Vote: Who should be the 2023 Most Influential Woman in UK Tech?
The 12th Computer Weekly listing of the 50 Most Influential Women in UK Technology is now open for voting, giving readers and alternative to precise who they really feel should be given the prime spot.
Each 12 months, the listing of fifty ladies acts to make function fashions in the tech sector extra seen and accessible in the hope that doing so will encourage extra ladies and underrepresented teams to think about a task in the business, and ultimately result in a extra numerous and inclusive expertise sector.
This 12 months’s prime 50 listing has been whittled down from greater than 650 nominated ladies by a panel of professional judges.
The winner of this 12 months’s Most Influential Woman in UK Tech accolade will be introduced at an event in London on 11 October 2023, deliberate in partnership with recruitment specialist Nash Squared, and sponsored by NatWest Group.
Hall of Fame
Alongside the prime 50, every year the judges select a number of ladies for the Computer Weekly Women in Tech Hall of Fame to recognise their lifetime achievements and ongoing contributions to the expertise sector. This 12 months’s additions have simply been introduced, bringing the variety of ladies in the Hall of Fame to a complete of fifty:
- Flavilla Fongang, managing director, 3 Colours Rule; founder, TLA Black Women in Tech;
- Clare Sutcliffe, co-founder, Code Club; group technique advisor;
- Janet Coyle, managing director enterprise development, London & Partners;
- Tabitha Goldstaub, co-founder, CognitionX; government director, Innovate Cambridge;
- Wendy Tan White, vice-president, X, Alphabet’s Moonshot Factory; board trustee, Alan Turing Institute; member, Digital Economy Council.
Vote now
Computer Weekly readers can now vote for who they really feel is the most influential girl in UK expertise in 2023.
Click in your selection beneath after which on the “submit” button (or the arrow button on cell) at the finish of the listing and your vote will be registered. Note that the listing seems in a randomised order.
Voting closes at midnight on 7 September 2023.
Editor’s be aware: The remaining listing of the most influential ladies in UK tech will be chosen by combining the determination of the judging panel with the votes of our readers. The mixed reader vote will carry the identical weight as that of 1 choose, and can present the UK IT skilled enter into the order of the listing. The editor’s determination on the listing will be remaining.
The shortlisted 50 (in alphabetical order) are as follows – click on on every identify to go to her Twitter profile (the place accessible):
Abadesi Osunsade, founder and CEO, Hustle Crew
In 2016, Osunsade based Hustle Crew, a platform providing profession improvement assets for teams who’re under-represented in the expertise sector, and she or he is at the moment CEO.
Summer of 2020 noticed her begin a brand new function as the VP of world group and belonging at shopper perception agency Brandwatch, the place she spent two years targeted on creating and sticking to inclusion practices for the agency.
Part time, Osunsade is a scout for enterprise capital (VC) agency Ada Ventures and till final 12 months was an advisory board member for startup founder group Your Startup, Your Story.
Over the previous few years, she has appeared on a number of notable lists, together with the Financial Times Top 100 Influential Leaders in Tech, Tech Nation Top 50 Influential Voices in Tech and the Dots 100 Trailblazers.
Adelina Chalmers, founder and CTO, The Geek Whisperer
Chalmers based The Geek Whisperer in 2015 to advise IT decision-makers on the way to higher talk with non-technical members of companies to drive higher outcomes.
She can be the co-host of the Scaling, Failing & Prevailing Podcast, and has gained a number of awards for her abilities in public talking.
Allison Kirkby, incoming CEO, BT; current CEO, Telia
With an extended historical past of CEO positions, Kirkby has expertise in operating corporations with a background in telecoms, and at the time of writing is quickly to be the CEO of BT.
Her previous CEOships have included TDC group, Tele2 and at the moment Telia, and she or he can be a non-executive director of Brookfield asset administration.
Amanda Brock, CEO, Open UK
Amanda Brock’s function at Open UK sees her main the sustainable and moral improvement of open applied sciences in the UK, together with expertise reminiscent of open supply software program, {hardware} and information.
She additionally sits on the boards of each the Cabinet Office Open Standards Board, and US cyber safety agency Mimoto, in addition to performing as a choose for the CIO 100 Awards.
Anna Brailsford, CEO, Code First Girls
An entrepreneur and co-founder, Brailsford joined Code First Girls as CEO in 2019 the place she works to encourage extra ladies into the tech sector by offering software program improvement abilities and schooling.
She can be a board member for the Institute of Coding, the place she is concentrated particularly on range and inclusion, and is a self-employed business and technique advisor.
Prior to her work at Code First Girls, she co-founded and was CEO of efficiency administration agency Frisbee, which was a part of enterprise capital fund Founders Factory.
Anne Keast-Butler, director, GCHQ
The first feminine to move up GCHQ, Keast-Butler moved into the function this 12 months after serving as deputy director normal of MI5.
With an extended profession in safety and defence, a part of her earlier roles have included overseeing the repairs of features that help MI5’s operational actions, and the launch of the UK’s National Cyber Security Programme.
Annika Small, co-founder, CAST (Centre for Acceleration of Social Technology)
Alongside her function as co-founder of CAST, Small holds a number of non-executive directorships in corporations reminiscent of Wey Education, The John Ellerman Foundation, and Here (Care Unbound) all targeted on making the world a greater place.
Passionate about tackling social injustices, Small can be an everyday volunteer, and was awarded an OBE in 2018 for providers to social innovation and digital expertise.
Anushka Sharma, founder, Naaut; co-founder, London Space Network
It’s not unusual to see Anushka Sharma on the information, discussing expertise, synthetic intelligence and house.
Her agency Naut is designed to assist present innovation technique to technology-based organisations with the mindset of the future being “multi-planetary”.
She additionally based the London Space Network with the view of constructing a extra related “space community” in the UK.
Arfah Farooq, scout, Ada Ventures; founder, Muslamic Makers; community manager, Big Society Capital
An professional in range, inclusion and group constructing, Farooq co-founded Muslamic Makers in 2016 as a networking group for Muslims in tech, design and improvement.
As nicely as a contract range and inclusion advisor, Farooq is a scout for Ada Ventures with particular curiosity in edtech, healthtech and fintech and a group supervisor for Big Society Capital.
She has an intensive background in digital and synthetic intelligence in each the personal and public sector.
Beckie Taylor, CEO, co-founder, TechReturners
Taylor co-founded TechReturners, the place she is at the moment CEO, to present expert people who’ve has a profession break the alternative to attach with corporations and assist them again into mid-to-senior degree tech roles.
She can be co-founder and CEO of The Confidence Community, which goals to supply assets, coaching info and occasions to present folks extra profession confidence. Taylor is co-founder of group WIT North, and co-founder of ReframeWIT.
Bev White, CEO, Nash Squared
As CEO of Nash Squared, White heads up the international agency which gives IT recruitment, expertise options and leaderships providers out of 36 places of work throughout the world.
White has an extended background in the tech sector, having beforehand held roles as CIO and director of IT, in addition to finishing a level in pc science.
Bina Mehta, chair, KPMG UK
In her 30 years at KPMG, Mehta has had many tasks, together with constructing the agency’s deal with commerce and funding, and serving to scaleup purchasers to entry monetary help.
She is now chair of the organisation, and this 12 months was awarded an MBE for providers to UK commerce and funding and supporting feminine entrepreneurs.
Bindi Karia, venture partner, Molten Ventures
Karia has spent a lot of her profession in and round the startup ecosystem, most just lately as a enterprise companion for enterprise capital agency Molten Ventures.
For 5 years, she led BizSpark in the UK (now often known as Microsoft Ventures), concentrating on early-stage expertise companies, in addition to being liable for working alongside enterprise capitalists and angels on behalf of Microsoft.
She sits on many business advisory boards, together with CognitionX, Humanity, Bootstrap Europe SCsp, The Work Crowd and Wrisk.
Charlene Hunter, CEO and founder, Coding Black Females
Hunter based Coding Black Females in 2017 to assist black feminine software program builders meet one another and community. Alongside her work at Coding Black Females, Hunter is a software program developer.
She is an advisory board business consultant in University of Essex Online’s computing division, is technical director at SAM Software Solutions, and technical director at full-stack and front-end coaching organisation Black Codher Bootcamp.
Previously, Hunter was lead software program engineer at Made Tech, and held roles reminiscent of senior software program developer, lead Java developer, app developer and technical advisor at varied corporations.
She was named a Computer Weekly Women in UK Tech Rising Star in 2020.
Christine Ashton, non-executive director, RBS International
Christine Ashton is non-executive director at RBS, a task she took on in 2020, becoming a member of SUSE as its CIO shortly after for a 12 months and a half stint.
She has held a number of CIO and CDIO roles, together with at corporations reminiscent of BG Group, SAP, Thompson Reuters and Transport for London.
From 2001 to 2008, Ashton held senior IT positions at BP. She is a fellow of the BCS, has appeared in the Computer Weekly UKtech50 listing a number of instances, and has gained a number of awards for her work in expertise.
Claire Thorne, co-CEO, Tech She Can
Thorne is co-CEO of Tech She Can, a charity aimed toward growing the variety of ladies in the expertise sector, in addition to a enterprise companion at Deep Science Ventures and variety and inclusion advisory board member for the Institute of Coding.
She has a background in the schooling sector, beforehand holding roles as director of innovation technique for the University of Surrey, and government officer to the vice-president (innovation) at Imperial College London.
Clare Barclay, CEO, Microsoft UK
Barclay has been with Microsoft for greater than 10 years, holding a number of roles together with director of SMB, normal supervisor of small and mid-market options and companions, and COO.
She is now CEO of Microsoft in the UK, liable for the agency’s product and repair choices in the area.
She volunteers as a board member of the British Heart Foundation, and a non-executive director at CBI.
Deborah Okenla, founder and CEO, Your Startup, Your Story (YSYS)
Named a Computer Weekly Rising Star in 2020, Okenla is founder and CEO of Your Startup, Your Story (YSYS), a group for startup founders aimed toward making the startup ecosystem extra numerous.
She is an advisory panel member for IT providers agency AND Digital, and an advisory board member for not-for-profit Coders of Colour.
Okenla can be an advisory board member for The No.10 Innovation Fellowship Programme, is a part of the Atomico Angel Programme 2021 and a is on the Telecoms Supply Chain Diversification Advisory Board for DCMS’s Digital Economy Council.
Prior to her present function, Okenla led engagement and teams for Google for Startups and was beforehand membership supervisor at co-working house Huckletree.
Elizabeth Varley, dealmaker – Global Entrepreneur Programme, Department for Business and Trade
Currently a dealmaker for the Department of Business and Trade’s Global Entrepreneur Programme, Varley helps and mentors the programme’s tech founders and scaleups.
She is a serial founder, having based tech entrepreneur group TechHub, editorial company Online Content UK and acted as a founding steering committee member of the DigitalEve ladies in expertise organisation in the UK.
Varley sits on many boards, and is an adviser for lawtech agency Legal Geek.
Emma Wright, director, Institute of AI; director, Interparliamentary Forum on Emerging Technology; Partner, Harbottle and Lewis
With a background in regulation surrounding telecoms, the web and media, Wright now makes use of her experience as director of not-for-profit The Institute of AI, in addition to non-executive director of Playfinder and companion at Harbottle & Lewis, heading up the tech, information and digital group.
She has labored in the tech sector for over 20 years. Her staff at Harbottle & Lewis is comprised of 66% feminine and 66% ethnic minority members.
Over the previous 12 months, she has been working with the OECD, WEF and the ITU and is constructing a repute in relation to regulation of AI. She can be working with the Ditchley Foundation, contemplating whether or not the collaborative strategy in relation to telecoms can work for AI regulation.
Gill Whitehead, group director, online safety, Ofcom
Whitehead is at the moment main Ofcom’s enter into the UK’s new Online Safety Bill utilizing her background in buyer perception, information and digital.
With an extended historical past in working in leisure and media, together with roles at Channel 4 and BBC, Whitehead is at the moment chair of the Rugby World Cup 2025, and non government director and audit committee chair for the British Olympic Association.
Hayaatun Sillem, CEO, Royal Academy of Engineering
Sillem labored for the Royal Academy of Engineering for 12 years earlier than being appointed its CEO in 2018.
Previous roles at the Academy embrace deputy CEO and director of technique, director of programmes and fellowship, and head of worldwide actions.
As nicely as her work for the Academy, Sillem is a trustee of EngineeringUK and the Foundation For Science and Technology, chair of the Business Innovation Forum for the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, and CEO of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.
Helen Kelisky, managing director UKI, Google Cloud
With expertise in cloud at corporations reminiscent of Salesforce and IBM, Helen Kelisky began her function at Google final 12 months nicely geared up with the abilities wanted to run its cloud division.
Alongside this Kelisky is on the board of administrators for Calnex Solutions, and is a member of the board of administrators for the Women in Telecoms and Technology networking group.
Janine Hirt, CEO, Innovate Finance
Hirt joined Innovate Finance in 2015 as the business physique’s head of group, earlier than ultimately turning into its CEO six years later. She now heads up the organisation, aiming to drive innovation and transformation in the fintech sector to make it extra inclusive.
She has labored round the world in a wide range of roles, together with performing head of company relations for Chatham House in the UK, head of membership for the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce in New York, and head new rent coach for an English language coaching programme in Japan.
Karen Emelu, CEO and founder, Black Girls in Tech
Karen Emelu based, and heads up, group Black Girls in Tech in 2020 to assist help the black ladies already in the sector, and to encourage others to affix the expertise business.
Her background is in UX/UI and product/visible design, having held these roles in corporations reminiscent of Prenetics, Lick, Accenture and Trust it Entertainment.
She is a passionate advocate for range and inclusion, and is a frequent public speaker on the topic.
Katie Gallagher, managing director, Manchester Digital
Katie Gallagher heads up Manchester Digital, and is co-founder of the Cyber Resilience Centre for Greater Manchester, each of which help companies in the Manchester space.
Alongside this she is chair of the UK Tech Cluster Group which repeatedly discusses the expertise points affecting specific areas in the UK.
Katrina Novakovic, open source culture lead, Citi
An professional in open supply, agile, DevOps and cloud, Novakovic is working to ensure open/internal supply improvement is a regular working apply inside Citi.
She is an advocate for range and inclusion in the expertise sector, and has had an extended profession in expertise together with roles at Red Hat, The Fintech Open Source Foundation and BAE System Applied Intelligence.
Kerensa Jennings, director, data platforms, BT Group
Jennings started a brand new function at BT in 2022 heading up the group’s information platforms, serving to to create new enterprise fashions utilizing information and AI. At BT, she has led the BT Skills for Tomorrow programme, which helps folks throughout the UK use digital to their benefit. The programme has helped 10 million folks be taught digital abilities and confidence with expertise.
She was beforehand the director at the Royal Household, and chief government liable for technique and supply of iDEA CIC, the inspiring digital enterprise award, and earlier than that spent 15 years with the BBC in a wide range of roles, together with programme editor for BBC Breakfast with Frost and government editor for BBC News.
She spent two and a half years as programme government for the BBC Academy, serving to develop a management programme for senior artistic leaders all through the BBC. Jennings has additionally held roles at main broadcast organisations ITN and Sky.
Lindy Cameron, CEO, National Cyber Security Centre
As a part of her function at the National Cyber Security Centre, Cameron helps the UK to plan for, and reply to, dangers and alternatives posed by rising applied sciences.
She has an extended historical past of roles in the public sector, together with at organisations reminiscent of the Department for International Development, the Northern Ireland Office, the Cabinet Office, and the Government’s Stabalisation Unit.
Liz Williams, CEO, FutureDotNow; chair, GoodThingsFoundation
Williams is CEO of inclusion marketing campaign FutureDotNow which goals to make sure persons are not left behind by the rising abilities hole attributable to digital adoption.
She is a member of the UK authorities’s Digital Skills Council, is a member of the board of trustees for Transport for London and is chair of the Good Things Foundation.
Prior to her present work, she spent greater than 20 years at BT in a lot of totally different roles, together with programme director for sustainable enterprise, director of tech literacy and schooling programmes, and director of digital society.
Mary McKenna, co-founder, AwakenHub
Mary McKenna is a big supporter of entrepreneurship and startups, holding a number of roles as an adviser and investor.
Her social enterprise AwakenHub, the place she is co-founder, is concentrated on constructing a group of feminine founders in Ireland.
As nicely as professional adviser for the European Commission, she is an entrepreneurship professional with the Entrepreneurship Centre at the University of Oxford’s Said Business School, and a board member for CAST, amongst many different board memberships and non-executive directorships.
Melanie Dawes, chief executive, Ofcom
Dawes has headed up Ofcom since 2020 following her earlier function as everlasting secretary at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, in addition to many different roles throughout the Civil Service.
She has beforehand been a trustee at Patchwork Foundation, which goals to encourage underrepresented younger folks to take part in democracy, and a non-executive director of shopper group Which?.
Melissa Di Donato, non-executive director, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Donato stepped again from her function at SUSE in 2023, and is now targeted on her basis Inner Wings, which she based in 2020 with the goal of giving younger women extra confidence and work in direction of worldwide gender equality.
She was appointed non-executive director at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology in April 2023.
Prior to her present roles, she was chief income officer, then COO, digital core for SAP, and was beforehand at Salesforce.com as space vice-president of Wave Analytics Cloud.
Before her six years at Salesforce, Di Donato was the space vice-president of ISV and channel programmes for EMEA and Asia Pacific (APAC), throughout which she chaired a European ISV Advisory Innovation Board.
Di Donato is a board member and adviser to numerous expertise corporations in the UK and in Silicon Valley. She is a philanthropist, specializing in STEM initiatives and mentoring ladies in enterprise.
Michelle Donelan, secretary of state for Science, Innovation, & Technology, Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
In February of 2023 Donelan took on the function of secretary of state for Science, Innovation and Technology liable for areas reminiscent of the Online Safety Bill, financial and nationwide safety, and the division’s total analysis and improvement funds, amongst different issues.
Prior to this function, she was secretary of state for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport for 5 months.
Her background is in advertising and marketing, having held advertising and marketing roles in corporations together with Sky and WWE.
Musidora Jorgensen, chief sustainability officer, Microsoft UK
With corporations reminiscent of HP, BT, Oracle and Salesforce on her CV, Musidora Jorgensen has a background in expertise holding many alternative roles all through her profession together with regional account supervisor of BT Government, gross sales director of human capital administration at Oracle, and space VP – head of UK vitality and utilities at Salesforce.
In her present function at Microsoft UK, Jorgensen is a member of the UK’s senior management staff, liable for heading up the agency’s sustainability technique.
In her spare time she volunteers as a mentor to remaining 12 months STEM college students at the University of Greenwich.
Naomi Timperley, co-founder, Tech North Advocates; innovation director, Oxford Innovation
Timperley is a contract advisor and co-founder of Tech North Advocates, a personal sector-led assortment of tech specialists who champion the expertise sector in the north of England.
In 2021, she co-founded advisory agency Growth Strategy Innovation, which helps to develop startup and scaleup organisations, and is now innovation director for Oxford Innovation which helps organisations develop ecosystems for entrepreneurs and innovators, in flip boosting native areas.
Named a Computer Weekly Women in Tech Rising Star in 2017, can be a board trustee of charity Digital Advantage and, till 2021, was a board member of FutureEverything. In the previous, she co-founded Enterprise Lab.
Natalie Black, HM trade commissioner for Asia Pacific
As the first HM commerce commissioner for Asia Pacific, it’s Black’s duty to assist British corporations to thrive in the Asia Pacific area, and she or he is liable for the UK’s commerce technique throughout nations in this area.
Her background is in cyber safety, having been director of the workplace of cyber safety and knowledge assurance at the Cabinet Office, and chief of workers to the director of safety and resilience for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Nicola Martin, head of quality engineering, Adarga; BCS Women committee member and BCS Pride vice chair
Currently the head of high quality at Adarga, Martin has a historical past of working as a take a look at advisor at corporations reminiscent of Barclays, Sony, the UK Home Office, Shazam and Sky.
She is at the moment chair for the BCS Special Interest Group in Software Testing, and till January 2023 was the vice-chair of the BCS LGBTQIA+ tech specialist group.
Paulette Watson, founder and managing director, Academy Achievers
Paulette Watson is enthusiastic about encouraging extra ladies into the expertise sector, particularly into the WEB3 group.
She based, and is managing director of, Academy Achievers, a not-for-profit organisation targeted on encouraging younger folks to think about a profession in STEM, primarily by way of accessible occasions aimed toward specific age teams.
This 12 months she grew to become the co-founder/AI enterprise adviser for Crunch Base in Nigeria.
Priya Lakhani, founder and CEO, Century Tech
Lakhani based Century Tech as a educating and studying platform targeted on topics reminiscent of AI, cognitive neuroscience, large information analytics and blockchain, the place she can be CEO.
A frequent speaker, she is a member of the UK’s AI Council, and has beforehand been a board member for the Foundation for Education Development, a board member for uboxed2022, and a non-executive director for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).
She was awarded an OBE in 2014.
Reshma Sohoni, founding partner, Seedcamp
Sohoni co-founded Seedcamp in 2007, an early-stage enterprise capital agency which has invested in greater than 200 corporations since its inception, the place she is a companion.
A daily in the startup and enterprise capital house, she can be an adviser with Credo Ventures in the Czech Republic, a fellow of the Kauffman Fellows Program, and a senior adviser with Anthemis Group SA.
Ronda Zelezny-Green, co-founder and director, Panoply Digital; CAN programme director, Data,org
Zelezny-Green is enthusiastic about utilizing expertise and information to teach folks, in addition to constructing communities and networks to extend the range and inclusion in the expertise sector.
She has many roles at many alternative corporations and organisations, together with director of Panoply Digital, an organisation she co-founded which is concentrated on offering advisory providers and schooling to beat improvement challenges.
She can be the programme director for the Capacity Accelerator Network for DataDotOrg, serving to the organisation with its purpose to coach 1,000,000 information professionals by 2032.
Rose Luckin, professor of learner centred design, UCL; founder/CEO, EDUCATE Ventures Research
Using her background in academia, Luckin based EDUCATE Ventures Research in 2020 with the purpose of mixing synthetic intelligence and human intelligence to make sure persons are getting the most out of expertise.
In the previous she has been director of UCL EDUCATE, and is at the moment a professor earner Centred Design at UCL Knowledge Lab.
Sarah Corbridge, healthcare director, Credera
Passionate about utilizing digital applied sciences for higher well being outcomes, Sarah Corbridge heads up healthcare for tech consulting agency Credera in the UK.
Prior to this, she was healthcare director and international account supervisor for EMEA at Dell Technologies.
She can be a board trustee for the Ethos Academy Trust, and has beforehand labored for the NHS.
Sarah Turner, CEO and co-founder, Angel Academe
Turner based Angel Academe, a pro-women and pro-diversity angel funding group targeted on expertise, and is at the moment CEO of the group.
Turner can be an advisory board member of tech recruiter Spinks, and in 2007 co-founded consultancy Turner Hopkins, which helps companies to create digital technique.
Previously, Turner was an exterior board member and chair of the funding committee for enterprise capital fund the Low Carbon Innovation Fund and a board member of the UK Business Angels Association, the commerce affiliation for early-stage funding.
Sheridan Ash, technology and innovation, women in technology leader, PwC UK; founder, Tech She Can
Ash has two main roles – as expertise innovation chief at PwC UK, and co-CEO and founding father of the charity, Tech She Can. She’s a board member of the Institute of Coding and, in 2020, obtained an MBE for providers to younger women and girls by way of expertise.
Tech She Can is an award-winning charity with over 240 member organisations, who collectively work with business, authorities and faculties to enhance the ratio of girls in expertise roles. It gives initiatives and pathways into tech careers throughout all the totally different levels of women’ and ladies’s lives.
At PwC, Ash led change in the expertise workforce, pioneering initiatives which noticed the proportion of girls in tech greater than double to succeed in 32%.
Suki Fuller, founder, Miribure
Fuller based Miribure in 2015. The firm makes use of information gathering and analytics to advertise strategic decision-making in corporations.
She can be a founding ambassador of the FiftyFiftyPledge, an advisory board member of Tech London Advocates and Tech Global Advocates, and the TLA Women in Tech co-lead.
Fuller co-founded, and till 2019 was CEO of, incubator and accelerator Salaam Ventures, which focuses on aiding moral startups.
Tessa Clarke, co-founder and CEO, Olio
Tessa Clarke co-founded and is CEO of food-sharing app Olio which helps customers share meals that might in any other case be wasted.
She is a fellow of enterprise fund Unreasonable, a enterprise mentor for Virgin StartUp, and a enterprise companion for early-stage generalist influence fund Mustard Seed MAZE.
Toni Scullion, computing science teacher; founder of dressCode
Scullion is a serial founder, having based gownCode, a not-for-profit that encourages younger ladies in Scotland to think about a profession in pc science; and co-founded the Ada Scotland Festival, which goals to make use of collaboration to shut the gender hole in pc science schooling in Scotland.
These endeavours stem from her being a pc science instructor enthusiastic about encouraging extra kids to take the topic.
Tristi Tanaka, head of the CMO portfolio, NHS Black Country ICB; BCS Women committee member; fellow, ForHumanity
Tanaka is at the moment a part of the programme staff for All4Health&Care, a group launched throughout the pandemic to attach digital healthcare suppliers with the public sector.
She can be the head of the CMO Office for NHS Black Country ICB, a fellow, impartial audit for AI programs for ForHumanity, and a BCS Women membership secretary.
