Reed Women in Technology Community

Visit our website for more information on this 2,900+ member community and to register your interest in becoming a part of our network, benefitting from access to: - Networking opportunities (in person & virtual) - Personal and professional development (Weekly webinars, workshops & coaching sessions) - Our award nominated mentoring programme https://lnkd.in/ervPw_ye

We hit 3000 members! As unbelievable as it sounds on December 31st, We had our final 4 member registrations of 2024, taking us to exactly 3000 members. That means throughout 2024 we have: >Grown by 701 members >Held 10 in-person meetups >Held 46 Community Networking calls >Delivered 45 webinars/workshops >Created 253 new mentoring relationships >Launched a series of communities of practice including project management, data & analytics and neurodiversity. If you would like to be part of a community that gives you: 🌱 Opportunities to find your tribe & grow your network via In-person meetups, weekly networking calls and a private online members area 👩🎓 Opportunities to learn & develop skills via weekly webinars/workshops/coaching sessions, covering both technical and non-technical skills development 🤝 Access to a marketplace of mentors (670 and counting) then register your interest here: https://lnkd.in/ervPw_ye #mentoring #womenintech #womenintechnology #witcommunity

Are you looking to progress your career in a data or analytics role? 📈 Whether you are about to take the first step on this path or are already a seasoned leader in the space, come and join our Data & Analytics community, managed by the wonderful Olaide Afolayan Join the network: https://lnkd.in/effNe6te Olaide has put together a thorough plan for 2025, creating opportunities for this community to network, share best practice and learn from each other, which we will be sharing with its members, for feedback, on Wednesday 18th @ 12:00 (GMT). Come along to help shape the direction of this network. #data #analytics #womenindata

Monday 9th December 7pm (GMT) we have a collaborative session bringing together our Cyber Security Community (led by Sherrise Francis) and our newly formed Neurodiversity community (led by Steven Houghton-Burnett) to discuss why neurodivergent people seem to be particularly well suited to careers in cyber. Bringing her expertise to the conversation we have Jennifer Cox, herself a Neurodiverse and award winning cyber expert and Director for Ireland of Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS). This session could be useful to many including: -Those who run cyber (*insert any discipline*) teams and want to understand how best to recruit and retain the best neurodiverse talent -Those working in cyber (*insert any discipline*) who want to understand how to be better allies to neurodiverse colleagues -Those who are neurodivergent and want to understand if cyber could be an interesting career path for them To join this session and many others like it, subscribe to one of the 2 communities and visit it's event page: -Cyber Community https://lnkd.in/gPAtfVWG -Neurodiversity Community https://lnkd.in/gtkaXh6b #witcommunity #cyber #informationsecurity #neurodiversity

Our next monthly online meetup for members of our Projects & Programmes Community is fast approaching (Friday 6th December at 12:00 GMT) In this session Susan Graves will be sharing her experience of managing stakeholders in a programme/project environment. To join the community request access here: https://lnkd.in/ewcVUbsA

A key part of the work of our community is enabling our members to expand their knowledge in specific areas of tech and to find their tribe(s) To enable this we have a variety sub-communities (Communities of Practice), open to both women and allies, hosted in our private social network within Mighty Networks and led by members of our network that have a passion for these areas / topics. Within these communities our members can: 🤝 Attend regular networking sessions 🖥️ Attend webinars, workshops and product demonstrations 📒 Create and share their own content 📚 Get access to a variety of practice specific resources ❓ Get answers, advice & support on practice specific questions & issues 🦸♀️ Find inspiring role models (or become somebody else's 💪) 👩🏫 Identify mentors to connect with, within our Guider mentoring platform We currently have Communities of Practice for the below disciplines and are always open to creating new CoPs to meet the needs of our members. (Any suggestions please speak up!) -Neurodiversity, led by Steven Houghton-Burnett -Cloud -Data & Analytics, led by Olaide Afolayan -Information & Cyber Security, led by Sherrise Francis -IT Leadership -IT Operations & Service Management -Product Management -Project & Programme Management, led by Eleanor Bell-Jones -Software Development & Engineering To get access to any of these communities alongside our general networking, L&D and mentoring opportunities click the "join the community" button on our website: https://lnkd.in/ervPw_ye Keep an eye on the comments for details of upcoming sessions related to these CoPs #womenintech #womenintechnology #womenintechnology #neurodiversity #cloud #data #informationsecurity #cybersecurity #servicemanagement #product #projectmanagement #softwaredevelopment #softwareengineering #itleadership

Welcoming the newest members of the Reed Women in Technology Community, I am looking forward to seeing some of you on our community coffee networking call at 16:00 (BST) this Friday. Throughout November our community has grown to 2,953 people, supporting each other to achieve their personal and professional goals, through networking 🤝 , personal development 👩🎓 and mentoring, powered by Guider 👩🏫 If you would like to get involved, be that as a women in tech, or an ally then visit our website for more details. https://lnkd.in/ervPw_ye #witcommunity #womenintech #womenintechnology

Another fantastic session for our members to learn from, this time presented by our friends at Target Group

Two wonderful people David Barrow, CITP FBCS and Lucy Grimwade who were originally connected via this community have written a novel 😮🎉 ALLYSHIP ACTUALLY based on real-life events, vividly depicts Lucy and David’s frustration with outdated work cultures, and their efforts to support colleagues suffering inequity or harassment. The book is already flying and is #11 in Amazon’s hot new releases for business life 👏 To secure your copy visit: https://lnkd.in/eF8kfDeD

Congratulations to our mentor Michael Tomaras and the wider GL Assessment team for winning the “Tech for Good” award at tonight’s Dynamo North East DYNAMITES24