| womenintechnology.co.uk 5th Birthday Celebrations | |
| March 2010 | |
| womenintechnology.co.uk was five years old on Monday 8th March 2010. Since we launched we've grown into a network of 6,000 members, have worked with multiple firms to help them hire more female technologists, have hosted 23 networking events and run over 50 training courses.... |  |
| Women of Substance: Inspiring Women in STEM | |
| January 2010 | |
| 'Women of Substance: Inspiring Women in STEM'' was co-hosted with The European Professional Women's Network and the Women's Engineering Society on Wednesday 27th January in the beautiful surroundings of the Royal Institution... |
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| Clever Decision Making |
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| October 2009 |
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This was the fourth networking event that we have co-hosted with Merrill Lynch (now Bank of America Merrill Lynch) and we'd like to thank them for their ongoing support commitment. I would like to pass on our thanks to our keynote speaker Julia Thrul, founder of V.G.L. Ltd...
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| Leadership in Challenging Times | |
| October 2009 |
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I would like to pass on our thanks to our keynote speakers, Sarah
Williams-Gardner, Campaign Director for Opportunity Now and Veronique
Arnoldi, Chief Technology Officer at Aviva Investors. Sarah gave a
thought provoking presentation about leadership styles.... |
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| W-Tech 2009 |
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| June 2009 |
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We’d like to thank everyone who came to W-Tech 2009, co-hosted by the British Computer Society and womenintechnology.co.uk, and made it such a buzzy and inspiring day. We had over 750 technical women sharing the day with us. A huge thanks to our key sponsors...
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| Building a Confident Personal Brand |
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| April 2009 |
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Thank you so much for coming along to last night's Building a Confident Personal Brand event which we co-hosted with Microsoft - there was a fantastic turnout (150 of you!) and we only heard good feedback afterwards so I think you all enjoyed yourselves! X X |
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Survival in the City: It's not just about the credit crunch!
March 2009
We just wanted to express our thanks to you for coming along to last
week's womenintechnology event that was held in association with Cancer
Research UK and hosted by Deloitte. We know the evening was a departure
from our usual career and personal development topics...
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Do you need to be a manager to be a leader?
September 2008
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. | |
Reach Up, Reach Out, Reach Within – achieving as a woman in technology
June 2008
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. | |
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How to Get Ahead in IT - Successful Career Strategies for Women in IT
May 2008
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... | |
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Banana skins, bottlenecks and elephant traps: the perilous journey for women in technology
April 2008
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... | |
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Working Smarter Not Harder
April 2008
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... | |
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Successful Career Networking for Women in Technology
February 2008
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... | |
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Political Savvy for Women in IT
January 2008
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... | |
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Aiming for the Top - How to be a Successful Women Working in IT
November 2007
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... | |
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How to Manage Your Manager
September 2007
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... | |
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Positive Career Management for Women in IT
June 2007
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... | |
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Raising Your Profile for a Successful Career in IT
May 2007
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... | |
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Powerful Conversations - Successful Negotiation Skills for Women
April 2007
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... | |
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A Showcase for Technology Careers
February 2007
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... | |
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Positive Impact and Influencing Tools
October 2006
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... | |
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Mentoring for Success
June 2006
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... | |
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Flexible Working in Technology
February 2006
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 womenintechnology Summer Networking Event
September 2006
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...
The womenintechnology Launch Party
March 2005
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...