PANEL: Inspiring Tomorrow’s Women Leaders

Far too few women are seen in leadership roles today, especially at Board Level. The aim of the event is to inspire, coach and mentor tomorrow’s Women Leaders in the Business and Technology space.

Several inspiring Business Leaders will be sharing their journey to board level. Not only will they share their success stories and challenges they faced along the way, but they will be helping to motivate, inspire and coach tomorrow’s Women Business Leaders.

This event will also launch Structured Project’s Structured Mentoring Programme to start in 2016.

SESSION CHAIR: Women in Tech Media

Session chair: Maria Ingold, Founder & CEO, mireality

11:30 Introduction: Why the heck do we need women in tech?

• Gender imbalance in media tech: what are the facts and figures?
• How do we start the journey and get kids interested?
• What stops women from entering the media tech workforce?
• What does it take for women to stay in and advance?
• What happens if we don’t change?

Maria Ingold, Founder & CEO, mireality

11.45 Keynote interview: Tackling gender imbalance – why this is a priority

• How do we start the journey and get kids interested?
• What stops women from entering the media tech workforce?
• What things did you run up against? How did you overcome them?
• What does it take for women to stay in the industry, and advance?
• What have you learned on your journey to CTO?
• What happens if we don’t change?

Tamara Leemans, CTO, VOO

12:00 Initial panel: Engaging men

• What inspired them to start getting more women and improve diversity in tech?
• What ratios are they seeing and at what age are the girls/ diverse youth dropping out and why?
• What are they doing to get more women/ diverse young adults to enter the workforce?
• How are they helping women advance?
• What benefits are they seeing from bringing more women into tech and senior tech roles in their organisations?
• What issues are they seeing? What still needs to change?
• What happens if we don’t make that change?

Panel chair: Maria Ingold, Founder & CEO, mireality
Major Oli Morgan, British Army
Toby Mildon, Diversity and Inclusion Lead, BBC

12:20 Full panel: Tackling gender imbalance – an agenda for change

• How is gender imbalance being tackled in industry sectors – media, technology, telecoms?
• What is working, what is not?
• What needs to be done to tackle gender imbalance throughout the industry, and in particular, at the leadership level?
• The importance of role models and mentoring, celebrating achievements
• The five key actions our industry must adopt in 2016

Panel chair: Maria Ingold, Founder & CEO, mireality
Alex Mahon, CEO, The Foundry
Ingrid Silver, Partner, Dentons
Claudia Vaccarone, Market Research & Customer Experience Director, Eutelsat
Tamara Leemans, CTO, VOO
Major Oli Morgan, British Army
Toby Mildon, Diversity and Inclusion Lead, BBC

SPEAKER: The Day My Dad Met Elon Musk

Q: What do you get a rocket scientist for Father’s Day?
A: Another rocket scientist!

My father-daughter journey to introduce my dad to Elon Musk and see SpaceX.

It’s also about the process of inventing, innovating, thinking laterally and making the impossible happen, and how my father inspired me as a young girl to become interested in science.

Talk debut at the Generation Success Power Series: Starting, Running and Growing a Successful Technology Business.

Innovating the Impossible

Vertical innovation can advance sectors, but additional dimensions of innovation can make the impossible happen. Creating an innovation mindset means examining how we’re taught to think and how we structure industry. By changing how we expect kids to think we can encourage more – including girls – into STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) and inspire them to think in new and novel ways. By changing industry structure can encourage new forms of innovation which both creates new revenue opportunities and inspires further innovative thought.

The Impact of #metoo in Technology and Film

As a Chief Technology Officer in technology and film, Maria addresses how #metoo has impacted sexual harassment in technology and film, as well as what we can do to stop sexual harassment.