AIA’s Women’s Leadership Summit 2022, the first to be held in Silicon Valley

The American Institute of Architects’ Women’s Leadership Summit 2022 will be held from September 28 through October 1, 2022, at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts in California’s Silicon Valley. The AIA has announced that the event will see the participation of a diverse range of professionals from the architecture and design worlds, who’ll come together to discuss the key issues of today, including corporate leadership, advancing business knowledge, targeted networking, proactive career management, and personal empowerment.

The American Institute of Architects and the Women’s Leadership Summit

For 160 years, the American Institute of Architects has worked to advance people’s quality of life, and protect public health, safety, and welfare. The objectives of this Washington-based professional association are to support ongoing education and training, while offering public outreach to support the architecture profession and improve its public image. One of its initiatives is the Women’s Leadership Summit, an important opportunity for discussion for female architects and designers of all ages.

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WLS 2022, the first to be held in Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley, the global center of technology and innovation, will be the backdrop for this year’s Women’s Leadership Summit in fall. The largest event in the United States for women architects and designers, it will be held September 28 – October 1 at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, California. Organized by the American Institute of Architects, WLS 2022 will feature 30 international speakers and twelve mainstage events. Among the topics for discussion are entrepreneurship, career paths, leadership, and business models, but space will also be devoted to workplace wellbeing, environmental sustainability, gender and social equity, and, naturally, innovation in architecture and design.

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The WLS 2022 steering committee

The steering committee of WLS 2022 comprises five professionals from California’s architecture scene: Mariana Alvarez Parga, principal at 19six Architects; Leah Alissa Bayer, president of OJK Architecture + Planning, founder and studio director of EVIA Studio; Katia McClain, managing principal for Northern California Steinberg Hart; Dasha Ortenberg, 2020 chair of the Women in Architecture Committee, AIASVC; and Stephanie Silkwood, associate principal at RMW Architecture.