Computer Weekly’s 2020 girls individuals in tech Rising Stars

The nature of digital abilities formulation the IT alternate is an ever-changing panorama, so who shall be at the wheel of the abilities sector in years to advance abet?

Clare McDonald

Clare McDonald,
Alternate Editor

Printed: 01 Oct 2020 17: 30

Whereas recognising the abilities alternate’s 50 Most Influential Ladies in UK Tech annually, Computer Weekly is additionally looking out for the next cohort of girls individuals who shall be driving the sphere forward in the near future.

Every three hundred and sixty five days, we inquire our judges to point out the girls individuals they mediate are already making a significant contribution to the UK’s abilities sector and who they would well thought displaying on the pinnacle 50 record in years to advance abet.

Many who beget looked on past lists of Rising Stars beget gone on to corrupt in Computer Weekly’s record of the 50 Most Influential Ladies in UK Tech, including 2020 winner Anne-Marie Imafidon, CEO of Stemettes, who was once named a Rising Superstar in 2014.

The Rising Superstar category was once first launched as piece of the Most Influential Ladies in UK Tech advertising campaign in 2014 so to add to the pool of girls individuals honoured for his or her achievements in the abilities alternate.

This three hundred and sixty five days’s Risings Stars are:

Deborah Okenla, founder and CEO, Your Startup, Your Myth (YSYS)

Okenla founded Your Startup, Your Myth (YSYS), where she is currently CEO, in 2017 to behave as a neighborhood for startup founders and to help invent ability in the startup ecosystem more various.

She is an advisory panel member for IT services and products company AND Digital, and an advisory board member for not-for-profit Coders of Color.

Prior to her recent role, Okenla led engagement and groups for Google For Startups, and was once previously membership manager at co-working space Huckletree.

Charlene Hunter, founder, Coding Gloomy Females

Hunter founded Coding Gloomy Females in 2017 to help unlit feminine instrument builders meet every other and community. Alongside her work at Coding Gloomy Females, Hunter is a instrument developer herself.

For the time being lead instrument engineer at Made Tech, Hunter has additionally held roles as senior instrument developer, lead Java developer, app developer and technical consultant at a range of companies.

Noor Shaker, founder and CEO, Glamorous.AI

Shaker is a serial entrepreneur, founding biotech firm GTN in 2017 where she was once CEO for 2 years, founding healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) consultancy Phenogeneca in 2019, and turning into founder and CEO of biotech services and products firm Glamorous.AI in 2020.

Prior to turning into a startup founder, Shaker was once a machine learning specialist for Unsilo and was once an assistant professor at Aalborg University in Denmark where she researched the usage of machine learning utilized to the easiest procedure of us play video games.

Heather Gloomy, CEO and founder, Supermums

Gloomy had quite a lot of various consultancy roles spanning varied sectors earlier than she grew to change into the managing director and Salesforce consultant for Economic Swap CIC.

In 2016, she founded and grew to change into CEO of Supermums, a social endeavor that helps mothers to get abilities in Salesforce to help them re-enter the standing of labor.

Yi Luo, global head of expansion of Earnd, a Greensill firm

Luo is currently the global head of strategy and expansion at Earnd, the alternate-to-customer division of financing company Greensill.

She has been an angel investor for varied companies and is a alternate mentor at L Marks.

Luo was once the founding chief strategy officer of FreeUp.io, which was once got by Greensill in 2019, where she went on to change into head of strategy.

By though-provoking a lightweight on these girls individuals, Computer Weekly hopes it would enhance the volume of visible and accessible role devices in the abilities sector to help others from below-represented groups in the UK to pursue a profession in abilities and higher trace what benefits a tech profession has to give.

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