Discover the BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium, its mission, sponsors, and inspiring student stories beyond the event.
Speakers
Dr Safia Barikzai
Hannah Griffin
Saxon Partridge Smith
Agenda
6.30pm - Event start with a Welcome Introduction to the Webinar Series: Celebrating 18 Years of BCSWomen Lovelace Impact The sponsor’s story: Hannah talks about how STFC came to sponsor the event, and why they keep coming back and Prizewinning student Saxon Partridge Smith talks about what she gets out of the day
7.15pm - Questions
7.30pm - Event Close
Synopsis
This series will introduce participants to the BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium, exploring its mission and goals. Attendees will also hear from our sponsors and student competition winners, who will share their personal journeys and experiences beyond the Lovelace Colloquium.
In the third of our BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium seminar series we turn the spotlight on our sponsors. STFC have sponsored the people’s choice award at the event for over a decade now and keep coming back - Hannah Griffin will join us from their Harwell centre to talk about why this is. We also talk to one of the past winners of the people’s choice prize, Saxon, who’s attended several events as a student.
Speaker Biographies
Dr Safia Barikzai
Safia Barikzai is Associate Professor and Deputy Head of School of Computer Science and Digital Technologies at London South Bank University. Safia has been championing inclusive and equitable Computing initiatives for over a decade. She is the current chair of the BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium and has supported Lovelace for the past 10 years.
Hannah Griffin
Hannah works at Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) split between their neutron and muon science facility and their scientific computing department. She is based at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire where she leads a team of about 90 software and systems engineering professionals who work with scientists to make a positive difference in the world. Hannah is also a member of the Computing Early Careers Governance at STFC having set up the organisation's computing degree apprenticeship programme in 2015. She was the inaugural chair of STFC's National Laboratories Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Working Group and a member of STFC's EDI Steering Group. Although she no longer holds those roles, she continues to support those that do and champions inclusion when and wherever it is needed. Hannah graduated from The University of Manchester with a BSc (Hons) in Information Systems Engineering. She joined the neutron and muon science facility as a software engineer and then went on to work as a team leader and group leader before becoming computing division head in 2019. Hannah is also a sister, wife, friend, volunteer with Girlguiding UK, trade union representative, dog and garden lover, and recently elected as a local councillor.
Saxon Partridge Smith
Saxon Partridge-Smith is a cyber security professional and First Class graduate of the University of Wolverhampton, specialising in Cyber Security. Her career includes key roles within the West Midlands Regional Cyber Crime Unit and the NHS, and she currently works as a Senior IT Security Officer at HS2, helping to safeguard critical national infrastructure. A passionate advocate for women in tech and further education, she has attended the BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium five times and has won the People’s Choice award twice. Most recently, her poster “Are We Forgetting How to Remember”, explored the negative impact of technology on human independence and memory recall, highlighting the growing phenomenon of digital amnesia.
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