 everybody from lunch I hope you enjoyed all the delicious food next up here in the main hall we have the wiki women's summit and I'd like to hand it over to Rosie Stevenson goodnight to start us off over to you Rosie. I believe that we are here today is Wednesday 16 August 2023 you know a friend of mine asked me give me a quote for what you think this wiki summit will be like and I said this someday in some archive they're gonna be reading about this event and they're gonna recognize how important it is because of you today you have the opportunity to actually be here be a part of it so please those folks in the back can I get you to move forward and hello to our audience that's coming in remotely seeing us now and seeing us in the future we're so happy you're with us too we're going to abide by the friendly space policy you can see it here and it's also linked on the wiki women's summit page of wikimania for housekeeping the restrooms are out the door and to your right I'm going to briefly tell you about the schedule we're going to have some conversations now called the wiki women solidarity workshop followed by a tea break and then looking to the future I don't know how to go back but I went too fast let me tell you about Saturday Saturday is the wiki women lunch those of you who've come to a previous wikimania know that it's a highlight it's open to all people who self-identify as women and we're looking forward to seeing you there here are some of the people are going to be speaking the core team fans you'll meet her in a moment the moderators teela is online masana is here in person she's going to run up in a minute there's a welcome message from our ceo mariana is scander there's keynotes by a previous chair of the wikimedia foundation board Maria Sephardari and one of our very important people netha who's saying who talks a lot about women's health we have several speakers you see them named here and final reflections you're going to see from that Tim kid the current chair of the board of trustees so listen without further ado let's get going now here comes masana thank you Rosie and hello everybody to the folks in the back we see you lurking and watching us and this is an official invite from the wiki woman summit come forward come join us the more the Mary and this wonderful moment that we're sharing we'd like to invite you all to take a moment to scan the QR code and complete the mentee because we want to hear from you we want to understand why you identify as a wiki woman or as an ally as you're completing that we have some exciting results that came in in our morning session when we asked the wiki woman in the morning session what does it mean to be a wiki woman ally we heard that that's my feminism that being a wiki woman represents representation empowerment courage solidarity empathy inclusivity and joy it's such an honor to share in the seminal moment in our movement with all of you and we really hope to use this input that you give us to shape future wiki woman summits to come we also wanted to find out as you're completing this why why are you here joining in this big moment in the movement first of all we've heard that people have come to meet other people we know the work of being a gender ally gender ally or contributor can be really lonely so we're grateful that the space is yours to own share and co-create to also create feminist strategies to learn more about wiki woman and understand how gender impacts our involvement in the movement to contribute to bridging the gender gap on wikipedia and of course for shared power that we all can participate in making the projects more equitable there's also a big question on how we understand that lack of woman is a problem in our movement more importantly how do we solve that problem together we want to help make women visible on wikipedia and all the wiki media platforms and support more female contributors and women identifying contributors to participate in our movement on behalf of rosie and vanj we just want to extend a humble thanks to all of you for being part of making this a reality being part of making history possible and it's such an honor to be able to serve you today if there are any tech questions if you need support with the ventier please feel free to log on to the platform for translation and interpretation and connect with your headsets to hear the wiki women summit in the language of your choice with that said i'd like to hand over to vanj and marian round of applause please thank you say hi first um to the people who are watching online there there's a camera over there and for those people who are watching virtually and joining us so let me do the intro here okay thank you so much ladies and gentlemen wiki medians of the world and wiki women it is my honor and pleasure to introduce our dear ceo mariana iskander she joined the foundation on january 2022 as the chief executive officer but prior to wikimedia mariana has already been the ceo of harambee youth employment accelerator it's a nonprofit that is based in south africa and it focused on building african solutions to tackle the global crisis of youth unemployment under her leadership harambee received the prestigious skull award and for social entrepreneurship in 2019 and its model to support millions of south african youth with access to learning and earning opportunities so it's such a powerful combination earn and learn our dear mariana has spent her career focused on breaking down systemic barriers of access to opportunity and education she spent more than a half decade as the chief operating officer of plant parenthood federation of america and she was also the she was also the advisor to the president of the prestigious university an associate at global consulting for mckinsey and company and the law clerk on the united states court of appeals for the seven circuit without further ado please send her a warm applause our very own ceo mariana's thank you thank you for that can you hear me okay okay my job is to welcome you and then get out of the way so that we can get to the program and the content first i just wanted to say that you know sometimes the the things you do are the most fun because of the people you get to do them with right and so sometimes we pick what we want to do because there's such amazing people that get to be part of that so i wanted to start by just saying thank you to vanjane to rosie who i serve on the wikimedia foundation and the board with and and to to say that you know really to this afternoon is a chance for me to also learn from all of you i was reflecting on the theme of wikimania this is my first in-person wikimania and thinking about the stories that i have learned from women in our movement from even before i started i remember the powerful story that i think many of us know about balinese women who have been working so hard with wiki source to preserve manuscripts in their language i remember the conversations i've had with leaders of our affiliates in latem about the work that they're doing to promote collaboration in the region amongst so many women i remember a story that we heard in the foundation's annual planning process from a woman who works on the punjabi wikipedia about an informal group that they had created for women who work in it who are very busy but they would get together once a week to do editing together and it was like such an awesome reminder of how diverse it is for women to contribute and to be together i wanted to say two things about how important this session is for me personally and and for the wikimedia foundation many of you know that our movement strategy is what guides all of our work as we look ahead to 2030 and what i hope you saw this morning is that the support of my colleague masana also from south africa and tila who's online is just more intentionality around the support that we have to provide for the work that needs to be done both now and into the future i just want to close by saying to all of you that the names that you saw earlier that are going to be speaking are some of for me some of the legends of our movement and a chance to learn from people who have been at this for so many many years the i see the next one on the floor there that'll come on stage and so really with that just to say welcome and i hope more of you who are in the back keep moving to the front so i'm gonna continue to encourage that and look forward to chatting to you at t or afterwards as well thank you