Alison started her career as a pharmaceutical chemist at Glaxo, but made the transition to IT, working on the Helpdesk and developing through a series of infrastructure management roles. Although she moved discipline, she has remained close to her scientific roots. Since March 2022, Alison has held the post of CIO for the Pharmaceutical Diagnostics (PDx) business segment of GE Healthcare, where she is accountable for ensuring delivery of the digital, data and technology capabilities that enable strategic business outcomes. This is a return to GE Healthcare for Alison, who was previously the CIO for the GE Life Sciences business, during which time she led the IT workstream for the $21Bn divestiture of the GE Biopharma (now Cytiva) business.

Between her GE roles, Alison spent 2 years as the CIO of the Natural History Museum. She has also held CIO positions at the Francis Crick Institute, the MHRA, Bristol Myers-Squibb and DuPont. As the Crick's inaugural CIO, Alison led the team in successfully establishing its core and scientific computing capabilities, for which she was recognised with the 2018 Women in IT "CIO of the Year" Award.

Over her career, Alison has led many transformational IT and business projects. She has particularly enjoyed the change management aspects of IT transformation, balancing the people and process change with the technology delivery to achieve successful outcomes.

Jen is the Chief People and Transformation Officer for Natwest Group and a member of the Group Executive Committee. In this role, Jen is responsible for the people strategy and transformation plan, as well as customer journeys, investment, property and supply chain services. Jen is passionate about inclusion and is the Executive Sponsor for 'Rainbow', the Group's LGBTQ+ employee led network, and for Wellbeing groupwide.

Prior to joining NatWest Group, Jen spent 15 years at Lloyds Banking Group. Appointed to the Group Executive Committee in 2017, she was Group Director, People and Productivity responsible for HR, efficiency, sourcing, supply chain management and property. Prior to that, she was the Group Organisation Design and Cost Management Director, Group Customer Services Director and MD, Business Banking serving over a million small business customers. She has extensive experience running large scale business, customer and operational teams as well as leading significant transformational change. Before working in financial services, Jen worked in both the engineering and airline sectors.

Jen has significant Board and Committee chair experience. She has served on both private and public sector boards, including the NHS and charitable organisations. She sat on the Board of Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets. She is currently a non-executive director on the board of Morgan Sindall Plc, a fast growing FTSE250 construction, housing, infrastructure, and regeneration business. She is also a non-executive director of City University, University of London, where she chairs their Remuneration Committee and is a Board member of the Financial Services Skills Commission driving the future skills agenda for the Banking sector.

Jen graduated from Oxford University and is mother to three children residing in Sevenoaks and London.

Fun Fact: Jen speaks 6 languages – however she modestly claims 'not all of them very well.'

Storm is the BBC's Chief Product Officer, leading the development and delivery of the broadcaster's audience-facing portfolio of world-leading digital products such as iPlayer, Sounds, and mobile and online applications across News, Sport, Childrens and Content (entertainment).

She and her dynamic team aim to deliver content that is loved by all audiences and delivers the best value for licence-fee payers.

As a leading advocate for Diversity and Inclusion in the BBC, Storm is the Executive Sponsor of the BBC Women in STEM (WiSTEM) staff network.

Storm was previously the Chief Product Officer at JustEat where she led its global product set across customers, restaurants and couriers. She is recognised as one of Business Insider's 100 People Transforming Business and one of the 50 most influential women in Product in Europe.

Sharon Moore MBE is IBM Technology's Global Technical Lead for Civilian Government, with a personal goal to transform public service through the ethical application of technology. In her role, Sharon develops technology strategy, delivers technical thought leadership and builds passionate communities that make a difference. She has a real passion for making government work for citizens, and for making the world a better one for all. It's a lofty goal but it drives Sharon to share her skills, her experiences, her time, her network and more.

Sharon is driving change for women in technology, co-authored a book in 2021, and is also a Trustee and a Non-Executive Director.

Fun Fact: Sharon performs in a choir, as a soprano, and loves the music they are able to create (after a lot of hard work!)

Milena is a CTO at Trainline, where she runs a team of 400+ technologists focused on enabling greener travel choices, connecting people and places. Before that she has spent more than a decade at Google, working as an engineer and an engineering leader across a number of different product areas - most recently as an Engineering Director for Google Play Developer Ecosystem. Milena has a passion for building empowered and efficient tech organizations, robust and innovative technology and delightful customer experiences.

The CTO Office team covers everything from ensuring we meet our budgets and targets to development of the technology community and our people.

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, co-lead of the Tech & Product DE&I Council, Sponsor of UK FastForward and Disability Champion at GfK.

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.

Maud Larpent is VP of Product at Expedia Group. In her role, she is responsible for defining experiences that empower travellers to plan, book and enjoy their whole trip on the Expedia Group platform. Her focus is on building curation, collaboration and connected features that enable travellers to make the most of their trip.

Prior to this, Maud joined Expedia Group in 2019 as VP of Product at Vrbo, overseeing the delivery of amazing Vrbo experience for families and common capabilities for Vacation Rentals at Expedia Group.

Maud came to Expedia Group from Tripadvisor where she led the Hotels Supply product team, focusing on improving the breadth and depth of accommodation offers available for shoppers on the platform, their pricing competitiveness, sort order optimisation and content quality.

Maud holds an MSc in international management from HEC Paris and Esade Barcelona.

Priscilla Nagashima Boyd is a VP of Engineering at DICE based in London. Before DICE, Priscilla held several data and engineering roles in the ticketing, transportation and marketing spaces, leading projects on autonomous driving, Internet of Things and artificial intelligence technologies.

At DICE, she heads a global engineering team building apps for fans of music and culture. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computing and Information Systems from the University of London and a Master of Science degree in Software Engineering from the University of Oxford, with an emphasis on machine learning.

She is a STEM ambassador, was formerly the honorary secretary of Women in ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) in the UK and acted as an evangelist for the importance of big data during her TEDx talk in 2017.

Alicia Skubick is the Chief Marketing Officer at Trustpilot where she is responsible for building the brand and growing the community of trust between consumers and businesses.

Prior to Trustpilot, Alicia was Marketing Director at the financial management software company, Intuit Quickbooks. During her tenure, the Marketing team was awarded top accolades from Gartner, the Drum, The Muse Awards & Gold at the B2B Awards. Prior to Intuit, Alicia led European Marketing for Sage Pay, and globally for Travelex Business (now Western Union Business Solutions), as well as various global roles at Symantec.

Alicia is passionate about encouraging diversity and empowering women at work through coaching and mentoring and founded the Intuit UK Women's Network.

I have almost 20 years experience working in the technology and software engineering industry across multiple markets and sectors ranging across Psychology, Banking, Property and Ecommerce (D2C). Predominantly focusing on people and technology driving business evolution, culture, growth and creating a digital strategy not just for the here and now but the future as well.

At Trinny London I am responsible for leading the technology / digital delivery teams, ensuring a supportive culture to drive the growth of the business and its investment in people; Creating and delivering a technology strategy that drives the 'now' as well as future-proofing the business while ensuring alignment with its business goals through innovation and cross-functional teams.

I've spent the past 20 years in technology leadership roles across a range of industries and worked for great companies such as Accenture, Royal Mail, World Bank, Ofgem and now Schroders. I've been lucky enough to live and work across Europe and APAC, experiencing an incredibly valuable range of cultures and working environments.

I'm passionate about delivering positive experiences through transformation and change, and energising others on what the future could be, and turning aspirations into reality through co-creation and collaboration.

Fun Fact: I was a fire twirler at the Sydney 2000 Olympics – yes really!!

Senior solutions-oriented leader with a proven record of operational & strategic delivery of complex implementations globally for both Pharma & Patients.

Motivational and influential team leader known for taking a hands-on approach in dynamic & complex Digital Health environments to achieve maximum success.

Passionate about the future of healthcare and how technology can enhance & transform current standards of care through novel treatment & diagnosis techniques, to drive better outcomes for patients.

Papinder is Head of Data Science and Machine Learning at ASOS. She started her career in a start-up specialising in geo-location solutions for media, retail and telecoms clients, before joining leaders in customer science, dunnhumby. During her time there, as senior product manager, she was responsible for developing a personalisation capability for a major supermarket across its e-commerce, loyalty and CRM functions.

At ASOS she is responsible for executing the business and technology transformation behind our data and AI strategy. ASOS is working to embed data science and machine learning across all areas of its customer experience, as well as support operational excellence.

Kate's role is to take the technology ideas at Smart forward into production. She ensures that our design and engineering teams are running smoothly and producing high quality products for Smart’s clients and partners around the world. Before joining Smart, Kate held several different high-level roles in technology over the years, including positions at Vodafone, Allen and Overy, Morgan Stanley and Linklaters.

Nadine Pichelot held the position of Vice President Finance Europe at Anaplan from 2015 until July 2022 when she took on the role of interim Global Chief Financial Officer.

Prior to joining Anaplan, Nadine spent over 25 years in finance, HR and operational management roles, always in partnership with the business in large international organizations such as Philips, Apple Computers, Cisco Systems and Dell.

Angela puts people at the heart of transformation and is passionate about delivering positive experiences through change management. She believes in the strength of collaboration, working closely with everyone to solve problems, remove blockers and provide transparency on the journey of change. Angela has spent the past 20-years in London delivering complex, industry disrupting product launches and running business transformation and technology programmes in media and telecoms. Angela's proud to be a kiwi having grown up in New Zealand and is known for her innovative and pragmatic approach to making things happen.

Alex is Deliveroo's Director of Programme Management responsible for
creating, designing and building the function within the tech organisation. Prior to Deliveroo, Alex spent nearly 10 years at Expedia, progressing to lead the tech Agile Delivery function within Expedia's B2B business.

Alex's career in tech has spanned project and product management, with a focus on optimisation through agile methods and building teams to support product delivery in growing tech organisations.

With a deep interest in team dynamics and learning about what motivates an individual in the workplace, Alex is passionate about mentorship, working with high school students to professionals.

Nina is Deliveroo's Product Director responsible for Consumer Growth. Her team is responsible for building and improving the Deliveroo iOS and Android applications, consumer facing website, and internal tools that power the service in over 800 towns and cities across 11 markets.

Before Deliveroo, she spent five years building and optimising consumer facing products and leading teams at Hotels.com & Expedia. She spent her early career in Investment Banking & Private Equity.

Outside of Deliveroo, amongst many things, she was selected as speaker for World Product Summit in London (June 2019), lead informal product leadership talks with other companies (e.g. Kobalt Music) and participated in round table discussion led by the Government Office for Science regarding Tech in Food Services.

Recently described as the Swiss Army knife of Operations, Libby has scaled multiple start-ups, growing teams from handfuls to hundreds, most recently at Improbable in the Defence unit. Employing the mantra "what will it take to make the boat go faster (and in the right direction!)", Libby's focus is on growing high performance teams at pace.

Simana is a high-performing technology leader with 20+ years of experience in the technology industry. As the Director of Engineering, she leads the engineering tribe for transaction risk management for ComplyAdvantage. Simana works very closely with technologists, product and strategy functions to provide innovative, cutting-edge, and best-in-class FinTech product solutions in the areas of anti-money laundering (AML) and transaction risk.

Through her career in various technologies in various roles and working in different business domains, she has succeeded in leading technology teams of various sizes and creating value for organisations. Her areas of expertise include domain knowledge & business understanding, business delivery and agile transformation, product development, solution, and architecture design, leading technology tribes and technology strategy.

Alia is a qualified risk and compliance professional with over a decades' experience working with global financial institutions and Fintechs, advising on legal, risk and compliance processes to deliver cross business innovative control solutions.

Completing her undergraduate in Law from the London School of Economics and Legal Practice Course from BPP University, she started her career in criminal law as a trainee solicitor. With a mission to proactively disrupt organised crime and help reduce the myriad of financial crimes taking place, she transitioned to a career in financial crime and regulatory compliance, to be at the frontline in combating financial crime risks and safeguarding organisations and communities from being used and abused by criminal organisations.

As part of Global Regulatory Affairs team at ComplyAdvantage, Alia supports product, marketing and commercial teams with building world leading financial crime detection tools and is the 'voice of the customer' as Customer in Residence.

Paula leads IT Transformation, and is a member of the IT leadership team at AstraZeneca. In this role, she is responsible for the Operating Model strategy and implementation including organisation design, capabilities and culture. Paula is a passionate advocate of Inclusion, Diversity and Belonging, and chairs the IT team. She is a fully trained Wellbeing Champion and an active sponsor for IT learning and development.

Paula joined AstraZeneca in 2014, as Workplace Director and moved onto the Leadership Team as VP of End User Services in 2016. In this role she was responsible for driving excellence in global operational IT services, alongside delivering great customer experience to our global workforce covering devices, collaboration tools, education and best practise.

Prior to joining Astrazeneca, she spent a number of years consulting on Business and IT change. She spent 14 years with PepsiCo in a variety of roles culminating in the CTO for Europe, based in Barcelona.

Over her career, has led transformational change in technology, business projects and operating models across complex international businesses to enable successful business strategies and deliver value. She is passionate about sustainability, people development, and building high performing teams.

Originally a Java/JavaScript developer of some 20 years, Charlotte has focussed on technical leadership, particularly in FinTech, for the last decade.

Fun Fact: As a research student in Computer Science in the late 90s I was a contemporary of Sergey Brin and Larry Page. I presented one of my papers at the same conference where they presented "The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine [Google]". Sadly I didn't buy shares!

Rowena is Smart's Sustainability Director. She is currently leading the design, development and implementation of Smart's sustainability strategy, including conducting a consultative materiality and maturity assessment across Smart's global offices.

Prior to joining Smart, Rowena consulted for 20+ international organisations and INGOs, on the design and implementation of strategic sustainability programs, including working with agencies such as UNAIDS and World Food Programme, to improve operational efficiency, drive growth and deliver impact.

She also holds an MSc in Environmental Management and Development from the Australian National University. Operating at the group level, Rowena brings over 15 years cross-sector experience to lead the development of a strategic and impactful approach to long term, corporate Sustainability.

Fun Fact: Rowena hiked Lake Baikal (in January!)

Sue is a Partner in Baker McKenzie's Technology group. She has specialized in technology law for over 20 years. She advises clients on a wide range of technology related matters, including projects relating to outsourcing, cloud, digital transformation, technology procurement, licensing development and licensing, m/e-commerce, AI and blockchain and crypto-assets. Sue also advises on the IP, commercial and technology aspects of tech M&A deals and joint ventures. Her clients include some of the world's best known tech companies and multinational corporations. She also enjoys working with emerging and growth companies. Sue has experience across various business sectors, but particular experience in the financial services and TMT sectors. Sue regularly speaks and writes about the impact of disruptive technologies. Sue is co-chair of the firm's fintech group in London and EMEA co-chair of the firm's Financial Institutions industry group. Sue is also a Trustee and Vice Chair of the Society for Computers and Law and founder and chair of the SCL Women in Tech Law network.

An award winning educator and TEDx speaker, Terri Duhon went from a Math degree at MIT to a derivative trader on Wall Street then on to become an entrepreneur and author. She is now an educator, often guest lecturing at Oxford University where she is an Associate Fellow, and a board member of a number of large institutions such as Morgan Stanley International, Wise plc and Rathbone Bros a FTSE 250 UK Wealth Manager. She is passionate about diversity and culture and often speaks about Empowerment and Reinvention.

Katie has been immersed in the mobility ecosystem for the last 6 years and leads New Business and Strategic Partnerships for bp pulse globally. Previous career included strategy consulting at Bain, corporate development roles in banking and leading strategy and transformation for Avis Budget Group/Zipcar across Europe/ASPAC. Katie holds a BA in Literature and an MBA from INSEAD.

Fun Fact: Used to teach horse riding at children's summer camp.

Arpita is originally from India. She then lived and worked in the US for 20+ years, now she has been in the UK for the last 5 years. She is a pioneer in her family being the first female engineer. She took a break from work as a young mother but started her career back from the ground up in California (US) in Silicon Valley in the early 2000s when she migrated with her young family. Starting her career as a quality test professional in some Fortune 500 companies like PayPal, and Netflix. She got the opportunity to work alongside many brilliant entrepreneurs who built great companies themselves namely YouTube.com LinkedIn.com, Yelp.com, Kiva.org, and Affirm.com. She also had the chance to work during Netflix’s transformational years from being a DVD to a streaming company.

After moving to SoCal’s Silicon Beach in 2013, she worked in various companies ranging from start-ups media houses, B2B, and eCommerce, pivoting in her career to focus on more holistic engineering functions of the Software Development Life Cycle. From development to release of products with a focus on the customer. After her move to the UK, she has had the opportunity to work on digital transformation products in the exhibition and events space with Reed Exhibitions, and in the financial services space with Capital One UK. Now she is in JP Morgan Chase since early last year working on the launch of Chase Bank in the UK.

She thrives in deadline-driven environments and is known to "Get Things Done" with quality and optimization. She builds deep personal connections and keeps in touch with many of her mentors for guidance and she provides guidance to her mentees across her network.

Cassie has over 15 years of experience in building international digital products in the evolving technology space across regulated industries in the UK and the US, including financial services, healthcare and energy. Cassie has had great success in helping growth stage companies scale and streamline their product function.

Cassie joined the OVO Group in March 2017 to head up Product in its retail division and is now leading the development of Kaluza’s energy retail platform. Prior to joining OVO, Cassie was Head of Product at Wonga, where she oversaw a re-platforming and overhaul to the company's flagship lending product that enabled it to successfully obtain FCA authorisation. Cassie has a degree in Philosophy and English from the University of Birmingham and holds an MBA from Keller Graduate School of Management.

Originally from Brazil, Munique was the first of her family to graduate from college. She is passionate about making education programs that are accessible to all, and believes education is the best tool to achieving success.

Munique has over 12 years of experience in adult education, with a focus on teach training over the course of 5 years. She's had a direct impact on hundreds of career changes, returners and upskillers. As the Global VP, Admissions and Funding for Le Wagon she's responsible for the on-boarding and growth strategy but also for ensuring that all programs are accessible and diverse, whilst providing students with the best skills and career opportunities to enter the Tech world.

She's also Head of Program for Education in the Women In tech Global Movement in Portugal. Munique ensures that new educational projects that help women getting into tech or upskilling themselves see the light of day and bring positive impact to the community.

Fun Fact: 5 years ago Munique had no idea how to use formulas in excel and now she loves cleaning her data-sets with python, and spends her days deep diving in Data Studio.

As Senior Vice President, EMEA, Philippa Snare leads the EMEA operational headquarters at The Trade Desk, driving revenue generation and new client acquisition strategy across the region.

Prior to The Trade Desk, Philippa led Facebook’s Global Business Marketing division and oversaw large teams across all markets in Europe, Middle East, and Africa. In this role, Philippa was responsible for driving revenue growth and market share among leading brand advertisers and agencies.

She also served as the Chief Marketing Officer for Microsoft UK, where she led marketing for the entire Microsoft portfolio. Over 16 years, Philippa served in a range of other leadership roles at Microsoft, including Sales and Marketing Director, and Commercial Director for Windows Live.

Philippa is an honours professor and holds a bachelor’s degree from Coventry University and a master’s in business administration from The Open University. She is a Fellow of the Global Marketing Academy and serves as a non-executive for Redgate Software.

I oversee a number of 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.

I oversee the overall giffgaff 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.

In my spare time, I love exercising - yoga, football, swimming, hitting the gym to name just a few things that keep me active.

Radhika is currently working as head of data science & analytics platforms at bp. She started her career consulting at Wipro Technologies and worked with several energy, services, and utility companies across the UK. She joined bp in January 2020 to lead Enterprise Data Strategy.

During previous years of her career, she worked on various roles starting as a Systems Analyst, then progressing as a competency lead in Business Intelligence, led several Digital & Data Transformation initiatives and global implementations for a wide range of analytics technologies, and managed global teams to drive operational excellence and service improvements.

She is very passionate about supporting diversity, equity & inclusion initiatives, and actively mentoring women in technology. Radhika was also recognised externally by the Women in IT awards in 2019.

Outside of work, Radhika keeps busy with her daughter. She has a passion for travelling, sport, dance, and music.

Payal Vasudeva is a Human Capital Partner at Deloitte. She works with Financial Services organisations to help them navigate the future of work and is passionate about improving the people experience for Deloitte and her clients. Payal has been recognised for her efforts in championing Inclusion and she also serves in a leadership capacity on 'not for profit' Boards. Born in India, an only child, a girl, lived in four countries - grateful for the choices she was afforded and also aware of those that were out of her reach. Payal believes equality of access to opportunity matters, so that every person can shine to the best of their ability. This translates in how she shows up in her every day, passionate about effecting positive change to improve the way people work and live.

Fun Fact: Yoga teacher.

As the Head of Financial Services and Insurance Krista is changing the way Fujitsu help their customers transform their business. With over 20 years' experience in designing and implementing digital transformations across various business domains, she understands a wide range of stakeholder perspectives. She's built a strong team of consultants who bring deep business and technical expertise. With their support Krista is constantly looking for innovative ways to help Fujitsu's customers succeed and grow.

Anna is Data Science Deputy Director at HM Revenues and Customs. Prior to HMRC she held a number of private sector roles at leading companies in consultancy, broadcasting, retail and FMCG. Her focus in the last 20 years has been data driven change often identifying, launching, delivering, and scaling innovation. Anna believes that what drives data transformation and sustainable change is 50% perseverance and determination, 25% ability collaborate and 25% technical knowledge and skills.

Fun Fact: Anna believes that Women are extremely well suited for technology roles. If you agree with stereotypes than you know that women have ability to listen and understand problems, solve them, have high attention to details, and often think laterally so many women solutions consider wider impact. And if you do not believe in stereotypes than of course there is no reason why women should not be 50% of tech workforce including leadership.

Anesha is the Data Science Academy Lead at HM Revenues and Customs. Starting her career working for a global bank, she then moved over to the Civil Service to carry out a variety of analytical roles, predominantly focusing on Data Science and Automation.

Anesha, who is a data scientist herself, is responsible for building and growing Data Science Capability across HMRC. Anesha is passionate about the academy's purpose, alongside building capability, is to encourage and facilitate collaboration and growth across the community, support skills and career development and to inspire the analytical community.

Olga has a Master's degree in Computer Science and has been working in the technology space all her career. She is very passionate about working with clients directly and solving complex problems. Olga has a vast experience in designing desktop, web and mobile applications. She is currently working at Trayport as Head of Trader Products, helping define and manage strategy across multiple markets.

With 15 years' experience in Technology, and over 10 years' experience working in Trading, Commodities and Energy, Olga is the perfect person to shed an insight into the technology behind energy trading products.

Fun Fact: Olga's cat has his own Instagram account @chebuthecat.

With over 20 years' experience in Technology and Energy, Damien started his career as a Developer before moving into Project Management and Delivery. With an MBA from Bayes, he holds a guest lectureship at the University of Cardiff focused on Agile Delivery and Change Management. If you're interested in a debate in the energy space then Damien's Linkedin is definitely the place to go!

Fun Fact: Damien is the proud husband and father of 2 children, a dog, 2 cats, and an electric car.

Yvonne has over 25 years' experience in IT, business change, digital services and cyber and information assurance. She has had senior roles in the private sector in large organisations such as the Prudential and Network Rail. Yvonne was CIO in two government departments, as well as Chief Digital Officer and CIO in the private sector prior to her move to the NAO. Yvonne is also a Fellow of the BCS and previous chair of their Organisation and Employer board. Yvonne's role in the NAO over the past 7 years is to support the NAO's work for Parliament evaluating how well Digital and associated business change programmes are implemented to deliver value for money.

Zehra's key focus is on driving consumer insights and brand building to achieve business growth, and Zehra is currently co-running the Insight Live webinar series which over 18,000 marketers across EMEA have attended. Zehra has been a guest marketing lecturer at the University of Oxford focusing on brand building in the digital age. Zehra is also the Chair of the DEI Council at Meta and has recently launched the "diversity unlocks discovery" podcast with the IAB focusing on how we can minimise bias in our communications.

Previously, Zehra was Head of Strategy at Manning Gottlieb OMD, working across a range of brands including Estee Lauder Companies, Starbucks, Virgin, Sony Pics and Government comms.

Zehra has won numerous industry awards for her strategic work including IPA Effectiveness, Cannes, MediaWeek and Campaign awards, and was recently named as one of the top 30 Ecommerce influencers of 2021.

Georgie is a Head of Technology at ASOS.com, she is passionate about building diverse tech teams that appreciate the customer and commercial impact of what they deliver and leads a team of ~120 Engineers, Business Analysts, Engineering Managers and Platform Leads. Having previously worked at Tesco and Accenture she now leads the strategy, development, delivery and operations of back-end digital platforms at ASOS primarily focussed around Digital Supply Chain – think Order Management, Stock & Fulfilment systems, Customer Data, Delivery & Returns propositions.

An advocate for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Georgie set up and champions the Women in Technology community at ASOS.

Outside of work Georgie enjoys travelling, living in the countryside and having a 'quiet' night in with friends, wine and plenty of power ballads.

Myrna is responsible for identifying how to use data and machine learning to keep Ocado at the cutting edge of eCommerce, supply chain, logistics and robotics. As lead for responsible AI and Robotics, she also ensures that the technology Ocado develops facilitates public trust and meets its sustainability goals.

Previously Myrna led responsible ML at the BBC, where she designed the first comprehensive standard for responsible ML in media, the BBC’s Machine Learning Engine Principles. Her portfolio included the BBC's work on recommendation algorithms, data stewardship and AI explainability.

Myrna is a former British diplomat. She has worked on international economic and climate negotiations, and served as Head of the Political team at the British Embassy in Pristina, Kosovo and Head of Middle East Peace Process Engagement at the British Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Dr. Chanuki Illushka Seresinhe is currently the Head of Data Science at Zoopla, managing data scientists at both Zoopla and Hometrack. Chanuki began working as a commercial data scientist at Channel 4 and, more recently, was the Director of Data Science for Culture Trip. Chanuki has a PhD in Data Science from the University of Warwick.

Her research at the University of Warwick and the Alan Turing Institute involved using big online datasets and deep learning to understand how the aesthetics of the environment influences human wellbeing. Her research has been featured in the press worldwide including the Economist, Wired, BBC, Spiegel Online, Guardian, Telegraph, Scientific American, Newsweek and MIT Technology Review.

Prior to embarking on her PhD, Chanuki had a successful career in digital that included running her own digital design consultancy for over eight years.

Fun Fact: I have lived in California, New York, Paris and London and learned a lot about working with different cultures and the importance of diversity.

Yasmin Christie is Principal Product Manager at Checkout.com. Yasmin joined Checkout.com in 2019 and led FinCrime infrastructure and product expansion for Payouts & FX, as well as building out back end services to consolidate FX processing and practices. She plays a key role in enabling the growth of Checkout.com’s crypto offering by leading our crypto platform, building products to support exchanges and off-ramps looking to connect to the fiat infrastructure.

Yasmin is passionate about product and operational efficiency at scale with a customer centric focus at pace with the digital curve. Prior to joining Checkout.com, Yasmin was Head of Implementation at payment services provider Vitesse. Before that, she spent eight years building expertise at HiFX, now XE.com and part of the Euronet group, working with Tier 1 banks and liquidity partners across multiple jurisdictions to enable FX & Payouts at scale. Before this, she worked in compliance developing best practice AML/CFT approaches, implementing transaction and fraud monitoring at the height of the initial digital uplift that moved payments online.

Jess Houlgrave is Head of Crypto GTM & Strategy at Checkout.com. Checkout.com's mission is to enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy. Jess is focused on Checkout.com's go-to-market strategy. She is responsible for scaling the company’s crypto offering, enabling Checkout.com to power the world's largest exchanges, fan token platforms and wallets.

Jess also sits on the Bank of England Engagement Forum for CBDC, the UK Fintech Strategy Group and the DIT / Innovate Finance International Fintech Advisory Group. Prior to joining Checkout, Jess was the founder of Codex Protocol, an Ethereum project to track the provenance of assets using NFTs. Before that she held roles at OPTrust's Private Markets Investment Group and Credit Suisse. She has an MA in Economics and Management from the University of Oxford and an MA in Art Business from Sotheby's Institute of Art.

Muireann is a Head of Technology at ComparetheMarket. She heads up wonderfully innovative teams of engineers delivering CTM’s web platform; ensuring that they can adapt to changing markets and remain a leader in the insurance comparison space.

Muireann has worked in a variety of roles and industries over the past 17 years, letting curiosity guide her steps throughout the many chapters of her career.

Bobi leads ISBA's TV & Video strategy, helping to drive industry change on key advertiser issues within the TV, video and wider media landscape. Previously to ISBA, she served as the UK Commercial Director of The Walt Disney Company from 2010 to 2017 and AV and partnerships lead at the independent media agency the7stars driving forward innovation and growth. Bobi previously held a number of senior positions in a ten-year career at Viacom where she was Head of Kids and Families for MTV Networks Europe and, prior to that, Head of Third Party channels. She started her career at Sky Media in 1993.

Zuzanna is a seasoned digital leader with 20+ years experience as an industry pioneer across AdTech, MarTech and Publishers. Joining GroupM in May '22 Zuzanna is focused on taking Xaxis to the next era of digital driving growth and innovation. Prior to that she ran Automation, Programmatic and Data Management divisions at Google, Spotify, Oracle and Microsoft.

Throughout her career Zuzanna has and continues to champion the application of data and technology to drive digital transformation and deliver business results. She is passionate about helping businesses navigate the opportunities digital marketing offers and as a regular speaker, judge and thought leader committed to simplifying what is often perceived as a complex industry.

Danielle Darko is the EMEA Digital Director at MediaCom. In previous roles, she worked as a Global Programmatic Business Director, building strategies and executions globally to meet client expectations. Proficient in a wide range of digital sectors and products, Danielle is committed to strategic development and digital best practice deployment.

Recipient of the 2022 Global Cyber Security Leadership Award- Editor's Choice (Global), previously appointed to the '100 Global CISOs for 2020' list and awarded 'CISO of the Year, 2020' by SC Awards Europe, Becky Pinkard is a renowned practitioner and commentator on the information security sector who has been working in information technology and security since 1996.

A security transformation expert, Becky's background and experience to date has provided her with broad information security expertise, coupled with global team management and in-depth, technical capabilities around cyber security operations.

Becky is an active advocate for promoting diversity and inclusion in business and was a co-founder of the 'We Empower Diversity in Start-ups' (WEDS) group. She has been a CyLon mentor since 2017, providing cyber security, operations and client success guidance to entrepreneurs. She also co-hosted a monthly podcast, Cyber Warrior Princess, focused on current cyber security related commentary.

Becky was a SANS Certified Instructor for over a decade and served as a GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst advisory board member and on the Strategic Advisory Council for the Center of Internet Security. She co-authored "Nmap in the Enterprise" and "Intrusion Prevention and Active Response, Deploying Network and Host IPS". Becky has shared her expertise in numerous publications, both written and in live interviews all over the world, including: The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, ChannelPost, The Telegraph, The New York Times, BBC News, Channel 4 News, and more.

Tristi is currently working in the NHS Black Country ICB enabling the portfolio of the Chief Medical Officer and CCIO. She has worked over 20 years in and with technologists on transformation and change across US NGO, UK public sector organisations and global private sector firms. She is in Computer Weekly's 2022 UKTech50 longlist and the 2021 "Top 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech."

Passionate about equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging (EDIB), Tristi is focused on opportunities to give and share platform to the voices unheard and/or unseen. Tristi adapts her multidisciplinary experience and is keen to apply ethics-centred techniques for impactful products and services that reduce the avoidable, unintended negative impacts of digital transformation. Tristi connects her purpose with like-minded professional networks - the BCS, AnitaB, AnalystX and All4Health&Care bringing together allies seeking to develop new leaders and solutions that seek to tackle both health and digital inequalities.

Claire Miller is Director of Technology and Innovation at Octopus Electric Vehicles (OEV), part of the Octopus Energy Group. Claire works at the cutting edge of EV adoption and use-cases for a smart connected grid, including the Powerloop vehicle to grid (V2G) project which she led from January 2019.

She is passionate about solving real world problems, delivering new technologies to market and, most importantly, into the hands of users to make a positive impact on the world around us. Claire also leads teams architecting and building the systems and digital environments that enable the day to day operation of OEV as an EV leasing company. Claire has a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London.

In 2022 has been recognised by Business Insider as a leader in the global transition to electric vehicles, and as a 'Top Woman in EV' in Technology by the EV Summit.

Roop a journalist-turned-technologist who parties at the sweet spot between business strategy, user experience and data-driven storytelling. In her current role as the Lead Product Manager at Charlotte Tilbury, Roop manages technology teams that are tasked with building direct emotional relationships with users through personalisation and retention.

Prior to ecommerce, Roop has spent many years in media tech companies including upday news and Culture Trip. Roop also teaches the Product Management course at BrainStation.

Fun Fact: Roop is Indian by birth, Canadian by nationality, Danish by marriage and Londoner by residence. In 2021, Roop was recognised as a Power List winner in the Women in Software awards by Makers.

A trained journalist, florist, flight attendant and Personal Assistant. Having a career in technology was never her intention. It was a career that was developed with serendipity and shaped by being surrounded by inspiring technical leaders in some of the most unlikely places.

Anna has more than 18 years’ experience delivering technical solutions that solve problems and improve users' experience. She has recently moved into the world of Consultancy as a Delivery Principal at Scott Logic. An experienced Agile Product Owner and Scrum Master, she has led digital transformation within Financial Services, Automotive and Publishing. With a proven track record of shaping and leading high performing teams that deliver business outcomes.

Being a natural socialiser, the strength of her network has been fundamental to her success in technology. Along with insatiable curiosity, a growth mindset, and a passion for innovation.

Fun Fact: A mother of 2, and wife of one, I still have it in me to party with the girls at the clubs in Ibiza each summer.

Jess is a Principal Consultant at Scott Logic, and before this she was a Senior Civil Servant at Government Digital Service, part of the Cabinet Office, where she developed the UK government’s digital identity service and led the Platforms & Services teams in GDS, running digital products used by departments in thousands of services across government (including GOV.UK Notify, GOV.UK Pay, Platform-as-a-Service and the Design System). Alongside this, Jess led GDS’s work to export digital best practice and technical assistance overseas with international partners.

Jessica McEvoy specialises in providing strategy, leadership and delivery in complex programmes and organisations around the world. Jess has been designing, building and running technology platforms and digital services for departments across government and internationally for almost 20 years.

Over the years this career journey has seen Jess grow from holding junior roles in the analysis space to senior strategy and product roles, and then on to working with politicians and leaders around the world and running teams of hundreds of people.

Cara is an associate in Baker McKenzie's Technology team. Cara's practice focuses on advising on product counsel, regulatory, data protection and consumer law issues. She regularly acts for clients in the new media sector, including platforms, on intermediary liability, intellectual property law and regulatory issues. Cara has spent time on secondment working at a global technology company.

Catherine is an associate in Baker McKenzie's Intellectual Property team. Catherine advises clients on IP protection, brand protection and IP enforcement matters. She has obtained significant industry experience having spent time on secondment at a multinational FMCG company and multinational technology company.

Tamara is an associate in Baker McKenzie's Data Protection and Cyber team. Tamara has experience advising clients across technology, online media, music, e-commerce and other sectors on a variety of data protection, privacy, product counselling and direct marketing matters. Tamara has experience in legal design, including winning the World Commerce & Contracting EMEA Personal Initiative Award for her work implementing legal design with lawyers and with clients.

Erica (she/her) is the SVP of Marketing & Partnerships at Hired, the leading job marketplace building long-lasting relationships between tech talent and employers. Erica has held marketing and finance leadership positions in technology marketplaces including Zulily and MealPal. She started her career in banking at J.P. Morgan primarily advising sports, media, and technology companies.

Erica is passionate about bridging the STEM education gap in underserved communities as math and data analytics have been critical to her success in gaining leadership roles in finance and technology. She has served and supported a variety of non-profits including TechBridge Girls, ADA Developers Academy, and Step Up Women’s Network. She's also a member of the women's executive leadership network Chief and global community for high-growth leaders Pavilion.

Fun Fact: Erica recently recorded her first podcast interview where she shared her experience with imposter syndrome throughout her career. Take a listen here. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0REbnebVI0lokqsmz6r6Sq?si=20afac60d8234173&nd=1

Cicely is a Lead Data Scientist at Spotify specialising in using machine learning to detect fraudulent payments. She studied maths at university and has been working in data science ever since. Over three years ago, she found herself in the exciting world of fraud detection and has been working in this field ever since. She currently leads a team of data scientists working to keep Spotify and their customers safe from fraudsters.

Alison has worked in IT her whole career, mostly in financial organisations. Building on twenty years in the Service Management field she moved into IT Programme Management for 8 years and the last two years have been spent setting up and helping run a FinOps function at Lloyds Banking Group. She is a Certified FinOps Practitioner and studying towards the FinOps Certified Professional qualification. She became an ambassador for the Fin Ops Foundation in August and loves to share her journey and bring the story of FinOps to life.

Fun Fact: A few years ago I set up and ran my own part time business making bespoke hats.

Mila is Deliveroo's Senior Machine Learning Manager looking after our algorithmic decision making across Forecasting, Consumer Pricing, Item recommendations and Trust. She has over 10 years of experience developing end-to-end ML solutions from conception to deployment in production systems and leading global cross-functional initiatives across various domains.

Her experience ranges from CRM optimisation, promotion personalisation and app advertisement at Booking to fraud prevention and process optimisation across retail and logistics at Apple.

Her global experience working and living across US, Europe and Asia, coupled with a big passion for travel outside of work, has really shaped her view on the importance of diversity as a driver for innovation and creativity.

She is very passionate about building and developing diverse high-performing teams by cultivating trust and fostering continuous personal development.

Madhu is an Engineering Manager at Deliveroo and leads the fight against fraud and abuse across the three sides of the marketplace. She has over two decade's experience in solving technical and challenging problems across telecommunication, finance and the education sector.

Her global experience living and working across Europe and Asia ranges from launching brand new lending products to digitising the telecom industry and scaling products to billions of users at Capital One.

She's a role model and a mentor to many women across the industry and is constantly looking to improve the representation of women in tech with a focus on shifting perceptions of what it takes to be a leader in Tech.

As a career-driven mum of two young girls, Madhu strongly believes in diversity and encourages more women to take up Engineering roles. She's an active member of the Women in Tech community at Deliveroo and tries to tackle this issue at the grass roots level by speaking at schools and encouraging more girls to get into STEM.

Ana is currently leading the CMS (content management system - developers) team at Vodafone UK. She has over 5 years experience in software development and is passionate about mentoring and helping others learn. She started her career in IBM Romania moving after 2 years to England and working with amazing developers from Gousto and Vodafone.

Ana has been working as a Software engineer for over 5 years making a move to management in the past months while staying close to the code. She has been using Contentful for the past year( Initially as a side project then in Vodafone UK as the CMS solution ) and will share with you how you can benefit from using it.

Professional experience:

In depth security program implementation and management across the business, extensive experience in designing strategic plans, process improvements, planning and implementation of new compliance requirements and consolidation of multiple security frameworks. Significant experience in risk management through threat and vulnerability analysis based on recognised industry standards in alignment with business goals, supporting business transformation as a result.

Extensive experience of system auditing and implementations of security frameworks, such as ISO27001, NIST, PCI DSS. SOC2 readiness and implementation company wide.

Hobbies:

• Martial arts: Learning Krav Maga (self-defence) since the beginning of 2018 and achieved the 5th grade within the skills system (blue belt, with brown and black belts to follow).Started teaching Krav Maga at the club level since the end of 2021 and became an official Krav Maga instructor in July 2022. Started developing active combat skills by getting trained in Muay Thai (kick boxing) since May 2022.
• Scuba diving: A certified diver since 2018 and advanced open water diver since 2019. 50 logged dives to date with max depth of 35 meters around many beautiful and exciting locations doing reef dives, drift dives, wreck exploration and night dives.

Mo is currently working as a product manager for the data science & analytics platforms team at bp.

Joining bp in 2011 from DHL Express UK where he was an IT Programme Office and Change Manager, he started as a Performance Lead and has fulfilled PMO lead, Data Architect and Data Science lead roles.

Early in his career Mo was a Systems Analyst and Programmer and moved to Project Management and on to running PMOs for telecoms and Government accounts. His passion lies in using technology to simplify the way we work. Spending more time talking to people and understanding their perspectives, and working towards a common goal.

Outside of work, Mo is an Independent Assessor for L4 Data Analysts, leads reading and discussion groups for Data Science meetups and supports his three daughters.

Chris currently acts as the product manager for the ML Ops framework. This project provides a secure, standardised method for deploying Data Science infrastructure in the cloud.

Having worked for bp for 17 years, since graduation, Chris joined bp as a drilling engineer working both offshore and in a technology role specialising in wellbore pressure interpretation.

In 2013, Chris took the decision to re-skill in data science and, since 2014, has pursued various data science roles within bp, including a secondment to the bp start-up LYTT in 2018 and a data science team lead role in 2019.

Outside of work he enjoys a whole series of low tech hobbies including karate, which he does with his son and daughter, woodworking – and after retiring hopes to start a bladesmithing forge.

Olga comes from an academic background having completed her PhD at Imperial College London. After leaving academia, she has worked as a Data Scientist in a range of industries: from large infrastructure, to defence, to financial services. Olga joined Smart one and a half years ago to help shape data science applications in the pensions industry.

Fun Fact: I love travelling and have a few adventures to show for it. Top three: got bit by a scorpio, almost got head-butted by a shark while diving and a mountain gorilla almost snatched my husbands phone (not quite mine but I was there).

Went from being a Data Analyst to a Product Manager inside of loveholidays.

Working for the supply team at loveholidays, so that we can ensure we always have more than enough variety of flights and hotels for our customers to choose from!

Being a product manager has been a fascinating experience so far - every skill that you ever have can be put to use and there's more to learn all the time. It's a great opportunity to interact with the commercial side of the business as well as the technical side. I wouldn't be talking specific to my role if I say I have the autonomy to own things and bring new ideas on board - it's one of the best things at loveholidays!

Science graduate turned Software Engineer via an intensive bootcamp. Curious by nature and always on the run (quite literally!)
Currently working for the search team at loveholidays, where we help customers search for and find their perfect holiday.

To be a good all around Software Engineer I think it's important to own your work and not just tick off boxes/tasks. And as part of a cross-functional team, consisting of engineers, designers, product managers and data analysts - I really feel like I get to own things outside my comfort zone while getting the support I need from my team members in doing so.

Fun Fact: I used to be a professional athlete (playing floorball, perhaps you haven't heard of it, but it's similar to ice hockey, minus the ice!)

Fatima Dowlet is a Propositions Partner at Channel 4 with over 20 years of experience in TV, Digital, and Ad Tech. She has a strong entrepreneurial drive to increase revenues and drive sales and profit performance while building motivated and committed teams. She also has extensive experience with working with customers, commercial teams, project management, and product teams to bring new products into being while ensuring customers receive the highest level of service available.

Kim works at the intersection of sustainability, innovation, purpose, strategy, technology and change. At EY she is the UK sustainability innovation leader and sustainability lead for the consumer products and retail sector.

Prior to this role, Kim was EY wavespaceTM leader for the UK, EY's network of centres helping clients solve their most complex strategic challenges. She launched a new centre in London, also the sustainability centre of excellence for the network. Previously Kim led EY's UK cross-firm innovation unit, charged with helping clients navigate technology disruption, and disrupting EY itself.

Kim has also spent time in the tech industry at Tech Nation, the Government-backed organisation that supports the growth of tech in the UK. At Tech Nation Kim was Senior Policy Advisor to Baroness Shields in her then role as the Prime Minister's Digital Economy Advisor, building programmes aimed at increasing foreign direct investment into UK technology businesses.

Claudia is the lead of the Women in Tech Network at PA Consulting. Under her leadership the network has recently won the award for Best WiT Network in the UK, and has grown to a community of over 850 people. Claudia is passionate about advising clients transforming their operating model for stronger agility, in order to deliver faster, better and cheaper solutions to clients. She recently combined her knowledge about agile and diversity, equity and inclusion to deliver a innovative talk at the Europe-renowned Agile on The Beach Conference.

Over the last few months, Claudia has led the development of PA Consulting’s new Gender Diversity in STEM research – she is excited to talk to all of you about the great findings and explore them further together.

Rakiya is a Systems Engineering Product Manager at the International Film Studio Framestore, bringing the next generation of VFX Technology and movie-making magic to life. A certified Product Owner, a Google Women Techmakers Ambassador and part of the Black Product Managers Europe Leadership Team.

Rakiya has always been fascinated by technology, but also intrigued by the rapidly evolving role of business innovation in diffusing new technologies into the global economy. Rakiya previously worked at Homeppl, a startup within the Fintech space, creating products that promote financial inclusion, and before coming to Framestore, worked within the Product Innovation team at Arup, where she supported the development of digital products from ideation to launch.

As well as fostering innovation and inclusion through her work with Framestore, Rakiya is a mentor at Stemettes and AppsforGood, working to grow the future of marginalised genders in STEM studies and across the Technology sector.

Tonea is a Scrum Master in Systems Engineering. She is responsible for helping teams deliver value using Agile principles and practices, working across technical areas such as Cloud, Networking and Storage (to name a few).

Lor (Lorna Dannielle Dumba) has been a rising voice in shaping and stewarding the visions of founders/boards/executive leaders in the visual emerging technologies fields. This has been crafted from nearly two decades of experience drawing in high level strategic insights founded on helping organisations transform how they turn stories into valued visual products.

The Academy / BAFTA and Emmy Award bodies have recognised the team efforts of projects she has been at the helm of delivering world class visual content for studios, brands and other entertainment entities on their biggest intellectual properties.

She has been constantly inspired by the work she does and the people she does that with, and she is not afraid to share it. Whether that be via her near 20k downloaded podcast or through being invited to speak at panels within industry and across the technology, startup and venture capital spaces.

With 15 years experience working across Engineering and Technology companies, Aine is responsible for the execution of Trayport's integration strategies as part of its M&A pillar. She facilitates systems alignment and fosters greater collaboration across locations to propel current and future acquisition strategies. She also heads up Global Technical Client Management and Consultancy teams. With a degree in Geography, Town Planning and Environmental policy and a post graduate in Organisational Change which allowed her to work with government agencies in the execution of specific change projects.

Fun Fact: Aine plays traditional Irish music and likes to compete in competitions with her band.

Erika has worked in several different roles within financial services over the past 14 years. Up until recently, leading software and IT project delivery teams before moving into a client and business development role. Throughout her career, Erika has sought out opportunities that involve working with other people, especially customers, and solving strategically valuable business problems.

Fun Fact: Erika used to practice Aerial Silks 5-6 days a week and has competed and placed first in a UK regional competition qualifier.

Matt is an IT professional with 20 years of broad IT experience in the retail, manufacturing, telecommunications, recycling, and financial technology industries.

At Trayport Matt has worked on infrastructure technologies such as networking, storage, compute, virtualization, and reverse proxies. His current role is focused on ensuring Trayport are architecting their solutions in ways that align with the company strategies.

Fun Fact: Matt has discovered owning a 3D printer means you make a lot of useless trinkets, with the occasional functional object.

Madelynn is passionate about leading high-performing teams while advocating for wellbeing and diversity in the workplace. She is currently based in Amsterdam after moving from New Zealand to join Uber over 5 years ago. During her time at Uber, she led various central program teams focusing on both EMEA strategy and operations. She has now joined TikTok at the start of 2022 as their EMEA Head of Trust and Safety Operations, heading up their new Amsterdam office.

Madelynn has also received her education from the University of Otago in New Zealand, Bayes Business School in London, Harvard Executive Education and Yale School of Management. She is also a member of the Institute of Directors and has experience being on non-profit boards.

Madelynn specialises in driving optimised efficiency and alignment across teams, and those who have worked with her describe her leadership style as approachable, resilient, empathetic, and bold. Between juggling her career, part-time study, and motherhood, she loves to mentor and coach professionals looking to switch or develop their career paths.

Shani Dhanda is one of the UK's highest-profile and most influential disability activists and a multi-award-winning inclusion specialist, working with global companies, broadcasters and the UK government to break barriers and integrate intersectional inclusion and accessibility into their frameworks.

As an influential woman in leadership and social entrepreneur, Shani has taken change into her own hands and founded numerous organisations to improve representation and challenge social inequality globally - Diversability, Asian Woman Festival, and Asian Disability Network.

Shani has been recognised with over 21 awards for her inclusion and activism work.

Jo has led as Aire Logic's head of human resources and internal communication for the last two and a half years. She is passionate about building strategies and initiatives focused on solving business and people challenges.

Jo holds over 14 years of experience in various roles across several healthtech companies. However, she found her calling when she was offered the chance to work at the heart of a tech-for-good, low hierarchy company, actively influencing organisational change and developing and implementing innovative ways to engage employees.

Fun Fact: Jo is passionate about fitness and taking part in charity sports events. She will participate in the Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon in May 2023.

Natalya Sverjensky is Head of Leadership & Impact at Academy, a company that is creating pathways into tech for diverse graduates with non-traditional backgrounds. Natalya is building Academy's global workplace community into the world's foremost network of next generation leaders, empowering early career talent to learn and progress in their tech careers.

Fun Fact: Prior to joining Academy, Natalya built and scaled three global consultancies delivering talent, culture and leadership solutions to the tech industry. She is the architect of leadership development programmes and teams that have trained over 3,000 leaders at companies across Europe and North America including Bloomberg, Breather, McCann Worldgroup and Daily Harvest.

Nicola is currently working in the AI and Data Science field as Head of Quality Engineering.

Nicola is passionate about increasing diversity and inclusion in software engineering. She mentors and coaches professionals wanting to either change or develop their careers. She is a volunteer mentor and Inclusion Officer for the British Computer Society (BCS), a BCS Council member and committee team member for their Special Interest Group in Software Testing (SIGiST), BCS Pride and BCSWomen specialist groups. She is also a professional member of the Women’s Engineering Society (WES).

She is a speaker and takes part in panel discussions and has over 20 years' experience in tech. She speaks at global conferences focusing on quality, testing, diversity in tech and mentoring.

Fun Fact: Nicola is included in the Computer Weekly 2022 Long List for Most Influential Women in UK Tech and was a CW Women in Tech Rising Star in 2021.

I'm Lydia and I had the dubious honour of having been name-checked in Techcrunch earlier this year for simply being "also a woman".

After over a decade as a design and innovation consultant, my career has had a somewhat surprising second act, working at some of the UK's most successful tech-enabled companies - including onefinestay, Tails and Deliveroo - in a range of service design, research and user experience roles.

Most recently, I've joined the cost of living champion Nous.co because I want to help restore tech's reputation and prove that it can be a force for good in making people's lives simpler and fairer. More specifically, I want to help households navigate the cost of living crisis that's barrelling towards all of us.

Fun Fact: I was once locked inside a McDonalds in Blackpool with both Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey.

Over the last four years I have worked in, built and managed several successful cross functional teams. My experience in these teams has led me to develop a keen interest in the key factors of a successful team.

Fun Fact: I had my 15 minutes of fame as a child on the Teletubbies.

I've worked in teams my whole life, from sports teams in school to tech teams at work. I currently evolve how people work and engage at work in order to make AND the best place to work.

Fun Fact: I was an extra in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

The time spent working for various sectors taught me what good and bad looks like when it comes to team effectiveness. This is why I try to understand team dynamics and motivators when engaging with different teams.

Fun Fact: I love learning new languages (5 at the moment).

Jacklynn is a Research Program Manager at DeepMind (owned by Google). Jacklynn has had a diverse career background with over 11 years of project management experience across multiple industries and continents. She started her career in Canada working for a social services charity as a Clinical Case Manager to help individuals living with multiple diagnoses, criminality, and conflict with the law. To further her leadership and operational skills, she took a leap and moved to the UK to study business administration full time. This move from work to study intercontinentally formed the basis from which she learned to move into other domains, and eventually lead her to move outside of nonprofit organisations and into IT developing apps. The transition was transformative and inspired two further transitions during a highly transformative year for us all (2020), becoming a British Army reservist and entering the field of AI research with DeepMind.

Fun Fact: Jacklynn is a self-reported "Agile nerd". She believes strongly in the power and transferability of the Agile mindset and practices across industries (and in one’s personal life). She has led the creation of a number of materials for DeepMind and the British Army, even designing and delivering a 2-day workshop for the army's first data team during the lockdown in 2021 and a book manuscript for bringing Agile to non-profits.

Zahra Ahmed is a Program Manager in AI Research, she leads programs on safety, reliability and trustworthiness at DeepMind, an Alphabet company. Zahra’s goal is to enable cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact, responsible work. She co-founded (and led) the Employee Group for People of Colour, and is focussed on cultivating inclusivity and promoting voices of underrepresented groups.

Zahra believes these perspectives are essential to achieve "safety" in AI. Before DeepMind, she worked at Girl Effect (a Nike Foundation organisation), embedding operations across London, Africa and Asia. Based in London, Zahra is a trained NLP practitioner and Scrum Master, and holds a BSc in Biomedical Sciences from Durham University.

Sarah Hodkinson is an experienced Program Manager, coach and strategist. In her current role, Sarah leads the program management across Information and Operational Security at DeepMind, an Alphabet company.

Sarah is driven by enabling high-performing, resilient and collaborative teams. She is passionate about increasing the representation of women and underrepresented groups in the technology industry and has co-founded and now co-leads the Women at DeepMind Employee Resource group. Prior to her position at DeepMind, Sarah led program initiatives across a variety of NGOs and for the Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Based in London, Sarah is a qualified coach, holds a BA from Middlesex University and has undertaken further study across Race and Gender studies at Goldsmith University of London.

I am a Transformation & Digital Enabler, Business Strategist and Innovator, who will challenge the status quo. I am mother of two and coach also.

Like most of you, I started my career as software engineer/consultant and had privileged to work across the world both in private sector (Finance, Pharmaceuticals, Large and Small SIs) and Public Sector (GDS, HO, DWP, MOD and HMRC). In my journey, I love to identify, qualify & implement enabling technologies and enterprise systems that creates business value. My key asset is to bring together the powerful blend of technology vision and business acumen results in consistent development of clear business strategies supported by cost- effective, high-performance IT infrastructures and applications.

My values: IT people delivering IT; Investment in people; Corporate Social Responsibility.

My interests: Outside work, my key interests are working with Children in STEM Education, working with NGOs, travelling and building trust and relationship across world.

I believe: In Life, Change is inevitable. In Business, Change is Vital – Evolve and Learn.

Rebecca Reed is currently an Engineering Manager at Zoopla helping mentor and coach a team of frontend engineers to build new high quality customer facing experiences. After graduating from the University of Bristol with a masters degree in Computer Science, Rebecca started her career as a frontend software engineer working in digital consultancies.

Rebecca was given first hand experience within a variety of different industries such as finance, advertising and telecommunications, which has helped her develop her knowledge of building software at scale. Throughout her career, Rebecca has enjoyed helping grow engineers in her team and working with external organisations to help promote STEM subjects as well as coach women into becoming engineers and furthering their career in engineering.

Fun Fact: Rebecca has danced in the DisneyLand Paris parade.

Katie was awarded the Santander W50 Emerging Leaders Programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has also completed a certification with The Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania in Global Trends for Business and Society.

Previously to this, Katie worked at consulting firm Gartner, with global technology brands such as AWS, BT, Cisco, EE, Google, IBM, KPMG, Microsoft, Verizon and Vodafone and held various marketing and communications roles both agency and brand side.

She graduated from Oxford Brookes University with a BA Hons in Business Strategy and Management.

After 25 years at John Lewis in a variety of leadership roles, designing and developing physical stores, Fiona decided to make a complete career change 18 months ago, stepping into the world of digital. Determined to challenge herself and learn about the growing online arm of the business, she joined the John Lewis omni-channel team as a Product Manager, a move she describes as the most terrifying of her career, but also the most developmental and rewarding.

As a Product Manager, she leads a team re-imagining the growing challenge of returns orchestration and management across John Lewis. Working across both a digital platform and a complex tech stack, in a cross-functional, physical-digital environment - Fiona and the team are focused on keeping promises to customers and delivering business value against a challenging and ever changing retail landscape.

Fiona is a mum of 2 teenagers and lives with her husband Northamptonshire. She enjoys spending time outdoors with their labrador 'Mr Ghyll' and renovating their 1930's home.

With over 10 years of experience as a Product Engineer working across many domains within John Lewis, Jo has recently embarked into the world of Product at Waitrose where she is responsible for the direction and vision of Waitrose Recipes, Cellar and Florist websites.

For Jo, it's all about collaboration, building great relationships and trust and these are principles she continues to embed day by day. Jo remembers fondly being one of the only females on her Computing degree in Newcastle, and as a result, she is passionate about representing women in the workplace and encouraging girls to get into coding.

Solange Sobral is a Partner and Executive Vice President at CI&T. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Universidade Federal de São Carlos and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from UNICAMP, a leading university in Latin America. Solange is a proud mother of three children. She currently leads the CI&T operations in EMEA, promoting innovation and digital transformation for large organisations.

In addition, Solange leads the company's global ESG committee and supports the creation of humanised and inclusive management programs. She is a passionate proponent of Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace and has dedicated herself to illustrating both the cultural and business value of an inclusive workplace.

Fun Fact: Solange leads digital transformation initiatives by day, but after hours she leads a simple life walking in London’s many parks, hosting simple meals with her loved ones, and collecting cookbooks from around the world.

As Director for Avanade, Josie leads the strategy, performance and growth of the Artificial Intelligence & IOT offering in the UK & Ireland. Responsible for driving innovation, vision and developing Avanades capability in cutting edge technologies, Josie has a renowned skill in simplifying complexity and offering unconventional thought to the world of tech.

In 2019, whilst on a break from the corporate ladder, Josie became the founder of She Flies Extreme Sports, a global social enterprise that makes women the default and redefines what it means to be a female Kitesurfer, Surfer, Mountain Biker and more.

Josie's unique blend of experience has enabled her to better understand the elegant strength, uniqueness and incredible capability of women in tech, business and sport.

Through coaching and her leadership, she exposes Women to their superpowers, driving diversity of thought in cultures where, she believes every voice is required for success.

Avanade, founded by Accenture and Microsoft as a joint venture in 2000, drives diversity from the top down with CEO Pam Maynard at the helm. Within the organisation, Josie is widely known for her compassionate leadership, intimate coaching and powerful speaking and we are proud to introduce her to the main stage at the Women of Silicon Roundabout event.

I am a Tech Lead at the Office for National Statistics, with extensive experience leading digital transformation projects and building open data publishing capabilities. Being from a non-traditional tech background and a woman in STEM, I'm also an outspoken advocate for diversity and inclusivity in teams, with a focus on inclusive hiring practices.

Kelly Gallagher manages the Product Delivery team at MMT Digital, a digital consultancy and design and build agency. She leads the team of Product Owners, Consultants and Scrum Masters working with clients to plan strategic digital transformation and build accessible, sustainable and composable products.

Alongside building great products and being an Agile Evangelist, Kelly is passionate about finding and developing talent, believing that Product Development is a field in which anyone, regardless of background, can excel, as success here is about how someone thinks and not necessarily about what they’ve been taught. She is a panelist and speaker for events focusing on Women and minority communities in technology.

At home, she’s a gardener and Philadelphia Eagles fan, and spends most of her spare time chasing after the Snack Thieves: her Basset Hound, Oscar and his partner in crime, her two-year-old son.

Fun Fact: Kelly is a keen Archer and shoots a recurve bow with some confidence. This is a fact she chooses not to share when Archery is an activity team building days.

Eleanor is a Lead Machine Learning Scientist at ASOS.com. She leads the Pricing AI team, and is passionate about causal machine learning, decision making systems, and engineering design for production and R&D.

She has a PhD from University College London, and worked at Deliveroo, Facebook and Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining ASOS.

Outside of work Eleanor enjoys dancing and lifting weights.

Kay Lack leads the education team at the software engineering school Makers. Her mission is to dramatically shorten the time it takes to learn highly valuable skills.

Fun Fact: I'm currently rewatching the original Sabrina the Teenage Witch.

Danielle is a Lead QA Engineer in the Reliability Engineering Platform at ASOS.com. She has been at ASOS for over 8 years having worked in various teams starting as a hands-on automation engineer in Browse and Personalisation to now managing a team of engineers in Enterprise Operations.

She is passionate about effective path to live processes and reducing risk to Production, is responsible for the non-Production test environments, coaching teams on shift-left testing and increasing availability.

Outside of work Danielle runs a small business designing hats which started during the first Covid-19 lockdown and was nominated for Young Entrepreneur of the Year. She also enjoys volunteering for a dog rescue and loves gardening.

Stephanie is a Senior Software Engineer in the Order Management team at ASOS, working closely with a talented agile development team.

Her main responsibilities include designing and building high quality software, which is used by our customers at ASOS through the lifecycle of an order, such as when an order is placed, cancelled and dispatched. This involves working with the latest technologies, including .NET Core, Docker, Azure Functions and CosmosDB just to name a few.

Outside of work Stephanie enjoys Spin and BodyAttack classes at the gym and spending as much time as possible with her two house rabbits.

Sarah is a self taught Senior Software Engineer with vast amount of experience and knowledge of the Order Management domain at ASOS. Sarah's career path of becoming a .NET software engineer started over 4 years ago when deciding to switch things up from her previous role at ASOS as a Senior Support Analyst, in which Sarah acquired many skills on how ASOS worked as a business. She decided to take the plunge and move across to Order Management where, through perseverance and determination, she learnt everything she knows today.

Her team are responsible for providing innovative and friction-free tech solutions for global customers and a first-class order management proposition with the ability to place, track and return an order anytime, anywhere.

Outside of work Sarah enjoys working out, cooking, taking holidays with friends & family and of course spending time with her dog.

Amrish is a Principal Solutions Architect at ASOS.com. He is currently leading a team of architects designing a highly distributed and scalable microservice architecture for a rapidly growing business. Having first been introduced to coding at a young age, Amrish has continued to do what he loves and has gained over 15 years of architecture and engineering experience working in industries such as Fintech, Broadcasting & Retail. 

Amrish is an active participant in the wider tech communities at ASOS.com which deliver guidance and best practices on how they should build APIs or document architecture.

Outside of work Amrish enjoys spending time with friends and family, playing sports and giving time as a volunteer at the #neasdentemple in London.

Hayley is a Platform Lead within the Web Platform at ASOS, which is made up of various levels of Web engineers and QA engineers, all of whom build and maintain the ASOS customer experience. After previous roles at Ted Baker, the Financial Ombudsman Service and Dnata Travel Hayley started out as a Business Analyst at ASOS just over 4 years ago and is passionate about helping other women in tech get promoted into more senior roles.

As a Platform Lead, Hayley's main responsibilities are leading, building and scaling high-performing engineering teams, as well as the delivery of new customer-facing and technical features.

Outside of work Hayley enjoys exercising and has proudly completed 4 marathons.

Victoria is a Senior Consultant at Deloitte. She is experienced in the delivery of complex digital transformation programmes across multiple industries, notably Financial Services. Victoria is an advocate for driving agility, flexibility and collaboration. Having a natural curiosity to understand different cultures, Victoria connects with individuals from all walks of life. She fosters an inclusive environment to remove barriers and ensures every voice is heard.

3 Descriptors: Dancer. Collaborator. Travel Enthusiast.

Coralie Marie Bessette is a Transformation Writer in Deloitte Digital’s Storytelling Studio led by Caroline Hooley. Her unwavering curiosity and candid interest in understanding how and why things work has led her to storytelling – the root of change.

She guides clients in crafting and curating their narrative using the Studio’s custom Storytelling for Transformation accelerator. Coralie has eight years of global experience acquired from a range of agencies and institutions such as Tate and The Economist.

She holds a unique perspective of the common threads and distinct differences across industries, having experienced first-hand large digital, structural and brand transformations. Familiar with change from the ground up, she’s comfortable asking the hard questions knowing that they shape the most effective stories of change.

Kat Heath is Trinny London's Senior Technical Product Manager and manages the development, delivery and strategy of internal tooling working with an in-house development team and range of external parties to enable teams across the business.

Kat has worked across a range of companies and industries including Comic Relief, Ovo and Cazoo and now Trinny London.

Camila Casquilho is a Tech Lead in Applied Machine Learning at Yelp, working on developing large scale machine learning systems for ads products. Prior to Yelp, Camila built machine learning predictive tools to help farmers sustainably increase their productivity. Camila holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of British Columbia.

Ayushi is a passionate technologist working as a Digital specialist with Digital McKinsey. She has core expertise in Cloud and Software engineering. She has led engineering teams to deliver innovative digital products and platforms for clients across various sectors and geographies. She has led capability building for clients and internal teams.

Fun Fact: Enjoys making Indian sweets and plans to open an Indian sweet shop someday.

As Lead QA Engineer at Immediate Media, Nitzan works with QAs across the engineering teams to ensure the high-quality and speedy delivery of Fabric. Our digital platform is used by millions of users to access our special interest content from brands including BBC Good Food and Radio Times across web, app and voice.

Nitzan has a wealth of experience in tech – both in the public and private sectors, from defense and telecom, to banking and media. She is passionate about designing and leading continuous testing strategy, while also empowering people development and team-driven ownership of the quality lifecycle.

Graham is a Solutions Architect at Immediate Media. He works across our engineering teams to build and maintain Fabric. Our digital platform is used by millions of users to access our special interest content from brands including BBC Good Food and Radio Times across web, app and voice.

Starting in front-end development, Graham has extensive agency and in-house experience, along with a wide breadth of knowledge across the business. He enjoys ensuring Fabric's architecture remains modern, flexible and performant, while always supporting teams to collaborate on solving complex problems in an exciting, ever-changing industry.

Emma Hardern is a Fraud Data Scientist at Spotify. She has been working in Fraud Data Science for over 2 years now and has been with Spotify since May 2022. She initially graduated from University with a degree in Psychology and then followed her passion for data completing my MSc in Data Science in 2019.

Software Engineer at Deliveroo for 10 months, I'm very interested in getting women and underrepresented groups involved in tech and I love to learn about new technologies and how we can effectively use them in our work!

Fun Fact: I have a dog called Bear who acts like a cat and has an Instagram of exclusively yawning photos (@sleepyboybear)

I've been involved in Contact Centre and Help automation for over 4 years, and have used (and abused!) various Google, Twilio, and AWS AI & Machine Learning tools for that period; intent detection, sentiment analysis, image analysis, voice fingerprinting, you name it, I've helped integrate it into a Support process at some point!

Fun Fact: My own colour-shifting :partykingy: Slack emoji has followed me through 4 companies, and I'm told is still in use when people cause an outage at my previous places of work!

Pavithra Srinath currently works as a Staff Data Scientist at The Trade Desk AI lab and is also pursuing a PhD in Statistics at Imperial College London. She previously worked as a senior data scientist as part of the Reinforcement Learning group at Microsoft Research in New York. In a previous life, she also worked as a Software Engineer for database products at Oracle.

Her background is in Computer Science and Operations Research, and she is currently exploring challenges that involve sequential decision making in noisy environments such as in computational advertising. She is passionate about driving interactions between academia and industry as well as promoting diversity and inclusion everywhere, especially in STEM and academia.

Lilian is an award-winning Software Engineer at Infinity Works, Part of Accenture. She is passionate about cloud computing and enjoys building scalable cloud infrastructure suited for solving business challenges more efficiently. She is enthusiastic about sharing the benefits of cloud technology with others, to inspire them to get involved in designing or building sustainable tech solutions in the cloud.

Lilian was recently awarded a Women in Software Power List winner by Makers in London for outstanding personal achievement within the software industry and acting as a role model for future generations.

Outside of work Lilian actively gives back to the community through mentoring career switchers, mostly women from diverse cultural and social backgrounds, supporting them with confidence-building and self-promotion needed to excel in a tech career.

Fun Fact: Lilian has a bachelor's degree in Agriculture and a master's degree in food security with over 2 years of work experience before deciding to switch careers to tech and now supporting other women through their career switch journey.

Connect with Lilian on YouTube @TheLilianChinelo.

Beth Clarke is an Astrophysicist turned Software Engineer working at Capgemini Engineering's High Integrity Software Expertise Centre. Her work involved developing and testing bespoke safety critical software that keeps people safe in their everyday lives. Beth joined Capgemini Engineering in 2019, and has worked on a range of projects producing software for the rail, scientific research and satellite communications sectors. Her enthusiasm and expertise in her field led to her recognition as one of the top female engineers in the UK as a finalist in the IET's 2020 Young Woman Engineer of the Year awards, and being recognised as a Rising Star of Women in Technology by Computer Weekly in 2021.

In my role as a consultant for GlobalLogic, I've worked with everything from greenfield development to maintaining and further developing existing environments. Projects include developing APIs to give a modern interface to on-prem services and managing a platform for Data & Analytics product teams. Working closely with the client teams, we focus our designs on clear interfaces, to make it easier in the future to swap one tool for another, and instil DevOps mindsets to continuously learn from the data we see. Whether our implementation is a time-boxed greenfield development or an on-going platform development, letting curiosity seek out stability improvements remains one of my main drivers.

Fun Fact: Some of my best holidays have been whilst crewing for friends during their ultra-running races and adventures.

I am a Test Architect with over 16 years of work experience in QA. Currently, I am a Practice Lead for a customer via Global Logic. I aim to continuously develop and enable teams with best practices and industry standards on the latest tools, helping people test better. I specialize in assisting enterprises to optimize their QA strategies to make testing a value-add, not a liability.

I am a very passionate Women in Tech advocate and have spoken at many colleges/organizations and conferences to bring awareness and encourage the next generation of girls to embrace technology.

Sydney Ng joins us from TikTok, where she currently works as a Zero Trust Engineer. Coming from a background of Site Reliability Engineering, she aims to build scalable and sustainable security infrastructure and works with her team to build one of the world’s largest Zero Trust Deployments.

Fatima is a graduate from the University of Waterloo, Canada. Post graduation, she's worked full-time as a Software Developer at DRW, a trading firm and currently works at Yelp as a Software Engineer.

Marina joined the Guardian in August 2022 and currently works as the Data Privacy Compliance Manager and leads the Compliance Framework within the Privacy Team. Before joining the Guardian, she was an academic researcher on privacy, including its intersection with computer science research, before moving to the private sector and most recently leading the Incident Module at OneTrust, shortly after coordinating the Privacy Team of Tesla. She holds an LLM from Tilburg University and is CIPP/E and CIPM certified.

Alejandra Maldonado is a simulation engineer with more than ten years of experience in the automotive industry. An enthusiastic supporter of female empowerment in STEM, she started her career in 2011 by working at the Mexican office of the American OEM Chrysler. Utilising simulation and mathematical models (Computer Aided Engineering [CAE]), Alejandra worked on several projects to optimise the design and reduce costs of chassis and suspension parts. For several years, she was the only female member of the high-skilled technical team. Alejandra developed training materials for her CAE team.

Later in her career, she moved to a Japanese automotive safety device company where she helped build a high-performance engineering team that provided solutions for the US office. During her time at Ford, Alejandra optimised parts and improved processes. Her cost-savings achievements for the next generation of vehicles brought recognition from the global engineering director. Currently, she works at Jaguar Land Rover in England as a simulation lifecycle management specialist. She is helping the company to make the simulation process more efficient and agile. Alejandra has mentored several female engineering students and inspired them to be more confident working in a male-dominated environment.

Sophie McGrath is "one of the best VC lawyers in the market" (Legal 500). Ms. McGrath has over 20 years’ experience focusing on transactions in the technology and life sciences sectors, acting for companies at all stages of development, as well as investors and management teams.

Ms. McGrath is passionate about promoting and supporting women in the Technology and Life Sciences sectors and acts for an impressive roster of women led companies such as Joanna Dai, Thymia, Micrographia and Jeito, the first women led life sciences focused venture capital fund.

Ms. McGrath is described by Legal 500 as having "unbeatable knowledge and experience, especially in the life sciences and technology industries" and by Chambers as applying a "very commercial" approach to deals.

Ms. McGrath is shortlisted as Legal Advisor of the Year at the Women in Finance Awards 2022.

Elizabeth Rhodes has over 10 years' experience advising companies and their investors on a broad range of corporate matters, with a particular focus on venture capital and M&A transactions in the technology and life sciences sectors.

Elizabeth is consistently recognised by Legal 500 UK in the Venture Capital and Corporate & Commercial Cambridge categories. The most recent edition of The Legal 500 UK recognises her as a 'Next Generation Partner' and includes testimonials in which clients commend Elizabeth for her 'truly exceptional ability – she is technical, commercial, cool headed and strategic.'

In Sept 2019, Lisa Gibbons went from Head of Digital Marketing at a successful start-up, to new mother, to looking for a sense of direction in the midst of a global pandemic. Stumbling upon the world of Blockchain provided the most refreshing way to look at the world. In blockchain she found that all of the doors were open to her and every opportunity to be her creative, innovative self was welcomed with open arms. Lisa is a passionate blockchain professional with a love for all things crypto, art, blockchain, education and sustainability.

She writes for numerous publications, including Euronews, Benzinga, Cryptoslate, Blockleaders and Blocktelegraph. She founded Orchardsnearme.com, a platform dedicated to wild food foraging and sustainable food distribution.

After learning about the leading women in blockchain Lisa teamed up with acclaimed journalist Jillian Godsil to run her Blockleaders news site as a new censorship resistant media platform under the Roundtable brand.

Lisa works with numerous NFT projects, has minted her own NFTs and is fascinated by the technology that brings NFT's to life.

In the past Lisa has judged the Student Enterprise Awards and helped to organise the World's first Simulated Crypto Trading Competition with The Blockchain Academy.

In September 2021, Jillian Godsil was a finalist in the prestigious CryptoAM UK awards in the education section. In August, she was named as one of the UK's Most Influential Women in Tech by Computer Weekly in 2021. Jillian Godsil is a tireless advocate for Women in Blockchain, eradication of homelessness and income equality.

After the Bitcoin Miami conference, she signed a contract with Brock Pierce, James Heckman and David Bailey to port her Blockleaders news site onto their new censorship resistant media platform.

On international Women's Day 2021, Jillian was nominated one of 100 global women in leadership awards in COVID reflecting the 30 plus years her career spans across a global stage including Sydney, Singapore, Kiev, Austin, Muscat, Columbo, Dubai, Capetown, Liberland, Malta, Amsterdam, Vienna, Dublin and London.

In June 2020 she was awarded Blockchain Journalist of the year by Uptrennds (then largest blockchain social platform). In 2019 she was nominated for the national Irish IMRO radio awards, made the top 100 Global Blockchain Leaders list by Lattice80 and was named AI and Blockchain Journalist of the Year at the CC Forum in London. In 2018 she was awarded the Order of Merit by the President of Liberland. She is a passionate advocate for blockchain, a seasoned professional in fintech and internationally recognised champion for equality – whether in homelessness, gender or the law.

She changed the law in Ireland in 2014 and is a former European Parliamentary candidate (as an independent). She is a co-founder and editor in chief of Blockleaders.io. She is the author of more than 18 books. She is a freelance journalist for many publications including CoinDesk, CityAM, CoinTelegraph, CryptoSlate News, The Irish Times and ITN.

Amanda Brock is CEO of OpenUK, the UK organisation for the business of Open Technology in the UK – open source software, open hardware and open data - with a purpose of UK Leadership and International Collaboration in Open Technology.

She is a Board Member of the Open Source Initiative; appointed member of the Cabinet Office's Open Standards Board; Member of the British Computer Society Inaugural Influence Board; Advisory Board Member, KDE, Planet Crust, Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance and Mimoto; Charity Trustee Creative Crieff and GeekZone; and European Representative of the Open Invention Network.

A lawyer of 25 years' experience, she previously chaired the Open Source and IP Advisory Group of the United Nations Technology Innovation Labs, sat on the OASIS Open Projects Ad and UK Government Energy Sector Digitalisation Task Force Advisory Boards. She was General Counsel of Canonical for 5 years from 2008 and set up their legal function.

Amanda was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award in the Women, Influence & Power in Law Awards UK 2022, and included in Computer Weekly’s Most Influential Women in Tech Long list in 2021 and 2022 and in their UK Tech50 Influencers longlist for 2022.

She is the editor of Open Source, Law, Policy and Practice second edition published by Oxford University Press in October 2022, with open access thanks to the Vietsch Foundation.

Zoe Cunningham is an award-winning technology professional and currently a Director of Softwire Technology, one of the Sunday Times "Best Places to Work 2022". 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 also works as an actor and she recently played the lead role in Marianna Dean's upcoming debut feature film Breaking Infinity, which will be released later in 2022. Zoe has published three books, her most recent entitled "An Actor's Life" detailing her journey as an actor.

Ioana Surpateanu is a Web3 and DeFi investor and entrepreneur. She is the founder of Strategy W, a crypto and emerging tech consultancy designed to accelerate specific verticals within the Metaverse and the DeFi 2.0 ecosystems. She is Chief Innovation Officer for Swash, a Web3 data monetisation platform and holds advisory board positions for a variety of Metaverse and DeFi projects.

She sits on the Executive Board of the Multichain Asset Managers Association, a global community of organisations working to transform asset management through blockchain technology. She is the founder of League of Meta’s, a female-led Web3 and Metaverse advocacy group and an OG mentor for Outlier Ventures' Basecamp Accelerator where she's supported projects in the Polygon, Hedera and Polkadot cohorts. She was an expert contributor to Citigroup's GPS Report: Metaverse and Money: Decrypting the Future.

Prior to expanding her focus to a multitude of DeFi and Metaverse projects, she was Chief Strategy Officer at DIA and Principal for DIA Labs, an entity which she designed to promote women in emerging tech, experiment with various oracle use cases beyond financial data permutations and foster interactions with policymakers and financial services incumbents.

Before her immersion in Web3 tech, Ioana was Co-Head of European Gov't Affairs and Crypto Strategy lead for Citigroup, where she coordinated policymaker interactions on emerging tech and crypto. In addition, she seconded into Citi's markets infrastructure investments team to work on FinTech investments.

In parallel, she was Vice-chair of the European Parliament Outreach Task Force in AmCham EU. In that capacity, she led the EU Institutions outreach strategy with focus on high-profile political leaders and entities throughout Europe.

She joined Citi from the European Parliament where she was Head of Cabinet for the VP of the European People’s Party (EPP) Group and senior adviser on issues related to the digital single market (DSM), EU budget and the inception of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI)

Ioana holds two master's degrees in politics, economics and international relations from the University of Tel Aviv and University of Bucharest. She appears on Innovate Finance’s WIF Powerlist in the Senior Leaders category and was shortlisted for the WIBF Tech Star Award. She is a competitive skier, occasional Kart racer and Formula One aficionado.

Amber is a Registered Mental Health Nurse with over 15 years’ experience working in mental health services. After years of working with numerous patients who struggled to find or maintain employment, she set up Headworks. Headworks’ primary mission is to promote and sustain good mental health in the workplace through evidence-based training.

In addition to her nursing qualification, Amber has a PGCert in Clinical Neuroscience, an MSc in Psychiatric Research, a specialist training and assessment qualification, and expertise in organisational development.

Fun Fact: Outside of work, Amber is an ardent quizzer with a penchant for chihuahuas!

Melanie is CTO of ammonite, a B2B SaaS business with a mission to make financial advice more accessible, and make it easier for financial advice businesses to significantly scale the number of clients they can service.

Melanie brings experience in SaaS, Cyber Security, Finance and Tech to ammonite's pioneering financial advice platform, and her combination of industry and tech insider insight results in incredibly fast development cycles.

ammonite's consistency over software architecture, UX and security under her technical direction mark them out as industry thought-leaders on all aspects of the solution pipeline.

Melanie is trans and delighted to have won a PIMFA D&I Award with ammonite last year. With the support of the partners, she is an industry advocate for women in tech, as well as LGBTQIA inclusion, believing that representation is a pathway, not just for industry reform, but for creating tech that serves more people, better.

Anni is a chartered engineer in the UK with a background in computer and communication systems engineering. She has diverse design and advisory experience in various sectors, including healthcare, technology and transportation. In 2017, she was recognised by Women in Rail as one of 20 Rising Stars of the UK Railway Industry. Anni is a Senior Engineer and an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Champion at Arup, where she also leads the healthcare business as part of the UKIMEA Digital Services Portfolio. Being a keen volunteer, Anni is a trustee at the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).

Jo is Founder and Director of Inclusioneering, a social enterprise offering Diversity, Equity and Inclusion consultancy in the technology and engineering domains. Alongside this, she is Global Lead for Diversity and Inclusion for AVEVA, a leading FTSE 100 technology firm. Jo holds a number of voluntary positions. She is a member of Council for the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, a committee member of BCS Women, a member of the Industry Advisory Board for TechUp bootcamps, and Fellow of AI ethics and audit charity, ForHumanity.

Jo began her career as an engineer, developing enterprise software for global industry, spanning oil & gas, automotive, aerospace and marine sectors. Having pivoted her focus from the technical to human dimensions of engineering, Jo now works as a Business Psychologist. She holds an MSc in Organisational and Business Psychology, with thesis research topic "Lessons for Gender and Racial Diversity within Technology". She brings deep understanding of the engineering culture, and lived experience as a woman within it, to her work in support of diversity and inclusion in tech and engineering domains.

Sarah and the PowerSpeaking, Inc. team are passionate about helping organisations—at corporations like Genentech, eBay, Autodesk, and Cisco —develop powerful communication skills that inspire people and get results.

"A large part of our client base is in the high-tech and biotech sectors, so many years ago, we researched and developed HighTechSpeaking®, which helps technical professionals become more clear, strategic, high-impact communicators," Sarah says. "And in 2018, we launched Confident Speaking for Women, to meet the unique challenges women face in the workplace. Both are now among our most popular programs."

Prior to joining PowerSpeaking, Sarah worked in large multinationals enjoying a varied career path in law, sales, and marketing. She found her passion in motivational coaching, training, and development. Sarah believes that "we all have what it takes to transform our careers through stronger communication;it just takes training, practice, and a growth mentality."

Fun Fact: Outside of work, Sarah loves long cliff walks and sailing on the Devon coast, UK.

Nadia Abouayoub is a strategist and specialist on Innovation for the Financial Sector. She is a member of the British Computer Society's (B.C.S.) Artificial Intelligence Specialist Group Committee (S.G.A.I). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). She has a MSc. in Computing and DESS in A.I. and Databases from the University of Dijon. She has a MSc. in Formal Methods and the Security of Systems from Royal Holloway, University of London.

As a member of several committees. Nadia is passionate about the finance and new technology sectors. One such initiative saw her organise a VISIO conference with NASA for the World Youth Congress in 2004 to enable participants to experience the intricacies of robot navigation and the exploration of Mars. She is a member of the Expert Digital Panel for the IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology in the UK) and a panel member for one of the UK university Industry/ Academy panel, which aims is to advise on the skills required for the future workforce. Nadia is a member of a United Nations focus group on AI in smart cities. Nadia is also the organiser of the International Machine Intelligence Competition, run by the S.G.A.I.; and has organised several workshops and lectures focused on educating the public about Artificial Intelligence.

Personally, she has an interest in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, for which she has organised many volunteer workshops. She has written articles focusing on the impact of AI in the financial sector.

Her career was launched with JP Morgan and since then has accrued over 15 years' experience within the investment banking sector in such fields as Risk Management, Product Control and Technology in Trading Applications. She is the founder of AIFINAI, an educational platform, and is currently writing her first book on the Education and impact of AI. She is currently a Lecturer/ Module Leader on a newly created MSc in Data of Science. Nadia is sought after as an expert in innovation and digital strategies in the financial sector.

Abbie Morris is Co-founder and CEO at Compare Ethics - a powerful Sustainability Communication platform.

Formerly a sustainability policy and communications consultant, Abbie worked with public and private businesses, NGO's and governments to build responsible policies and communicate them globally. This included leading a Presidential campaign in West Africa and securing client relationships with the United Nations, World Economic Forum and other international organisations.

Accurate communication to drive sustainability are at the heart of her approach to business. Abbie has also made contributions to the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) - the largest business organisation in the UK - spearheading the first Sustainability Working Group and launching the CBI's first circular economy product.

She is recognised in Forbes 30 under 30 Europe (2020), The Most Influential Women in Tech (2020 and 2021) and Stylus Changemakers Award (2021).

Compare Ethics secured a places on Google for Startups inaugural Female Founder Residency, TechNation's inaugural Libra program and PwC's Scale program.

Dr Helen O'Neill is CEO and Founder of Hertility, a digital health company shaping the future of reproductive healthcare by pioneering unique diagnostic testing that provides data-driven and advanced insights into reproductive health, fertility decline and the onset of menopause.

Dr O'Neill has an honours degree in Genetics, an MSc in Prenatal Genetics and Fetal Medicine from UCL and did her PhD and postdoctoral research on the genetics of ovarian development. She was awarded in the Top Twenty Women in Data in 2019 and is a tenured Lecturer at University College London where she lectures both masters and medical students in reproductive and molecular genetics.

Anna Brailsford is the CEO of Code First Girls, and is on a mission to eliminate the diversity gap in tech by providing free education and economic opportunities to women globally. Anna is also a Board Member for the Institute of Coding. Previously, Anna was the Commercial Director of Lynda.com and LinkedIn. When LinkedIn acquired Lynda for $1.5 Billion in April 2015, she became part of the fourth-largest acquisition in social media history and subsequently contributed to the creation of LinkedIn Le

Fun Fact: Anna Brailsford has recently appeared on Sky News’ flagship business programme to discuss the lack of diversity in tech. The business has also had further national coverage in leading publications such as The Times, The Guardian and The Telegraph, which has highlighted Code First Girls’ role in championing gender diversity in the global tech market. Code First Girls has just closed a £4.5million Series A, the lionshare of which came from female angel investors and male allies, including the CEOs of leading companies like Bloom & Wild, Wise and Clearscore.

Tech Returners Co-founder and mum to Ethan and Emmie, Beckie is an executive coach with over 20 years of HR and people development experience. She has a focus on talent management, team effectiveness, continuous performance development, building a diverse workforce and flexible working and has acted as a global HR leader, spearheading business growth for international tech companies.

Beyond Tech Returners, Beckie also leads the Confidence Collective – a programme focused on empowering individuals to transform their confidence and careers and built Reframe: Women in Tech, the largest conference of its kind in the North West.

Beckie is co-founder of WIT North and has won numerous awards for her efforts to create accessible opportunities into tech, including the Women in Software #WIS Changemakers Award 2022 and the Outstanding Achievement Award by TalkTalk Women in Tech Awards 2022.

Fun Fact: After 9 years of IVF journey and being extremely lucky with having two miracles, Beckie turned 40 and she decided to do something for herself and a little bit different. So in 2021, she entered her first power lifting competition and is now looking to master CrossFit! #womenintechpower.

Tamara is the Head of UX at Coremont where she leads the design of their web-based cross-asset portfolio management system, Clarion.

She has over 13 years of experience in UX Design and has led the delivery of projects for Fortune 500 companies. She has managed design teams across multiple locations working in Beirut, London and New York.

She has designed web, mobile and desktop applications for clients in e-commerce, healthcare, public sector and financial services.

Tamara holds an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design, and a BFA in Graphic Design from the American University of Beirut.

Rebecca joined Secureworks in 2014, where she developed an immediate passion for cybersecurity. Rebecca quickly expanded her cyber acumen, moving into Secureworks first Threat Intelligence Knowledge Manager role in 2022.

Rebecca is primarily focused on the implementation of knowledge management processes and procedures for the Counter Threat Unit, the ingestion and management of Secureworks Threat Intelligence knowledge, and its associated quality, storage and maintenance.

Rebecca continues to study and mature her cybersecurity depth of knowledge, with a longer-term ambition of becoming a Threat Intelligence researcher.

Lynn is an experienced consultant and coach who has developed a deep understanding of the culture in which women and men operate. Lynn works with teams and individuals to achieve their full potential and with organisations to create inclusive cultures where everybody can give of their best and partners with clients on change programmes to inspire and enable mindset and behavioural change and maximise inclusion.

Her motivation is enabling leaders to bring more heart and humanity into businesses. She builds dynamic connection between people, productivity and profitability and offers her expertise to companies who care the about impact on their people and stakeholders.

Our vision at WDI consulting is to harness energy and intention in a way that sparks positive change with individuals, teams and organisations. We support leaders at key points of business transition through our behavioural insights and ability to create high trust, connected, purposeful teams. Our clients achieve sustainable high performance because they've learnt how to thrive together.

Fun Fact: She is passionate about supporting women in tech and data. Prior to setting up WDI, Lynn was an 'only' senior female leader working in an insurance business and FinTech. Lynn is currently training to be Soul Midwife to provide emotional and spiritual support to the dying.

Clare is an experienced coach, organisational change specialist and expert in women's leadership.

Sharing the mindset, behaviours, skills and systems to lead change has become integral to all areas of her work. In particular, Clare has integrated these core skills into WDI's Leadership for Gender Equity programme delivered globally to 100's of women across the private and public sector.

Her learning is that for women leaders, being an 'only' or in the minority means you become a change agent by default and that can either be a burden to carry or a beacon you shine for a better future. Yet, most often, authentic, inspiring and diverse role models integrate change leadership into their core style.

At WDI Consulting we harness energy and intention in a way that sparks positive change with individuals, teams and organisations. We have specialisms in women's leadership, gender equity and change leadership.

Fun Fact: Prior to being a coach, Clare worked as a Commercial Director for customer data science specialists, Dunnhumby in UK, Europe and China. This year she is undertaking studies in social justice in coaching and balances screen time with a love of wild food and foraging.

Steph is a strategic partner to senior leaders, high-potential talent, teams and organisations transforming the way they think, behave and perform. She provides executive coaching, consultancy and training that future-proofs leadership and culture to be more inclusive and entrepreneurial. Steph's work spans from start up to scale up to matrix multinationals in retail, CPG, tech, finance and public sector including Mars Petcare, Dunnhumby and Movemeon.

After 20-years in data science consulting and global operational leadership roles Steph pivoted her career to follow her passion of developing talent and supporting clients to be at their best, more of the time. She bring the best of her experience, network and learning for the benefit of her clients.

Andrea is a digital transformation leader who focuses on embedding technological and cultural solutions to complex business functions globally – areas include trading, shipping, legal, finance, HR and alternative energy. Her carer span roles from programming, analysis, project management, technical delivery, business change and consultancy within the energy, telecoms, and retail sectors.

She has a degree in Science (biology/chemistry), second degree in Psychology and an MBA. Andrea feels passionately about encouraging and supporting women in technical roles through mentoring, coaching, speaking at events and is a co-author of Women in Tech which she wrote with 5 fellow BCS Women. In 2021 she was voted CW 4th Most Influential Woman in Tech UK and in 2022 entered CW Hall of Fame for her dedication to furthering the conversation around getting more women into the tech sector.

Veronica Reyero is a business anthropologist specializing in ethnographic research of people's experiences to inform product development strategies. At work, Veronica explores human-technology interactions and how businesses can increase their product success with a holistic approach to humans and society. Veronica is currently a User Experience Researcher at climate tech company Cervest, where she spends time deep diving into user insights that will transform how organizations use climate intelligence to quantify climate risk on their physical assets - a first step in climate adaptation planning.

Veronica also teaches at Spain's IE Business School, Sasin School of Management in Thailand, and the online school Umanyx. In addition, she has been a keynote speaker at events such as Sustainable Brands, the Future Book Forum, and Why the World Needs Anthropologists.

At Tractable, Georgina Steele brings together her experiences in product and customer engineering teams to enable rapid scaling of Tractable's Estimating product. Georgina specialises in creating stable, high quality engineering products that drive real impact.

A strong advocate for DEI, Georgina regularly gives talks, hosts workshops and mentors, striving for inclusion and change across the technology industry. Her main focus is to support and empower diverse talent entering the technology sector.

Prior to becoming a Software Engineer, Georgina worked in the fast-paced world of Formula 1 at McLaren Racing, performing structural analysis and optimisation of race car parts. She was named as one of the most promising female engineers in the UK in 2016. Combining her experience in traditional and software engineering gives Georgina a unique perspective on how to bring value to an engineering team.

Wei Ann is a full stack engineer at Tractable. Working alongside Machine Learning researchers to deliver AI solutions for accident and disaster recovery, Wei Ann builds complex systems that bridge the gap between research in deep technology and real-world impact. Before Tractable, she worked at a rapid-prototyping studio in Accenture, and has a Master's degree in Physics.

Sarah is currently the founder at fflow.io. In startup tradition, she covers a range of roles, including CTO, CFO, sales, marketing, support, operations, and more. Her background includes many years as a developer at IBM and smaller tech businesses. She currently loves full-stack development around Ruby on Rails.

Sarah believes in championing individuals from different backgrounds and privileges. One goal at fflow is to build a company with a supportive and inclusive culture.

Fun Fact: Sarah finds that programming languages have personalities.

Kelly Griffith is the Global Director of Coaching Services at Ezra Coaching, an online platform that delivers executive-level coaching to people at every level of an organization, and a subsidiary of the Adecco Group. Kelly has held leadership and executive-level positions in sales and customer operations at companies including CareerBuilder, Amazon, and the Adecco Group. She’s focused throughout her career on creating job opportunities and providing career resources to tech professionals, and as a leader, recognizes the importance of having a support system of strong female leaders and role models.

Fun Fact: My first job out of university was as a newspaper reporter in upstate New York.

Haniyeh is the Global AI Ethicist at DataRobot, Inc. She provides technical and educational guidance in the area of responsible AI as a member of the Office of CTO. In addition to strategizing the implementation of components of ethics in the product, in her role, she provides thought leadership in responsible AI with a focus on AI Bias, Trusted and Ethical AI. Haniyeh is a member of the National AI Advisory committee (NAIAC) that is tasked with advising the President and the National AI Initiative Office on topics related to the National AI Initiative. She has won the VentureBeat's Women in AI Award for Responsibility and Ethics in AI and was named as an AI Ethics leader by Forbes. Haniyeh holds a PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics from Bonn University.

Experience entrepreneur with 10+ years in sales, marketing, finance, and startup business development experience, 5+ years of experience mentoring entrepreneurs in early-stage business development, and 5+ years of experience in learning & development program design. Passionate about making important opportunities accessible to more people.

Experienced entrepreneur with 5+ years of background in software development, product design, and social behavior. Passionate about education technology, women entrepreneurship and leadership, AI, and neuroscience.

An executive leader and accomplished entrepreneur with 30+ years hands-on technical and business experience, including a successful start-up exit in 2015. Founded and built the first digital CQC-approved preventative health offering in the UK in 2012 (about 7 years too early!) Founded four digital start-ups dating back to the 1995 internet 'boom'.

A Biochemical Engineer BSc(Eng) holding a PhD Biochemical Engineer and Electronic Engineering from University College London where she was the first female president of the Ramsay Society (founded 1850) and holds the AGV Underwood Exhibition for Postgraduate Research and the Ramsay Prize for Chemical Engineering.

Experienced global strategy and implementation consultant (McKinsey, Accenture) specialising in fintech and energy, corporate Bioscience business builder (US West Coast), and an investor and advisor to start-ups in the UK, Australia, and in Silicon Valley.

Currently a C-Level Advisor, Consultant and Strategist specialising in placing high-impact female leaders and change-makers in leading positions in the digital organisations of today and tomorrow. My clients work in healthtech, fintech, edutech, digital transformation, engineering, professional services, Private Equity, and Venture Capital. They come from organisations like Google, Meta, Uber, Apple, Amazon, Salesforce, Oracle, Cisco, Enpicom, Generation, Multiverse, Advent, Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, Trust Payments, and a host of US-based digital start-ups and impact funds spanning seed to IPO.

Committed to disrupting traditional career paths for women (and men) by shifting the dynamic from 'asking permission' to 'assuming the position'. Together, we rewrite the dialogue and norms on how (wo)men 'show up' and empower each other to 'change the game' vs trying to level an outdated playing field.

Award-Winning Executive Coach, Powerhouse Revolution Podcast Host and Work-Life Balance Expert, Lucy supports driven female leaders to feel less overwhelmed and more in control by building their self-belief and leadership toolkit so they have better balance and feel more confident, content and in control.

At 40, quit her 20-year corporate career to focus on her business Powerhouse Revolution full-time. She also hosts a podcast of the same name for female leaders. Lucy has worked with female CEOs and founders as well as mid-senior level leaders in the world's top organisations including Paypal, Meta, Mastercard, Pfizer and Dermalogica to name a few.

Her VIP 1:1 signature coaching program Powerhouse Revolution is perfect for high-achieving female leaders who are feeling frustrated, unhappy or burned out in their careers and want better work-life balance, increased professional success and true inner contentment.

Lucy also offers both online and in-person group training as well as motivating and inspiring corporate masterclasses for leadership teams, women's groups and corporate events.

Lucy has been featured across the media including The Irish Times, Image Magazine, The Sunday Business Post, That Great Business Show Podcast, and other press including kiss.ie, rollercoaster.ie, The Nationalist and radio including 2FM, KCLR, The Kilkenny People and Beat.

Lucy lives in Carlow, Ireland with her husband John, their three kids and dogs Foxy and Alfie. When she's not working with female leaders, she is just a normal girl who loves being outdoors with family, roast chicken dinner on Sundays, and the pretty things in life. On a Friday night, you’ll most likely find her in loungewear with a glass of prosecco scrolling through Instagram!

What others say…

"Lucy is a wonderful coach, extremely motivating and empowering!"- Sharon Keegan, CEO PeachyLean, as seen on BBC's Dragons Den.

"Lucy brings energy, and razor-sharp focus to her sessions when it comes to guiding and delivering. We have worked with Lucy for a client manifestation masterclass where attendees found her thorough, engaging and inspiring while offering practical advice."- Amy Buckeridge, MD and Founder, The Publicity Loft

"Lucy's content offers a different perspective, one we can lose while continually striving for excellence. Her message is one of re-calibration, support, allowance and above all acceptance of where we are and the excitement of the journey still to come."- Pamela Hayden, Senior Quality Manager, Pharma

Website: www.lucygernon.com

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Businesswoman, NED and advisor focusing on high-impact projects, with over 10 years' financial market experience.

Stefania is the founder of Cassiopeia Services, the UK agency helping crypto, fintech and forward-thinking natural resources companies in PR and Media, digital marketing, investor relations and policy advocacy. She is a board member of London listed Ondo Insurtech PLC.

In the crypto space, Stefania has advised a variety of international blockchain application-focused companies on their ground-breaking projects, leading on business development and communications, regulatory strategy, and policy advocacy. She is part of the founding team at cross-chain bridging infrastructure Umbria Network and leads business development for brands at IO Global with a focus on digital identities, NFTs, product authentication and supply chain traceability.

One of the first to recognise the potential of blockchain in the fashion industry, Stefania has spoken at multiple crypto and fintech international conferences on NFTs, and brands' strategies to embrace WEB 3.0 innovation.

She is a strong believer in open dialogue among innovators and regulators to further advance the crypto industry, and regularly hosts Crypto Circle symposia, private crypto networking events to bring together leaders in finance, politics, and government regulation.

Stefania is a columnist at CityAM, and the creator and host of the financial + crypto focused YouTube channel and podcast FinancialFox.

Ashleigh Rennie is a conversion copywriter and copy strategist. She works with high-performing businesswomen all over the world, who are looking to increase their impact, expand their audience, and connect with their communities in the most authentic and human way imaginable.

She LOVES writing direct response copy in the form of emails that kiss the screen. She's also a badass sales page copywriter, quiz creator, lead generator, and can write copy for a summit that blows people's hair back. And then restyles it like Shakira and J-Lo at the Superbowl in 2020.

She is a business owner, dog and cat mom, speaker and feminist, and she loves animals more than the vegan chocolate balls at Sainsbury's.

Katie is a Finalist in the Women of the Year Category at the Women in Tech Excellence Awards 2022 and presented at the European Women in Tech Conference 2022.

She is a business-focused Cyber Security professional with experience leading, advising, and delivering on global end-to-end Cyber Security and Data Privacy projects and programmes. She aims to make security and data protection an integrated part of the business than a barrier to operations.

Katie has worked across FTSE 100 organisations and Critical National Infrastructure as well as public organisations, and private organisations from startups to global clients.

She has designed and led training for over 1000 participants across 50 countries on topics including:

• Cyber Security Awareness
• Cyber Security in the Hybrid Workplace
• Cyber Security and the Supply Chain
• Personal Data Awareness & Discovery
• Cyber Security and Incident Management

Fun Fact: Katie discovered her fear of walking down mountains when at the peak of the Snowdon - the first mountain in her Three Peaks Challenge (she made it but was gripping the guide's hand like there was no tomorrow).

Anna is the Director of Agile Project Delivery LTD where she works with clients to turn chaos into order on projects.

She has over 10 years of experience in Project Portfolio Management and has led project delivery for Fortune 500 companies. She has managed agile projects and distributed teams across multiple locations like London, Paris, Singapore, and New York.

She has set up, led, and delivered projects for clients in advertising, publishing, transport, and retail.

Anna is an accredited Project Manager and Scrum Master.

After a history and archaeology degree, Liz worked in operations and project management until she followed her dream to seek a career that was challenging and meaningful by learning to code. She was a bootcamper on School of Code's third cohort from Jan-May 2020, where she became a full-stack developer and discovered that code is the closest thing to magic in real life.

After the bootcamp, she wanted to share that magic with other people, so she became a coach and progressed to lead coach and Head of Bootcamps at the School of Code. It’s here that she has discovered a love for not just coding but also communicating about tech.

She's helped use the magic of code to change the lives of over 300 people and counting as part of the School of Code mission to break down barriers to get more and different people into tech.

Fun Fact: When not peering at code or teaching, Liz unwinds by painting Warhammer, attempting to write novels, and tending to her collection of over 100 houseplants.

She has 30 years of agnostic professional experience working in global high-tech corporations such as Rolls-Royce, as well a range of startups from Tech, Sustainable, & Social Impact.

Carolyn is passionate about helping Women grow authentically and confidently to achieve their personal and professional.

Using her professional knowledge, personal experience and lessons learned she has created a portfolio of workshops and seminars which are focused on supporting and guiding Women to craft, implement and achieve their desired roadmap.

A seasoned Executive Search consultant, Amy has a wealth of experience in recruitment, communications and business development. Following a career in Executive Search and Professional Services, Amy founded her own Boutique Search Firm focused on Technology, Transformation & Change.

With a strong and diverse network of innovative, challenging and forward-thinking individuals, Amy is committed to helping her clients build leadership pipelines to steer their organisations through an ever-changing landscape, enabling them to thrive in the future. She is equally dedicated to the needs of her candidates, who trust her integrity and professionalism to assist them in advancing their career progression.

Leveraging on her years working in Transformation and Change, Amy has also launched The Woolf Partnership's Transformational Leadership series, highlighting leaders across industry who display the unique traits she sees as paramount to leading successful organisations into the next wave of change.

A proud advocate for equality, Amy has been a member of women's networks throughout her working life and works alongside clients to build robust diverse talent pools, helping both clients and candidates to access transferable skills and explore new opportunities.

Amy is passionate about Social Care and is a Trustee of Jewish Care, where she has volunteered for over a decade. Outside of her working life she can always be found with her husband, three children and their dog.

Isabel began her career as a journalist and (later) editor, specializing in medicine, health, and science. Since 2005 she has worked as an independent trainer and coach, with a focus on communication skills training, message development, and storytelling for business.

Isabel has helped executives from all sectors, including the tech and pharma industries, to communicate powerful messages to a variety of audiences, through media interviews, presentations, meetings, and negotiations, and to develop their unique value propositions in the workplace. She has also served as moderator for advisory boards and at press conferences.

In 1992, following a personal experience with the pregnancy complication pre-eclampsia, Isabel set up a UK-based patient advocacy group, which is now international. She co-authored, with Professor Chris Redman of Oxford University, the award-winning book, Pre-eclampsia: The Facts, followed by Understanding Pre-eclampsia.  

Fun Fact: Isabel knows a huge number of Shakespeare soliloquies—including all of Hamlet'—off by heart and often recites them to relieve the tedium of solo car journeys.

I was 7 years in corporate tech, 4 years in people management living the career that I was always chasing & what I defined as a "successful career". Even though my career looked bright & shiny on the outside, I realized one day that it didn't look bright & shiny to me.

I was burnt out, empty, exhausted, lost on who I am & what I really want to do. It was humbling and gave me a deeply profound lesson that chasing the society's definition of a successful career was not MY definition.

So, I took ownership of my life & in the midst of a heavy burnout decided to do something about this. To align my career to my heart's & soul's calling.

Now, as a certified professional coach (ICF PCC +500hours of coaching experience), I wake up every day excited, inspired & motivated helping ambitious professionals makeover their career to align with their heart's & soul's calling.

Fun Fact: Went through 6 big career changes & lived in 6 different countries. Proud dog mum of a French Bulldog :)

Suzie Robinson is a digital workplace consultant at ClearBox and has responsibility for their suite of review reports. Suzie has worked with intranets for 15 years and has practical experience with all aspects of an intranet lifecycle, from research, to implementation, to ongoing governance, and overall strategy. Suzie's experience has grown out of the roots of internal communication, so she has a focus on employee experience and engagement, plus strong content.

Remote and difficult to reach users were often the core user-base for the intranets Suzie managed, so she has extensive experience at finding ways to engage and connect a broad audience range. Suzie has also worked in IT teams in her time, giving her a unique insight into the workings of many different departments. Suzie is a skilled writer (not just of reviews, she’s also a published author) and editor, and she is active in the internal communications community. Suzie is always happy to have a chat over social media, so please feel free to follow her on Twitter (as @SuzieRobinson42) or on LinkedIn.

Saakshi is a passionate Masters in Computer Science student at Queen Mary University of London and a Google STEP and IHS Markit intern. 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 the Vice President of Student Union's Artificial Intelligence Society at QMUL and an #Iamremarkable facilitator initiative started by Google 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.