For the eleventh time, Deutsche Messe is honoring a female expert from the STEM sector as part of the WomenPower 2023 career congress. Through their commitment, their ideas or their work, they should have set innovative accents in the technical environment of a company. The Young Engineering Award will also be presented for the first time. This will be awarded to a woman from the STEM field who is no more than 30 years old and has achieved exceptional things in the technical field or has gone above and beyond.
Both calls are open to all companies and institutions in Germany and abroad. Only one nomination per company is possible. The deadline for applications is February 13, 2023, and the award ceremony will take place on April 21, 2023 as part of the WomenPower Career Congress. Applications are free of charge. The Engineer Powerwoman 2023 and the nominees for the Young Engineering Award will be selected by an independent jury made up of members of the congress advisory board. The jury will initially select three nominees from the submissions. From these, the winners will be named and announced at the opening of the WomenPower career congress. The nomination documents are available for download on the Internet at www.womenpower-kongress.de.
This year, Dr. Kamila Flidr was named Engineer Powerwoman. She studied engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague. She then completed her Master's degree at the Ecole Centrale de Lyon. There she completed her doctorate in mechanical engineering and started her career at PSA Peugeot Citroën. In 2014, she moved to Germany and took over the technical support of a key customer at Altair. She co-founded the new Altair subsidiary in Eastern Europe and took up the position of Technical Account Manager upon her return to Germany. Dr. Flidr has asserted herself in a male-dominated industry and has taken this experience as an opportunity to promote the career advancement of women. Since January 2022, Dr. Flidr has been President of Altair's Women in Tech EMEA Employee Resource Group.
