Hack4SocialGood 2025
Apr
4
to Apr 5

Hack4SocialGood 2025

On April 4 and 5, 2025, the next Hack4SocialGood will take place in Olten. Over these two days, people from the social and tech sectors will work together to develop solutions for digital challenges faced by social organizations.

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Hello 50:50 World in Basel: Gender-based violence in the AI and data-driven world
Mar
28
Basel

Hello 50:50 World in Basel: Gender-based violence in the AI and data-driven world

Despite improvements on many fronts of women’s emancipation and gender equality, girls and women are still overwhelmingly affected by techno-facilitated violence compared to their male counterparts. Cyber harassment, impersonation, stalking, have all increased in intensity and scope with the rise of AI technologies. To date, responsibility for protecting women online has tended to fall on women themselves. But we want to ask: what about the responsibility of tech platforms themselves in this global phenomenon? How do leading AI companies address genAI abuse against women and girls?

We are going to talk about that at our March meetup in Basel together with Dr. Marie Poux-Berthe. She is a research assistant involved in the Intimate Tech Terror Project led by Prof. Veronica Barassi at the University of St.Gallen.

This event is for you if…

  • you want to learn about the specificities of tech-facilitated gender-based violence

  • you want to get some everyday life tips to improve your safety online

  • you are just interested in the topic and want to learn more


We will discuss the following questions:

  • What are the specificities of tech-facilitated gender-based violence?

  • What are the main strategies currently deployed by organizations and institutions to fight against tech-facilitated gender-based violence?

  • In your view, what kind of technological initiatives could contribute to fighting tech-facilitated gender-based violence ?

  • What can we do on an individual level to protect ourselves?

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Hello 50:50 World in Zurich: Designed to Fit – But for Whom?
Mar
27
Zurich

Hello 50:50 World in Zurich: Designed to Fit – But for Whom?

Rethinking Inclusive Service Design

Inclusive design is often misunderstood. Many organizations treat accessibility as an afterthought—a box to check rather than a fundamental design principle. But true inclusion isn’t just about compliance—it’s about rethinking how we design services, systems, and experiences from the start.

This event will explore how exclusion happens by default when we design for the majority. We assume we know what people need, but what if our assumptions are the biggest barrier to real inclusion?

Join us for an insightful session with Selina Finsler, Graduate M.A. in Service Design HSLU. Selina’s journey shows how inclusive design is not just about disability—it’s about designing for human diversity.

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Hello 50:50 World in Zurich: Leaky Pipeline - Fix the wo/men?
Feb
14
Zurich

Hello 50:50 World in Zurich: Leaky Pipeline - Fix the wo/men?

What? Leaky Pipeline - Fix the wo/men?

Who? Denise Fichter, co-founder of RadicalInclusion, she left the tech industry a few years ago

  • What unfair situations regarding gender have you noticed at work in the past? How did you react?

  • What is in your opinion the best way to tackle gender inequality in tech?

  • Has your opinion about gender equality at work changed over time?

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Hello 50:50 World in Zurich: Software vs. Hardware
Jan
29
Zurich

Hello 50:50 World in Zurich: Software vs. Hardware

What? Software vs. Hardware

Who? Rayan Armani, PhD Student in Computer Science at ETH Zurich, who works at the intersection of humans, hardware, and software, and organizes the Zurich Hardware Meetup.

We will discuss for example the following questions:

  • What draws hardware experts to software careers—and what keeps them there?

  • How can we make hardware careers the next big thing for diverse talent?

  • Does workplace culture feel different in hardware vs. software? Why or why not?

  • Who has shaped your journey in hardware or software, and how?

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Edit-a-thon (Wikipedia)
Nov
26
Zurich

Edit-a-thon (Wikipedia)

Der Edit-a-thon «Für mehr Sichtbarkeit auf Wikipedia» geht mit Unterstützung von Ringier, der Initiative EqualVoice, Wikimedia CH, TX Group, ETH und Hello 50:50 World in die nächste Runde! Anlässlich der neuen Patronage mit Hello 50:50 World widmet sich die 12. Ausgabe des Edit-a-thons Frauen in der Technologiebranche.

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Hello 50:50 World in Zurich: Burnout & Masculinity
Nov
11
Zurich

Hello 50:50 World in Zurich: Burnout & Masculinity

Was? Burnout & Maskulinität

Wer? Elias Huber erzählt als Betroffener über seine Erfahrungen mit Burnout in der Tech-Branche. Danach spricht die Psychologin Lia Frei über die mentale Gesundheit von Männern.

Es werden unter anderem folgende Themen behandelt:

  • Wie man betroffenen Arbeitskollegen, Freunden oder Partnern helfen kann

  • Wie Männer aufgrund ihrer Sozialisierung mit mentaler Gesundheit umgehen

  • Welche gesellschaftliche Normen erschweren es Männern, über ihre psychische Gesundheit zu sprechen - und wie können wir unser alltägliches Verhalten ändern, um ebendiese Normen zu durchbrechen

  • Welche spezifischen Stressoren erhöhen bei Männern die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass sie mental erkranken

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Nov
17
Zurich

Hello 50:50 World Bern: Co-leadership

Lightning talk

What? How to get more diversity in leadership positions in tech

Who? Maja Schreiner, CEO and Founder of Sharing Tribe

We will discuss for example the following questions:

  • Why is it so important to have diversity in leadership? What is the impact?

  • How does job and top sharing help to bring more diversity in leadership?

  • What are other potential methods to increase diversity in leadership?

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Oct
24
Zurich

Hello 50:50 World Bern: Gender-inclusive city planning

What? What we can learn from gender-inclusive city planning

Who?

Urban planning and design shape the environment around us – and that environment, in turn, shapes how we live, work, play, move, and rest. Cities have historically been planned and designed for men and by men. Our urban environments tend to reflect traditional gender roles.

Gender-inclusive city planning seeks to respond to questions such as: how might we design and plan cities that work well for everyone? What would such a city look like, and how would we go about creating it?

We will discuss for example the following questions:

  • What are practical examples of the built environment that reflects traditional gender roles that we can experience when living, working and moving in cities?

  • How would a gender-inclusive city be designed and look like?

  • How does technology empower gender-inclusive city planning?

  • How can we draw parallels to the practices and methods of city planning on how we design and run companies in a "gender-inclusive" way?

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Sep
28
Zurich

Hello 50:50 World Bern: Making women in tech more visible

Lightning talk

What? Making women in tech more visible at public events - why and how?

Who? Massimo Mannino from WE/MEN and Co-founder Novalytica

We will discuss for example the following questions:

  • Why is visibility of women in the public discourse important? Why is it especially important for tech topics?

  • What can event organizers do to have more diverse panels and to have women and other minorities represented on stage?

  • What are challenges around making women more visible?

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Aug
11
Zurich

Hello 50:50 World Bern: Asset framing

Lightning talk

What? How to transform the narrative of diversity in tech with asset framing

Who? Martina Niggli

Have you heard of asset framing? Martina will be sharing with us an approach to problem solving that evolves around how we frame a topic with a focus on assets or potentials rather than challenges or deficits.

Originally introduced by Trabian Shorters to create equity for the BMe community, we will be applying this approach to questions around diversity in tech and identify where it can help to change and transform the narrative away from stigmas to powerful and positive stories.

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