Siobhan joined Virgin Atlantic as VP, Digital & Distribution in 2018 after 15 years in senior roles in the retail industry at brands including Argos and Homebase.

Earlier, she gained deep digital experience through roles in media and publishing. Siobhan’s background includes digital commerce and transformation, customer experience and marketing.  She is passionate about creating seamless experiences for customers, delivered through amazing people and great technology.

Siobhan lives with her partner, son, three cats, one dog and one horse. When she’s not on the horse riding, she’s normally avidly reading.

Rebecca is currently Chief Information & Change Officer at Lloyd’s of London having previously developed her career across senior technology roles in the consulting, insurance and real estate industries, both in the UK and the US. She enjoys leading transformation and change programmes.   

She is energised by challenge and aspires to continue solving difficult problems as her career evolves. With a strong focus on delivering results, she holds high standards, both for herself and others. Her style is “collaborative yet decisive” and tends to balance analysis with action when considering her approach. She is sensitive to others’ needs and the culture she creates is likely to be marked by respect, consideration and mutual support. Colleagues should find her to be approachable and outgoing, and encouraging of teamwork and cooperation - she should engender their trust. She is resilient and upbeat and will take most things in her stride.  

Rebecca is an experienced strategic leader having developed the Hiscox NA and EMEA strategies as well as building the technology, data and cyber security strategies and functions for Aldermore. Cyber, technology risk management and resilience were a key hallmark of her tenure at Aldermore. 

Here are her career highlights: 

• 2017 – 2020: CIO, Aldermore Bank 
• 2015 – 2017: COO, Sheraton Systems 
• 2009 – 2015: Hiscox 
• 2013 – 2015: Head of IT, Europe, Guernsey & Management Operations 
• 2009 -2013: Head of IT, USA  
• 2007 – 2009: Spicerhart Group Ltd, IT Programme Manager. 

Lena joined MongoDB with more than 20 years of cyber security experience. Before joining MongoDB, she was the Global Chief Information Security Officer for the international fintech company, Tradeweb, where she was responsible for all aspects of cybersecurity. She also served as CIO and Chief Security Officer for the New York Power Authority, the largest state power organization in the country. Lena is a founding member of Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan, formerly the Interdisciplinary Consortium for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, which allows security leaders in academia and the private sector to collaborate on tackling the most challenging security issues.

Marta started her career back in 2006 as a J2ME engineer developing mobile games. She has spent 7 years in engineering roles focusing on building and operating distributed systems across gaming and e-commerce industries, working in Poland, France, and later on in the UK. She took on her first management gig in 2011 and for the last 9 years has been in various technology management and leadership roles. In 2018 she joined MOO's C-suite as CTO leading their Technology, Product, and Design teams and as of October 2020, she became the first CTO of Bloom & Wild, where she is responsible for developing an amazing team while building solid technical foundations for the ever-growing and evolving business. Marta is a gamer, comic book nerd, and an amateur illustrator and enjoys working in organisations that allowed her to play into her creative side.

After many years working within the software industry, in the private and public sectors, Sumitra joined the Home Office as a senior Java developer in 2017, before moving into the role of tech lead for projects and then becoming a Principal Engineer. Sumitra is motivated by the ability and potential of tech to transform public services, whether through building digital service forms for services such as General Register Office certificate enquiries or else by creating platforms for frontline Home Office teams to share intelligence to improve delivery.

Sumitra enjoys the challenges, technical and non-technical, of the projects she and her teams work on and the organisation’s focus on collaboration across teams to build services in an agile, product-centric and user-centred way. Sumitra’s role includes helping to build engineering teams by upskilling and empowering developers, helping individuals realise their potential, as well as identifying and recruiting talent to join the organisation.

As Chief Technology Officer, Swati is responsible for all of Funding Circle’s technology capabilities globally. Swati brings more than 20 years’ experience in software development and information security, both at scale in larger enterprises and in higher growth environments. Swati started her career at Merrill Lynch in New York as a software developer. Since then, she has held various leadership positions in technology and information security in numerous industries including retail banking at Barclays Bank and gaming, where she was the Director of Information Security at Betfair, a then FTSE 250 gaming operator.

Swati joined Funding Circle in 2017 firstly as Chief Information Security Officer and then VP of Engineering where she was responsible for Growth Engineering, Data and Corporate Technology, as well as Information Security.

Swati holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Operations Management from Princeton University.

Ela heads up the Data Science team at Deliveroo. Prior to exploring data on rider routes and dim sum, she ran a data team at the Guardian. Outside of work, Ela enjoys baking (and eating) cakes, encouraging her kids to speak Austrian slang, and bike rides. She is passionate about developing Data Scientists and creating an inclusive work environment.

I always thought I’d be a mathematician, but turned to data science in 2011 shortly after finishing my PhD in algebraic topology. Since then I’ve had great fun doing data science and latterly leading data science teams. When I’m not doing data science, you can probably find me on the judo mat, in the gym trying to improve my Olympic lifting, or playing with my 2-year-old son.

I was bitten by the product bug early in my career at HSBC which led to a fantastic year at Insead doing my MBA. I then took the scenic route to my current role as interim CPO as Just Eat Takeaway.com via roles in corporate finance at Orange and digital marketing and product at American Express. I am passionate about product culture, building great customer experiences which are scalable and data powered and yes, I'm a Marty Cagan fan girl.

I am a mum of 2 and also a coffee snob, enthusiastic foodie who doesn’t “get” wine, mid century design enthusiast and Instagram addict. This is my first time here and I’m thrilled to be presenting at the Women of Silicon Roundabout and meeting many of you.

Lorraine leads Deloitte’s Business Operations practice of over 1,300 consultants, and is a member of the Deloitte UK Consulting Leadership Team. She sets the direction for teams helping their clients to innovate, transform and run the operations and technology platforms at the core of their businesses, combining deep business knowledge with leading digital, cloud and engineering expertise. She is enthusiastic about harnessing the power of cloud to help organisations rapidly and sustainably deliver customer, colleague and societal change. For her clients, Lorraine leads major transformation programmes in the Banking sector, spanning digital and customer experience, automation and restructuring.

Alongside client delivery, Lorraine is passionate about promoting wellness, diversity and inclusion in her teams: she launched and sponsors a Wellbeing programme and Black Community Group in her practice, and was recently recognised as a 2021 EMPower Ethnic Minority Advocate. Outside of work, you might spot Lorraine running around Regent’s Park or practicing her handstand, if she’s not breaking her fears and public speaking.  
 

Sophie Neary is Group Director for Facebook UK & Ireland. Sophie joined Facebook in August 2020 from Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), where she was the Managing Director of eCommerce and Digital Retail Transformation and member of the executive committee for Boots, the UK’s largest health, beauty and wellbeing retailer.

Sophie has over 25 years of leadership experience spanning Marketing, E-Commerce, Strategy and Digital Transformation roles for companies including; Reuters, Netscape/Sun Microsystems, Tesco, Walmart, Visa, Sony and WBA. Her startup experience includes JCP, sold to Sun Microsystems 2000 and aggregator BeatThatQuote.com, acquired by Google in 2011.  

Sophie is a passionate advocator and champion of women’s health in the workplace and regularly speaks about embracing a life outside the traditional expectations of society.

Eva Ducruezet is the Chief People Officer & VP Strategy and BizOps at GoCardless, the London-based fintech. Prior to joining GoCardless, Eva worked in a variety of tech businesses including Just Eat and Expedia, leading strategic and transformational initiatives, launching new revenue streams, and managing internal change. She started her career in management consulting at KPMG in New York, and holds a BSc in Finance and Accounting from New York University and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business. Eva lives in north London with her husband.

Jessica Ellis is Head of Programme Development on the DCMS 5G Testbeds and Trials Programme. The £200m Programme has been central to the funding and development of a wide range of 5G testbeds across the UK, facilitating 5G and Connected Community trials across multiple sectors and places.

Prior to DCMS Jessica worked at Bristol Is Open, one of the UK’s leading testbeds at the time, working with public and private sector partners to facilitate trials on the test network in the city region.

Her role in DCMS is to drive successful programmes of work and collaboration across the 5G Testbed and Trials projects to align with Digital Infrastructure Directorate objectives. Jessica brings extensive experience and passion, working across public and private sectors on advanced network and digital technologies which will, when brought together, change the ways citizens interact with the places they live and work.

Denise Bryant is the Channel Director for UKI at NetApp and has been in this role since December 2020. Denise is responsible for growing the UK&I channel business, focusing on organisations who influence and transact cloud, AI, Enterprise Applications and DevOps sales. Prior to NetApp, Denise worked as the Director of Distribution International at Mitel, and as the UK Sales Director at Arrow. Denise is also a Non-Executive Director at the Association of Professional Sales and has been in this role for over three years.

Matt works closely with the Office of the CTO, Product Operations and Marketing teams at NetApp, spending most of his time at events or with businesses articulating NetApp’s Strategy and the business value of IT. Matt has worked NetApp for the last 15 years and in the tech industry for over 25 years.

I am the co-chair of the Community of Expertise for Citizen Development within Deutsche Bank. Citizen Development has been mandated as a strategic tool and way of working to help both the bank modernise and to empower employees to solve daily issues themselves. Having built Analytics teams from the ground up across many industries and countries I am all about empowerment and giving people the tools (both technical and mental) to be successful. It’s something I am very passionate about.

Outside of work I love sourcing secondhand fashion gems that make me feel fabulous. I’m also a member of the Rebel Book Club which is all about reading outside your comfort zone, learning and sharing. I like to think that as a person I challenge people’s stereotypes and I want to help others to take positive action to be themselves or do the things they want.

Cheryl is the VP CTO Office at GfK, connecting people, teams and functions.

The CTO Office team covers everything from ensuring we meet our budgets and targets to development of the technology community with knowledge sharing and learning sessions.

Over 30 years of experience working in small business and corporates, implementing systems, project management, financial management, data protection, risk and procurement have contributed to a real understanding of different teams. Cheryl works closely with teams across the global technology function as well as our colleagues in Product, Finance, HR and Procurement to bring about change and provide solutions to problems.

Passionate about people and diversity, Cheryl is a member of the Global DE&I Council and co-lead of the CTO/CPO DE&I Council at GfK.

Priya Guliani is the UK President for Government Blockchain Association (GBA), a global non-profit organisation focussed at promoting blockchain technology by empowering individuals and organisations to connect, communicate, and collaborate to solve public sector challenges. GBA brings together governments around the world facilitating efficient, ethical & rational adoption of blockchain technology for powerful and meaningful innovations. GBA has 120 chapters worldwide, 50 working groups and 15K+ members. Priya is also leading the ‘Sustainable and Environmental Stewardship’ working group within GBA.

Priya is an impact entrepreneur empowering small and marginal seafood farmers embrace sustainable practices and innovative technology solutions for a prosperous and sustainable future. Her vision is to build a coherent and efficient value chain, enabling the aquaculture industry to realise its full potential and meet UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. She is also an advisor to an impact fund and start-ups.

Priya is a computer science engineer by education and is a MIT certified leadership professional and Oxford certified Blockchain expert. She has over 10+ years of technology consulting experience working with multiple industries and multi-cultural team across US, Europe, and Asia. She is passionate about inclusion, sustainability, and climate impact. She is an author and international speaker in innovative technology and sustainability space.

Lilybeth Go is bp’s VP for Data & Analytic Platforms, leading a team that provides the technology and services which connect bp with the world’s data, enabling the company to make data-driven decisions crucial to the energy transition. Over 11 years at bp, she has held a variety of roles across the business – from a chief architect in bp Trading, to IT director for artificial intelligence. Abeth’s ambition is for her team to become the recognised industry leaders in the digital and data space, allowing everybody in bp to use data in meaningful and impactful ways.

Read Abeth’s full story here.

Mariza works as Vice President of Digital Product Ownership & Design in bp, London UK. She has held various managerial roles during her career and spent many years within HSBC Private Bank in NY and London, eventually leaving as the Digital COO. With over 15 years of experience, Mariza is passionate about Digital and believes strongly in the ever growing industry demand. She is a Mental Health champion in her professional community and a supporter of diversity and inclusion. Furthermore, to give back to her community and home country of Greece, she recently founded CuriousIQ, an NGO with the vision of providing digital education to underprivileged groups to give them the opportunity to join the ever expanding tech industry.

Dr. Franziska Bell is the Vice President, Data and Analytics at bp. She heads the data & analytics discipline which is comprised of data science, AI, data engineering, data management and data analytics and is responsible for setting the data & analytics strategy for bp.

Before joining bp, Fran was an executive at Toyota Research Institute, where she focused on two areas: (i) novel battery and fuel cell materials using AI and computational chemistry for a low-emission future and (ii) a human-centered AI.

Previously, Fran was the head of data science platforms at Uber. At Uber, Fran founded and built several digital platform teams with the mission to transform anyone in the company into a data scientist at a push-of-a-button. 

Before Uber, Fran was a postdoc at Caltech where she developed a novel, highly accurate approximate quantum molecular dynamics theory to calculate chemical reactions for large, complex systems, such as enzymes.

Fran earned her Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry from UC Berkeley focusing on developing highly accurate, yet computationally efficient approaches which helped unravel the mechanism of non-silicon-based solar cells and properties of organic conductors.

Elinor Doubell is Vice President Digital Science in bp’s digital science and engineering team and is responsible for exploring emerging digital technology innovation in areas including robotics, cyber security, nano technology and additive manufacturing. 

Elinor has 25+ years of technology experience across sectors including manufacturing, B2B and exploration & production. Since her move to bp in 2004, Elinor has led global processes and data transformations in her roles as business process improvement lead for Castrol and B2B pricing transformation lead.

Before joining the digital science and engineering team, Elinor was responsible for production and operations data initiatives including programs to introduce enterprise search and data democratization innovations. 

Elinor has served as a board member and then chairperson of the board of directors for Energistics, an industry consortium dedicated to industry data standards and was a finalist in the ‘data leader of the year’ category at the Women in IT awards 2019.

Elinor is a chartered physicist with a bachelor’s degree in Physics with French from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and the Université de Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.

Fun fact

• One of my hobbies is garden design – I got into this a bit by accident thinking it would be a good outdoor activity when in fact most time is spent indoors designing. Then I realized how important being around plants is for our wellbeing and I was hooked!

The biggest challenge you’ve faced in your tech career

• Global transformation programs are challenging as they are complex. My favorite is a global pricing initiative I led to develop a very early pricing tool. But more challenging to me is overcoming self-doubt. So going for and getting my current role when I doubted my own capability is most satisfying.

Julieta has over a decade of experience in Technology. After getting her computer science degree she had the opportunity to work with companies like Google, IBM, Just Eat, Trainline, Verizon, across the globe. Having run projects of all kinds, from R&D Hardware initiatives to cinemas software implementations, creating Security roadmaps and running SRE teams; she found her passion in building engineering teams that can work using the best practices, enabling business value and rapid growth. Julieta is the loving mother of two dogs and a cat and in her free time she can be found hiking, cycling or baking if it’s too cold outside.

I oversee the Commercial Engineering Teams at giffgaff and am responsible for the building out of both robust technical systems and also growing our engineering teams.  I strive to build teams that can work to deliver rapid change using best practices with business value and growth in mind.

Having joined giffgaff as a Principal Engineer, writing software is close to my heart so I continue to remain hands-on as much as I can.  Alongside this, I oversee the architecture, participate in healthy discussion about how to approach technical problems as well as manage the interaction across a number of different business stakeholders.  I am also passionate about diversity and inclusion and sit on the board for driving change in this area.

Dr. Chanuki Illushka Seresinhe is currently the Director of Data Science at Culture Trip, the travel e-commerce brand with content at its core. Chanuki began working as a commercial data scientist at Channel 4 and then went on to lead the data science team at Popsa.

Chanuki has a PhD in Data Science from the University of Warwick. Her research at the University of Warwick and the Alan Turing Institute involves using big online datasets and deep learning to understand how the aesthetics of the environment influences human wellbeing. For example, how might we design our future cities to be conducive to our wellbeing? Her research has been featured in the press worldwide including the Economist, Wired, The Times, BBC, Spiegel Online, Guardian, Telegraph, Scientific American, Newsweek and MIT Technology Review.

Chanuki regularly gives presentations on data science worldwide, including Turing Presents AI UK 2021, Behavioural Exchange 2019, RE•WORK Women in AI 2019, Beyond Conference 2019, YOW! Melbourne/Sydney/Brisbane 2017, CognitionX AI Conference 2017 & 2018, Ada Lovelace Day Live! 2018.

Prior to embarking on her PhD, Chanuki had a successful design career that included running her own digital design consultancy for over eight years in London, advising clients, including the Tate, Design Museum, Dezeen, NESTA and the Gulbenkian Foundation how to present their businesses successfully online. She has also worked as a digital designer in California, New York and Paris.

Having always been interested in technology, Yann started his career in the big data space at a large consultancy. From building and maintaining data platforms for industry-leading clients around the globe, to managing key stakeholder relationships and working closely with vendors to deliver value, Yann found his passion for both the technical and non-technical aspects of consulting. After working many years with cloud technologies and following DevOps principles, he pivoted into a more general solutions architect role where he currently consults in highly regulated organisations with Contino.

Graduated from the University of Surrey in Psychology. Worked in Operations roles until I found a way to IT. The first role was for an IT Reseller where I was exposed to hardware, software and services. Subsequently went on to join Contino where I discovered a world of DevOps, cloud computing and consultancy. There was an opportunity to move from inside sales into delivery and resource management. Joined when Contino was a start-up of mere 40 odd people and have seen it grow to a business of over 300 globally. Currently leading the Resource Operations function in EMEA, looking after 150 amazing consultants in delivery.

I am originally a civil engineer, and I got a PhD from University College London.
Having got interested in IT, I started a graduate programme in Cloud Computing and worked for two years as a Cloud Developer.
I recently joined Contino as a Consultant offering support to clients on their journey into the Cloud.

After graduating with a degree in Computer Applications and Software Engineering, I began to work as a Cloud Consultant. I have spent the last several years working in this field, with a focus in AWS. I am now a Senior Consultant with Contino.

Jenny is a key member of the Process Innovation and Advanced Operations team at Universal Music. This team works across the business globally standing up new ways for consumers to find and access Universal’s music and improving the way music is created, distributed and preserved. Jenny is currently helping to shape and implement a major transformation of the ways music metadata is captured, stored and shared in Universal Music’s systems and how it is then synchronised across the industry to make sure that when you play a song, the right people are identified and paid.

Jenny is an experienced change leader who has who has driven organisation-wide culture change and digital transformations in FMCG, music & media, football, education and local government. She is an innovative and strategic thinker and ensures projects unlock measurable and tangible benefits. Jenny is passionate about taking a values-based approach to change management, believing that people get on board for the “why” not the “what” of a project.

She is a thought leader who is regularly invited to speak at conferences and events. Jenny is currently the Co-Chair of a DDEX working group and Chair of the Women in Music UK Chapter.

Emely is a Regional Vice President at Salesforce where she is the Head of EMEA Customer Success Strategy and Architecture group, MuleSoft and also part of the Office of CTO.
She has 19 plus years of industry experience of working with SAAS, CRM , ERP, Platform and Integration technologies. She holds a MBA in Business Systems and IT and is currently leading a team of highly experienced thought leaders and architects in the digital transformation and API Led space. She is a global sponsor for Diversity and Inclusion initiative at her organization and believes that technology is a strong leveller of equality.

For the last four years, Emily has helped grow Signal AI from 35 to 150+. Transforming its proprietary supervised learning tool into a scaled solution that could grow with its customer base while expanding the markets and products that leverage its AI. Prior to joining Signal AI, Emily supported the growth of a number of start-ups both in the US and in the UK through their early product exploration and roll-out into new markets. Previously, she ran global political crisis response programs for the US government in Central America, West Africa, and the Middle East. She serves on the board of With Insight, a charity which mentors black-heritage pupils to successfully apply to top universities as a gateway to a more prosperous future. Emily has a BA and Masters in International Relations and Economics from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from London Business School.

Claire leads the technology & innovation research at BloombergNEF, a strategic research group specializing in covering markets and technologies driving the transition to a low-carbon economy. She oversees BNEF’s coverage of industrial digitalization, and the development of early-stage climate-technology. The work covers the application of technology to the energy and commodity sectors, the capital flow that enables them, and the company innovation strategies emerging around them. Claire’s team manages the BNEF Pioneers program, an annual climate-tech innovation competition.

Claire has held previous roles at BNEF as the head of Digital Industry, the battery and fuel cell analyst for the Advanced Transport team and the next-generation biofuels and chems analyst within the Bioenergy team. Claire was also head of the Applied Research work at BNEF. She regularly presents at conferences, publishes research notes and helps clients navigate the world of start-ups, strategy and technology platforms. Claire holds an MSc from Imperial College’s Sustainable Energy Engineering and a Chemistry BSc from Durham University.

Elizabeth Rumsey is the Senior Multi-Cloud and Multi-Access Edge Computing Platform Portfolio Team Lead at Vodafone Business. Elizabeth leads the multi-cloud and MEC portfolio as part of Vodafone’s Cirrus venture with IBM, connecting market-leading capabilities in communications and technology to help our customers succeed in a digital economy and building on Vodafone’s partnerships with other leading technology providers, including AWS and Microsoft. 

Elizabeth joined Vodafone in 2012 as a Principal deal Architect, consequently taking roles including as the Commercial Intelligence Team Lead, before moving into 5G and Cloud, previously as the Digital Services Offer Manager. During her time at Vodafone, Elizabeth has simultaneously connected and empowered people, including supporting the CEO of Total Mama, supporting a partnership between Vodafone Group Commercial and Oxford University Innovation to achieve his mission to provide women a trusted digital source of personalised information for fertility and pregnancy, building on her experience as Chair of Vodafone Group’s Women’s Network.

Prior to joining Vodafone, Elizabeth held roles at Virgin after five years in UK Mergers and Acquisitions for both Lehman Brothers and JP Morgan Cazenove.

Elizabeth is an American citizen residing in the UK. She holds a CIMA from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and a BA from Vanderbilt University

Jessica is a Senior Director in Visa’s Global Strategic Initiatives team leading on Data and Artificial Intelligence. Her work focuses on AI (policy, regulation, and ethics), privacy, data sharing, and consumer empowerment. She has extensive corporate affairs and strategy experience across highly regulated, technology-driven sectors including data and AI, digital and cyber, telecoms, cleantech and fintech. During this time, Jessica has advised political parties, businesses (start-ups to global PLCs), consultancies, trade bodies, think tanks, and NGOs.

Jessica sits on the Board of TechUK and is an ambassador for Microsoft’s National Council for AI. She is also a member of the Financial Conduct Authority/Bank of England Public-Private AI Forum and the Data Protection and Ethics Committee of UK Finance. She was previously at City law firm Linklaters, having completed an undergraduate degree in Law from Oxford University and a Masters degree in Political Theory from the LSE.

WPP”s resident data geek has over 20 years of technology and data experience across media, FMCG, finance and retail consulting for companies such as Hearst UK, dunnhumby & Walgreens Boots Alliance. 
 
She joined WPP in 2014 as MD of Acceleration (part of Wunderman Thompson) and left in 2017 to become a freelance Data Strategy Consultant.  She didn’t go very far away and having consulted for Wavemaker, VML, Geometry, Wunderman Thompson and MediaCom, Di joined the WPP CTO team and became Global Head of Data and AI in January 2020.
 
Di is a creative thinker with proven success in finding new solutions and revenue streams for traditional companies.   She is particularly passionate about getting non-analysts excited about the possibilities of data.
 
Di has an MBA from Cranfield School of Management and is a qualified Project Manager and a Neurolinguistic Programme Practitioner. This year she joined Gartner’s Chief Data Officer Group as a Governing Body member and was delighted to be included in the Data IQ Top 100 data leaders list

Shirin is a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank. She is Global Head of Research Technology and DB Index Technology, having joined the bank three years ago. Shirin spent a decade at Goldman Sachs in Research and Equities Technology leadership and prior to this Shirin worked at Lehman Brothers, in Equities Technology. Her technology career started many years ago with a graduate programme at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson where she began as a java and FIX developer in Equities.

In addition, Shirin is the global Sponsor for the MentoRings programme; a pioneering initiative designed to support and retain female talent at the bank through group mentoring. She is also the UK&I Early Careers Programme sponsor and sits on the TDI UK&I Council. She enjoys reading, travelling and pandemic gardening. She has an undergraduate degree in Languages & Business, a Masters in Computing Science and speaks five languages (some of them quite well). Shirin is married and has three children and is a full-time working mother.

Charlotte is a customer-obsessed marketing leader at Blue Prism, the world’s pioneer in intelligent automation, where she is in charge of developing the company’s customer engagement & reference programs across the globe and tasked with achieving measurable results in customer engagement, retention and satisfaction by working closely alongside Customer Experience and Customer Success leadership teams.

Being a true advocate for change through world-class CX and customer-centric marketing programs, Charlotte has over a decade of experience working in a wide range of industries where she has a proven track record for managing and proving the value of cutting edge advocacy and reference programs, loyalty programs, ideation and co-creation campaigns for both B2B and B2C brands.

Dr Indra Joshi is the Director of AI at NHSX and runs the NHS AI Lab - a £250m programme to accelerate the safe and ethical adoption of AI into health and care. 

Indra has a unique portfolio with experience stretching across digital health, data and AI strategy and delivery; whilst remaining true to her professional training as an emergency medic.   

She is a Founding Member of One HealthTech – a network which campaigns for the need and importance of better inclusion of all backgrounds, skillsets and disciplines in health technology. Alongside she is an associate editor for BMJ Leader, a member of the WHO digital health expert group, a consultant on digital health, and most importantly a mum to two wonderful little munchkins.

With over 15 years’ experience in technology transformation, in various technical leadership roles. She has worked in several sectors including Retail, Hospitality and now in Gambling. As well as being a technologist, she is passionate about creating high performing, inclusive teams that fuel innovation and growth. As a leader, she is always looking for opportunities to catalyse change for equity in business. She is one of the founding members of Tesco’s Women in Technology, and in her current role has sponsored the Lean In Circles initiative, across PPB to support female talent. 

Global Technology Director for Willis Towers Watson.  Focused on large change programs and cloud transformation since 2012  predominately in the Insurance Sector. Passionate about creating high performing inclusive teams that deliver outstanding results.

Una Qian is a Data Engineer at QuantumBlack, a McKinsey company in London. She joined QuantumBlack in 2020 and mainly works with clients in healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors. Her role involves building data pipelines that are resilient, scalable, and flexible. 

Kavya Nagarajan is a Senior Data Engineer at QuantumBlack, a McKinsey company in London. She joined QuantumBlack in 2019 and works predominantly in banking and insurance sectors. Her specialisation includes large scale data processing using Spark alongside solution architecture on cloud platforms such as Azure and AWS.

Elaine Safier recently joined Mind Gym as Chief Digital Officer to lead the Digital Business and manage the company’s Operations.  She developed the company’s new digital strategy and is bringing together a team of product, technology, data science, sales and marketing talent to build a behaviour change e-learning platform that will change the way some of the largest and most forward looking organisations develop, motivate, and retain their most valuable resource, their people.  Elaine also currently sits on the Digital Advisory Group at Rambert, the contemporary dance company, and advises the Board at River Valley Technologies, a high growth technical publishing platform.

Whether in large corporates, scale-ups, or start-ups, Elaine has always been drawn to developing and leading businesses where emerging technologies create new customer propositions and business models that drive exponential growth.

Until 2019, Elaine was Chief Commercial and Operating Officer (Digital Channels) at HSBC, where she led a global team rolling out and managing public web and digital experiences across 38 markets, driving significant revenue growth as part of the company’s multi-billion-dollar digital transformation initiative.  

Prior to HSBC, she was MD International at Atosho, a start-up creating the first ecommerce platform to enable consumers to shop directly out of any digital content, where she expanded the company into the UK and France and developed a new business for online publishers.  As Chief Commercial Officer at Tradedoubler, she led Sales, Marketing, and Operations across Europe and Latam and achieved double-digital revenue and profit growth in a company reinventing itself in the face of significant threats from the new adtech players.  She also spent a few years building digital TV/VOD services for broadband players, including Cable & Wireless, taking advantage of iptv technology innovation to ramp up telco revenue and margins.

Ellen Devereux is currently working at Fujitsu in the role of Digital Annealer Consultant and product managing their inspiring Drug Discovery Platform bringing her passion and expertise in analytical thinking and complex problem solving. 

Ellen is inspired to realise the potential that technology and people have to digitally transform the world.  Since joining Fujitsu, she has been involved in a number of special high-profile projects including as the technical lead for the space debris program collaborating between consortium members and the UK Space Agency. Through the successful implementation of this project an invitation to present at the European Space Conference was extended.

Prior to Ellen’s work at Fujitsu she worked as a research analyst at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy.  Ellen has a background outside of her technology achievements as a sailing and gymnastics coach and has been approached to coach at a National level in a class of boat in which she was twice been Youth World Champion. Ellen holds an MPhys from the University of Bath.

Annie Guo is an Applied Scientist at Yelp who believes in the power of statistics. At work, she uses statistical experiments and machine learning to decide the best pricing for ad auctions, detects identity frauds and suspicious transactions in financial markets. Prior to Yelp, Annie was senior data scientist at Onfido and an associate at Goldman Sachs.  Annie has a Msc in Data Science from Birkbeck, University of London and BA from St. John’s College in the United States. In her spare time, Annie teaches programming to women who want to make a career change as well as participates in data hackathons to help charities with data-driven decision-making.

A Fun Fact: 

Annie has a cute cat called Dr. Bayes, named after Thomas Bayes, the inventor of the  Bayesian Theorem.

Catherine Wallwork is the Head of Innovation Engagement & Mindset at Deloitte Ventures. Deloitte Ventures is the product innovation and venture building unit of Deloitte UK. Catherine is responsible for the firms flagship innovation engagement platforms and leads their Mindset Studio. She specialises in bringing mindset psychology and motivation science into innovation leadership, employee engagement and culture strategies.

Davinder Kang focuses on driving complex global HR and Human Capital initiatives, spanning multiple business lines. She has over 10 years’ experience working with senior executives and builds trusted relationships with organisational leaders to drive business outcomes.

With an MSc in Occupational Psychology and extensive experience in global programme management, combined with her knowledge and experience of working with talent models and capability frameworks, Davinder supports organisations in driving a successful human capital agenda.

Ed is the Chief Disruptor at Deloitte Digital , He has led teams on a variety of pioneering projects in virtual reality (VR) and 360 film, as well as in 3D printing, machine learning, augmented reality (AR) and the Internet of Things (IoT). Ed also introduces new ways of working, with practical workshops that challenge the clients’ thinking about their organisations and the future, as well as internal and client-focused ‘hackathons’. He explains new technologies in a way that’s easy to understand and is a recognised expert in this field both in the media and at industry events.

Lauren started her career as a tech founder building technology solutions to help companies showcase their values and culture for hiring. After growing the business she moved on into the world of investment, initially supporting with scaling Techstars accelerator investments outside of the US then moving to lead their education division. Lauren scaled Techstars Startup Weekend and Techstars Startup Week to 1000 events in 125 countries bringing entrepreneurial education to all corners of the world. Currently Lauren is Chief for Hub Operations for AND Digital helping to scale operational teams and capabilities.

Harriet’s career grew from an interest in international feminism and representation, shaped through volunteering and supporting underrepresented groups at all stages of education. While teaching English to 11-18 year-olds at secondary school, she led literacy development and pastoral care for younger students, with particular focus on LGBTQ+ support. Having made the transition to adult Learning and Development, Harriet now leads the South Onboarding team at AND Digital, running award-winning onboarding for hundreds of new employees to support AND’s ambitious growth. Her team proudly fosters and promotes AND’s people-first culture.

Louise Cousins is the Head of Software Development for Global University Systems. GUS is a global network of higher education institutions that operates in multiple locations around the world and currently has 28 institutions in its portfolio. She is responsible for the full lifecycle of web and mobile technologies and manages global development teams in Manila, Hyderabad and Spain. Having worked for the company since 2012, she has now accumulated over 18 years of experience in the technology sector. 

Louise is also passionate about diversity, accessibility and inclusion and has hands-on experience in navigating adversity within the workplace. Being a single, widowed mom to two wonderful children, alongside juggling a demanding work-life, she also has immense experience of managing adversity in her personal life.

I am a high-performing woman business leader with 20+ years of experience in the industry. I lead the technology organisation for chemicals and sustainability business for ICIS, a part of RELX group(FTSE100). I work very closely with technologists, product and strategy team to create innovative and customer centric product solutions for our data and analytics business. As part of the vision strategy group, I am involved from the inception to the customer discovery to architecture design to delivery of the digital solutions with the help of my high performing and culturally diverse teams. I am a diversity and inclusion champion for our organisation and lead the EDGE(ethnically diverse group of employees) ERG(employee resource group) as well as a board member for Women In Technology ERG.

Indra Prabha Sharma is the international lead for the quality engineering Centre of Excellence at Publicis Sapient. Her team and peers consider her as one of the inspiring and enabling leaders in her domain. Indra is at the forefront of driving an ambitious world of ‘Quality’ by introducing new ‘Quality Engineering’ capabilities, tools, and culture.

Indra’s role involves applying engineering thinking to create exponential business value. She focuses on best in class engineering solutions, leveraging latest tools and methodologies, and on researching and developing extremely scalable systems. Her primary focus is on automation and driving a culture that enables her clients to be more innovative, experimental and disruptive in nature.

A fun fact: Indra is a huge fan of Elon Musk and follows all his space programs and innovations with a keen interest

Anniki Sommerville is Head of Community at Bubble. Prior to joining Bubble, she led a global market research agency as managing partner. She is also a broadcaster and published author of four books including ‘How to be a Boss at Ageing,’ 'Motherwhelmed.' Her latest book ‘F**k Nailing It: Simple Ways to Find Meaning in Work in your Forties,’ is set to be published in August 2022. She regularly speaks on tackling the challenges of work, life, overwhelm, feminism, ageing, motherhood and more.

Laveena Ramchandani is an experienced Testing Consultant with a comprehensive understanding of tools available for software testing and analysis. She aims to provide valuable insights that have high technical aptitude and hopes to inspire others in the world through her work. Laveena holds a degree in Business Computing from Queen Mary University of London and regularly speaks at events on data science models and other topics.

Serena Chaudhry-Pandey is an Associate Director at Dataminr, a leading global AI company that detects the earliest signals of high-impact events and emerging risks from within publicly available information. 

A multimedia journalist for over a decade, Serena reported from across Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Europe. She notably spent two years covering the war in Iraq for Reuters and was the BBC’s first international producer on the ground in South Africa to report on the death of Nelson Mandela. 

Serena is a Raisina fellow at the Asian Forum on Global Governance and an ambassador of the One Young World global forum for leaders. She is passionate about mentoring and developing young talent and is on the global leadership council for diversity, equity and inclusion at Dataminr.

Coming from the East side of the world, she is passionate about mobile applications and has been working with many talented developers to craft various mobile apps throughout the years. Teresa likes to explore the world of cloud, Agile, multi-platform the fun of code sharing, and much more.

Priya is a Cloud Architect working for Google's strategic Cloud customers across EMEA. She started her career as a software developer in India and then moved to work in France and the UK. She has a myriad of life experiences in different industries like Telecom, Banking, OS internals, Transportation, Virtualization and now in Cloud computing. She actively participates in tech and diversity events. She is passionate about innovating solutions, giving presentations, writing blogs on her vision for future tech and she currently has five patent filings.

Jacqueline has over 17 year’ experience working in Technology across roles in the Retail Industry (Tesco International & UK Stores, M&S, Comet Group) and in Technology Consulting (Accenture).   She has a proven track record of designing and planning for successful delivery of customer outcomes, building, leading and coaching successful teams to create exciting and great customer experiences. 

Throughout her career she has been active in driving Gender Equality initiatives in technology with a strong desire to create a workplace in which every woman has the opportunity to reach their potential.  She has experience of coaching and mentoring colleagues to help increase their confidence to have those self-marketable moments with authenticity in the workplace.

She is also in the 2nd year of a part time MSc in Organisational Psychology at Birkbeck College, University of London where her research will be on the lived experiences of professional women through a global pandemic.

Scientist by education, operator by experience, Lina is passionate about solving hard problems to unlock growth. As the Head of Growth at Secret Escapes, she drives new business bets and initiatives across Product, Marketing and Analytics. Bold yet strategic in her approach, Lina is a strong believer that growth is more science than art. She holds a BSc in Pharmacology from the University of Edinburgh and is an alumna of New Entrepreneurs Foundation. Plus a black belt in karate in her spare time (don’t let the ponytail fool you)

Julie is a Senior Legal Counsel at Clearpay (a part of the Afterpay Group) and has a decade of operational and legal experience in Australia and the UK across private practice and government and fintech start-ups, including Ignition Law, ZPG and TrueLayer.  Julie navigates complex financial services regulation while helping businesses scale fast, ship new products and expand internationally.  Being no stranger to startup life, Julie founded her own women's, sustainable sportswear brand, using just in time manufacturing and customisation to reduce production waste. At Clearpay, Julie is responsible for leading global legal product reviews, supporting teams to manage data protection issues and is passionate about empowering stakeholders to navigate legal risk. She is also a champion for diversity and inclusion.

Leah has a wealth of Product Experience having worked in Product at EE, Argos & most recently at Booking.com as the Product Leader in the London office. 

Always customer obsessed & focused on solving the right problems to drive a better experience for customers while delivering business value. She is passionate about sustainability & travel, in her current role at Booking.com she is combining those passions to empower travellers to explore the world using Public Transport. She is also a founding member of the Women in Product UK community in Booking.com, striving to ensure Booking.com is an inclusive, welcoming & diverse working environment for all. 

Outside of work her greatest passions are reading, travel & her cat the Gorgeous Gatsby!

Lucy Grimwade is a Coach, Podcaster, Contributor, Networker, Women in Tech Mentor – Oh, and a Senior IT Manager. The question really is what doesn’t she do?

Lucy has had the opportunity to work in leading industries which includes high-end retail and banking... and is now furthering her career in Telecoms. With a degree in Information Technology, Lucy started her career on a Service Desk and followed the career path into Service Delivery, CSI and Change Management. Her experience includes managing strategies, global teams and coaching. Additionally, she has been the founder and lead of internal Women in Tech groups, supporting female team members to thrive – whilst aligning objectives and actions to the wider organisational goals.

In November 2018 Lucy established her business: a global, Executive Leadership & Career Coaching Practice. This was after following her own journey with career challenges as a senior manager as well as overcoming blockers and barriers that once held her back. A flavour of everything she has learned and gained in her corporate career and the educational journey she has embarked on. Lucy’s Coaching Practice represents her ambition and values in life: empowering and enriching females in their professional development, amplifying potential, driving for equality and changing the face of leadership.

Find out more about Lucy here: www.lucygrimwade.com

Carmelle joined PwC in early 2019 and has focused her career within cloud technologies, data & analytics for the last 8 years. She is always looking for new ways to test her understanding of modern technology innovation, and believes strongly in challenging the status quo whilst bringing her true-self to problem solving scenarios.

Known to bring strong technical, interpersonal and change management skills to help transform, shape and solve technical and often very complex problems, Carmelle believes that the best solutions integrate customer and organisational behaviours and cultures. Carmelles specific capability areas include cloud transformation, customer experience, data architecture and insights development, overlayed by solid stakeholder and programme management expertise.

Her Senior Manager role supporting Data & Analytics programmes across the UK has provided the opportunity to lead and support large scale finance transformation projects, cloud based call centre technologies and advanced analytics proof of concepts. Carmelle also enjoys seeking new ways to support and provide opportunities for her female managers and associates.
Carmelle hails from Glasgow, and when she’s not working she can be found spending time with her wonderful husband, friends and family...and slightly less well-behaved Jack Russell, Toby.

Monika joined Formula 1 in 2019 to develop a Service Management framework for the growing  F1 Digital department, drawing on almost a decade of service experience from Visa and ITV. 

With her career spanning very different industries, the one common feature has always been Monika's approach to service and delivering value - through truly cross-functional collaboration and bringing the tech & business teams together. This meant that despite not being very technical herself, Monika's role at F1 quickly turned into one of a "fixer", stepping in where departmental lines of responsibility end, driving improvements and re-designing ways of working. This approach became especially valuable during the Covid-19 pandemic, when Formula 1 faced an unprecedented challenge of delivering 2020 Race Season in the midst of a global crisis - and Monika was at the heart of action.

When she’s not saving the world of motorsport, Monika puts her heels on and dances the night away to the beat of some good, old Argentine tango and is now trying to become a tango DJ (it’s a thing!)

Patrizia Bertini is the Associate Director of Design Operations at Babylon Health where she is responsible for both research and design operations.;

She has developed her approach to Design and DesignOps through 20+ years of international experience in usability, accessibility, web design, design management and user research.

With a background in academic and industrial research leading international teams, Patrizia has been known for her pioneering work in web accessibility, design facilitation with LEGO Serious Play, and co-creation.

Lauren Fearn is the Senior Manager of Support at Zapier. Lauren has over 10 years experience managing technical support teams for SaaS businesses and has spent the last 3.5 years of her career managing remote global teams at Zapier. Lauren is passionate about elevating the voices of women in the workplace and is responsible for member professional development for the Women Of Zapier Employee Resource Group.

Nish is responsible for influencing 70,000+ Cisco employees, customers & partners and helping them understand Cisco’s Cybersecurity strategy and offerings. Previous to this role, she held other roles at Cisco in Sales and Account Management, as well as leading Business Development for Media & Entertainment in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia. She has also held Sales Executive and Enablement roles at Vodafone and at Data Science company, IQVIA.

Nish is passionate about building inclusive cultures and leads Cisco Secure’s efforts for driving an inclusive future for all. She is a seasoned events host and presenter and most notably a friendly face of Cisco Live, Cisco’s flagship annual event attracting millions of customers and partners every year. Nish is also a regular speaker at technology events and is often at the heart of discussions on culture, diversity and leadership as well as the positive application of technology. In 2019, Nish spoke about all of the aforementioned topics she is passionate about in a TedX talk entitled “Technology for Good”.

Nish is most energised when working with high-impact teams to drive change for the better. She is passionate about giving back, particularly when given opportunities to advance Women in Technology. Her other interests include travel and learning about other cultures, boxing, and giving in to every demand of her nine-month sassy cockapoo puppy, Simba.

>Priya leads the Quality and Automation global teams at Hogarth Worldwide, a WPP subsidiary company. Holding degrees in Engineering and IT Marketing, she uses her knowledge and expertise in Automation and Emerging Tech to inspire her team and improve their digital processes. Priya has a pragmatic style of leadership and is passionate about making the workplace a better place for her team, both in its culture and in its workflow. She can often be found reading up on the latest developments in Artificial Intelligence and Robotic Process Automation, some of her personal interests.

Varalakshmi joined Funding Circle with over a decade of experience in data engineering, analytics and building data strategy. As Head of Data Engineering, Varalakshmi is responsible for building a self-serve data platform, as well as managing the data platform teams at Funding Circle.

Lin is an Engineering Manager in the data platform team at Funding Circle, where she drives the effort to build data systems at scale to make data reliable and easily accessible. Prior to this, she spent several years as a Software Engineer in the data space, building a range of products from data infrastructure and streaming analytical pipelines to machine learning models.

Anna is a senior software engineer currently working at Zoopla.
She has previously worked in engineering roles at companies such as Culture Trip, Condé Nast and AND Digital, after making a career change into coding via Makers Academy five years ago.

Louise is a full-time software engineer and student currently completing the BCS Level 4 Software Engineering apprenticeship at Zoopla. She has a unique insight into how to get your career started as a software engineer through non-traditional routes, with tips on beginning your journey through to finding work. As well as this, she has valuable information on how to progress and hit the ground running when you've taken your first job. Since completing her bachelor's degree, Louise has always worked in the tech sector. She is passionate about diversity in the workplace and believes diverse teams build better products with a greater commercial reach. Louise grew up in Hemel Hempstead and when she is not working or studying likes to do yoga, go for runs and try out new things! 

Adriana is a software engineer that specialises in front-end and is currently working at Zoopla. Originally from Portugal she studied Informatics at the University of Coimbra before moving to the UK to start her software engineering career. Adriana has worked in a range of companies from a large multinational to a startup with 3 employees. She is passionate about improving accessibility, site speed, infrastructure and building great user experiences.

Heather joined Deutsche Bank on the technology graduate scheme in 2018 where she underwent two rotations. Firstly in Equities Technology, the second within the platform as a service (PAAS) team. Subsequently, she joined the Data Innovation Group (DIG) back in 2019 where she has been working since as a software engineer. Heather’s role within DIG is largely focused on building cloud-based automated ETL pipelines for distributed data analysis. Heather develops mainly in Python and is well versed in cloud-based technologies including Kubernetes and PySpark.

Heather is passionate about diversity and inclusion (D&I), demonstrated by her involvement with Deutsche Bank’s D&I committee. As a committee member, she helps to build gender inclusive client and peer connections across the industry through mentoring partnerships and D&I events. In the past, Heather has mentored female A-Level students to support both their educational and career development within the STEM fields. She also has a degree in Computer Science with Management from The University of Sheffield and has interests in travel, art and cooking.

Catherine is a Software Engineer at Deutsche bank with a decade of experience in the Financial Services industry. Catherine started out as a Business Analyst for Credit Suisse and moved to Deutsche Bank in 2016. In 2019 she decided to retrain as a Software Engineer. Subsequently she joined the DIG team, transitioning from Java to Python and picking up Cloud Systems knowledge and a new way of Engineering along the way.

She is motivated to improve Diversity and Inclusion through training and knowledge sharing. Since career shifting, she has been developing and delivering specialised internal workshops to teach coding literacy to anyone interested regardless of background and provide a hands on coding experience. She is also part of Deutsche Bank’s Global Enterprise Engineer Programme driving Technological and Engineering Culture change across the Bank. Catherine has a Degree in English Literature and a masters in Computing and Information Systems from Queen Mary University of London and in her spare time enjoys Sport Climbing, Gardening and Music.

Holly is a Software Engineer at Deutsche Bank having recently joined the organisation as a graduate in 2020. Holly completed an integrated masters degree at the University of Bristol in Anthropology with Innovation where she specialised in Digital Anthropology, Data Ethics and Data Pipelines within Healthcare. Holly has enjoyed taking an active role within the Data Innovation Group at the bank where she has had the opportunity to consolidate her interest in data with technical engineering capabilities.

Born and raised in Queensland, Australia, Gill has lived and worked in the UK for the last 10 years. She has delivered some of the largest web, app and back-end projects for the BBC and NewsUK, reaching over 35 million people around the world.

Gill builds high performing, self organising teams. By drawing upon her own personal journey with leading teams without authority and in mental health, she always puts people at the centre of anything she does. She believes that everyone brings their own unique individuality and by empowering them we all come together to create something truly amazing.

I’m Charlotte, a Senior Engineer at BCG Digital Ventures. I’m a career changer having worked in sales and marketing in a previous life, as well as the manager of a startup web community where I got hooked on code.  At Digital Ventures I specialise in Front End Development inventing, launching and scaling game-changing businesses with the World’s most influential companies. For me, tech should be an enabler. You can find me on Medium where I often blog about this, from ensuring learning to code is accessible for everyone, to improving the tech that we build for everyone that wishes to use it.

Veronica is the Head of Mentoring at the international travel-tech company Expedia Group. She has created her current role following her passion to build employees’ engagement through the power of mentorship. Veronica is a skilled relationship builder who founded the successful 2,000-employee based Mentoring Program with the aim to build equality and unlock employees’ potential. The program is focused on braking cross-functional barriers and designing worldwide initiatives that enable individuals at all levels in the organization to build knowledge and boost their performance.

Alexandra (Lexi) Sack is currently Head of Product for the Customer Domain at H&M Group where she oversees customer-facing digital capabilities for the group’s multiple fashion brands. She has helped lead the company through their recent digital transformation. 
Previous to joining H&M Group, Lexi was a Director at Stitch Fix, a data-driven personal styling service, and led the Collectibles & Toys categories at eBay. Lexi holds a BA in Economics & Philosophy-Mathematics from Colby College and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Mika is an Executive Coach who works with leaders and managers to inspire performance and realise potential. She holds certification in Executive Coaching from Henley Business School, where she's currently completing a MSc programme in Executive Coaching and Behavioural Change.

Mika's coaching philosophy centres on the practice of establishing candour, challenging unhelpful habits, developing wellness and deepening empathy. She tailors each client session with a variety of coaching techniques to incorporate program objectives, individual goals, coachee profiles and organisational culture. Her specialisms include resiliency, leadership and career coaching and organizational coaching using principles of neuroscience and psychology of behavioural change.

On the journey towards achieving business goals, Mika's collaboration also generates insight into what motivates and fulfils clients. Life is better when we adapt reality to fit our sense of purpose - not the other way around!

In addition to being an Executive Coach, Mika is an Education Specialist with NetApp were she designs and delivers global leadership and enablement programmes. Her insight into what motivates people is gained from a rich career spanning IT, Media and Healthcare where she developed expertise in leadership, behavioural change, learning, filmmaking. Mika’s strength is in helping individuals and teams to develop the strategies and EQ that align them with shared organisational objectives.

Mika has extensive experience operating in multicultural environments, having lived and worked in the U.K., Canada and the United States; with a French mother and Greek husband. She holds two Masters degrees (Literature and Medicine from King's College London; Cultural Studies from Birkbeck) and currently lives outside of London with her husband and young son.

Amelia Bampton is Regional Director for Codurance Manchester. Working for both in-house technology teams and also various global consultancies, in roles such as Business Analyst, Delivery and Portfolio Manager, Amelia has delivered large scale, customer centric technology solutions for companies in a wide range of industries.  She is also a passionate advocate for driving greater inclusion, accessibility and diversity in technology, providing her support through mentoring and thought leadership to break down the barriers of entry into the industry.

Having studied maths at Cambridge university, Eleanor had no idea what she wanted to do for a career, and ended up becoming an accountant. After 9 years she made the jump from Deloitte to a Rapid Application Developer role for the Exotic Credit desk at Deutsche Bank. She has remained at DB since – moving across a variety of role types and business areas, and currently works on a large distributed data platform as an engineer and engineering manager. In her spare time she enjoys sci-fi, heavy metal music, and drinking too much coffee.

Marie began her career in technology over 24 years ago, completing an apprenticeship in Information Technology in the car manufacturing industry working as a mainframe programmer. Walking down to the factory floor and seeing the results of her code in action really sparked an interest and cemented the idea that technology was the right career choice. An alternative to university, Marie found an apprenticeship an excellent path to learn the skills she needed to have a successful career in tech. She has since worked in the utilities and financial services sectors covering a broad rand of roles in application development, production engineering and business analysis. Marie has been at Deutsche Bank for 5 years and is currently a cloud software engineer in the Corporate Bank technology division, developing projects for new growth areas.

Matleen is a Senior Data Science Manager at Deliveroo. She has nearly 10 years of experience in the data science space, 3 of those managing multiple data science teams at Deliveroo. Her key focus over the past year has been on experimentation and building out experimentation platform to scale and improve the way we run and analyse experiments at Deliveroo. She's an advocate for rapid experimentation and the value it brings to product development.

Jamie joined a small team of of analysts and data scientists at Deliveroo nearly 5 years ago and has been part of its growth to one of the largest Data Science teams in Europe. Currently on the Experimentation Platform team, he enjoys evangelising experimentation best practices across Deliveroo and working with the business on some of the more thorny measurement settings.

Haiming is a software engineer on the experimentation platform team at Deliveroo, working on building and optimising back-end services for the experimentation platform. She has a background in Computer Science and obtained MSc Data Analytics from University of Warwick in 2016, and worked on a research project for time-series data pattern mining which later got published. She has been a software engineer since and mainly developed in Java, Javascript and now joining the Ruby/Go world in Deliveroo.

Jack is a data scientist on the experimentation platform team at Deliveroo, spending his day-to-day building experimentation capacity across the company, advising teams on experiment design and analysis and developing our internal tooling. Before joining Deliveroo in April, Jack completed a PhD in Economics at Stanford University, where his main research area was the effect of pay gap transparency on the gender pay gap.

Zoe Cunningham is an award-winning technology professional and currently a Director of Softwire Technology, one of the Sunday Times “Best Places to Work 2021”. She won Business Leader of the Year at the UK Women in IT Awards 2019 and has been selected by the BBC as the Brightest Woman in Britain. Zoe has published three books, including "Galvanising the Geeks" detailing her approach to technical project management. Zoe is a member of YPO, the global leadership community of extraordinary chief executives.

Victoria is Cryptocurrency Expert, award-winning Senior Manager Technology Strategy, and Cambridge MBA. She has over twelve years of leadership experience in general management, digital strategy consulting and corporate strategy on digital transformation. She leads strategy consulting projects across the EMEA region in over three industries – fintech, blockchain, and cryptocurrency. She acts as a public speaker about cybersecurity and quantum computing, twinned with experience in cloud computing and data science

Sonya is a lifelong traveler who lived in the Middle-East, North Africa and Asia and is always looking for new challenges. She has made a career switch from International Business Consultant in Tunisia, Saudi Arabia and Singapore to Full Stack Software Engineer in South Korea to Principal Security Engineer in the UK. She is passionate about Open-source, DevOps and Cloud Computing.

She is a DevSecOps/Cloud Security Advocate and a public speaker in the world tech scene. She is also a mentor for women in tech, a GitHub Star, a cybersecurity writer for FreeCodeCamp publications, and an active member of the tech community in the UK.

Her motto is #GetSecure, #BeSecure & #StaySecure.

Michaela McCollin is a Professional Services Staff Consultant supporting Northern EMEA. She has enjoyed a successful 16-year international career in the IT consulting industry and has held a variety of positions, including Programme Manager, Business Analyst and Communication Director. As someone who is technology-adjacent, Michaela’s focus is on strategic programmes delivering transformation with a passion for the organisational and processes elements that underpin any digital journey. Outside of her “day job”, Michaela founded and co-leads the first international chapter of Black@VMware Power of Difference Community.

Tabitha is the co founder of CogX, a festival and online platform. Alongside CogX, Tabitha is the chair of the UK government's AI Council and a member of the DCMS Digitial Economy Council and on the TechUK board. A serial entrepreneur, Tabitha was the co-founder of video distribution company Rightster (IPO 2011.)

Tabitha is the Author of How To Talk To Robots - A Girlsguide to a World Dominated by AI. She's also an advisor to The Stack, RasberryPi, TeensInAI and The Alan Turing Institute.

Amanda Mesler is currently a Non-Executive Board Member of National Grid, plc and a Non-Executive Board Member of Amadeus. She has an MBA from the University of North Carolina.

Ms. Mesler has extensive experience as CEO and NED developing strategy, M&A, leading SPAC, capital raise and successful exits to create shareholder value. As an executive, she has significantly grown, scaled up, transformed, turned around and repositioned companies into highly valuable businesses. She exceeds in attracting and developing high performing leadership teams and managing large and small P&L’s to deliver results. Ms. Mesler, a strong customer focused leader, has global experience across 6 continents leading digital transformation and high growth.

She has truly global experience, working across all continents, including responsibility for teams in more than 40 countries. She has strong technology experience across multiple industries, including Fintech, at the executive level. Amanda is a member of YPO, the global leadership community of extraordinary chief executives, an avid Everton and Formula One fan and a keen runner. Ms. Mesler is a sought-after speaker, including at Cambridge University where she participates in helping professional women, rising talent, and at other events and conferences at Cambridge Judge Business School. Amanda is one of LDC’s Top 50 Most Ambitious Business Leaders in the UK for 2021.

Patsy is Cities Data Quality and Product Lead at Citymapper, where she drives improvement to data governance of transit data. Overseeing the smart mobility product in 60+ cities ( and counting ), She is responsible for setting the overall technical strategy to improve data quality. She also established the UK Startup's presence in Asia and built relationships with partners across the globe. 

Before joining Citymapper, Patsy led the Asia ex-Japan team at Institutional Shareholder Services on governance research and developed their first ESG data products. She also worked at the Strategy office at CITIC Securities, a leading Chinese investment bank.  

Charlotte joined Ignite Consulting on an internship programme in 2013, as a graduate from Reading University. Her original assignment was in a local authority to craft telephone scripts that would enable Customer Services to give customers more information at the first point of contact. This initial foray into a transformation programme in the public sector opened Charlotte’s eyes to the significant opportunities to develop and improve customer and user experience.

Since that first programme, Charlotte has worked with multiple local authorities and delivered across the spectrum of customer research and experience, product development, quality assurance and user testing. Currently, Charlotte is the Customer Lead within Ignite’s Customer and Digital centre of excellence and the founder of their internal conference ‘Ignited We Stand’.

Fuelled by her curiosity about challenging the status quo, passion for improving experiences and enthusiasm for developing others, Charlotte establishes herself within any team as an avid supporter of growth.

Her favourite part of any project? Being a part of something that supports colleagues to learn new skills, grow in confidence, open themselves up to new opportunities, and progress to new roles. 

Gerisha Nadaraju is an experienced Fintech Operations leader working in London. She is currently the Head of Business Operations at Dojo, and before that worked at TrueLayer for 3 years where she launched and scaled a Product Operations function. She is originally from South Africa where she worked as an accountant and investment professional before coming to the UK in 2016 to complete an MBA at the University of Oxford. She is passionate about amplifying diverse voices in the tech industry and recently launched her "side hustle", the Product Ops Podcast, to take action in this space!

Kirstie has worked in a number of software engineering positions in industries from healthcare to digital marketing, through to transport and logistics. She believes in technology for good, whether this be by delivering products that have a positive impact on the world, or building teams that allow everyone to thrive and make the most of their diverse skill sets. As a self-described delivery focused engineer, her favourite part of the job is being able to lead smart, passionate, and enthusiastic teams and see how much they can be capable of when they come together as a whole.

Victoria is a Senior Manager for Core Voice Strategic Initiatives at BT , where she collaborates with Senior Stakeholders and Leadership Teams to drive and deliver the future goals and ambitions.

Victoria thrives on making a difference and is not afraid to challenge the status quo. Her passion, energy and determination ensures the business goals are delivered and takes pride is ensuring we succeed.

UK & Republic of Ireland Emergency Services (999), UK Network rollout for Emergency Services, 4G Deployment and Strategic Joint ventures are all critical projects and teams that Victoria has led as a Leader and delivered against as part of her career within Technology.

Victoria is a strong advocate for developing, supporting and motivating more Technology Leadership roles for Women by bringing the best out in people to achieve their ambitions

Along with FemTech veteran Anna Butterworth, Rhiannon founded Ultra Violet Futures, the first and only future forecasting agency specialising in FemTech, women's and marginalised health innovation.

Rhiannon is a natural-born future forecaster, in touch with the zeitgeist and able to translate cultural signals into meaningful future scenarios.

Her passion lies in connecting innovative brands with a future consumer hungry for change, drawing on an extensive toolkit of forecasting methodologies. She has helped shape the future strategies of global brands across the fashion, FMCG and women’s healthcare industries.

Erin is the Lead Agile Coach/Head of Agile at WONGDOODY. WONGDOODY is a Human Experience Agency powered by Infosys working to improve the world with fun, creative and innovative products. Her career has seen her go from law graduate, to the retail IT, to consulting to Fintech startups, and back round again. Despite considering herself to be “non techie”, Erin found herself in a world of infrastructure, APIs and firewalls. There she found her niche in organisational culture, and is often found in the midst of pandemonium as she brings her own unique brand of Erin Chaos(TM) to team and enterprise transformation as she brings a fun factor back to the world of work. Erin is available as a 1-1 coach for aspiring Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches, as a Freelance speaker and Trainer, and has a wealth of experience coaching women and girls in overcoming imposter syndrome in the workplace.

Twitter: @Davies_EL

Sophie is a Scrum Master at WONGDOODY, who is driven by the human elements of technology and the people interaction involved in building intuitive products.

After embarking on a career change a few weeks before the pandemic hit, she has made the move from Purchasing Systems Manager in the Food Service Industry, via Front End Development in FinTech to where she is now — deep diving into the world of Agile, which greatly aligns with her own personal values.

Pooja has over 15 years of Product Management experience across a portfolio of global brands from Tesco, Marks and Spencer, The Financial Times, Virgin and now Hudl. Her passion for product management focuses on understanding and solving genuine customer problems to achieve positive business outcomes. She has successfully developed company visions and led cross departmental collaboration such as successfully managing GDPR compliance across the whole of the FT, pioneering cross functional business/product teams at the FT, bringing the B2C and B2B business teams working better together, winning awards for digital innovation within Marks and Spencers stores. She brought the retail store and digital experience together with some instrumental customer needs; ordering kiosks, virtual makeover apps for the beauty department, Style online lounge, style your perfect outfit on large format screens and purchase, to name a few. Currently at Hudl, she is responsible for subscription growth and services for professional sports, national governing bodies and universities across the US.

Having spent most of my career in financial services I relocated to the UK from Canada in 2010 to set up the European leasing arm of a global IT services provider which grew to €1B in net asset in five years.

Deciding I needed a new challenge, I ventured into world of IT, leading a pan-European team that acted as the bridge between the business and IT and was accountable for driving technological process change and improvement across 22 countries and responsible for managing the internal change.

Recently, after leaving the corporate world, I took the brave step to set up my own change management consultancy firm, specializing in helping large organizations deliver on their IT strategy with the sole focus on supporting their employees to navigate through the change journey.

Nina is a marketing professional with 20 years’ experience working with technology companies. Nina is really passionate about creating campaigns and events that are clever, engaging and get people fired up about brands. Being a team player and creating a fairer, more inclusive and diverse place of work is something that is really important to Nina.

Seri is currently Product Director at Songkick, a small tech company that helps music fans have great live music experiences. Her prevailing love of maths means she is great at using quant data to make decisions quickly (and should probably spend more time talking to customers). Previously she worked in Product roles at ITV and Sky. Seri is passionate about careers in general and loves working with others to help them identify and progress towards their best career path. She doesn’t know anyone that loves to talk about a CV quite as much.

Holly Smith has over a decade of experience working with Data & AI teams in a variety of capacities from individual contributors all the way up to leadership. She has spent the last two years at Databricks working with many multi national companies as they embark on their journey to develop their data maturity. She also works with the non profits Datakind UK and Tech Talent Charter to advise on data strategy and operations.

Sunaina Aytan is a Cyber Security Specialist, a STEMettes Ambassador, mentor and an advocate for inclusion and diversity in Tech.

Winner of TechWomen100 2019, Sunaina has been given recognition for her contribution to the Women in Tech community.

Using her professional cyber security experience, she actively mentors young females who want to pursue careers in tech, delivers technical talks on a range of security topics, aids cooperate businesses and organisation in encouraging more inclusive recruitment and highlights the importance of practicing a more a sustainable and eco-friendly Tech future.

Since joining the industry, Sunaina continues to grow and go above and beyond to pave it forward for the future generation of girls in the STEM industry.

Sarah fell in love with product back in 2014, where she created the UK’s first social network for parents of autistic children, winning three awards and making a positive difference for thousands of families. 

Sarah recently joined YouGov as Senior Product Manager after nearly a decade in senior product roles across hospitality, housing, social care, sport and fitness. She’s responsible for the team that builds engaging and rewarding experiences for YouGov’s 15 million panellists in 55 countries. 

She’s passionate about changing the world with technology and believes the best way to do this is through brilliantly diverse teams focused on a compelling mission. 

Sarah loves global adventures, good coffee, pink plants, her cat Pixel and her husband Alex. 

After starting a small company at university, Yasmin decided to pursue a career in start-ups upon graduation. Yasmin has worked 7 years + in tech startups including Catapult, Revolut, and Impala. Yasmin is a board member of InnovateHer and Queen Mary Business School and in her spare time, she mentors young females and guest lectures on topics around entrepreneurship and innovation at Birkbeck, Kings and Queen Mary University.

Rebekka joined Microsoft two years ago as a Technical Specialist for the Business Applications Platform. Before joining Microsoft, she was working with Microsoft Customers delivering technical solutions as a Business Applications Consultant. Now, in her role she has a strong focus on discovering customers articulated and unarticulated needs and is helping organizations to design the right system architecture based on Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform.

Rebekka is a tech enthusiast, and her mission is to empower other women in digital and tech careers. Recently, she was nominated for the Woman In Sales Awards and is a finalist in the Category of Best Sales Engineer among other eight successful women.

Adelina is a Technology Evangelist at Form3, London. Form3 offers a fully managed, payment technology platform for Financial Institutions as-a-Service. Our vision is to be the world's most trusted provider of payment technology.

Originally from Romania, Adelina grew up in Denmark, where she obtained her MSc Mathematical Modelling and Computing from the Technical University of Denmark in 2013. She has been living in London since graduating and is now a true European mishmash. She is passionate about helping out the community by sharing her technical knowledge and providing easy to digest content for beginners. She has spoken at a few technical conferences and loves introducing people to Go!

Originally from Romania, Adelina grew up in Denmark, where she obtained her MSc Mathematical Modelling and Computing from the Technical University of Denmark in 2013. She has been living in London since graduating and is now a true European mishmash. She is passionate about helping out the community by sharing her technical knowledge and providing easy to digest content for beginners. She has spoken at a few technical conferences and loves introducing people to Go!

Anna-Lena is responsible for developing Octave Audio’s product strategy, merging audience behaviour trends and tech innovations into effective ad products that solve industry-wide challenges for advertisers. Anna-Lena is valued as inspirational leader with a hands-on mentality, a Coach and Founder of CoachBox. She has over 15 years of experience within the European media landscape and has been responsible for developing digital audio, video and digital advertising products and strategies for various international publisher and radio brands including Bauer Media, Absolute Radio, Grazia, Empire, Elle, InStyle and The Huffington Post. 

Anna-Lena has earned an MA in Media & Communications Management and resides in London, UK with her husband and son.

Christelle is a Knowledge Engineer at Amazon Alexa, where she works alongside scientists and software engineers to build technology that powers Alexa’s ability to speak multiple languages. Prior to joining Amazon, her background was in languages and intercultural studies. She had a 20-year-long career in translation, including 14 years as a freelance translator. Over the past 4 years, she developed technical skills, and grew from French Language Expert to Knowledge Engineer, specialising in Natural Language Understanding and Natural Language Generation.

Laura is currently the Engineering Lead in Apolitical, a company geared towards helping public servants and policymakers across the globe get access to tools, policies, information and peers to help them do their jobs. In her current role, she has responsibilities in both the leadership and the technical side of things.

Originally from Dublin, Ireland, she has a BA in Journalism, MSc in Multimedia and BSc in Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence and has spent the last 10 years in London. Throughout her career in tech, she has specialised in frontend development, working on a variety of things from projects for the NHS to well known consumer brands. She is particularly passionate about good design, accessibility and helping others to grow. 

Karen Taylor is the Founder of Parent Cloud an organisation that is reinventing how businesses support parents in their workforce; reducing home and work related stress and having a positive impact on employee engagement and gender diversity at work. Parent Cloud offers support to working parents via their Resource Hub and also by giving employees access to on-demand, remote coaching and support to help families to thrive; covering a variety of parental issues including: birth, breastfeeding, sleep training, postnatal depression, career coaching, fertility and child behaviour. Their mission is to improve mental health and professional prospects for all parents, everywhere by equipping parents with the knowledge and skills they need to give excellent levels of care to their children, taking some of the anxiety out of parenting and giving them breathing space to be able to enjoy it. 

Amanda currently leads WW Customer programs for Amazon Shipping, with +12 years’ experience leading business critical Director/VP level initiatives, her team are at the forefront of the Customer user experience as well as the back-end applications and support processes which align to the company’s plans, policies and procedures. Using agile principles, she specializes in partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver on complex improvement initiatives to help define and deliver the product roadmap. Amanda has also recently been nominated as a finalist for the 2021 CX Leader of the year award.

Michelle has worked for over 13 years in data and analytics. She started her career in measuring advertising effectiveness of offline media with Gain Theory, which lead her to build this capability in Moneysupermarket. Soon after, she got an opportunity with Expedia to grow and manage a team globally optimising the performance of search marketing. Now, Michelle is responsible for BI and analytics across marketing and customer globally at Farfetch.

Michelle’s passion lies firstly in driving commercial value out of data, and secondly in transforming and building data and analytics teams and developing talent. 
She was selected as one of Twenty in Data & Technology in 2018 awarded by Women in Data and The Female Lead, and has since been an ambassador driving for diversity in this field.

Fiona is the CEO of Women on Boards UK and advisor to Peel Hunt, an award-winning UK mid-cap stockbroker. She is an expert in the areas of Governance, Regulation and Talent Management who has sat on marketing, nominations and audit & finance committees. Currently, Fiona is Chair of Hanx's nominations committee a sexual wellness fast moving consumer goods company.

She is a passionate angel investor who helped to found one of the first female angel investment clubs and one of the judges for The Sunday Times annual NED Awards.

Formerly Fiona was a director for Old Mutual Asset Management and Hill Samuel Asset Management, running the Global Equities and Emerging Markets Desks respectively. She has advised the board of the Thai Euro Fund and been the Director responsible for Pension Fund asset allocation for OMAM's Employee Pension Fund.

In 2012, Fiona launched Women on Boards to support women, and men, make the right connections and career choices to get to board level within their own company or to take on a non-executive board role. Since launch, WOB has supported over 1800 individuals get onto boards. Fiona and the WOB team work tirelessly to lobby influential directors to push for increased board vacancy transparency.

For 19 years, Pamela has been helping women improve their personal and financial wealth through solid financial life planning. She focuses on helping her clients secure their financial futures so they can sleep well at night.

Pamela has become a strong voice in the area of personal finance for women. Her knowledge in this area has made her a sought-after speaker. She has been quoted in articles in various financial publications.

She has membership in the Million Dollar Roundtable (MDRT). Membership in MDRT is a highly recognized mark of excellence for the most successful in the financial services profession. Pamela holds a Behavioral Financial Advisor designation, awarded to advisors who have undergone training to learn to help clients make financial decisions using a rational, values-based approach. She was featured in the Women in Wealth section of Fortune Magazine November 2020 issue as a top Wealth Manager in the Washington DC metro area.

Chloé Messdaghi is an award-winning changemaker who is innovating tech and information security sectors to meet today and future demands by accelerating startups and providing solutions that empower organizations and people to stand out from the crowd. She is an international keynote speaker at major information security and tech conferences and events, and serves as a trusted source to reporters and editors, such as Forbes and Business Insider. Additionally, she is one of the Business Insider’s 50 Power Players. Outside of her work, she is the co-founder of Hacking is NOT a Crime and We Open Tech.

Julia Petretta is an experienced UX & Service Design Lead with InfinityWorks, where she brings her creativity to Digital Transformation projects tackling complex change.

With over 14 years in Experience Design across various industries and countries (including transport, global sporting and entertainment, and technology), she fosters new perspectives, especially a bigger picture view, at the intersection between product, business and people.

Always in pursuit of outcomes over output, Julia actively promotes empathy in the workplace through facilitation and mentorship. Following a previous MA (Design) from the University of Reading, she is currently taking postgraduate studies in business strategy and systems thinking.

Elizabeth is a Software Developer Engineer at Amazon Alexa, where she works to build technology that power's Alexa Question and Answering capability and help Alexa to become world’s most knowledgeable and trusted assistant. She is also active in Amazon security effort to secure data to protect customers and their interests. She obtained her Master degree in Computer Science from National Tsing Hua University. Prior Amazon, she worked as Senior Software Engineer in Foxconn, Taiwan, where she leads the software development of customer premise equipment. She also spent some time Massachusetts Institute of Technology as Visiting Scientist.

Leaders and corporate professionals hire Lily Woi to unlock their full potential and success because most feel stuck and unfulfilled with their current work-life, not to mention, they don’t know what they want, how to get there or why they want it. So she helps them get purposeful and intentional, break the glass ceiling, and unleash their full potential, all the while having fun.

Lily’s success began in corporate consulting with one of the Big Four professional services firms, training and advising clients to deliver multimillion transformation programs. She has helped many individuals develop authentic leadership capabilities and successful careers.

After an impressive career in law, as well as sales and marketing in the pharmaceutical industry, Sarah Palmer found her passion in motivational coaching, training and development.  She is PowerSpeaking’s European business affiliate extraordinaire. 

Sarah’s experience includes:

• Leading the development and delivery of PowerSpeaking’s “ConferenceSpeaking” program.
  Providing professional training and coaching, including PowerSpeaking’s SalesSpeaking® and Speaking Up®:  Presenting to Executives/Decision Makers.
• Presenting to executives of Fortune 500 companies around the globe.
• Delivering one-on-one business and personal coaching in the areas of confidence, motivation and personal development.
• Coaching and teaching resilience, communication and organizational skills to physicians in England, and specializing in overseas students.
• Interviewing global business leaders who are masters in the field of communication, to develop best practices in this field.

Mandy is an award winning philanthropist , consultant and global campaigner often referred to an global catalyst.

As well as being an international human rights activist & motivational Tedx speaker from UK, Mandy has travelled all over the world empowering & motivating others With over three decades of experience, Mandy is an expert in various development related fields. She has been driving innovation, building strategic partnerships, promoting advocacy and programming in the areas of human rights, gender equality, accountability and social justice globally

Mandy has helped hundreds of individuals and now reaches thousands through social media and her generous amount of worldwide TV appearances and public speaking engagements she spoke at the US House of Representatives for the 3rd year in a row.

Last year she was at the World Economic Forum and spoke at a couple of side events

Mandy has supported several Hackathon’s regarding AI for social good She has been involved in several Hackathons where she comes up with challenge and ideas

Leila Singh is an accomplished Sales and Finance professional with a corporate career spanning over 25 years, and a wealth of experience initially gained as a qualified accountant (FCCA), Corporate Finance and Treasury Consultant, and latterly a successful Sales Executive at Hewlett Packard Enterprise where she spent 16 years. Furthermore, Leila, now a Personal Brand Coach, Mentor and TEDx Speaker, is accredited as a Master Coach and Master Coach Trainer, Learning & Development Trainer, and Speaker Mentor, as well as Podcast Host of mi-brand HQ, a published author of the book “Success Redefined”, and a Certified Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP).

As Director of Success Redefined Limited and Founder of mi-brand, her Personal Brand Coaching Practice, Leila draws on her wealth and breadth of skills, knowledge and experience in the areas of sales, finance and professional growth, alongside her intuitive coaching style, to enable ambitious career professionals at all levels, including Non-Executive Directors and CXO’s, to establish the human side of their personal brand, in other words, ‘how you show up!’.

She does this through utilising her proprietary framework, ‘The Unique Personal Brand Blueprint™’ in turn enhancing her clients’ income, impact and influence, increasing performance and results, and ultimately having them show up as the best version of themselves, amongst colleagues and clients, in their teams, organisation and industry!

Over the last six years, Leila has delivered keynotes, workshops and trainings at various events and organisations both in the UK and abroad, including Hewlett Packard Enterprise, DXC, IBM, Oracle, 3M, Dow Jones, Santander, Telekom Malaysia, CBRE, BBC, Institute of Directors, Birkbeck University of London, Oxford Brookes University, CIMA, and Women in Sales Summit, London. Leila Singh FCCA is an Accredited Master Coach, Personal Brand Mentor, Corporate Trainer, TEDx Speaker, Podcast Host, Award-Winning Author and Founder of The mi-brand Academy™

Jenn Donahue PhD is a civil engineer and US Navy Captain who works on large scale, high profile geotechnical projects. Over her 25-year military career, Jenn has built a bridge across the Euphrates River in the midst of the Iraq war, commanded an 800-personnel Battalion in Afghanistan, and constructed combat outposts in the middle of deserts filled with insurgents. Jenn has led earthquake and tsunami reconnaissance missions in places like Samoa and Japan; designed the seismic plans for a bridge over the Panama Canal; and built roads in the coldest climes of Ketchikan.

Sheena Pirbhai is Founder & CEO of Stress Point Health. Following her own experiences with PTSD she created a digital platform to democratise access to mental health care. Sheena spent her career fundraising and investing in media and technology, after building her foundations in financial services. She founded Flick the Switch, an entertainment finance company and after 10 years at the helm, sold the company to a New York based group. Sheena subsequently invested in TIS Ventures a seed and venture capital boutique. TIS worked with a wide range of entrepreneurs and businesses with scalable value. The Company has a portfolio of over 10 companies seeded by TIS in various stages of growth and development and Sheena serves on the board of a number of those companies.

Joanna understands the challenges parenthood can bring and uses her experience and expertise as a personal, professional and career coach to help you to achieve what you want from your life. With dedicated time to talk through your challenge, you can work together to stop you feeling stuck, and move forward with more clarity, confidence and a plan.

Jodi Goldman is a Personal Impact Coach and experienced international speaker. She's worked with thousands of professionals and business owners to help them develop magnetic confidence, a powerful personal brand and assertive communication skills. Her corporate clients include companies like Google, RBS, Everywoman, Sony, IG and the Post Office.

Gosia Syta is a personal impact expert and the founder of the communication skills consultancy Walk Your Talk. She works with female professionals helping them to increase their visibility and step into more senior roles.

Using her Personal Impact Blueprint, Gosia shows women how, by making small consistent changes to their verbal and nonverbal behaviours, they can increase their leadership presence. Having gone through her process, participants know exactly what to do to project more authority through their body language, voice, and choice of words.

Gosia normally works in-house with large corporate clients, such as BP, Ticketmaster, Dentons and Costar, but recently, she has developed an online group programme, The Personal Impact Incubator, which gives women practical techniques to succeed in the post-pandemic world of work.

Saakshi is a passionate student studying Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London and has experience in Finance and Cloud industries at Google and IHS Merkit. Born and raised in India and moved to London with family for further education. Her childhood ambition of training computers to perform functions similar to a human brain led her into the field of Computer Science. Currently she is a committee member of Student Union’s Artificial Intelligence Society, active speaker at Women in Tech and Google's #Iamremarkable facilitator which aims to encourage women and underrepresented groups around the world to speak openly about their accomplishments and promote themselves in the workplace and beyond, thereby breaking gender related modesty norms and glass ceilings.