Events
Dr. Anna Szlavi’s Events That Make an Impact in STEM
Featured Event
JKU ACM Celebration of Women in Computing 2026 (Austria)
At this two-day event sponsored by ACM and hosted by JKU, we presented more than 30 student projects that aimed to make an impact on computing, and broadly STEM, by creating a more gender-diverse and inclusive environment. The projects, ranging from social media campaigns through websites to treasure hunts and workshops, all tackled specific challenges about gender and inclusion in STEM, from bias in AI systems to the lack of relatable role models in STEM.
June 3 & 10, 2026
Johannes Kepler University (JKU)
At this two-day event sponsored by ACM and hosted by JKU, we presented more than 30 student projects that aimed to make an impact on computing, and broadly STEM, by creating a more gender-diverse and inclusive environment. The projects, ranging from social media campaigns through websites to treasure hunts and workshops, all tackled specific challenges about gender and inclusion in STEM, from bias in AI systems to the lack of relatable role models in STEM.
Prof. Gabriele Kotsis, the past president of ACM, opened the event.
June 3, 2026
| Time | Session | Venue |
| 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM | Session 1 | HS5, JKU |
| 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM | Lunch Break | JKU |
| 1:45 PM – 3:15 PM | Session 2 | HS17, JKU |
Presentations — Session 1
- Invisible by Design: Gender Bias in Medical Research
- Underrepresentation of Women in Scientific Papers, Inventions, and Discoveries
- STEM4FEM – A Social Media Campaign
- SeenInSTEM
- Beyond Stereotypes: Real Paths into IT
- Half the Minds Missing – Ain’t I Counted?
- Inter-STEM
- Rewriting STEM Pathways
- Invisible Ingredients: Creating Chemical Transparency for Period Products
Presentations — Session 2
- STEM Without Labels
- Vision Creates the Future
- STickEM
- STEMinist Hidden Figures Hunt
- Beauty Bias in the Workplace
- STEM Sisters – A Social Media Campaign
- Letters Across Walls: A Letter-Writing Evening for Women in STEM Political Prisoners in Russia
June 10, 2026
| Time | Session | Venue |
| 10:15 AM – 11:45 PM | Session 3 | HS5, JKU |
| 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM | Lunch Break | JKU |
| 1:45 PM – 3:15 PM | Session 4 | HS17, JKU |
Presentations — Session 3
- Not so Neutral – An Instagram Awareness Page
- Double Standards in Leadership
- Small Ways to Make a Difference
- Role Models 4 Women in STEM
- STEMinists
- Gender salary gap in STEM-field
- Error 404: Equality in AI Not Found
- Hidden Figures in STEM: the Matilda Effect
- Does This Stethoscope Make Me Look Like a Nurse?”
Presentations — Session 4
- Under the Radar: Physics Pioneers
- Gender Inequality in STEM in Africa, Europe, Asia
- Sci-Journal
- AI and Gender: An Overview
- Gender Bias in STEM: The Power of Everyday Attitudes and Social Influence
- MisFit Labs
- STEMtangle
June 30, 2026
Be the Change You Want to See – Looking Back on the JKU ACM Celebration of Women in Computing 2026
In this article, published on the website of ACM-Women Europe, we provide an overview of the event in which students introduced their projects to make a change in STEM.
May 13, 2026
JKU ACM Celebration of Women in Computing 2026
In this article, published on the website of ACM-Women Europe, the event featuring student intervention projects for making an impact on gender diversity in STEM was announced.
Learn about Past Events
At the 20th ICCHP Conference Anna Szlavi presented a research project exploring how the combination of accessibility technology and AI systems can lead to gender bias. The paper that Dr. Szlavi presented was co-authored with Leandro Soares Guedes (from the Federal Institute of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil), with whom it was her second project in collaboration. Like the first paper, Gender-Inclusive Design in Technology, this one also aimed to offer practical guidelines, not just an exploration of potential challenges.
For the 5th time, the women of Kiel University presented their work on March 6, 2026, two days before International Women’s Day. From students to professors, from projects to research, this event presented the work and studies of the women of Kiel University.
Dr. Anna Szlavi presented the lessons and best practices of the student projects at her JKU course Intro to Gender Studies in Science and Engineering.
This two-day event, organized in the frames of the Mind the Gender Gap in Computer Science project at the Institute for Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas in Crete, aimed to incorporate principles of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity in the research practice of Computer Science and more broadly in STEM. Dr. Anna Szlavi was the keynote speaker and special guest of the event, explaining the latest trends in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in computing and STEM, while also presenting projects that make an impact.
Dr. Anna Szlavi was invited as the keynote speaker and special guest of this highly interdisciplinary and intersectoral event, organized in Ayia Napa, Cyprus, by Globalaw, a leading global network of law professionals. Dr. Szlavi’s talk aimed to provide insight about women’s challenges and success stories in tech, drawing parallels with the situation of gender imbalances in the legal workforce. In addition to the interdisciplinary keynote, Dr. Szlavi also took part in a panel discussion with representatives of a law firm, a PR company, and a multinational company, to find solutions that bridge sectors.
The International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution and Perspectives (ISSEP) is a forum for researchers and practitioners in the area of Informatics education. At the 17th ISSEP Conference, held in Budapest, Hungary in October 2024, Dr. Anna Szlavi gave a keynote speech on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in IT Education.
At the closing conference of Horizon Europe project EUGAIN (European Network for Gender Balance in Informatics), as the Young Researchers and Innovators Coordinator of the project, Dr. Anna Szlavi was invited to take part in a panel on women role models and success stories in STEM, together with renowned women like Manon Rault (Ministry of Equality, France), Lynda Hamilton (CWI, Netherlands), Daniela Damian (Chair in Inclusive Science, Canada), and Carla Ferreira (Nova University, Portugal).
At the 25th HCI International Conference, organized in Copenhagen, Dr. Anna Szlavi was co-chair of Inclusive Design sessions, together with Senior Researcher Monica Landoni from USI Switzerland and EUGAIN (European Network for Gender Balance in Informatics). This was the first session dedicated to various aspects of diversity and inclusion in human-computer interaction chaired by Dr. Szlavi, and due to its success, this thematic session was invited to the conference in 2024 (Washington DC/online) and 2025 (Sweden/online) as well. Dr. Szlavi also presented two papers at the conference, one about gender-inclusive design, and one about a social media campaign to better involve young people in computing.
At this celebratory conference of the Department of Computer Science (IDI) of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Dr. Anna Szlavi was invited to present about the department’s projects, such as the IDUN Mentoring Project, the Horizon Europe networking project EUGAIN, and the Erasmus+ Women STEM Up project, dedicated to helping increase gender balance in computing, together with research lead and professor Letizia Jaccheri.