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Equality today in the Kanton of Zurich

Over the past 40 years, there has been a lot of movement in terms of gender equality in Switzerland and the canton of Zurich. The actual equality of man and woman is still not a reality.

The indicators of the most important areas – education, unpaid work, employment, reconciliation of work and family life, wages and policies – continue to call for action for all, in the spirit of the diversity policy.

Marshall E-Learning was founded in 2002 and working with ACAS we developed our first web-based diversity training course, titled “Diversity in the Workplace”. That course and variations of it have kept Marshalls busy ever since. 19 years later we have trained over two million people in the UK, Republic of Ireland, United States, Canada, and various other places Internationally.

Over 300 clients now use our diversity, inclusion, and unconscious bias eLearning courses, including, Rolls-Royce, Bank of England, Morrison Supermarkets, Scottish Parliament, Linklaters, Baillie Gifford, and Trinity College Dublin; some of which have been clients for more than 15 years.

The levels of complexity required in content and technology have grown considerably in the last 20 years. Our course range now includes unconscious bias, micro-behaviours, inclusive leadership, inclusive recruitment, and diversity training in customer service. The technology we deploy is increasingly sophisticated to support assessments, single sign-on, multi-facilitated reporting by department and role, and digital accessibility. We offer clients a customised and updated service that is unique in the marketplace, made possible by our in-house experts and developers.

Our international portfolio includes work for global corporations with our courses translated into 14 different languages, including French, German, Spanish, Classical Mandarin and Thai.

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16:40 – 17:05 Social Justice Impact on Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

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In 2020 the world experienced a triple pandemic.

COVID-19, social justice and the great gender recession propelled the Intersectionality of BIPOC, women, and marginalized communities.  In this session learn how these challenges impact corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and explore best practices to navigate forward.  In order to create an inclusive workspace where everyone is respected, valued, and belong; it is critical to understand the holistic opportunities and experiences of diverse people globally.

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Audra Jenkins  

Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer

Randstad Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Office

17:05 - 17:30 Panel Session: Social Justice

Executives will discuss the importance of Social Justice in 2021

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Audra Jenkins

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Floss Aggrey 

VP D&I & Compliance 

Randstad Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Office

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Sue Schmidlkofer

Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

UPS

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Deidre Boone

Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

UNITED AIRLINES

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17:30 - 17:55 FIRESIDE CHAT

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- International Career
- Women in Leadership
- Cultural integration

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Rashmi Verma

Diversity & Inclusion Global Lead

Hugo Boss

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18:05 Day 1 Close

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14:00 – 14:10 CET Chair Recap & Day 2 Introduction

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Natalie Wilkins

CO-CEO

THRIVING TALENT

15:25 – 15:30 BREAK Sponsored by Marshall E-Learning

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15.30 - 15.55 Enabling your journey to Disability Inclusion

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With telling you our journey of accessibility and disability inclusion, we aim to enable you on your journey. In this session we will discuss the benefits this brought to us and will also bring to you.
We will provide practical strategies on delivering inclusive recruitment so you can remove barriers to benefitting from disabled talent. Inclusive recruitment is good for all businesses and ensures disabled people do not miss out on applying and gaining employment. 
We will focus on ways to embed inclusive practices to ensure that disabled people are able to demonstrate their talents and progress within any business. To reduce the disability employment gap, we need to maximise the value of every talented person. We will highlight key ways that organisations of all sizes can practically embed inclusion at the heart of everything they do.
To close we will discuss our practices on inclusive remote working and return to work scenarios. 

• Our accessibility and disability inclusion journey.​

• Opportunity and Responsibility

• Strategies to recruitment

• Strategies to progression

• Covid-19 related practices

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Michael Vermeersch

Digital Inclusion Lead

Microsoft

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15:55 – 16:20 Flying again!  Building back the aviation industry Aviation with Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at it's heart.

Aviation is the business of freedom, but in 2020 the freedom to travel, to meet people, to reconnect families, and to be with our loved ones was suddenly taken away.  With it went millions of jobs in the industry; pilots become Amazon delivery drivers, Cabin crew became care givers in temporary hospitals, and airports were empty!  As we start to rebuild the industry its an opportunity to build back with diversity at the core of what we do. 

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-  Aviation Industry  - why we had the same number of female pilots as 1945!
-  25by2025 an industry wide initiative designed to improve diversity within the industry

Jane Hoskisson

Director Talent, Learning, Engagement & Diversity

IATA​

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16:20– 16:45 Analysis and action - How UEFA approaches Diversity and Inclusion as an employer

Presenting the internal work by UEFA, the session will outline their research-based approach, towards ensuring actions align with the needs of the employees and the organisation on diversity and inclusion aspects.

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• Football

• Research

• Analysis

• Action

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Sara Holmgren

Diversity & Inclusion Officer

UEFA

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16:45 – 17:10 People first: Diversity and Inclusion to foster employee engagement, innovation and customer focus.

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Elodie and Patrick will speak about Google’s DEI journey and how we keep on implementing and iterating key DEI-learnings in the local Swiss context. Facts and figures from internal findings will be shared that are the basis for us to foster employee engagement, innovation and customer focus. They will additionally share one concrete example of Google’s external #IamRemarkable initiative that aims to empower women and other underrepresented groups to celebrate their achievements in the workplace and beyond.

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Patrick Warnking

Country Director

GOOGLE CH

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Elodie Lhuillier

HR Leader

GOOGLE CH

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17:10 – 17:35 C-SUITE PANEL DISCUSSION

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Top Level Executives will discuss the importance of Diversity and Inclusion

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Panelists:

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Elodie Lhuillier

HR Leader

GOOGLE CH

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Paul  Rubenstein

Chief People Officer

VISIER

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Henrik Asmuseen

General Manager

AMGEN

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Stefan Pfister

CEO​

KPMG CH

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17:35 Chair’s Highlights and “Hot Points” Round-up from the two day adventure.

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17:45 Event Close

The Office for Equality of the Kanton Zurich is organizing an additional local summit on the 18 June 2021

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