1. You are here:
  2. Home
  3. Resource library Search
  4. Women4Technology - 22 June 2016
01 Jun 2016

Women4Technology - 22 June 2016

What are the latest game-changing innovations shaping the technology sector? We will hear from expert panellists in cyber security, fashion tech, fintech & biotech about how their businesses are designing the future. This event is the latest in the Women 4 Technology series for female business leaders in technology & life sciences.

Tags: biotech, Cyber Security, fashion tech, female business leaders, fintech, high growth, innovation, mhealth Event Programme An invitation-only event for female business leaders in technology and life sciences. This event is the latest in the Women 4 Technology series of business focused networking events for female Founders, CEOs, CXOs, Non-execs, VPs & investors. We will hear from a panel of speakers, from fintech, cyber security, fashion tech & life sciences. Serial entrepreneur

Sarah McVittie is Co-founder of Dressipi, an innovative online styling and fashion discovery site, which uses technology to disrupt the status quo and raise the bar in consumer services. Sarah was previously Co-founder and CEO of Texperts, the world’s first text message answering service, which she built to exit to KGB, owners of the 118118 directory enquiries service, in a multi-million pound deal. Poppy Gustafsson is COO of cyber security firm Darktrace. Darktrace is the world leader in Enterprise Immune System technology for cyber security, using new machine learning techniques based on the biological principles of the human immune system to addresses the challenge of detecting previously unidentified cyber threats within computer networks in real time.

Lily Cortese is Director of Business Strategy at J&J Innovation, working to catalyse early innovations and discover opportunities for collaboration and investment across Johnson & Johnson’s global healthcare businesses to positively impact human health through innovation. Emily Mackay is Founder / CEO of Crowdsurfer, a ‘Bloomberg’ type data service for the high-growth peer-finance world. Crowdsurfer captures and aggregates millions of data points on individual fundraises daily and makes it searchable and analysable via an online dashboard or through a single API. Prior to founding Crowdsurfer, Emily founded Microgenius, the UK’s first platform for community share offers.

The event is sponsored by Grant Thornton, Mills & Reeve and FieldHouse Associates. The event is organised and hosted by Bailey Fisher Executive Search, an independent executive search firm specialising in building boards and leadership teams for ambitious companies in technology and life sciences. If you are a female business leader in technology or life sciences and would be interested in receiving an invitation to this or future events, please contact [email protected]

Return to listing