In June 2020, Think Digital Partners launched its interview series focusing on the career journeys of some of the leading women in tech based roles from the public and private sector. Our first ‘Women in Digital’ interview was with Cheryl Stevens, director of shared channel services at DWP Digital, who regularly speaks at our conferences and works with us on digital content.
To date we have published 131 of these interviews and are working on more for the coming months. The interviews provide great insight into part of the career journeys, experiences and challenges faced by some great tech leaders. The levels of engagement for this feature have been huge with most interviews being read at least 3,000 times and many are read a lot more.
Our most popular interview was with Julia Glidden, who at the time was the VP for global public sector at Microsoft with over 35,000 people viewing her interview to date. We recently asked Julia why she felt it was important for her and leaders like her to share their stories. “Despite all the gains female leaders have made in the workplace, for all too familiar reasons, serious challenges and obstacles remain. ‘Women in Digital’ immediately caught and captured my attention for the simple reason that the chance to hear from colleagues candidly sharing their own stories made me feel less alone and, more importantly, more determined than ever to help create a better workplace for tomorrow’s generation.”
Here is a list of all the interviews that we have run in this series since the last time we celebrated International Women Day. The job titles and organisations of those featured may no longer be current but were correct at the time of the interview.
Cate Walton, chief engineer of the Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme at the UK Home Office
Zoe Gill, Vice President (Consulting Services) for CGI
Jo Massey, account director, home affairs and law enforcement at BAE Systems
Holly Steele, senior VP of EMEA and UK at BlueVoyant
Laura Ball, CX AI lead, EMEA at Zoom
Emma Gawen, managing director and partner at Public Digital
Sarah Bennett, CIO at Mercator Digital
Angela McCourt is now director of data and technology at Ireland’s media regulator, Coimisiún na Meán
Dr. Ruth Wandhöfer, Member Advisory Board, The CSBR, the UK’s Cyber Security and Business Resilience Policy Centre
Samantha Jennings is head of operations at Avella Security
Eman Al-Hillawi, CEO of business change consultancy, Entec Si,
Dr Francesca Boem, associate professor with the Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department at University College London
Madeline Hoskin, chief technology officer at North Yorkshire Counci
Kirstine Dale is the Met Office’s Chief AI Officer (CAIO) and Principal Fellow for Data Science
Vicki Chauhan, managing director at Made Tech
Lakshmi Hanspal, chief trust officer at DigiCert
Tendü Yoğurtçu PhD, CTO of Precisely
Debbie Wilson, head of geospatial data at Ordnance Survey
Dr. Rania Khalaf, chief AI officer at WSO2
Gigi Schumm, SVP of threat intelligence at Securonix
Kate Boyle, director of data and analytics at the Police Digital Service
Cindy van Niekerk, CEO at Umazi
Liina Vahtras, managing director of Estonia’s e-Residency programme
Linda Essen-Möller, senior director at Public Digital
We are always on the look out for more brilliant female leaders to feature so if you want to nominate someone you know or work with please do get in touch.
