The Finding Ada Conference 2021

The Finding Ada Conference is an online global conference for women in STEM and advocates for gender equality.

We have a variety of talks with live Q&As, interviews and panel discussions scheduled over three days, so whether you are a woman in STEM who wants to develop her career, a business leader or HR exec, an educator or parent, or an advocate or community organiser, we are running sessions for you. Skip down to see our speakers.

For the first time, we are also running a series of three workshops for women in STEM to help you improve your media and communications skills. Skip down to see our workshop details.

Themes

We have three themes for the day:

  • Career development: Career advice; professional skills; personal growth.
  • Policy and advocacy: Talent acquisition, retention and promotion; business policy, processes and standards; advocacy strategies.
  • Widening participation: Increasing girls’ interest in STEM; increasing diversity; supporting diverse communities.

Tickets

With so many women negatively affected by COVID-19, we decided to make tickets free. We offer honoraria to all our speakers, so please do consider making a donation in support of both our speakers and the wider FindingAda.com project via GoFundMe.

Our Sponsors

The Finding Ada Conference has been made possible by the generous support of our sponsors:

Speakers & Sessions

We are adding more speakers to our schedule, so do check back for more. Details of the talks, speakers and timings are all subject to change.

Tuesday 20 July

Wednesday 21 July

Thursday 22 July

Our moderators

Workshops - TICKET SALES CLOSED

As part of the Finding Ada Conference this year, we are also running three paid workshops to help you improve your media and communications skills.

  • 20 July, 14:00 BST: How to ace your media appearances! with Francesca Kasteliz
  • 21 July, 18:00 BST: Improv for better science comms with Belina Raffy
  • 22 July, 13:00 BST: How to make social media work harder for you with Laura Oliver

Each session will run for 2 hours, with a maximum of 12 participants so that everyone can get individual attention from the tutors. The cost is £85 per workshop. Open to UK/EU residents only.

Please note that these workshop are running separately to the main FAC21 Conference, so you will need to buy tickets via the Eventbrite links above. We expect tickets to go very quickly, so book now to make sure you’re not disappointed.