Women in Tech

Sectigo has announced that CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Jennifer Binet, SVP of Enterprise Sales at Sectigo, to its Women of the Channel Power 100 list for 2022.

The digitalisation of workspaces is prompting more women to join tech companies. In addition, the growing demand for pursuing STEM courses in developing countries has generated a plethora of opportunities for women at tech companies. Aditi Basu, Marketing Head at Future Market Insights, discusses the rising dominance of women in tech roles.

On the eve of the annual Earth Day celebrations, Scottish Government Minister Lorna Slater has urged more women to join the construction industry and use their skills to build a greener future to help protect the planet.

AND Technology’s CEO, Nicola Thorn, shared her experience of growing her consultancy which focuses on product development in the IoT. Nicola was joined by her mother Valerie Lynch, who is the founder of AND Technology. Diverging from traditional companies that use the patriarchal suffix ‘& Sons’, Beatrice O’Flaherty offers a refreshing account of this female-led and family-run business.

Nearly 400 delegates attended Women Innovate 2022 earlier this month. The event, which is hosted every year by Innovate UK KTN on International Women’s Day, is the highlight of Innovate UK’s annual Women in Innovation programme.

The positions have been created at a time of considerable expansion within MacDermid Alpha’s Electrolube, who manufacture specialist chemicals for the electronics, automotive and industrial manufacturing industries, and have recently developed a new eco range of bio-based conformal coatings and resins.

A respected provider of leadership advisory and executive search services to the UK’s tech sector is calling for a shift in thinking to help address the industry’s current gender imbalance. Amrop UK is urging senior male leaders to take greater ownership of the current issue and to consider whether they can do more to attract females towards a future in the digital space.

Today we can celebrate many great women who have helped shape the world of technology as we know it.  From Katherine Johnson, a mathematician whose pioneering work at NASA was instrumental in the success of sending astronauts into orbit, to Reshma Saujani, founder and CEO of the nonprofit Girls Who Code, which aims to increase the number of women in computer science — these and many other talented women continue to pave the way fo...

The winners of the 12th annual FDM everywoman in Technology Awards have been announced. The awards celebrate the industry’s most exceptional talent from the UK and beyond, and this year’s theme was People Purpose Planet.

Ellie Jukes is a first year Make UK apprentice working at Hitachi in Stone and for International Women’s Day, she shares her experiences as a young woman entering the male-dominated engineering sector.