Call for BCSWomen to support February Tech Mentoring Monday on the theme of Women in Tech

You are invited to the joint BCS Entrepreneurs and BCSWomen – Tech Mentoring Monday event: Speed mentoring and networking for entrepreneurs.

Theme: Women in Technology
Chair: Maggie Berry
Keynotes from Leanne Bonner-Cooke and Imogen Wethered

Date: 1 February 2016 1800-2030
Venue: BCS, 1st Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA

For our February Tech Mentoring Monday on the theme of Women in Tech we are pleased to welcome guest speakers: Leanne Bonner-Cooke, CEO of Evolve and Imogen Wethered, founder and CEO of Qudini.

Leanne will share her experience as an entrepreneur, including success factors, potential pitfalls, leadership and getting the best from mentors. Imogen will speak about her company Qudini: building a business out of a Hackathon win.

Their keynotes will be followed by a Q&A session, and then the opportunity for networking with peers and speed-mentoring with our team of experienced tech mentors over drinks and eats. They will be pleased to discuss your technology and business issues and potential mentoring opportunities.

This is an open event and free of charge to BCS members and non-members.

Chairing the event is Maggie Berry, Executive Director for Europe for WEConnect International, a global organisation championing supplier diversity in procurement and helping majority owned women businesses to connect into the corporate supply chain.

Maggie is the founder of the Women in Technology Network, sits on techUK’s WIT Council and is a judge for Computer Weekly’s Top 50 Influential Women in IT and for the UK IT Industry Awards. She is also a Freeman at the Information Technologists’ Company. More on Maggie

Evolve is an award winning consultancy that helps businesses get the most out of their people, process and technology assets. More on Leanne

Qudini is a digital queue-management platform for retail, restaurant and health organisations, to help them to manage customer experience in their stores. Qudini allows their customers to join a digital queue and receive mobile phone updates on when they will be seen. Their clients include: O2, Movistar, House of Fraser, Honest Burgers, Bodeans and Bills Restaurants. More on Imogen