Events
Women Senior Executives’ Network Conference - Championing Women - Friday 25 January 2008
(Stormont Hotel, Belfast)Price: £50+VAT
Details
The conference, ‘Championing Women’, will consider the outworking of the Strategy in policy and service delivery and how its underpinning principles and objectives can be best realised. The conference will be addressed by two senior Northern Ireland Executive Spokespersons and by other women politicians and experts.
Please select this link to view the conference programme.
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
9.45 Registration
Tea and coffee will be served on arrival
SESSION 1: GOVERNMENT AND GENDER EQUALITY
10.30 Setting the Scene
Welcome and introductory remarks: Roisín McDonough, Chief Executive, Arts Council for Northern Ireland and Chair, Women Chief Executives' Group; Eileen Sung, Gender & Sexual Orientation Branch, OFMDFM
10.45 Northern Ireland Executive Spokesperson
11.15 Bernie Kelly, Deputy Lord Mayor of Belfast
11.40 Northern Ireland Executive Spokesperson
12.10 Questions from the Floor
12.30 Lunch
SESSION 2: MOVING FORWARD WITH AN AGENDA FOR CHANGE
1.30 Panel Discussion with perspectives from:
- Naomi Long MLA, Deputy Chairperson, Committee for the Office of the First and Deputy First Minister, Northern Ireland Assembly
- Professor Monica McWilliams, Chief Commissioner, Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission
- Dr Margaret Ward, Director, Women's Resource & Development Agency
- Dr Yvonne Galligan, Director, Centre for Advancement of Women in Politics, Queen's University Belfast
- Geraldine McGahey, Chief Executive, Larne Borough Council and Women in Local Councils SOLACE Champion
2.30 Workshop Discussion
3.30 Plenary Feedback
4.00 Summary and Conclusions
Closing remarks from the panel, conclusions and next steps
4.15 Close
To Register:
- Online at the Chief Executives’ Forum Web Site (Preferred)
Link: Go to http://www.ceforum.org/diary/438and click on the ‘mouse’ Register Now icon. Please note: the log on Username iscef; the Password is topcat. - By Email
to mail@ceforum.org with your name, job title, organisation and contact telephone number and preferred email address - By Phone
Call the Chief Executives’ Forum on (T) 028 9054 2966 or (DIAL) 42966
