Session: 10 Big Ideas on Education 2021
Despite the immense impact on people and society due to the COVID19 pandemic, we must acknowledge and bring forth the positive changes, especially for Education, Digital, and Entrepreneurship. Here are my Big ideas for 2021 in Education.
Bio
Madhumalti, with more than 24 years of experience in the technology industry has been an advocate of Diversity and is recognized as an extraordinary ex-pat in Luxembourg. She has been a speaker at several events including TEDx India, European Women in Technology, Campus Party Italia. She is passionate about bringing girls and women into technology. To take concrete steps in that direction, she mentors girls at Workshop4Me a.s.b.l, a non-profit organization she founded to teach coding skills to 4-16-year-olds. The objective of Workshop4Me is to move children from being "consumers" to "creators" using technology. Their International Women's Day event in 2015 was featured by CNN International as the top 10 IWD events from around the world you would be crazy to miss.
Madhumalti is EU Code Week Ambassador for Luxembourg, a mentor with the STEM Scholars program with the New York Academy of Sciences and mentors girls for the worldwide mobile app development contest Technovation Challenge since 2017. She is also an EU Robotics National Coordinator since 2019. She is also Vice-President of Luxembourg-India Business Council, Women’s Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry WICCI.
While working in IBM India for 11 years, she has been chairing initiatives like Women and Technology (K-12), Core Team member of EXITE (Exploring Interest in Technology and Engineering) for school girls, facilitated Taking the Stage program for Women professionals in IBM and led other such initiatives. In Luxembourg, she has been on the panel of Mumpreneurs (mothers who are entrepreneurs) and on the Board of the Project Management Institute, Luxembourg Chapter.