Iliad : Scaleway – Iliad’s B2B cloud – takes action for women in tech

Scaleway - Iliad's B2B cloud - takes action for women in tech

Paris, September 12, 2019 - Scaleway is taking action to increase the number of women working in tech, an industry that is still largely male-dominated.

Scaleway has decided to open its doors to non-profit organizations working to attract women to tech. For instance, we have teamed up with the second Global Startup Weekend Women Paris, which will be taking place on September 26 and 27 and is aimed at encouraging female entrepreneurship. And on January 22, 2020, Paris Women In Machine Learning will be holding a meetup in Scaleway's Paris premises, having already taken part in our ScaleDayon June 13, 2019. At this meetup it will be highlighting the importance of augmenting the numbers of women working in artificial intelligence.

"New technologies should be as open to women as they are to men", says Arnaud de Bermingham, Scaleway's CEO. He goes on to explain: "On average, women currently account for less than 20% of our industry worldwide1. So we need to evolve and not remain on the margins of society. That's why we've decided to take action at Scaleway, by giving more visibility to the women already working in our company and encouraging young women to explore a career in tech. Our aim is to double the number of our women employees by 2024".

ESPCI Summer School at Scaleway in Paris, July 2019

This across-the-board commitment is being spearheaded by women engineers, who are very keen to get involved, spread the word and inspire their juniors. For example, on July 31, 2019 we hosted a summer school organized by the prestigious engineering school, ESPCI. We gave the 30 female high-school students attending this event an overview of the career opportunities available if they go on to further education in science, technology, IT or math.

And last, but not least, Scaleway has absolute gender parity at top management level. With a Management Committee made up of four men and four women2, our company is an example to follow in the tech world.

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All of these measures are in line with those undertaken by the Iliad Group to promote women in the telecom industry3. Anyone, either women or men, interested in joining our company can apply here: https://careers.scaleway.com

About Scaleway

Scaleway is a B2B Iliad Group brand supplying a range of pioneering cloud infrastructure covering a full range of services for professionals: public cloud services with Scaleway, private infrastructure with Scaleway Datacenter and bare-metal cloud services with Online by Scaleway. Scaleway's offer is based on some 20 years of expertise in developing and marketing dedicated servers (Online by Scaleway) and managing high-end innovative data centers (Scaleway Datacenter). Scaleway is growing its reputation around the world and currently serves business clients in over 150 countries. Scaleway has seven data centers located in France and one in the Netherlands. Its clients include Le Bon Coin, Vente-Privée (Veepee), Safran and Le Monde.

1. Source:https://www.women-in-technology.com/wintec-blog/women-in-tech-by-country

1. Albane Bruyas (formerly at Toshiba) and Muriel Bougeant (formerly at OVH) have recently joined Sibel Han, Chief HR Officer and Loretta Tieiola, Chief Product Officer, and their male counterparts, Antoine Courouble, Chief Information Officer (CIO), Alexandre Morel, Chief Sales, Strategy & Marketing Officer, (CSMO & Strategy), Mickaël Marchand, Chief Technical Officer (CTO) and Arnaud de Bermingham, Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
2. Iliad's score in the latest gender pay survey showed the Group's deep commitment to gender equality (seehttps://www.iliad.fr/presse/2019/egalite_HF_010319.pdf- in French only)

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