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A place for women in IT - opinion and debate on how to bring more women into the technology sector.
June 2009
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From old boys' club to ladies' room: Contrasting photos from W-Tech
26 Jun 2009 -
Be the boss you wish you had (W-Tech, Suzanne Doyle-Morris)
26 Jun 2009 -
W-Tech as reported on Computer Weekly: Bringing women in IT together
26 Jun 2009
The large Common Room at the IET building in Savoy Place was the venue for the drinks reception for W-Tech's evening networking event. On the wall just above where I sat gulping my mineral water is ...
Speaker: Suzanne Doyle-Morris, 'executive coach with a passion for helping female executives succeed' and author of Beyond the Boys' Club: Strategies for Achieving Career Success as a Woman Working ...
Computer Weekly's reporter Rebecca Thomson reported on W-Tech - her story 'W-tech starts the drive to bring women in IT together' went online yesterday at 4pm. I was a bit busy in requirements ...
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Journey through a career in project-management in IT services (W-Tech
24 Jun 2009 -
Pictures of women in engineering found at the IET (W-Tech)
24 Jun 2009 -
Living in the future (Lesley Gavin, W-Tech)
24 Jun 2009 -
Interacting with technology - speech, touch, presence, etc (W-Tech)
24 Jun 2009 -
How to behave in an all-male team (W-Tech, Christina Ioannidis)
24 Jun 2009 -
Having fun and being a great technical professional - at Microsoft (W-Tech)
24 Jun 2009 -
W-Tech first impressions - welcoming, but confusing!
24 Jun 2009
Speaker: Stephanie Small Stephanie Small from Hewlett-Packard (HP) is going to take us on journey through a career in project management in this session - a career she admits she fell into, but ...
While getting lost en-route to the session on 'How to be the boss you wish you had' (which I'll blog from home, as it was interactive so I didn't get chance to dig out the laptop during the ...
Oops. Overloaded my laptop, so crashed for the start of this session. (And thanks to forgetting to build in a lunch hour, getting a bit of a sugar-low crash in my own system too! Must rectify that ...
Speakers: Jane Lewis, PFE from Microsoft UK and Eileen Brown IT Pro Evangelism Manager (Aside: Jane Lewis kicked off by mentioning this was the first time she'd presented to a room that's almost ...
What a way to get crowd engagement! Christian Ioannidis kicked off her session on 'how to behave in all-male team' by asking everyone in the packed room if who'd ever been the only woman in a ...
Microsoft has fielded the speakers for this session on "Having fun and being a great technical professional". In his intro, Andy Gitsham laid out his position: "Work hard, play hard" is too 90s - ...
It's a beautifully sunny day in London, and the walk from Embankment to the IET building on Savoy Place for today's W-Tech women in technology recruitment fair / networking event was pleasant. ...
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Looking forward to W-Tech tomorrow
23 Jun 2009 -
Language aside, there are gems in the Standard's 'golden skirts'
19 Jun 2009
I'm off to the BCS / Women in Technology W-Tech event in London tomorrow, at the IET building. It promises to be a good day, with networking opportunities, a female-friendly recruitment fair and a ...
Just read: Evening Standard article 'Rise of the golden skirts' - features Steve Shirley, Martha Lane Fox, and the three C's that women aspiring to the Boardroom need to muster.