ESA Diversity Day 2018

Tuesday 22 May 2018, 10:00 → 12:30 Europe/Amsterdam

Erasmus Auditorium (ESTEC)

As part of the Director General’s personal commitment, and following the call emerged from the Staff Survey in 2016, the values of Diversity and Inclusiveness have been placed high on ESA’s corporate agenda. The ESA Diversity Day will take place on Tuesday 22 May 2018, hosted in ESTEC by Franco Ongaro, Head of ESTEC and ESA Director of Technology, Engineering and Quality, and organised by ESA Chief Diversity Officer Ersilia Vaudo Scarpetta with the support of ESTEC SAC. The event will be held in the Erasmus Room from 10:00 to 12:30, and will be streamed live to other ESA sites.

10:00 → 10:10 Opening call: Jan Woerner, ESA Director-General

Why Diversity Day, why is this important for ESA

At the end F. Ongaro gives the word to EV

10:10 → 10:15 Transition: Introductory Remarks by CDO: Ersilia Vaudo

Transition
EV introduces format and speakers

10:15 → 10:35 The ESA we want

Geert Jacobs, ESA IT Security Architect
Angeliki Kapoglou, PhD Student in ESTEC
Dominic Doyle, ESA Senior Optical Engineer, and Joana Oliveira, Internal Research Fellow

10:35 → 11:00 “Exploring, settling, discovering – ESA needs the talents of all”: Speakers David Parker, ESA Director of Human Spaceflight and Robotic Exploration (D/HSE) Günther Hasinger, ESA Director of Science (D/SCI)

11:05 → 11:20 Break

Moderator, also introduces part 2

11:20 → 11:25 CSAC on Diversity and inclusiveness at ESA: Jürgen Scholz

11:25 → 11:30 Building block of ESA Diversity and Inclusiveness: Ersilia Vaudo

11:30 → 12:15 Panel discussion on “Fostering a diverse and inclusive organisation – Challenges and opportunities”

NASA – Kathy Laurini, Senior Advisor, Exploration and Space Operations
Thales Alenia Space – Laura Berneri, Director of Communications
UK Space Agency – Maria Cody, ESA and Cross Agency Projects
OECD – Stéphane Carcillo, Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs
Moderated by Christine Klein, DLR Team Leader ESA Budget and AFC Chair

12:15 → 12:25 Q&A

12:25 → 12:30 Conclusions