Teens in AI Founder and CEO, Elena Sinel, is a featured Panellist in a joint virtual panel organised and hosted by the Arab International Women’s Forum (AIWF) and Space Intelligence on UK-MENA green skills, ‘NextGen Climate Action: Green Skills for Sustainability Leaders’, welcoming senior speakers and sustainability leaders … and you’re invited to attend!
Theme: NextGen Climate Action: Green Skills for Sustainability Leaders
Host: The Arab International Women’s Forum and Space Intelligence
When: 30 July 2024
What time: 12:00 to 14:30 BST
Format: Virtual workshop
The workshop aims to explore the skills gap in climate, sustainability, and STEM innovation, presenting viable strategies to address these gaps through formal education, public climate education, and workplace learning and development.
🛡️Co-Chairs
Haifa Al Kaylani OBE (AIWF President & Founder) and Professor Ed Mitchard (Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, Space Intelligence)
🛡️Closing Remarks
Nadereh Chamlou, Former MENA Economist, The World Bank
Overview
In this session, which will be hosted on Zoom and comprise of three panels, we will be exploring the skills gap in climate, sustainability and STEM innovation, and discussing viable strategies to address those gaps in formal education, through public climate education and in workplace learning and development. Together, AIWF and Space Intelligence will bring together senior business leaders, researchers, policymakers and educators to examine current strategies to embed climate skills, values and competencies in the next generation of sustainability leaders.
The initiative will be co-chaired by AIWF President & Founder Haifa Al Kaylani OBE, who was a Commissioner on the ILO Commission for the Future of Work in 2017-2019 contributing to the ILO’s landmark report on the future for education and skills; and Professor Ed Mitchard, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist of Space Intelligence, who has spent years developing cutting-edge technologies to use satellite remote sensing data to quantify forest biomass. Closing remarks will be delivered by Nadereh Chamlou, AIWF Board Member, Former Senior Advisor to the Chief Economist of MENA, The World Bank & Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s empowerME initiative.
In this virtual event, senior leaders working in climate and sustainability from across the business, science and engineering sectors will share their personal journeys and their career pathways, before going on to explore in depth the key skills required to enter into and succeed in each sector. Additionally, they will discuss the soft / ‘human’ skills that are so essential to successful leadership and to ensuring a more diverse, engaged and sustainability-driven workforce in the future.
We’d be delighted if you could join the workshop!
Join the Workshop
A unique opportunity to gain insights from and engage with leaders at the forefront of climate, sustainability, and STEM innovation. Elena Sinel’s participation underscores the vital role of youth and innovative education in addressing global challenges and shaping a sustainable future.
About the AIWF X Space Intelligence Partnership
As a leading development organisation committed to the economic inclusion of women and young leaders in business, sustainability and STEM, AIWF has, in the last five years especially, devoted considerable resources and a key advocacy track to the importance of skills development and capacity building for women and young leaders working in the climate and sustainability space, with an emphasis on bridging the digital and ‘human’ / soft skills gaps that are present not only in the UK and the MENA but globally. Space Intelligence, a valued partner of AIWF, is a world leader in providing data and mapping information used by groups who share a common goal: to achieve zero deforestation and mass restoration and tackle the climate emergency. Space Intelligence supports this goal through the provision of accurate data on forest coverage and carbon storage that is required to ensure transparency into the impact of nature-based solutions.
