Laptop Weekly is searching for nominations for its 2022 listing of the most influential women in UK technology.
Annually, in partnership with Spinks, Laptop Weekly places collectively the highest 50 listing to shine a lightweight on girls within the UK tech sector and to make them extra seen and accessible as position fashions within the house.
In 2012, Laptop Weekly launched the primary listing which comprised of solely 25 girls – now, in its eleventh iteration, the listing has grown to showcase the highest 50 girls within the UK’s tech sector, and final 12 months’s longlist featured more than 500 women.
As soon as the nominations are acquired, a bunch of skilled judges will select the highest 50 shortlist primarily based on standards together with achievements, potential, management expertise and the affect of every nominee.
Laptop Weekly readers can then vote on the highest 50 through an internet ballot to point who on the shortlist they consider needs to be named the 2022 Most Influential Girl in UK Expertise.
The winner of the title Most Influential Girl in UK Tech 2022, in addition to the order of the highest 50, can be introduced on the Laptop Weekly/Spinks range in tech occasion in London in October 2022, this 12 months being held in partnership with headline sponsor NatWest.
Final 12 months’s winner, Poppy Gustafsson, CEO of artificial intelligence (AI) and cyber security firm Darktrace, instructed Laptop Weekly on the time that the know-how sector is more and more in want of a mixture of skillsets, together with mushy expertise, emphasising that the important thing to innovation is making use of one’s skillset in a artistic technique to resolve an issue.
She stated: “Simply since you don’t perceive those and zeros doesn’t cease you fascinated with how you should use that know-how to resolve totally different issues.”
Please full the shape under to elucidate who you want to nominate – and why – together with some fundamental particulars about your self, and click on on the “Submit” button to ship your nomination to our judges.
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Annually, Laptop Weekly additionally recognises the know-how sector’s Rising Stars alongside the highest 50, in addition to including a number of nice girls in tech to its Corridor of Fame.
In honour of 2021 having being the tenth 12 months of the highest 50 listing of the Most Influential Ladies in UK Tech, final 12 months noticed 10 women added to the Hall of Fame, together with 10 girls named as Rising Stars who’re more likely to seem on the highest 50 listing within the close to future.
The deadline for submission of nominations for this 12 months’s listing is 09:00 on 5 August 2022.
Judging panel
The judging panel that may resolve the shortlist and order of the highest 50 alongside the readers’ vote contains business professionals and consultants, together with:
- Russ Shaw, founding father of Tech London Advocates and World Tech Advocates.
- Debbie Forster, CEO, Tech Expertise Constitution.
- Clare McDonald, enterprise editor at Laptop Weekly.
- Bryan Glick, editor-in-chief of Laptop Weekly.
- A consultant from Spinks.
- A consultant from NatWest.
Debbie Forster, CEO of not-for-profit Tech Expertise Constitution, and a previous winner of the accolade, stated: “Whereas there are nonetheless so comparatively few girls within the IT sector, it’s elementary that we rejoice and amplify those that are breaking the mould and doing superb work in shaping the way forward for the entire sector. It’s a private thrill for me to be taught extra about these unbelievable girls and to play an element in serving to to honour their achievements.”