Gillian Arnold is an award-winning activist for women in technology. She is the founder of Tectre, a training and recruitment organisation that works to increase diversity in STEM teams and organisations. Gillian previously led BCSWomen, helped them to win the United Nations GEM-Tech prize for their work in support of women in tech and currently leads the Women in Tech expert group for the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPIS). She presided over the creation of the European DiversIT Charter, speaks and teaches internationally on inclusion in technology workplaces and was granted an honorary doctorate in 2019 from the University of Bath for her work. Gillian is currently a trustee and board member at BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT and at CEPIS.

Hannah Dee is a senior lecturer in Computer Science at Aberystwyth University, interested in how we teach computer science in universities and in schools. She has been involved in many school computing projects including Early Mastery, InventEUrs, Technocamps and GOWS (Get On With Science). She has served on the committee of BCSWomen since 2007 and led their Android Programming Family Fun Day world record attempt for the largest computer lesson (over 1,000 people learning Android programming at the same time). She is the founder of the BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium, the UK’s main event for women undergraduates in computing. Hannah was a Suffrage Science award holder in 2016–2018, has received the BCS John Ivinson award for volunteer work and is a member of the Computer Weekly women in IT Hall of Fame. Her research area is computer vision and robotics, and she has just taken delivery of a robot submarine.

Clem Herman is professor of gender and technology in the School of Computing and Communications at the Open University and leads the university’s widening participation work with the Institute of Coding to increase diversity in computing. Throughout her career, Clem has worked in a range of roles and projects as an educator, practitioner and researcher to support the participation and progression of women in technology. Prior to joining the Open University, Clem was founder and director of the Manchester Women’s Electronic Village Hall, a community telecentre providing ICT training and access for women. Clem is an internationally recognised expert on women and STEM and her research on the impact of career breaks and women returners has been widely published. She worked on the ‘Gender, Skilled Migration and IT’ research project, which produced the first ever scorecard about Indian women and IT. Clem was an invited expert in the European Commission WiST 2 (Women in Science and Technology 2) project, which conducted research into the impact of career breaks on women in engineering and technology companies and was an expert witness to the House of Commons Select Committee on women in STEM. Clem is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology.

Sharon Moore MBE is passionate about innovation that matters and, as IBM’s chief technology officer for the public sector, her mission is transforming public service with technology. She is sought out for her expertise in defining technical strategy and translating the technical into business outcomes. You’ll often find her on stage sharing technical thought leadership and practical advice on how to make innovation a reality in an organisation. Sharon was honoured with an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2018 for services to women-in-technology-based industries. She was presented with the Inspirational Women in Leadership award at the inaugural Scotland Women in Technology Awards 2017. She is vice chair of BCSWomen and is a board member of Scotland Women in Technology. She has found herself in the Computer Weekly Top 50 Women of Influence since 2016. Sharon was voted to the BCS Council in 2020.

Andrea Palmer is the chair of BCSWomen and a member of the BCS Society Board, which focuses on making IT good for society. She is a digital transformation expert with more than 20 years of experience leading and delivering IT programmes in complex global environments. She is recognised as an empathetic and thoughtful leader whose commitment to leading by example has helped to build authenticity, psychological safety and trust. Andrea has lived and worked in London, Norway and India. She is an enthusiastic leader who champions diversity and inclusion to drive performance and compliance across organisations. As a change agent she acts with compassion to inspire and coach people of all ages through conducting mentoring programmes (primary school to early careers) and as a school governor.

Shilpa Shah is a director in the workforce transformation practice at Deloitte and leader of the award-winning UK Deloitte Women in Technology network. Shilpa has an MEng in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (now University of Manchester) and has over 23 years of experience in management consulting, working with a range of clients and helping them to deliver technology- and data-enabled business change. Recognised as a role model within and outside Deloitte, Shilpa is passionate about increasing all forms of diversity working in technology. This includes encouraging more girls and women to consider careers working in what she considers to be the most exciting and interesting industry in the world. She also loves mentoring and supporting others already working in technology and helping them to develop and progress their careers. Shilpa has two teenage daughters who have always been tech-curious. She wants to see longer-term change for all and has been helping to create a more diverse, inclusive and equal technology-skilled workforce to best solve the challenges of today and tomorrow.