On 18th of April Microsoft Ukraine organized the event «Girlz in ICT», dedicated to the gender inequality in the IT industry. 100 luckies, who is  interested in information and communication technologies, attended a series of meetings with representatives of the IT sector. Main topic of lectures – the potential and prospects of women who choose to work in the IT-sector, and the challenges they faced.

Participants had the opportunity to choose the direction they liked: encoding in Azure, Digital (SMM, Marketing) or Internet of Things (IoT) Laboratory. Graduate of Internship Programme of Klitschko Foundation Tatiana Martyniuk has become one of the lectures listener and shared her impressions of the event:

"As I have already known trends of SMM and Digital Marketing due to the internship in Klitschko Foundation, I decided to attend a lecture with a completely unknown theme to me - IoT Laboratory.

Three great speakers, interesting girls, who embody their ideas to life, gathered their dream teams and declared themselves to all IT-community: Lesia Kondratiuk (project «Open World», which enables blind people to lead a normal life and freely navigate in space without walking with sticks and assistance dogs); Natalia Gvozdetska (startup «Puppy Care», which allows owners to monitor the health of their dogs) and Victoria Gaidar (project «UA-Robotics EcoBox», which allows to grow plants in compliance with the ideal climatic conditions).

It was interesting to hear the speakers, but the most important thing that I learned for myself from this meeting - always try something new, opening up a completely different world! Don’t be afraid to look into the areas you are not orientating in. It is a reliable way to find yourself in this multifaceted world and to find bottomless world of ideas inside yourself."