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 We'd like to extend a big thank you to everyone who came along to the "Aiming for the top - how to be a successful women working in IT" event on Tuesday 6th November 2007 which we co-hosted with JPMorgan. The evening was a great success with an audience of about 220 so the networking both before and after the event was busy.
The evening started with a welcome from Maggie Berry, Director of womenintechnology.co.uk who gave an introduction to the evening's presentation and an update of what's been going on at womenintechnology. The key note speaker was Helen Duguid of Do-Good Consulting Ltd and formerly Head of Great Leaders at Microsoft whose inspirational presentation looked at women already achieving success in technology and the key things people need to be considering to take their careers to where they'd like them to be.
Stephanie Talbot, IB Credit Hybrids Programme Manager Lead at JPMorgan then spoke briefly giving an insight into her technology career to date and how she has achieved success. The Q&A with representatives from JPMorgan followed: Phillip Carter - Chief Business Technologist EMEA Credit Hybrids, Fiona Rodd - Global Technology Infrastructure Production Assurance Manager and Maxine Varney - Head of Client Technology, EMEA participated along with Helen and Stephanie. Some sound advice and interesting anecdotes came of out of the Q&A:
- "success takes perseverance"
After the Q&A, there was a lively networking session where attendees got the chance to talk further to the evening's presenter and panellists as well as the chance to network amongst themselves and catch up with people.
So we'd like to say a big thank you to Helen for her presentation and to Stephanie for her talk as well as another big thank you to Philip, Fiona and Maxine for their participation in the Q&A. An even bigger thank you goes to the JPMorgan team for their help and support in putting this event together.
A final thank you goes to JPMorgan for co-hosting this event with us and for their on going support of womenintechnology!
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