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Event type:

Face to face

Deloitte, The Ewart, Belfast

At a glance…

This Women in Business event is delivered in partnership with Diversity Mark, MRANI and Deloitte. Its purpose is to provide a welcoming space for women from diverse ethnic backgrounds to come together in a relaxed and informal environment to grow their connections, discuss common career and business challenges and enable valuable community building.
 
We welcome women from all ethnicities - this is a free event for Women in Business members and employees in Diversity Mark signatory organisations.

Agenda:
5.30pm Arrival, refreshments and networking
5.50pm Welcome by Women in Business and MRANI
6.00pm Panel discussion chaired by Diversity Mark 
6.45pm Facilitated networking
7.30pm Close 
MCWN2026

Guest Speaker Panel:

Maira Jahangir

Maira Jahangir

Management Consultant at Deloitte

Maira Jahangir is an experienced consulting professional with over 12 years' experience. Throughout her career she has worked with a wide range of organisations as a technology consultant, developing a deep understanding of how diversity is expressed across teams. More recently, she has served on the Diversity team in Deloitte’s Belfast office, where she has collaborated with colleagues committed to advancing inclusion. Maira believes a safe and supportive environment is essential for learning; the diverse perspectives that arise from different cultures, religions and ethnicities are what make organisations stronger and more innovative.

Dr Ngozi Oketah

Dr Ngozi Oketah

Consultant in General Paediatrics CHI

Dr Oketah completed her general Paediatric Basic and Higher Specialist Training in Ireland before completing a clinical fellowship post in adolescent medicine at the University College London Hospital (UCLH) Treatment and Rehabilitation of Adolescents and Children with Complex conditions Service (TRACCS). She has a particular interest in holistic care of young people with a special interest in the interplay between physical and mental health presentations. Her other interests are in medical education and quality improvement. She currently sits on the International Association for Adolescent Health (IAAH) council and on the mental health committee for the Society of Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM).

Siobhan Brown

Siobhan Brown

Architect | Director of Soultrane

Siobhan Brown is a Chartered Architect, and specialises in Conservation. She has over 30 years experience in the building industry and worked within social housing for over 15 of those years restoring historic building and turning them into social housing and maintaining them. As a Conservation Architect she specialised in the restoration and development of sustainable historic buildings. She was Assistant Director at Hearth (a building preservation trust set up by the National Trust and the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society) for 12 years and director of her own company ARC Design Consultants Ltd for 18 years. As a Project Manager & design team leader she has worked on some of the most prominent listed historic buildings in Northern Ireland such as Parliament Buildings, Stormont, St George's Market and Sion Mills stables, as well as key smaller scale buildings such as the Ormeau Park House, Rosetta gate lodge, Rosetta cottages , Molly's yard restaurant and many Georgian and Victorian dwellings around the province. Siobhan is now Director of Operations with Flamma Ltd, her family run business that deals with the installation of passive fire protection products for all building types specialising in historic buildings. Siobhan Brown was born in London of Jamaican heritage and moved to NI in 1992 and so has spent most of her life in NI. Her soul band Manukahunney begun in 2012 performing some of the best live high energy, spirited authentic soul and funk cover nights in Northern Ireland and she has become renowned as Northern Ireland’s authentic soul Music ambassador. As a soul ambassador Siobhan is also a Radio presenter at BBC Radio Ulster with her own soul show series “ The Siobhan Brown Soul Show” which has a steadily growing fan base each year with a new series currently on air each Sunday and Thursday on BBC Radio Ulster Siobhan is also an Independent artist, singer and songwriter and one of the founders of the award winning Soultrane festival - NI's 1st dedicated soul and jazz festival on the island of ireland . Siobhan is also leader of the award winning cairde community choir who sang with acclaimed artist Brian Kennedy on RTE the late late show in 2024 for a 25 years celebration since the good Friday agreement

Location

Deloitte, The Ewart, Belfast

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