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Lectures and volunteering: This is how Women's Day is celebrated in high-tech companies

From lectures to volunteering in the community: Israeli high-tech companies mark International Women's Day with donations to the Michal Salah Forum, volunteers and lectures by inspiring women.

This is how International Women's Day is celebrated in high-tech companies

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Monday, 08 March 2021, 11:46 Updated: 12:49

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The high-tech industry is still perceived as a male industry, and the ratio of women to men in companies is still unequal.

In recent years, however, many efforts have been made, ranging from schools to companies themselves, in order to bring more and more women into the industry.

Already today we see more CEOs and founders of technology giants, hoping that the trend will only continue and grow. International Women's Day is held today (Monday) and this is an opportunity to see how the day is celebrated in high-tech companies.

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Riskpayed: An online lecture by Ronit Lev Ari and a donation of NIS 20,000

This year, in honor of Women's Day, Riskipade decided to focus on a burning issue in our country in order to raise awareness and bring about a real change - violence against women.

As part of promoting the discourse, the company will hold an online lecture by Ronit Lev Ari, a criminologist and victimologist (a branch of criminology that deals with victims of crime) specializing in the prevention of violence against women.

The company will donate NIS 20,000 to the Michal Sala Forum, who was murdered at her home on October 3, 2019 by her husband. The

company also said that out of 600 riskpayed employees in Tel Aviv, New York and Shanghai, more than 45% are women, with 40% One of the senior positions is staffed by women.Riskipade takes part in initiatives that encourage women to enter the technological field through collaborations with organizations aimed at increasing female representation in high-tech and technological positions.

NIS 20,000 will be donated to the Michal Sala Forum (Photo: PR)

Syte: A virtual event under the theme: "The failure that built me"

Syte, a platform for visual search, NLP and artificial intelligence-based recommendation systems for ecommerce sites, has about 160 employees, 53% of whom are women.

The company focuses on creating a comprehensive and diverse environment in which women are given the opportunity to advance and influence.

In addition, the company encourages the company facts to grow and support each other.

In honor of Women's Day, the company will hold a virtual event under the theme: "The failure that built me" As part of the event, four women will share their story and experiences on the way to success in a special panel hosted by Lior Shapira.

The participants are: ZO FLAMENBAUM, founder and director of empowerment at the School of Shine, Hannah Redo, social business entrepreneur, Hadas Avidor Goldin, graphic designer and community manager at CANVA, and Leah Pinto, co-founder of SYTE.

Virtual event under the theme: "The failure that built me" (Photo: PR)

SISENSE: A virtual lecture by Shoshi Jamber

SISENSE changes the rules in the field of traditional business intelligence by enabling organizations to implement data analytics everywhere - both in customer-facing applications and in employee-facing workflows.

One of the values ​​of the company is "inclusion".

Therefore, 32% of all company employees are women, and 45% are in senior management.

There is an organizational focus in recruitment processes, with decisions about candidates being made only after they see candidates of both sexes.

In addition there are groups in the various sites that are responsible for promoting topics and activities related to women.

In honor of Woman's Day of the Year, the company has initiated a virtual lecture for all its sites in the world of Shoshi Jamber.

Shoshi is an inspiring woman who started her career in high-tech as a cleaning worker at a start-up company, later being accepted for an internal position at the company as a software tester.

After less than a year, she was promoted to lead the testing team and within two years she was promoted to a senior position as the operations manager of the company's mobile department.

Virtual lecture by Shoshi Jamber (Photo: PR)

SciPlay: Volunteering and assisting women

The social gaming company SciPlay chose to mark Women's Day by volunteering and helping women who were less fortunate, by donating to the activities of 3 bodies: donating women's and children's clothing to the "Do Not Stand Against" organization, which mentally and materially helps women who have left the cycle of prostitution;

Baking cookies and cookies and transferring them to happy children to the "Glickman Center", a sheltered shelter for battered women and their children and joining the "Georges" project that aims to improve the daily lives of hundreds of women and girls at risk by donating makeup and grooming products.

Volunteering and helping women (Photo: Arn Dolev)

IncrediBild: An online children's book called "Sophie's Crystal Ball"

IncrediBild, a high-tech company in the field of software, promotes women in various technological positions throughout the year and encourages female modeling in the field of TECH from an early age.

In preparation for Women's Day, she created an online children's book called "Sophie's Crystal Ball", with the girls and women of tomorrow in mind and with the aim of revealing and encouraging opportunities for a technological career among girls.

The book tells the story of Sophie, a little girl who received a crystal ball from a fortune teller.

Every night in the final week, the little one peeks into the future and sees a possible technological career: web developer, engineer, information security manager and more.

IncrediBild believes this is a first step that can introduce girls to the world of technology and develop their awareness of the subject, so that the next time they ask what they want to be when they grow up, they will know and remember that they can do whatever they want.

The company is headed by Tami Mazal Shachar, and 50% of the positions in the main management and intermediate management of the company are filled by a link to a book by women.

Throughout the year, the company, which develops advanced technological tools to accelerate software development processes in the local network and in the cloud, and promotes initiatives to promote women in the high-tech industry, including events and initiatives in the company, meetings with girls and recently, Named after a woman who made a significant change in the technological world, past and present.

The book is immediately available for viewing and reading for free.

An online children's book called "Sophie's Crystal Ball" (Photo: Idan Eldar)

RapidApi: Lecture by Dana Horev Eldan

On the occasion of International Women's Day, RapidApi, which employs about 200 men and women in its offices in Tel Aviv and San Francisco, will give a lecture to office workers at ZOOM by Dana Horev Eldan, Certified Coach (PCC) and faculty member at Adlerian Training School, The lecture will deal with character strengths, one of the most researched areas in positive psychology. Studies show that people who are aware of their strengths and use them, experience increased well-being, have more energy and show greater resilience. Before the lecture employees were invited to take part in a personal online questionnaire. Their personal strengths.

Bar Lev High-Tech Park: Lecture by Einat Kaplan

Bar Lev High-Tech Park in the north initiated for the park workers and their children, a lecture by Einat Kaplan, who was the Israeli champion and fourth place in the world in sailing in sailing boats in the 80s and 90s.

Her lecture, "The Road from Childhood to the Championship," reviews her path as an international athlete, when women's sports in the country were only in their infancy.

The lecture touches on various aspects like tackling challenges, setting goals, achieving and dealing with difficulties, disappointments and failures.

The event will take place inside Bar Lev High-Tech Park and online with the aim of being a modeling role for young men and women.

In addition, the empowerment of women in the park begins already within the management avenue, with a woman at the head of the Bar-Lev high-tech park.

The park's management is careful to create opportunities and regional collaborations, in order to promote diverse populations in high-tech employment, including women from all sectors, ultra-Orthodox and Arab, in order to increase their integration and contribution to high-tech.

As part of this, they launched an annual series of panels that produces a discourse on high-tech in the north from different perspectives.

The park also launched and leads the Galilee Executive Forum, from all sectors "Women for Management", in collaboration with the Supersons organization in favor of developing an active high-tech ecosystem in the north and promoting cultural and gender diversity in the high-tech industry in Israel.

Urban Place: A powerful celebration throughout the month of March

The network of urban work complexes Urban Place has decided to dedicate their efforts in creative ways for Women's Day and there will be a powerful celebration throughout the month of March in the various complexes.

During the month, a picture of the various membranes around the complex will be published with oil, a message from them and prominent details about them - in addition, Shira Moore, PhD in social psychology, will give a lecture on why women are afraid to ask for what they deserve. By Shirley Glaz, Founder of GOODFIT.

Capitolis: A lecture by First Top

The fintech company Capitolis, which develops a SaaS platform whose purpose is to encourage a collaborative economy between banks and financial institutions and through technology prevents the optimization of financial resources in the capital market, organized for the company's employees (global) a lecture by Tzameret First. Her personal story.

In addition, Capitolis allows all company employees in Israel and around the world to choose a significant woman in their lives, and the company will send that selected woman a bouquet of flowers on behalf of the employee.

Another activity for the company's employees in Israel - an experiential tour ("Penny Adam") at the (former) Possict Club in Tel Aviv, which deals with the history of the place along with a discussion on taking responsibility, who I am with the company, and how to lead to social change and more.

Bezeq Online: Stand-up event with Hadar Levy

Bezeq Online, one of the leading call center management companies in Israel, will hold a humorous and fun event for Women's Day, in which comedian Hadar Levy will appear before the workers.

The show will take place in Zoom in order to maintain the health of the participants.

The past year has been challenging for the company as most of its employees have had to move out of the home in order to implement full function and provide good service to the public.

This was therefore not a simple technological challenge.

Stand-up event with Hadar Levy (Photo: PR)

Coinmama: Assistance to KitePride

The fintech company Coinmama chose to mark Women's Day with the help of KitePride, an organization that produces rehabilitative employment for women who have survived the cycle of prostitution and human trafficking.

This year, KitePride continues the path of the late Maya Vishniak, and has created a unique collection of products that incorporate Maya's illustration. The important message is that some of the proceeds from the purchase are transferred to the "LA for Violence Against Women" organization.

Elad: "Elad Women's Inspirational Activities"

Elad, a leading software company in Israel, has 1,000 employees in 5 development centers.

The company is launching an activity for the month of March, "The women of Elad are inspiring."

As part of the activity, Elad employees will choose a woman from among the facts, who has inspired them in the past year.

The women selected will receive a framed certificate stating the reason why she was chosen as inspiring

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