PWG - International Women's Day with Advance

For International Women's Day, PWG has organized an event around Gender equality and Career development opportunities for Women in the workplace with the support of professional women from Advance.

During the event, the Advance & St. Gallen 2022 Gender Intelligence report will be presented, followed by a panel of women who will discuss the outcome of this insightful document, as well as other related questions. 

Exclusively for this event, PWG has created a 10-questionnaire survey, which will provide some actual insights on the current professional status of women in Switzerland, and whose results will also be presented during the event.

To contribute to the survey, please click here: TAKE SURVEY

About Advance:

Advance is the leading business association for gender equality in Switzerland, a network of close to 140 Swiss-based companies committed to increasing the share of women in management. Their objective is to reach a sustainable minimum of 30% female representation at all management levels across all member companies by 2030. https://weadvance.ch/organisation/#mission-values 

About our Speakers and Panelists:

• Dr. Patricia Widmer: Vice Director University of St. Gallen. Patricia Widmer has been in the University of St. Gallen since 2014 where she established the English-speaking certificate program "Women Back to Business" WBB as well as the "Women's Leadership Programme". She is also a Program Director for various Diversity and Management programs as well as Vice-Director and member of the senior management team at the Executive School.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/patricia-widmer 
• Alkistis Petropaki: Alkistis Petropaki joined Advance as General Manager in 2015. She has more than 20 years experience in leading positions in well known FMCG companies like e.g. L’Oreal, Nestlé, Mövenpick and Lindt & Sprüngli. Before joining Advance she was the Country Manager of Yves Rocher in Switzerland. She studied economics and holds a MBA from ESCP-EAP. She also has a Master’s degree in German literature and psychology from the University of Athens. https://www.linkedin.com/in/alkistis-petropaki-3bb17242/ 
• Evelin Bermudez: Evelin Bermudez is a Guest Lecturer at the Lucerne School of Business, President of the Companies & Returnships Network - CRN, Founder and CEO of ReturnersWork GmbH, and President of the Swiss International Volunteer Organisation. For the past 15 years she has specialised in all aspects of business development and operation of non-profits, social enterprises and small businesses. She is passionate about integration, gender diversity in the workplace and creating opportunities for women to rejoin the workforce.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/evelinbermudez/ 

Agenda of the event:

18.00 - 18.10 Welcome by PWG

18.10 - 18.30 Presentation of Advance & St. Gallen 2022 Gender Intelligence report

18.30 - 18.45 PWG - Presentation of survey results

18.45 - 19.30 Introduction to panelists & panel discussion

19.30 - 20.00 Q&A 

20.00 - 21.00 Apéro and networking