Connected TV – Women in Media Tech — London, UK — 17 March, 2016
90 York Way
Kings Cross, London N1 9AG
UK
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
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