Welcome to the WE Local Bengaluru Keynote Speaker Nomination Site

In Spring 2026, Society of Women Engineers (SWE) will offer a WE Local conference in Bengaluru, India. We at SWE are committed to providing dynamic, appealing, and diverse keynote speakers during these WE Local conferences. Our goal in this WELBenga26 Call for Keynotes (CFK) is to secure keynote speakers who are energetic and engaging, and who will empower attendees to succeed at every stage of their professional development. The basic requirements for WELBenga26 Keynote Speakers are:

• Well-known and recognized for their engineering, scientific, leadership, or entrepreneurial achievement
• Known as a technical, executive, or policy leader in their field by peers
• Engaging speaker
• Identifies as female/woman

WELBenga26 CFK Guidelines document available here (PDF), showing the full content of the application as well as FAQs on the process.

WELBenga26 CFK Timeline

• CFK Opens: 6 October 2025
• CFK Closes: 15 December 2025, 23:59 IST
  
  
• CFK Notifications Sent: March 2026
  • Please add cfk@swe.org to your email contacts to ensure essential, nomination-related communications don't go to Spam!
    
    
• WE Local Bengaluru: 9-10 April 2026

Proposals may only be submitted through this form. If you have never submitted to any of SWE's Women in Engineering (WE) conferences before, you'll need to create an account. Click Join Now below to get started. If you've submitted to any prior WE conference since WE Local 2024, you should be able to re-use your previous login credentials.