The Ask
“Women in Tech Summit” is an event held by Microsoft on March 2022 at the 4 seasons on enhancing the role of women for innovation in the technology sector.
The event was held in coinciding with the celebration of women month under the theme of “Empowered Women, Empowered Egypt” in the attendance of H.E. Dr. Amr Talaat, Minister of ICT, H.E Dr. Rania Al-Mashat Minister of International Cooperation, and H.E. Dr. Yasmine Fouad, Minister of Environment, and Ms. Nicole Shampaine – Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Egypt, alongside a plethora of prominent business leaders in Egypt.
The idea behind the event was to shed light on empowering women at work in the technology sector, how diversity and inclusion will help to achieve economic growth in Egypt as well as discussing the importance of entrepreneurship and the challenges facing women to achieve success in the digital world
Objectives
- To expose the event’s message through press releases and by inviting targeted Journalists and TV channels to attain media coverage.
- To invite the female Journalists in the IT sector to align with the event theme “Empowered Women, Empowered Egypt
Core Narrative
To generate news coverage, we promote the event through corporate communications by distributing press releases (Warmup, event and recap), inviting the TV and press to cover the event and conducting one to one interviews with the guests
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The results
- Microsoft event received exceptional media coverage.
- 15 Journalists and 2 TV channels attended the event, and they were able to conduct interviews with the guests
- The event got huge coverage in more than 90 online news portals, and more than 2 printed publications
- Acquired one to one interviews with publications such as: Hapi, Amwal Al Ghad, Al Masdar and Egy Economy