“Women of the Energy” Gathered on the 8th of March

The members of the Turkish Women in Renewables and Energy (TWRE) Group gathered for a special event in Istanbul on the evening of March 8, 2019- the International Women’s Day.

The meeting was held at Richmond Istanbul Hotel with the support of Sektorel Fuarcilik – ICCI 25th International Energy and Environment Fair and Conference. 86 women, especially from renewable energy sector besides energy and infrastructure sectors, participated to the meeting. In this special event organized by Turkish Women in Renewables and Energy (TWRE) Group on the 8 March International Women’s Day, the objective of “increasing the presence of women workers in the energy sector at every level” came to prominence.

“We will strive for increasing the presence of women in energy”

Sedef Budak, the Founder President of TWRE

The opening speeches of the meeting were delivered by Sedef Budak, the Founder President of TWRE and Feraye Gürel, the Communications Coordinator of TWRE. TWRE Founder President Sedef Budak specified the mission, as women’s networking platform to increase the employment of women in the energy sector and to build a well-directed communication network. Budak informed that the Platform having around 800 members at the moment and established a very competent database. Budak also said that the organic growth is happening very quickly and TWRE is now a well-known platform among similar international women’s organizations. The next step will be the education and mentoring programs accordingly.

Feraye Gürel, the Communications Coordinator of TWRE

Feraye Gürel, the Communications Coordinator of TWRE emphasized that their goal is to balance the number of women employees in the energy sector against men. Motivate

women with engineering formation to join the sector, gain experience and to ensure that woman employees are also preferred for vertical promotion.

All the participants and the speakers were women

In the meeting where the topics of power, environment and sustainable production were discussed. Aslıhan Dalgın, the Asset Commercial Manager of Gama Energy, made her speech about “Energy Trade and Power Plant Optimization”, Sezen Fidan, the co-founder of ARI-ES Energy and Urban Planner, made her presentation on “Project Management in Renewable Energy Plants”. Enise Burcu Derinboğaz, the co-founder of PROXIS Landscape talked about “Renewable Landscape and Architecture of Energy “and Pınar Akçam the General Manager of L’OCCITANE Turkey, informed the participants on “Energy for Sustainable Production and Natural Cosmetics”.

At the meeting, it was decided to start preparations for the participation to the upcoming fairs and congresses as a platform, for the realization of the open to public sessions where the women will be speakers on employment of women and the current state of the sector.