrishnan, Advisor, GET.invest
• Katya Gratcheva, Lead Finance Officer, Climate Investment Funds

Registration

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Date: 28.03.2022 // 3pm – 5pm CEST

Venue: Online - Event Link will be available after registration

In order to achieve the global energy transition, all talents are needed. However, structural and economic barriers still exist for women to enter the sector and to occupy decision making positions. One of many powerful tools to create more gender equality in the energy sector is gender mainstreaming. Numerous different concepts and attempts of women empowerment are already successfully deployed in different parts of the world, especially in energy partnership countries. This BETD Side Event seeks to bring together representatives from these countries to shed light on the different approaches to gender mainstreaming and to identify common solutions, possible synergies and further needed action.

Moderator:

• Geraldine de Bastion, CEO & founder Konnektiv Kollektiv

Speakers:

Welcoming Words:

• Birgit Schwenk, Director-General for Climate Action, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
• Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven, Board Member,  Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GIZ (tbc)
• Simone Peter, President German Renewable Energy Federation BEE

Speakers:

• Punkie Majola, Senior Engineer City of Ekurhuleni, former chair of AMEU Women in Electricity – South Africa
• Ruba Al’Zubi, Co-founder Together for Energy and Climate Society - Jordan
• Rana Faqihi,  - Saudi Arabia
• Tania Sauma, Chief of Staff of the Chilean Secretariat of Energy - Chile
• Kathlen Schneider, Co-founder and Coordinator of the Brazilian Women’s Network in Solar Energy (MESOL) - Brazil
• Natalia Slobodian, Head of Department Climate Change and Environmental Protection, DTEK - Ukraine
• Prof. Li Ying, Dean, International Education Institute, China Women University (tbc) - China

Closing Remarks:

• Christine Lins, Executive Director Global Women’s Network for the Energy Transition (GWNET)

Registration

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Date: 02.03.2022 // 5pm – 6pm CET

Venue: Online - Event Link will be available after registration

There is increasing talk about “gender mainstreaming” in the energy sector. But what exactly does this mean? In short, gender mainstreaming is a tool or a process designed to correct the imbalance between women and men in terms of opportunities, decision making and influence. Gender mainstreaming needs to happen on many levels to increase gender equality: on the institutional and public level and on the commercial level.

There are numerous companies that have introduced gender mainstreaming in their business model. In this session, we will focus on one particular example: Solar Sister. In this moderated
interview with Solar Sister’s CEO & Founder, Katherine Lucey, we will explore the motivation behind her work, the strategies and measures to advance women’s empowerment as well as
her advice to other businesses regarding gender mainstreaming.

Moderator:

• Geraldine de Bastion, CEO & founder Konnektiv Kollektiv

Interviewee:

• Katherine Lucey, CEO & Founder of Solar Sister

Registration

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Date: 26.01.2022 // 4pm – 5.30pm CET

Venue: Online - Event Link will be available after registration

The entrepreneurial and start-up sector are highly important drivers for innovation. Especially in the energy sector, start-ups can often provide new, adventurous ideas from technological innovation, to energy provision, to small scale decentralized renewables. However, the entrepreneurial sector is still largely dominated by male founders and CEOs.

In Germany the share of female founders across all sectors lay at about 15% in 2020, in the US the share of start ups with at least one female founding member was at 28% in 2020. Is this rather low share due to unequal opportunities and obstacles for women in the start up sector? Are there differences in the granting of finance to women and to men? Are there specific obstacles to female founders, that are seldomly spoken about? Would you like to share a personal experience? And what are important steps to secure financing to female founders (both systemic and personal steps)?

Moderator:

• Geraldine de Bastion, CEO & founder Konnektiv Kollektiv

Speakers:

• Damilola Asaleye, Co-Founder Ashdam Solar Company (Nigeria)
• Dr. Rashi Gupta, Founder & Managing Director Vision Mechatronics Pvt. Ltd. (India)
• Aidée Zamora Espinola, Co-founder & CEO Grupo AMERALI (Mexico)
• Carina Klaffl, Head of Grow F Initiative, Female Founders (Austria)

Registration

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Date: 15.12.2021 // 5pm – 6pm CET

Venue: Online - Event Link will be available after registration

There is increasing talk about “gender mainstreaming” in the energy sector. But what does this mean in practice? In order to get insights into hands-on experience of gender mainstreaming, this virtual event aims to focus on best practices from Chile.

The event "Best Practices in Gender Mainstreaming in the Energy Sector: 'Energía + Mujer' in Chile" will be held in form of an interview with Javiera Aldunate, Director for International Relations at the Chilean Ministry of Energy. We want to take a closer look with her at the programme’s background, design, its best-practices and also obstacles.

Moderator:

• Geraldine de Bastion, CEO & founder Konnektiv Kollektiv

Interviewee:

• Javiera Aldunate, Director for International Relations, Chilean Ministry of Energy

Registration

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