Women in Technology

Dr. Farzana Huda

Technology EvangelistBlue Ponzu Associates

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Why am I here talking to you? What I do My story Why more young women should consider

technology Great sites to follow

What I don't do

Tech evangelism explained

A person who builds a critical mass of support for a given technology, and then establishes it as a technical standard in a market that is subject to network effects.

An evangelist promotes the use of a particular product or technology through talks, articles, blogging, user demonstrations, recorded demonstrations, or the creation of sample projects.

Tech evangelism explained 2

The word evangelism is taken from the context of religious evangelism due to the similarity of relaying information about a particular set of beliefs with the intention of converting the recipient.

My Story 1

Medicine 5 yrs Upbeat charity – Coldplay sponsor

-------recession------ IT sales and repairs + charitable projects

My Story 2

Head of marketing at iProTech

- helped set up recruitment and training divisions

- raised company profile through networking and events

- obtained contracts for the company including the largest one they have to date

Why more women?

Balance - 50%, different points of view, management styles

Growing field, consistently in top 5 of recruitment (REC 2014)

One of the largest growth areas for the future

Why more women?

The percentage of female CIOs has remained static at 14% for a decade

Fewer than 6% of executives in tech are female Working patterns becoming more life-friendly

with mobile working and flexible hours “Because the industry’s reinventing itself all the

time, there’s not a set model about who could or should be successful,” said Susan Wojcicki, the Chief Executive of YouTube.

So you think you're not techy

THINK AGAIN

Jewellery meet technology

Ringly

Ringly connects to your phone and sends you customized notifications through vibration and light.

The future looks interesting

Wearables – Google Glass, smart watches, E-textiles

Internet of Things (IOT) – Smart homes, autonomous control, AI

Big data – information leverage, apps Augmented reality Transreality gaming Li-fi – Philips, EDF, French museums, mobiles

Female role models

Marissa Mayer – CEO at Yahoo Virginia M. Rometty – CEO at IBM Meg Whitman – CEO at Hewlett-Packard Safra A. Catz, president and chief financial

officer of Oracle ($43.6 million) Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of

Facebook ($16.1 million) Angela Ahrendts, new retail chief at Apple

Useful Websites

A Field Guide to.com New York Times article – June 7th – Riches

come to women as CEOs but few get there REC website – Recruitment and Employment

confederation Women in Technology.co.uk Wikipedia

Interesting Tech Sites

LinkedIn The Next Web Engadget CNET Mashable Lots of free sites to learn to code – Code

Academy, Code.org Code games – Code Avengers

My contact details

Email - faz@blueponzu.com

In development Website - www.blueponzu.com Follow me on Twitter and LinkedIn