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womenintechnology.co.uk was launched at a lunchtime drinks event in Tower 42 on Tuesday 8th March 2005 - International Women's Day.
The event was kicked off with a presentation from Maggie Berry, UK Communications Director, who introduced the audience to the womenintechnology website and gave the background to the project and why the website was launched. Maggie's speech was followed by talks from Deborah Howard of IBM and Carolyn Edwards of BritWIT. Deborah took the opportunity to explain what IBM do to promote women within their organisation as well as sharing some of her own experiences of working in technology. Carolyn spoke about the benefits of networking and indeed got the audience involved in some impromptu networking there and then!
The presentations were followed by canapes and drinks and many guests spent a good part of the afternoon networking and chatting amongst themselves. The event had a full turn out (100+) and the guests, as well as being able to hear the presentations and participate in the networking, were able to enjoy the fantastic view out of the windows of Tower 42! | 