| Date: | 17 June 2015 |
The IIBA UK membership is now 42% female. However, women make up only 15% of roles in technology, with the number of women in leadership roles remaining unchanged at 11% for the last ten years (Gartner).
This is an interactive web panel discussion on the challenges faced by women in technology, how this plays into the skills shortage in IT and talk about the individual experiences of our panel.
Our panel:
With more than 20 years' experience in financial services and technology, Neira Jones regularly advises organisations of all sizes on payments, cyber risk, information security and digital innovation and regularly addresses international audiences on these topics. She chairs the Advisory Board for mobile innovator Ensygnia & the Global Advisory Board for the Centre for Strategic Cybercrime & Security Science. She is a Founding Advisory Board Member for GiveADay UK, a not-for profit organisation aiming to protect charities and schools in cyberspace, an Advisory Board Member for the Emerging Payments Assocciation and is a Non-Executive Director for the International Association for Alternative Finance. CEOWORLD Magazine nominated her Top Chief Security Officer to Follow on Twitter in April 2014 (@neirajones), Merchant Payments Ecosystem nominated her Acquiring Personality of the Year 2013 and SC Magazine gave her the Information Security Person of the Year 2012 Award.
Branka Minic is Senior Consultant with Future Work Consortium, advising global corporations, governments and international NGOs on effective Human Capital Management. Most recently, Branka was ManpowerGroup's Senior Director of Global Corporate & Government Affairs. She developed and managed strategic relationships, public private partnerships and joint initiatives with business, public, and non-profit organizations in developed, developing and emerging markets.
Branka's research deals with innovative policies and best practices to reduce youth unemployment, and specifically the protocols for implementing successful workplace mentoring and apprenticeship programs.
Branka serves on the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Youth Unemployment. She is on the Advisory Council of Making Cents International, the social enterprise committed to increasing economic opportunity in developing countries, and on the Advisory Council of the American Institute for Innovative Apprenticeship. Branka holds a MSEE degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Belgrade, Serbia and a MSCSE degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Miami, Florida.
Debbie Paul, FBCS CITP, is the Managing Director of Assist Knowledge Development, a training and consultancy company specialising in business analysis, business change and solution development. She has extensive experience in all aspects of business analysis and business process improvement. Debbie jointly edited and wrote the best-selling BCS publication, Business Analysis, and is also the co-author of the BCS publication Business Analysis Techniques. Debbie is the BCS Chief Examiner for Business Analysis and is an accredited SFIA consultant. Debbie is a regular speaker at business seminars and is a founder member of the BA Manager Forum.
Kirsty Cramond is Head of Transformation Planning at Nationwide Building Society, the UK's largest building society where she is responsible for managing Nationwide's portfolio of business and IT change projects and transformation risk management. Kirsty started her career in Marketing before moving into IT where she built extensive experience in analysis, project and portfolio management. Kirsty is a passionate advocate for encouraging more women to develop and grow their careers in IT.
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