Abigail Tittley
A Women in Tech advocate, recruiter, and Founder of Sanderson’s Women in Tech initiative. With experience across mental health care and technology recruitment, she speaks on inclusion, psychological safety, emotional labour, bias in hiring, and the lived experiences of women in tech.
Laura Smith
I'm a service designer with a background in content design. I've been involved in many projects to design, test and delivery digital services in healthcare and the public sector. I'm also a founder of a social enterprise using data and modern technology to help create circular economies for plastic waste. I often speak about user-centred design, design thinking in digital, user research, prototyping, lean start up and prototyping in the global south, digital health and public services, and creating accessible services.
Natasha McKenzie
Natasha McKenzie is a strategic brand and marketing professional with 25+ years’ experience building creative and tech ventures. She works with founders to unlock clarity, momentum and market impact. Natasha speaks on brand-led growth, marketing strategy, the future of work, investment and building purposeful, high-performing teams.
Lucy Heskins
I talk about: startup growth, from zero customers to acquisition, go to market strategy, product market fit mistakes, validation, customer research, startup marketing, experience as employee number 1.
Weronika Stelmach
Weronika is the CEO of Weaving Change, a social enterprise slowing down fast fashion. She is an advocate for tech for good/ social change, the use of AI in enhancing creativity as well as diversity & inclusivity in the start-up sector.
Dulcie Jackson
I'm Innovation Lead at Gravitywell, Bristol's Venture Studio. I co-ordinate our internal R&D activities, and recently launched the Gravitywell Incubator program. Alongside that, I'm a hands-on engineer, building new tech start-ups and supporting founders through ideation, discovery, prototyping, launch and innovation.
Sara Hamilton
Head of Product & Tech for The Bunch - a scale-up utlility bill aggregator. I've worked in tech for the last 10 years and have participated in events and groups passionate about getting and retaining Women & non-binary people in tech.
Rachel Dugdale
Almost 20 years hands-on experience in AI, machine learning & data science across multiple sectors. Specialising in sociotechnical & systems impacts, ethics & bias in tech, and increasing diversity & inclusion. TEDx and conference plenary experience.
Nicola Hogg
Nicola is a full stack developer with experience in PHP, React, Remix, SCSS, Wordpress and Woocommerce, who is enthusiastic to speak about web development, accessibility in coding or game development.
Phurita Letheren
How UX discovery work can help you validate your business ideas. I want to share the reasons why UX discovery can help people/ companies that have ideas but unsure if there will be a market or a need for it.