By Carolin Penke

For International Women’s Day 2024, we organized an event revolving around issues concerning women and other marginalized groups in the rapidly developing AI landscape. This included a talk and an open discussion. The interest was huge and you can read up on it in our blog post.

In fact, the interest was so enormous, that we were invited at multiple occasions to present this important topic and create spaces for an open exchange and discussions. This included  (a) a World Café at the Helmholtz AI conference 2024 HAICON24 and (b) a talk at the public-facing event series “Wissenschaft Online” of Forschungszentrum Jülich. A recording of this event can be found here.

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End of May an email from the WHPC team reached our chapter, asking if any of us would be interested to give a talk about “Women in HPC: Breaking Barriers and Shaping the Future” at the Supercomputing Day 2024, which is a side event of the large “Nexus2050” tech event in Luxembourg. How could we say no to such an opportunity?

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On the occasion of the International Women’s Day 2024, our network JuWinHPC organised some events with the friendly support of the FZJ’s Equal Opportunities Bureau (BfC) and the Equal Opportunities Officer. The first big bang was a thought-provoking, engaging presentation by our colleague Carolin Penke titled “What could possibly go wrong – Dangers of recent AI advancements from a diversity perspective”. Afterwards, we discussed the “Gender Dimension in AI” with about 30 participants in the room, while the entire session was also followed by another about ten colleagues online.

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Our blog has been quiet lately, perhaps quieter than we would like. But behind the scenes we were busy bees, making general plans for the year to come and organizing activities for the next weeks and months. Now it’s finally time to open the curtain a tiny bit and give you a glimpse of what we have in the pipeline.

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It seems customary to write an end-of-year post in the blogging realm, so here we go…

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The last two weeks of September were quite busy for me, as I participated in three different events featuring three distinct talks across three different fields. Each event required also preparation from my side and interaction with various audiences.

What can I say, for those who know me, it’s no secret that I enjoy talking, but each time before my talk, I could not shake the feeling, this feeling of self-doubt creeping in. I’d ask myself, „What am I doing here? Look at all these guys so brilliant and well-prepared. I feel like I have no idea of anything, and they’ll surely see right through me, I‘m a fraud!“

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