So first of all, I would like to have something to drink, otherwise my presentation will be not that good, I assume. So sorry for that. But we had some technical issues to prepare. So this was a little bit different than I had expected. But nevertheless, let's start.
So women in identity, what is that? And I would like to have a short introduction into the Women in Identity Organization, what we are doing, and then also what the situation in of women in the STEM is. So science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
And two years ago at the Coppinger Coal, I had some really insights onto this situation and I would give you an update and I would give a teaser about the women in Identity ID code of conduct then, and also invite you to our get together at 1:00 PM in BO four, which is under the stairs over there. But anyway, the very first thing I would say, I would like to thank very much the KuppingerCole team, especially Martin Coppinger himself and Jore that they have been over the last years so gracious to the Women in Identity Organization.
We had always had a session of an hour and later some of the ladies in the Women in Identity team here in dar, they will do some presentations on various topics.
Nevertheless, this is had been only possible due to your Ian Martin Coppinger. Seeing that this was on is a very topic in a very important topic and who we are. The organization was founded in 2018 and this was really the first time it had been also at the KuppingerCole. It was just an initial get together that this is where it started. And I joined Women in Identity back in that time then.
And our organization is totally based on volunteers like myself. I am the ambassador for da. This means I am organizing some meetings and we are working closely together to, yeah, to see that we get the digital identity topic also across the different, I would say, genders and also across the world.
And what are we doing for that one? We have really good content prepared. We have these, these regional meetings. We have women and men from across the industries working together and also with the industry and D, various industries.
And we are looking into these things from a vision perspective that we want to have that digital identity solutions are built for everyone in the world and by everyone. So this is our vision and we thrive that with our work.
As I said, also the work on publications and the work like here in this session. So we are definitely committed to diversity and inclusion and we drive the change and we are totally reliant on sponsorship. So everything, as I said, are volunteering, but nonetheless, something costs some money. And so we are totally relying on sponsorship so much to women in identity itself.
Now I would like to give you a short update. A short update on the Once or the Women in stem, which I had presented two years ago. And I show you here.
Now this graphic, which I had shown two years ago, the steady decline from women in identity, women in STEM from the eighties to 2016. And we had discussed two years ago, what are the reasons for that? Why had that happened? And it was of course my personal, I'm in, in the security industry and in mathematics. I'm a mathematician by education. And I started my university in 1979. And this was my personal experience that it was declining.
And I could show through several studies and several papers around that, that it was not only my personal experience, it was what really had happened, this steady decline. And this is a loss for everyone that this had be so declined over the years with various reasons.
And I was thinking it would be good to see is there any change since 2016? Is there any change? Is there at least some hold? Because we have a lot of programs in many companies in all more or less all countries to improve the percentage of women of various groups in these areas in this topics.
And fortunately at least there is no decline there. I would say, what could I see out of it with, which is really a good thing that it looks like that it is getting at least slowly upwards.
Again, we are of course not of course, but we are nearing at least what the students are. We are nearing the numbers from the eighties. But for the professional workers, we are far away from that one.
So, and this means the development shows some progress, growing numbers of women also in leadership positions in this areas and increased representation.
And that the focus is there and not only for women, as I said, on diversity and inclusion, but we still, still still have the same problems. Like we have them for, I don't know how many decades I would say gender gap persists.
Also, the paying disparity is there bias and stereotyping, a lack of representation in certain fields. And this is very prominent there. Like for example, artificial intelligence. And this is, which is very important because this is something, you have seen it here at the conference that is so important. And this will, I would say this will influence all our life and the future. And here we see a lack of representation still. And then also machine learning of course and cybersecurity.
And this is also something you might recognize it's getting better if I'm looking into this room, but maybe this might be due to the topic.
But anyway, so there is still a lot of work to do and how can we support that? And this is something about women in Identity had asked themselves as an organization, how we can help companies to see what they can do to improve these or overcome these challenges.
And this is why we have developed the ID code of con conduct, which addresses exactly this lack of guidance in that it's especially for the medium and small businesses, but also for the large companies. It is something where this could support and particularly in financial services. And there are some results have been published over the last year, and we are creating a practical guide which shows how to deal with that and how to move on to get the Skip neuro to closure. And here I would end with on the ID code of conduct, because tomorrow morning we have a keynote by Kay Sheard.
Kay is also there in the room and tomorrow morning and she will present what's definitely in this code of conduct and explain how this addresses the gaps. This would be my point for the day.
The, if you have any questions, of course I am happy to answer them. I've also added in the handout, I have added the references so you can see the references of these numbers also where we, that platform.
And again, for those who are coming a little bit later at 1:00 PM we will have this get together for everyone. Everyone, any gender, anything, everyone in BO four to meet and create and discuss. Thank you.
You'll do the introduction for the next presentation.
Yes, I will. Yeah. Yeah. So first of all, a big thank you, Angelica. Thank you for bringing us along on the journey, knowing where did we start, where are we going, and also how can we hear what members of women in identity are working on as well? And how do we join, how do we meet? So thank you for bringing us up to speed.
Thank you. Thank you.
