Here’s the lovely man who patiently drove us around town on International Women’s Day. He recaps the day’s journeys in true London cabbie style and talks a bit about how he uses Twitter at work. We really enjoyed having the luxury of a professional and friendly driver all day long. Follow that cab (driver) on…
We ended our International Women’s Day dash around London with an interview with the Director of the National Theatre, Rufus Norris. Here, Rufus talks about the importance of a national institution representing the nation through the people who work there. [Disclosure: Rufus is an old pal so forgive us some giggles at the start…
Download (20MB) Gillian Hughes of Veoo talks about her experience of going into engineering after being at a Dublin girls boarding school and her career afterwards with mBlox, WWE and Facebook. She talks about being able to do whatever you want, doing things people didn’t expect her to do and ignoring social limits. Helen and…
Download (8MB) We bundled Muki into the back of our cab and drove her round the block, asking her about what IWD means to her and what’s good about it. She talks about the challenges of sexism and being judged adversely at work. But her hope for the future is rooted in her recent mentoring work…
Dowload (10MB) Tracy and Russell talk about their investments and how they run the partnership based on the belief that diverse teams deliver better results. As far as we know, they’re the only gender-balanced venture firm at partner level. They share their experience of gender balance in entrepreneurs getting funding. Helen Keegan and I spent…
Download (7MB) Thanks to mobile technology we were able to be flexible on our journey across London on Tuesday and that meant being able to arrange on the fly to intercept Sue Black on her way to the IWD debate at the House of Commons later in the afternoon. We got to flick through a…
Download (15MB) Jane started in nursing and healthcare management and then changed course to join CabApp to do business development. Nathalie worked at Accenture, KPMG and Apple before founding her social enterprise EduKit which helps school find youth service support for pupils. You’ll hear about their journeys in their respective careers, their experience of pay…
Download (5MB) Cathy talks to us about the importance of including and attracting more women in building the future; the importance of support from family and teachers; actively explaining what an exciting career engineering can be; she also tells us about the work of the Future Cities Catapult Helen Keegan and I spent International Women’s…
Download (6MB) We dashed over to Accelerator in Kingsland Rd to meet Imogen from Qudini The product was born at a hackathon in 2012 to help solve queuing using NFC technology. Imogen describes her move to tech from advertising, what IWD means for her as well as her approach to helping women achieve pay parity…
Download (4.6MB) Julia founded CrowdJustice as a crowdfunding platform for communities to raise funds for legal disputes. She talks here about the differences she’s noticed, moving from the legal world to the tech industry, especially the differences in mindset regarding risk and innovation and expresses her hope for tech that can enable social change. Helen…