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| Celebrating Women in Tech |
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| We live in a world plagued by stereotypes whereby countless ‘isms’ drive discrimination. This International Women’s Day (IWD) I want to talk about the importance of preventing societal bias from resurfacing in Artificial Intelligence (AI), a dominant technology in both our present and seemingly the future.
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| To celebrate International Women’s Day, Birmingham-based manufacturing and engineering apprenticeships provider, Make UK, hosted an afternoon tea for over 100 women. At the event on March 8, local female leaders and current apprentices shared experiences, networked and celebrated their successes in the manufacturing industry, which remains a male-dominated sector.
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| Lorna Lawson, Optoelectronics Solutions Manager, Solid State Supplies, discusses her experience as a woman in tech this International Women's Day (IWD) and her predictions for the future of IoT. Could you tell me a bit about yourself and your background? I’ve worked in the electronics industry for my entire career, since the age of 18.
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| Jackie Kingston, Sales Manager, Review Display Systems, shares her experience as a women in tech with Hardware Pioneers for International Women's Day (IWD). As a young girl who was raised in an engineering family, I was fortunate enough to visit renowned British engineering companies such as Rolls Royce with my Dad.
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| Megan Barbier, Vice President, People & Culture at Jumio, offers her thoughts on gender in the tech industry. Jumio uses the power of AI, biometrics, machine learning and certified liveness detection to help rapidly convert more customers, stop fraudsters from infiltrating online ecosystem and get in compliance with KYC/AML. |
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| Following on from their Future Factories series, this three-part documentary from Digi-Key will guide you through what the future of hardware looks like. Brought to you by Digi-Key, Supply Frame, and Microchip. This first episode looks at the acronym STEAM is defined as Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math.
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| In our last Women in Tech issue back in September, the founder focus feature saw us head to the land of the midnight sun, Norway, to speak to Anne Lise Waal, CTO and COO of Attensi, provider of gamified training solutions, about the diverse team she has built, and how women in CTO positions can influence the ethos of a tech business. |
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| Tomorrow is International Women's Day (IWD) and Mahsa Nakhjiri, Director of Product Development, Connected Infrastructure, at HARMAN International, answers some questions about being a women in the electronics industry. She has over two decades of experience in the wireless technology and connectivity segments.
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| This International Women’s Day we are celebrating female founders and other women’s contributions to the world of startups. I caught up with Amber Probyn, aged 23, who co-founded PEEQUAL: the “UK’s first female urinal”. |
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| Following the success of yesterday’s International Women’s Day celebrations, here at Hardware Pioneers we have decided that one day simply isn’t enough to discuss the achievements of all the wonderful women in tech. |
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