Previous womenintechnology Events

We would like to extend a big thank you to everyone that came along to the "Do you need to be a manager to be a leader?" event that we co-hosted with UBS on Wednesday 10th September 2008. The event was very popular and we had only one or two spare seats in the room.

Lois gave a personal retrospective of her career in information technology that spanned more than four decades. She shared how she achieved her own career success and gave valuable insights into how others can do the same. She described how her non-traditional approach to career and family choices, whilst remaining genuinely true to herself, created her happiness.

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...

Baroness Greenfield is Director of the Royal Institution and Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology at Lincoln College, Oxford. Her research is focused on brain physiology and she provided an entertaining view on her reasons for why fewer women pursue careers in technology and the sciences. During her very lively one hour presentation Susan debunked several myths about women working...

After a welcome and update from Maggie Berry, womenintechnology's Director, our key note speaker was Dr Suzanne Doyle-Morris who talked about what makes successful people work smarter and not harder in order to achieve a work life balance that is unique and completely right for them. I think everyone was able to take away action points from her top three recommendations...

We started off with a welcome from Maggie Berry, womenintechnology's Director followed by a welcome from Merrill Lynch by Jane Phillips, Global Head of Service Assurance. Jane shared some of her personal experiences of networking as well as her own top do's and don't and welcomed the audience to Merrill Lynch.Our first presenter was Preethi Nair, author and public speaker who...

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. Greg Cousland, HR Director SGCIB welcomed the audience on behalf of Société Générale. The key note speaker was Michelle Brailsford of the Jupiter Consulting Group...

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...

The key note speaker was Rebecca Watson of Brompton Associates, a corporate and executive coach who led the session on How to Manage Your Manager. Her presentation covered several key areas including common management types and how to manage them, how to get to know your manager, understanding your role in the relationship, a quick guide to self-promotion and top tips to increase...

We'd like to say a special thank you to our keynote speaker - Laurel Herman, Managing Director of Positive Presence - 'the intelligent image consultancy for intelligent people' - who presented You Are Your Own Best Business Card - Steps to Positive Career Management for Women in IT. It was an interactive session with the audience having to think about how others perceive them...

We'd like to say a special thank you to the Microsoft speakers: Eileen Brown, Manager IT Pro Evangelist Team, Paul Norris, EMEA Director and Kate Isler, Online Services Group Chief of Staff. And thank you to our panellists – Salma Shah, Director of SN Training and Terry Thorpe, Chief Transformation Officer at the Centre for Integral Transformation. Eileen presented the results of the Microsoft...

We'd like to say a special thank you to the JPMorgan speakers Ellen Bishop (Chief Technology Officer for Worldwide Security Services Technology EMEA and APAC) and Slim Baccar (Chief Technology Officer for IB Technology Exotics and Hybrids) and to the JPMorgan panellists Alison Gurd, Kritika Shekar and Julian Cork. Their hints, tips and advice as well as explanations of their own...

The key note speakers were Stewart Carmichael, Managing Director for Global Technology Infrastructure and Adrian Pearce, Managing Director for Global Business Technology who gave valuable insights into what it's like working at Merrill Lynch. Richa Rustagi a Senior Specialist in End User Computing and Carolyn Jones, Vice President in Global Business Technology both spoke...

The evening started with a welcome from Maggie Berry of womenintechnology, followed by the Positive Impact and Influencing Tools session and then a Q&A with UBS representatives. The evening finished off with some lively networking over a few glasses of wine! So thanks again to Viki who led the Positive Impact and Influencing Tools session. A big thank you again to UBS for co-hosting the event...

Many thanks to everyone who came along to our Mentoring for Success event on Monday 26th June 2006. The evening was kindly hosted by Citigroup at Citigroup Centre in the Docklands - there was a great turnout and the debate certainly generated lots of interesting discussion about mentoring! So a big thank you to Citigroup and to our guest speaker, Louise MacInnes from Jive...

We'd like to say a special thank you to the JPMorgan speakers Ellen Bishop (Chief Technology Officer for Worldwide Security Services Technology EMEA and APAC) and Slim Baccar (Chief Technology Officer for IB Technology Exotics and Hybrids) and to the JPMorgan panellists Alison Gurd, Kritika Shekar and Julian Cork. Their hints, tips and advice as well as explanations of their own...

We'd like to say a big thank you everyone at womenintechnology and from our colleagues at McGregor Boyall to all of you that attended the womenintechnology networking event on Thursday 8th September. It was great to see so many women at our first networking event - over 200 people turned up which was superb. From the feedback we've had so far, people definitely thought it...