 As a female physicist, I'm all too familiar with the challenges that we face in achieving gender balance across all of the STEM subjects. It's particularly exciting, therefore, that in 2018 at this forum we have a 55% representation of female students. Importantly, we have even probably more than that representation in our female speakers. So it's not just about bringing women in to science, it's showing those women the pathways that they're going to be able to follow in the future, providing them with role models, providing them with pathways to success as female scientists. And I think also bringing lots of female scientists together in this type of forum enables these students to exchange ideas and experiences and they'll definitely stay connected beyond the forum so they can continue to create and benefit from the support networks that they would have established here.