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 We'd like to say a big thank you to everyone who came along to the "How to Get Ahead - Successful Career Strategies for Women in IT" event that we co-hosted with Accenture on Wednesday 21st May 2008. The event was really well attended and there wasn't a spare seat in the room! So thank you to all of those who came along and helped make the evening what it was!
Maggie Berry, womenintechnology's Director opened the evening with a welcome to the event and gave a brief update as to what's happening at womenintechnology. Then it was over to Christina Ioannidis, Managing Director of Aquitude, the key note speaker for the evening. Christina's presentation was hands-on and interactive and the audience was guided through three key aspects of successful career strategies - Constructive Confidence, Professional Excellence and Visibility Management.
Christina was followed by Lis Astall, Senior Executive and former Country MD at Accenture who shared her personal insights about getting ahead in the IT industry.
After the presentations there was a Q&A panel discussion with Christina and Lis as well as Paul Billing, Senior Executive in Systems Integration & Technology at Accenture, Kay Koeslag, Manager in Accenture Technology Solutions and Arvinder Mudhar, Global CTO for Investment Banking Technology at Merrill Lynch.
The evening finished with networking over drinks and canapés and the two winners of the prize draw - a complementary Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument © (HBDI) session - were Rosita Hoyle of Transport for London and Fatma Hatipoglu of the London School of Business and Finance. Well done to them!
Thank you goes to Accenture for hosting this fabulous evening with us and for their continued sponsorship of womenintechnology. Thank you also goes to our presenters - Christina Ioannidis of Aquitude and Lis Astall of Accenture - and to our panellists - Paul Billing and Kay Koeslag of Accenture and Arvinder Mudhar of Merrill Lynch.
If you would like to find out more about working at Accenture and their open roles, please contact Tabbasum Qureshi of the Accenture Recruitment Team.
If you have any questions about the event, please don't hesitate to contact Maggie Berry, Director, womenintechnology.co.uk on 020 7422 9214 or mberry@womenin.co.uk | 