Adelaide Grixti

The 8th of March marks a yearly celebration – that of Women’s Day. As it has also become a yearly custom, on this day BPW Malta organises a careers conference event for which MITA contributes as a sponsor. Besides from the financial contribution, MITA also participates during the event. In fact, this has been the 5th consecutive year in which the Agency participated in this event.

BPW Malta is a national organisation forming part of the BPW International network, originally called the International Federation of Business and Professional Women. With affiliates in 95 countries across five continents, the federation has become one of the most effective international frameworks of business and professional women.

The federation aims at developing professional and leadership potential to empower women at all levels and enable women to sustain themselves economically. According to the BPW website, its affiliates across the globe have helped over 45,000 women become economically empowered.

BPW practices what it preaches amongst its members by providing them with personal development programmes such as training in leadership, e-Business and mentoring.

This year the BPW Malta careers conference was hosted at the Mediterranean Conference Centre and the event was seg- mented into two separate parts.

During the first segment of the event, young female students had the possibility to meet and ask questions to women working with different companies and hailing from different industries of the economy. Students who approached the MITA stand had the possibility to ask questions to both technical female personnel as well as to other who are not technical.

On its stand, MITA was represented by a senior solutions architect, together with a software developer. Other non-technical female employees included female employees from within the HR Department and other representatives from the Digital Outreach office.

Therefore, students did not only get a gist on the perks of working in the IT Industry but were also made aware that working in IT does not mean that by default, only the people who study about software development and programming get to work in this industry.

The first segment was then followed by a question and answer session where the Countess of Wessex, Sophie Helen RhysJones and Her Excellency the President of Malta, Marie Louise Coleiro Preca, answered questions put forward by young female students coming from different schools.

Adelaide Grixti, MITA Digital Outreach Officer