In 2024, the Ruzena Bajcsy Lectures on Communication and Resilience will be a twin pack. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the annual lecture and from now on, the organization will be transferred from the Collaborative Research Center MAKI to the LOEWE Center emergenCITY. We are celebrating this occasion with two lectures by two inspiring women from business and science.

Accompanying the lectures, there will also be a follow-up to the Networking of Women in Computing, Engineering, and Resilience meet-up right before the first lecture. Women* working or studying in the fields of computer science, engineering, and resilience research are invited to an informal brunch to get to know each other and share experiences with each other and the speakers. The breakfast will be free of cost for all participants.

Poster for the Ruzena Bajcsy Lectures with photos of the two speakers and a summary of the when- and whereabouts

Lecture 1: “What helps your career and your startups – my personal learnings”

Barbara Meyer – Managing Director of bmc Partners GmbH
Date: Friday, June 14th 2024
Time: 12:30 am – 1:45 pm Location: Wilhelm-Köhler Saal, Hochschulstraße 1, 64289 Darmstadt, S1|03, Raum 283

Networking of Women in Computing, Engineering, and Resilience

Date: Freitag, 14. Juni 2024 Time: 9:30 am If you would like to attend the network meeting, please send us an e-mail by 05.06.2024 to: office@emergencity.de

About Barbara Meyer

Barbara Meyer is an entrepreneur, investor and founder of bmc partners. The consulting firm supports start-ups and companies in Europe and the USA with strategic and operational issues. Meyer has helped set up accelerators such as startupbootcamp and supports start-up teams as a mentor at UnternehmerTUM, among others. In her role as an advisory board member of CIL Associates, she also supports international company acquisitions and sales. After numerous partnership positions at various well-known companies - from L.E.K. Consulting to the Mitchell Madison Group and March First - Meyer has been primarily active in recent years as an investor, supervisory board member and consultant specializing in platforms. Barbara Meyer studied business administration at the European Business School and holds a Master of Business Administration from IMD, Lausanne.

Lecture 2: “Enhancing User-centred Privacy Protection across Multiple Domains”

Delphine Reinhardt – Universität Göttingen
Date: Wednesday, July 3rd 2024
Time: 10.00 am
Location: Friedrich Ludwig Weidig Raum, Rundeturmstraße 10, 64283 Darmstadt, S3|20, Raum 18

Presentation of the Female Student Travel Awards 2024

Wednesday July 03, 2024, 11:00 a.m. S3|20, Room 18, Rundeturmstraße 10, 64283 Darmstadt

Following the Ruzena Bajcsy Lecture by Delphine Reinhard, the prizes will be presented to the winners of the Female Student Travel Awards 2024 of the research networks SFB MAKI, SFB CROSSING, GRK Privacy & Trust, LOEWE Center emergenCITY and the Zuse School ELIZA.

Abstract The rapid proliferation of digital technologies raises concerns regarding privacy. To better protect it, it is however not sufficient to only consider technical factors and solutions. Instead, human factors should also be taken into consideration to better, e.g., reflect the users’ individual privacy conceptions and address potential difficulties they may encounter in the process. Illustrating the diversity of our work, the presentation examines privacy from different perspectives, acknowledging the varied stakeholders and discuss selected results including the design of privacy controls, fostering transparency and user empowerment.

About Delphine Reinhardt is head of the research group “Computer Security and Privacy” at the Georg-August University in Göttingen since 2018. She is also currently a member of the Dean’s Board of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science and Managing Director of the Institute of Computer Science. In the winter semester 2023/2024, she was a visiting professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and at the School of Computing and Information Systems at Singapore Management University. In 2019, she was named one of the 10 global “Rising Stars in Networking and Communications” by N2Women and awarded the Johann Philipp Reis Prize for outstanding innovative publications on protecting our privacy when using digital media.

The annual lecture at TU Darmstadt is named after the leading computer scientist Ruzena Bajcsy, who is a role model for female scientists. Her love of engineering and her tenacity to assert herself in a field in which women are still underrepresented today is exemplary. To celebrate Ruzena Bajcsy, we have been bringing leading female scientists to TU Darmstadt for the lecture for nine years now.