{"id":42344,"date":"2025-05-30T16:49:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T14:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/?p=42344"},"modified":"2025-05-30T17:34:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T15:34:24","slug":"wfeo-committee-on-women-in-engineering-webinar-open-forum-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wfeo-committee-on-women-in-engineering-webinar-open-forum-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"WFEO Committee on Women in Engineering webinar &#8211; Open Forum 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/yTL8UCEsXfo\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-WIE_Open-Forum-20250528-Copie.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"829\" height=\"589\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-WIE_Open-Forum-20250528-Copie.png 829w, https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-WIE_Open-Forum-20250528-Copie-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-WIE_Open-Forum-20250528-Copie-768x546.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/committee-women-in-engineering\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WFEO Committee on Women in Engineering (WIE)<\/a> organized virtually the webinar <i>&#8220;Women in Engineering &#8211; Open Forum 2025&#8221;<\/i> on 28 May 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The WIE Chair <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/committee-women-in-engineering-chair\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Enyonam Kpekpena<\/a> presented the WIE Report and the Themes&#8217; Leads presented their 2025 Action Plans.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe recording is available by clicking on the below image.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/yTL8UCEsXfo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-WIE_Open-Forum_screencopy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1390\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39815\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<b>Master of ceremony:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Prof. Dr. LEONG Wai Yie<\/b> (Malaysia)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Opening remarks and report on WIE Committee:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Dr. Enyonam Kpekpena<\/b>, WIE Chair (Ghana)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Theme 1: Engineering Workforce Capacity building- to increase diversity and inclusivity in the future skills pipeline<\/b><br \/>\nLeads: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Prof. Dr. LEONG Wai Yie<\/b> (Malaysia)<\/li>\n<li><b>Sharon Mabengwa Musonda<\/b> (Zambia)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Theme 2: Engineering Workforce Capacity building- to encourage female engineering retention and leadership<\/b><br \/>\nLeads:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Jitu Kebede Guta<\/b> (Ethiopia)<\/li>\n<li><b>Man Chit Jovian Cheung<\/b> (Hong Kong, SAR of China)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Theme 3: Engineering Strategic Indicators<\/b><br \/>\nLeads:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Yvette Ramos<\/b> (Switzerland)<\/li>\n<li><b>Jeanette Southwood<\/b> (Canada)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Theme 4: Working in Partnership to address the Sustainable Development Goals, with a particular emphasis on Goal 5 and its relationship with the other Goals<\/b><br \/>\nLeads:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Dawn Bonfield<\/b> (UK)<\/li>\n<li><b>Yetunde Holloway<\/b> (Nigeria)<\/li>\n<li><b>Agness Mofya Mwansa<\/b> (Zambia)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-WIE_Open-Forum_screencopy-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1886\" height=\"866\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-WIE_Open-Forum_screencopy-2.png 1886w, https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-WIE_Open-Forum_screencopy-2-300x138.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-WIE_Open-Forum_screencopy-2-1024x470.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-WIE_Open-Forum_screencopy-2-768x353.png 768w, https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-WIE_Open-Forum_screencopy-2-1536x705.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1886px) 100vw, 1886px\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<b>For more information:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i class=\"fa fa-internet-explorer fa-2x\" style=\"color: #115578;\"><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/stc-women\/2025\/WFEO-WIE_Open-Forum-20250528-Welcome_Remarks.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"color: #115578;\">Opening and Welcome Remarks by WIE Chair Dr. Enyonam Kpekpena<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i class=\"fa fa-internet-explorer fa-2x\" style=\"color: #115578;\"><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/stc-women\/2025\/WFEO-WIE_Open-Forum-20250528-Presentation_Deck.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"color: #115578;\">Webinar Presentation_Deck<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i class=\"fa fa-internet-explorer fa-2x\" style=\"color: #115578;\"><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/stc-women\/2025\/WFEO-WIE_Open-Forum-Program-Outline-20250528.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"color: #115578;\">Webinar program outline<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i class=\"fa fa-internet-explorer fa-2x\" style=\"color: #115578;\"><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wfeo-committee-on-women-in-engineering-webinar-open-forum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"color: #115578;\">WFEO Committee on Women in Engineering webinar &#8211; Open Forum 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i class=\"fa fa-internet-explorer fa-2x\" style=\"color: #115578;\"><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/committee-women-in-engineering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"color: #115578;\">WFEO Committee on Women in Engineering website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe WFEO Committee on Women in Engineering (WIE) organized virtually the webinar &#8220;Women in Engineering &#8211; Open Forum 2025&#8221; on 28 May 2025.<br \/>\nThe WIE Chair Dr. Enyonam Kpekpena presented the WIE Report and the Themes&#8217; Leads presented their 2025 Action Plans.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe recording is available by clicking on the below image.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nMaster of ceremony:<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Dr. LEONG Wai Yie (Malaysia)<\/p>\n<p>Opening remarks and report on WIE Committee:<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Enyonam Kpekpena, WIE Chair &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[107,95],"class_list":["post-42344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-report","tag-goal-5","tag-sdgs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WFEO Committee on Women in Engineering webinar - Open Forum 2025 - WFEO<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wfeo-committee-on-women-in-engineering-webinar-open-forum-2025\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WFEO Committee on Women in Engineering webinar - Open Forum 2025 - WFEO\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The WFEO Committee on Women in Engineering (WIE) organized virtually the webinar &#8220;Women in Engineering &#8211; 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