In celebration of International Women's day, host and women in tech enthusiast Elly Nettleton is joined by seven; pioneering and influential female founders in the heart of Germany, Berlin, to discuss their leadership journey.  In this live, special episode, Bryony Cooper, Esé Oghene, Katrie Lowe, Elise Cannon, Marie-Laurence Amigues, Noam Gerstein and Dr Azadeh D  take a deep dive into hiring teams, launching their brand, raising funding and investment, gender equality, imposter syndrome, and career confidence.  We learn their backstories and how they have established themselv ..read more

On this week’s episode of a Journey of a WiT, Elly is joined by Marissa Mocenigo, Engineering Manager at Taxfix.  Marissa is based in Berlin where she is currently focusing on growing her teams and enjoying the exciting challenges that brings! Marissa originally took a computer science class and enjoyed creating things so switched her major to computer science, worked in robotics and was hooked! When she was younger she built games for friends and was very entrepreneurial thinking, making websites, playing with graphics and wanting to start businesses.  Marissa has explored lots of ..read more

This week on a Journey of a WiT, Elly is joined by Bethan Vincent, Marketing Director at Netsells. Bethan is a digital strategist who is a big contributor to the community, speaking at conferences and hosting a podcast focused on building a brighter future. Bethan’s move into marketing was a bit of an accidental career move. She completed a history degree, started a coffee business and learned how to do marketing by living it. She’s always had an interest in tech and coding, and reckons marketing is key to the future of tech. Now in a senior position, she believes she has a responsibility for ..read more

This week on a Journey of a WiT, Elly is joined by Alice Loeser, a backend developer at the e-health service, Doctolib. Alice joined the team during the pandemic and shares her experience of joining a global company remotely. Alice started programming because she liked science and as soon as she started looking at coding (her first language was C) it was instant love. She has also worked with PHP and Ruby in lots of different roles; an internship in LA , some freelance work and in a communications agency. Elly and Alice take a deep dive into some of the challenges faced by women in the workpl ..read more

In this episode of ‘A Journey of a Woman in Tech’, Elly is joined by Amanda Newman who is a Senior Manager at Accenture. Previously Amanda has worked with IBM, Shell and Microsoft and has founded The Career Mum, a community network to support and empower everyone to reach their potential. She was shortlisted for Northern Power Women Mentor of the Year award and is nominated for a We Are The City Rising Stars award. Amanda is a huge supporter of returnships and mentoring for women Amanda and Elly unpack her impressive career from struggled academically due to moving schools, to a global role a ..read more

In this episode, Elly is joined by Gail Eastaugh, Programme Director at AeroSpace Cornwall. Gail has a really interesting career across lots of different sectors, and her unique background and experience have grown from an early curiosity of how things worked (listen for a really lovely family story about one Christmas!).  As well as working with AeroSpace Cornwall, Gail is part of a research and development investment fund for supporting tech developers to accelerate their innovation, develop their new products and services, and build networks. Gail loves working with entrepreneurs and ..read more

In this episode, Elly is joined by Hannah Pretswell, Senior Test Engineer at Scott Logic. Hannah is a self-taught coder and started her tech journey working in gaming. She soon discovered she loved exploring and finding problems so testing seemed like a natural choice!  Hannah enjoys being pushed from her comfort zone and encourages people to explore CodeCademy and the CS50 course from Harvard if they're interested in coding!  She loves working with multiple clients and projects as it means she is never bored! Hannah and Elly explore what it's like to work at Scott Logic where they ..read more

In this episode, Elly is joined by Christina King, Chief Commercial Officer at Tribosonics and a TechWomen 100 Award winner for 2020.   Christina started her career as an engineer, and developed change management skills in the defence manufacturing sector – where she went on to build and test battle tanks!! She also helped Guy Martin smash a world speed record (as you do!).  Elly and Christina talk about promoting women into engineering and providing mentorship from strong female professionals. Christina says her greatest role model is Madonna for her female empowerment, creativ ..read more

Elly Greaney is back with Season 3 of our The Journey of a WiT Podcast!   In this episode, Elly is joined by Amanda Kirby who has started her new role at Thames Water remotely and is now onboarding and managing whole teams she has not met!  With a natural instinct for improving processes, Amanda started her tech career by rolling out a new payment system at Sainsbury's and has since worked with some major media giants.   Elly and Amanda talk about being a woman and a mum in tech, juggling those responsibilities, and how the sector is changing. Amanda talks about how im ..read more

Elly Greaney is back with Season 3 of our The Journey of a WiT Podcast!  This episode Elly was joined by Rituja Rao, Winner of the Future Star of Tech: IT Manager award 2020, Winner of TechWomen100 Award and SCRUM Master at Sparta Global. Rituja is an amazing project manager, consultant and mega advocate of tech, D&I and empowering women. They discuss Rituja's journey into tech, big dreams and celebrating achievements! Not from a traditional computer science background, Rituja first explored journalism and now uses her communication skills to break the stereotypes around tech!  ..read more