Making Your Own Path: London Women in Tech Share Their Journey

The most important learn is often the journey rather than the destination. The aim of our event is to bring further awareness to the stories of women within the tech industry, the different roles it can include and their journey. A Keynote speaker will be followed by a panel discussion where there will be women representing different positions in tech and how they made an impact in the industry or excelled in their careers.  Schedule 6.00pm: Drinks and Networking 6.30pm: Introduction to event 6.40pm: Keynote Speaker 7.15pm: Panel Discussion 8.15pm: Nibbles and Drinks and Networking Speakers Ina Yulo Ina is the global manager for BrightTALK's FinTech and Financial Services community which she launched herself and now has over 300,000 subscribers. Despite not having a technology or Financial Services background, has been on the Women in FinTech Power List for two years running and is a mentor for a number of start-up accelerators and the European Women in Payments Network. She has gone down the road of questioning her position in an industry that she is seemingly not a fit for on paper, and has come back out the other side with key learnings that will help others in their professional and personal lives. Nathalie Christmann-Cooper Nathalie is an experienced and passionate designer, who learnt to code in her 40s to make the transition from graphic designer to an award-winning web developer. After dedicating 16 years of a career break to raising a family, Nathalie is loving her new role as a Full Stack Developer at Skills Matter, London.  Nathalie co-founded TreatOut, a greenfield food tech startup project which is tackling the issues faced when trying to dine out with food allergies and intolerances. She was accepted onto the 5th cohort of Google Campus for Mums Startup Programme at Campus London in October 2015 and was named one of the 15 small business owners joining the FSB’s national taskforce established to promote women in enterprise in July 2016.  Danielle Gourgey Danielle began her career in Marketing however always had a strong interest in coding. With this interest prominent in her mind she then went onto study at General Assembly where she became qualified and started her career in coding with front-end technologies. It became clear that her preference was in back-end engineering and within her role she was able to transfer across to using Functional Programming, mainly Scala. Dedicated to succeding in each of her roles Danielle has a great career switch journey which will be inspiring to those who may feel lost with where they are currently at in their role.  Phoebe Greig Phoebe was a late starter to the tech scene. Having had a career in finance, it was only when she started teaching herself javascript, that she realised she had found her calling, and in 2015, she decided to take the plunge and change career. Phoebe joined the Net-A-Porter technology graduate scheme and a year later, she joined the BBC as a Software Engineer. She now builds cutting edge tools for journalists. Where tools are built with accessibility in mind, to ensure that all people, regardless of their range of hearing, movement, sight, or cognitive ability can participate equally. Phoebe is Co-Founder of Women Driven Development, an organisation that brings gender minorities, leaders and future leaders in tech together, to share knowledge, experiences and to create real connections, promoting sponsorship through hackathons, practical sessions and events. She is also Co-Director of Lesbians Who Tech, London, where she organise talks, conferences and events for LGBTQ+ women, non-binary people and allies in tech. A chance to win! We have two amazing prizes up for grabs. Just sign up and attend the event and you will be entered into the prize draw for the chance to win one of the below. A ticket to the Functional Programming conference Lambda World which is taking place in sunny Cádiz, Spain. This is a great opportunity to further your programming skills and meet those in the community. The conference takes place on 25th & 26th October.  A spa day voucher for one at the Ajala Spa, London. Hosts This is an event jointly hosted by Signify Technology and BrightTALK.