womENcourage 2021 is to be held in Prague, Czech Republic. The slogan of the event this year is “Bridging Communities to Foster Innovation”. In an increasingly technology-driven world and a rapidly changing economic environment, the field of computing cannot reach its full innovation and creativity potential if formed of homogeneous expertise, represented unevenly only by a fraction of the population. To foster innovation, we shall stop compartmentalising scientific progress by disciplines and encourage innovation across boundaries.

This month we feature ACM-W leadership team this month comes from Bushra Anjum, Standing Committees Co-Chair, with an interview about her involvement with Celebrating Technology Leaders, a webinar project of her own creation.

Web series “Celebrating Technology Leaders” brings stories and advice from engaging speakers, with diverse careers in computing, directly to our global audience.

The pandemic has caused many small and not so small changes in everyone’s life. We know that women are being disproportionately affected by it.