Diversity & Inclusion

Meet Laura Caicedo and Chara Gravani, the co-founders of AWS Cloud Women; a community helping women and inspiring them into careers in cloud computing. The gender gap in technology is bad, it's even worse in cloud despite it being one of the most heavily invested in technologies. David asks them why the community needs to exist, what a role-model or a mentor can do for someone's career, and what can others learn from their experiences.

Ayse B. Cinar is an award winning leadership coach and the owner of To Be The One Coaching. She's working with female leaders juggling demands of professional and personal life, helping them to unlock the freedom needed to deliver the impact they want to. So what is her advice for today's leaders? Also on the show Cat Astier joins David Savage to talk about International Women’s Day, and we talk about Newton Foundations, a new free course from Newton Venture Program, who are aiming to broaden access to the world of venture capital.

World Hearing Day is the 3rd of March. It's a day we need to pay greater attention to, because we're stumbling towards catastrophe. Listening habits are wrecking our hearing and leading to potentially huge healthy crises, especially as new research points to a correlation between hearing loss and Dementia.

The second episode is with the author of 'The AI Dilemma: 7 Principles for Responsible Technology' Juliette Powell. Juliette has had an unconventional route into technology via a career in Television and eventually teaching at New York University. She is an AI expert and academic, speaking about how organizations can harness it's power. We talk about her own career, and what others can learn from her experience.

February is Black History Month in both the USA and Canada. To mark the month we're publishing two special episodes focused on observing the challenges the community faces in our technology sector. The first is with eSentire Chief Cyber Resilience Officer and Field CTO Tia Hopkins. Tia talks about education, ensuring corporate business is pulling it's weight in regards to preparing future professionals, and the fight to provide opportunities in cyber for black women.

Today Richard Felton-Thomas joins us to talk about the bias in sport talent spotting. AI Scout is an app that uses data to benchmark talent, giving scouts a tool to augment their activities and give more opportunity to those who might otherwise miss out. On the eve (almost) of the FIFA Women's World Cup, we're celebrating anything that expands inclusion and opportunity, We also chat about Reality+, who have partnered with OTZ Sports to launch 'Own The Zone', a game with technology at it's heart.