SIME is northern Europe’s largest conference about the Internet and digital opportunities with events this year in Vienna, Amsterdam, Barcelona and Stockholm.  SIME brings together top executives, marketing professionals, aficionados and members of the press. SIME is about how digital opportunities can convert to new business, a better world and a lot of fun.

	Who goes to SIME? The Audience consists of international thought leaders from the TIME sector, decision-makers from large-scale enterprises in the aforementioned markets, as well as representatives for the media, Internet, advertising and IT industries. 2010 SIME Stockholm had over 1200 people in the audience together with over 60 accredited journalists and a fantastic combination of spellbinding speakers.
	Who Speaks at SIME? Each year SIME invite speakers and panel participants from all over the world. All speakers are leading professionals within their respective niche and are representatives for the Internet, telecom, entertainment and media industries..
	Some of our previous speakers Previous speakers include: Nicklas Zennström, founder of Skype; Esther Dyson, EDventure, investor, author and the queen of US Internet; Michael Oreskes; Chief Editor of International Herlad Tribune; Joi Ito, CEO Creative commons, Chairman Six Apart; Pelle Törnberg, former CEO Metro; Jack Ma, founder Alibaba Group; Martin Varsavsky, Founder FON, Jazztel and Ya.com and more..

SIME GENDER POLICY

It’s a well-known fact that there is an uneven gender balance in the technology sector and amongst entrepreneurs. SIME wants to take part in changing this picture and encourages more women to enter the business and to attend educations that lead to work in the technology business.
Further, SIME and SIME Non-Profit have the ambition to raise the number of females amongst our invited speakers, workshop leaders and jury members. Our focus is to invite women with relevant competences, experiences and positions, welcoming them to take part of a context where they get to act as the leaders, inspirers or entrepreneurs that they are.

We wish to acknowledge that this is just a start – neither SIME nor anyone else can hope to change the uneven gender balance in just one day or even in a year. However, we at SIME will take the steps we can to help bring about change, and we hope that our visitors and speakers will help us by in their turn inviting more women to participate.

HOW WE DO IT

Speakers
For SIME 2011 we have drawn on the suggestions of female speakers that we have received via our website and via our networks. We have invited a larger number of women to lecture at SIME than any other year.

Jury, when applicable
SIMEs long-term ambition is always to invite as many women as men to the jury.

Participants
As for female participants, we continue our work to get more women to participate in SIME. In the future we will also cooperate with a number of female networks, and we will continue to give discounted and in some cases free SIME tickets to the members of these networks.