Workshop, ‘Success stories of female executives and entrepreneurs in the transport industry’, 25 November 2020

Two businesswomen who have successfully launched their own businesses in the transport industry and two female executives working in this sector will be discussing how they have built their professional careers in the male-dominated transport industry as part of the online workshop ‘Success stories of female executives and entrepreneurs’ to be held on 25 November.

The workshop, organised by the Packaging, Transport and Logistics Technology Centre (ITENE), will be attended by Mar Casas, founder of Transleyca, a company specialising in national and international goods haulage, and Pepa Torres, CEO of Walkerpack, a logistics services company that offers its expertise to companies located in different countries and currently manages part of Ford’s logistics chain at its plant in Almussafes (Valencia). Likewise, the executives Isabel Sánchez, Managing Director of Disfrimur, a company engaged in road transport and logistics throughout Spain and specialising in food and retail products, and Muriel Moscardini, General Manager of Ontruck España, a Spanish technological platform that seeks to optimise transport routes for palletised goods, will also be participating in the event.

The workshop, which is part of the European TInnGO project, is free of charge for participants who register and targets people who are starting their professional career in technology and engineering areas related to transport, and to students on degrees and engineering courses whose knowledge is applicable to the transport sector. It aims to address the factors that cause the gender balance in the transport industry as well as possible mechanisms and strategies to achieve greater gender equality thanks to a cross-cutting perspective, emphasising the diverse realities that exist among the female community. ITENE, which is leading the Spanish project’s hub, is organising this workshop on entrepreneurship and employability in transport from a gender perspective. The idea is to promote debate on equal employment opportunities based on the experiences of the speakers.

 

You could watch the recorded workshop here