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Summit Agenda
Time
Themes and Panelists
Time
- 8:15
Registration and Breakfast Networking
- 9:10 - 9:25
Grit Female Leaders in Healthcare Summit - Welcome Address
Noreen McKenzie
MC and National President of Network Ireland 2022
Diane Nevin
Chief Executive and Founder of Grit International Female Network
- 9:25 - 9:40
Why Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Matter?
Keynote by Furkan Karayel
Diversity and Inclusion Author and Speaker
- 9:40 - 10:15
The Importance of Gender Equality in Women’s Health
Moderated by Naomh McElhatton
Grit Alumni Female Founder and CEO of Dara and Co
Peggy Maguire
Director General at European Institute of Women's Health
Dr May Shana’a
President at The Asherah Foundation, USA
Dr Josephine Sundqvist
Secretary-General and CEO at LM International, Stockholm, Sweden
- 10:20 - 11:05
Leading for Change
Moderated by Barbara Skerritt
Grit Board Member and Senior IT Director, Global Head of Product at ICON
Anne O'Connor
Managing Director at VHI Health & Wellbeing Ireland
Professor Deborah McNamara
Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon, Beaumont Hospital and Vice President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI)
Isabel Cabruja
Grit Ambassador and Senior Director Commercial Operations / International Markets at Thermo Fisher Scientific, Milan, Italy
- 11:05 - 11:20
Networking Coffee
- 11:25 - 12:00
Women in Healthcare Leadership
Moderated by Sarita Johnston
Grit Board Member and Director, Business Planning at Capstone Business Advisors Limited
Eilísh Hardiman
Grit Board Member and Chief Executive at Children's Health Ireland
Lucy Nugent
Chief Executive of Tallaght University Hospital and President of the European Association of Hospital Managers (EAHM)
- 12:05 - 12:45
Women Founders Disrupting Healthcare - Grit Alumni
Moderated by Diane Nevin
Chief Executive and Founder of Grit International Female Network
Una Kearns
Female Founder and CEO of myPatientSpace
Heidi Davis
Female Co-Founder and CEO of IdentifyHer
Judi O’Malley
Female Co-Founder and CEO of Spiorad
Dr Harriet Treacy
Female Co-Founder and CEO of Beyondbmi
- 12:50 - 13:20
Transforming the Healthcare Workforce
Moderated by Naomh McElhatton
Grit Alumni Female Founder and CEO of Dara and Co
Maria McCann
Organisational Psychologist, Director of Identity Management Services at HSE Ireland
Dr Jennifer Ralph James
Grit Mentor and Pharmaceutical Medical Affairs Leader, Ireland
- 13:20
Networking Lunch
- 14:15 - 14:55
Women’s Digital Health Technologies
Moderated by Barbara Skerritt
Grit Board Member and Senior IT Director, Global Head of Product at ICON
Lorraine Smyth MSc
e-Enabler, Scheduled Care Transformation Office of the National Director – Change and Innovation at HSE Ireland
Professor Sarah Wamala Andersson
Grit Board Member and Professor of Health and Welfare Technology at Mälardalen University, Sweden
Sohini De
Chief Executive and Founder of Empeal
- 15:00 - 15:30
Taking Your Seat at the Board
Moderated by Sarita Johnston
Grit Board Member and Director, Business Planning at Capstone Business Advisors Limited
Yvonne Traynor
Board member and Chair of the People and Culture committee at HSE Ireland
Dr Melrona Kirrane
Chair of Research Ethics Committee and Associate Professor of Organisational Psychology at Dublin City University Business School
- 15:30
Networking Coffee
- 15:30 - 16:05
Networking with Purpose
Moderated by Noreen Mc Kenzie
National President of Network Ireland 2022
Dr Sarah Fitzgibbon
Founder of Women in Medicine in Ireland Network (WiMIN)
Eefke Jansen
Chief Executive and Founder of She does it, Brussels, Belgium
- 16:05 - 16:20
Closing Remarks
Noreen McKenzie
MC and National President of Network Ireland 2022
Diane Nevin
Chief Executive and Founder of Grit International Female Network