Date: November 2, 2010

Venue: Yufeng Hall (2nd floor)

Theme: Women Personnel in Science and Technology and Innovative Development

Time

Program

Chair

08:30-09:45

Opening Ceremony

Welcome address by the local organizer

Opening remarks by Mme. Yu WEI,

Vice President, CAST, President, CWAST,

member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering

(CAE), China

Opening remarks by Dr. Akiko TSUGAWA,

President, International Network of Women

Engineers & Scientists (INWES) Japan

Opening remarks by Dr. Heisook LEE，

Professor, Department of Mathematics,

Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, Korea

Prof. Saijuan CHEN,

Vice President, CAST and

CWAST, Director, the

Special Committee on

Women in Science and

Technology of the Standing

Committee of CAST,

member of the Chinese

Academy of Engineering

(CAE), Executive Director,

Shanghai Hematology

Institute of Shanghai Ruijin

Hospital, China

09:45-10:00

Tea Break and Group Photo

10:00-11:00

Session 1: The current status of and comparison on development of women personnel in science and technology

Mme. Weizhi QU,

Former Vice Minister, the

Ministry of Industry and

Information Technology,

Vice President, CWAST,

China

10:00-10:15

China: Zhi LU, Professor and Executive Director,

Peking University Center for Nature and Society

“The current status of and comparison on the

development of women in science and technology in

China”

10:15-10:30

Japan: Kayoko SUGAHARA, Former Distinguished

Engineer, Member of IBM Academy of Technology

Technical, Sales & Services, Software Group, IBM

Japan,. Ltd., Former President, Japan Women Engineers

Forum (JWEF)

“Status-quo of Challenges of Women Engineers in a Global IT Company”

10:30-11:45

Korea: Heisook LEE, Ph.D., Professor, Department of

Mathematics, Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, Korea

“The current status of development of women personnel

in science and technology in Korea”

10:45-11:00

Panel Discussion

Dr. Jiyoung KIM,

Professor, Kyung Hee

University College of Life

Science, Korea

11:00-12:00

Session 2: Policy and environment to promote the

development of women personnel in science and

technology

Mme. Zhi JIN, Professor,

Peking University, China

11:00-11:15

China: Dr. Xin FANG, member of the Chinese Academy

of Sciences (CAS) Presidium, member of the Standing

Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC)

and of the NPC Education, Science, Culture & Health

Committee, Vice President, CWAST

“The pattern and environment for development of women personnel in science and technology”

11:15-11:30

Japan: Chikako NORO, Ph.D, Associate Professor,

Department of Applied Molecular Chemistry, College of

Industrial Technology, Nihon University, Committee

Member, Japan Inter-Society Liaison Association

Committee for Promoting Equal Participation of Men

and Women in Science and Engineering (EPMEWSE)

“Policy and environment to promote the development of

women personnel in science and technology ; Recent

Situation in Japan”

11:30-11:45

Korea: Soonja CHOE, Ph.D., Professor, Department of

Chemical Engineering, Inha University

“Policy and environment to enhance the role of women

personnel in science and technology in Korea”

11:45-12:00

Panel Discussion

Dr. Akiko TSUGAWA,

President, International

Network of Women

Engineers & Scientists

(INWES) Japan

12:30-13:30

Working lunch (Yihuyuan, 1st Floor)

13:30-14:30

Session 3: Women personnel in science and technology and innovative development

Mme. Jiahua SHOU,

Former Vice Minister, the

Ministry of Land and

Resources, Vice President,

CWAST, China

13:30-13:45

China: Yanmei LI, Associate Research Fellow,

the Institute of Psychology, the Chinese Academy of

Sciences (CAS)

“The environment of growth and development of women personnel in science and technology”

13:45-14:00

Japan: Maki IWAKUMA, P.E.JP, Executive Officer,

Environmental Monitoring Research Co., Ltd.,

President, The Woman Professional Engineers Society of Japan (NPO)

“Can Female Researchers and Engineers Become

Leaders of Innovation?”

14:00-14:15

Korea: Yeonhee LEE, Ph.D., Professor, Seoul Women's

University, Director General, Korea National Research

Resource Center (KNRRC)

“Women Personnel in Science and Technology

and Innovative Development”

14:15-14:30

Panel Discussion

Dr. Doesun NA,

Professor, University of

Ulsan, Member of the UN

Biotechnology initiative,

Korea

14:30-16:00

Session 4: Women’s advantages and responsibilities in

promoting low-carbon society

Mme. Xiaoyun LI,

Deputy Secretary-General, CWAST, China

14:30-14:45

China: Mindong BAI, Professor, Dalian Maritime

University

“The advantages and responsibilities of women in

science and technology in promoting low-carbon

society”

14:45-15:00

Japan: Kakiko IDE, Chief Researcher, Environmental

Planning Team, Polytech ADD Co., Ltd., Study

member, Study of guidelines for the carbon-cut

practices at offices and houses under the Tokyo

“Women’s Advantages and Responsibilities in Promoting

Low-Carbon Society: View Points from Japan”

15:00-15:15

Korea: Hyong Ha Kim, Ph.D., Principal Research

Scientist, Korea Research Institute of Standards and

Science

“Women’s Advantage and Responsibilities in Promoting

Low-Carbon Society”

15:15-16:00

Panel discussion

Mme. Shu LIU,

Honorary member, CAST, Honorary advisor, CWAST,

China

16:00-16:15

Tea Break

16:15-17:00

Closing ceremony

Closing remarks by Mme. Donghong CHENG,

Executive Secretary General, CAST, Vice President,

CWAST, China

Closing remarks by Dr. Akiko TSUGAWA, President,

International Network of Women Engineers & Scientists

(INWES), Japan

Closing remarks by Dr. Soonja Choe,

the president-elect, KOFWST, Korea

Mme. Huimei WANG,

Deputy Director-General,

the Department of

Personnel and

Organization, CAST, China

18:00-19:00

Closing banquet (Zijin Hall, 2 nd Floor)