Hi Lovelies! We are having a great time in Paris at the RAISE conference, thank you so much @Sian Kelly Guy 🙏🏼 We want to chat to you all tonight and Sian has managed to find us a space at 6pm uk time, so I’m changing our catchup tonight till then. We’re have an amazing time getting to know each other, attending conference sessions, and the odd cocktail too!! Please join us later 💃🏽🥳 Lots of love, Sue, @Sian Kelly Guy @Lauren Hargreaves @Gemma Clarke @Dawn McAra-Hunter @Marianne Whitfield Xxxx

Good morning! As you know I set up this Power Network because I want to see more women in senior positions in tech. Over the several decades in my career I've started quite a few initiatives to get women into tech and help keep them there. This is the first initiative I've started with the aim of fast tracking women already in tech into as senior positions as possible. As I'm moving towards, probably, the last few years of working full time, I really want to ensure that I help as many women as possible get into senior positions, positions of power, to ensure that we get the tech products and services that we deserve, but also to make sure that we have as many women as possible in senior decision making roles. I want to ensure a continuing and *growing* flow of women at the top. You are all the pioneers in this initiative, thank you all so much for that ❤️ To have the impact that is needed we need to grow this network, to bring in more members. We need more women joining who have the potential to be senior leaders, who will value what we do here and will support other women to achieve. We don't want women who don't support other women, we want talented, friendly and supportive women who will work together to help everyone in the Power Network, and the tech industry to rise. I'll be posting on LinkedIn and other social media platforms to find those women and bring them into our network. The more that you share and post yourselves the bigger the impact that will have. Please help me to grow this network so that hundreds of us can rise together. As a group we can make a massive difference to the landscape and the more supportive, ambitious women we have in here the better and faster that will happen. You can help by commenting on and sharing my posts, by tagging or messaging women that are ambitious, supportive and friendly, and by posting yourself. ** Comments on the post make the biggest difference to how many people see it Together we really can make a difference 💥

It’s a bit of a late one from me because I’m on the train home after spending the day in London for a work event.…. What a day ✨💃🏼🎉❤️ Great weather, lovely people, loads of exciting conversations… and then they completely caught me off guard.…….. They’ve asked me to relocate to Barcelona in January 2027 to lead the community in the new office they’re opening out there. 🤯🇪🇸 I wasn’t expecting that conversation!!!!!! There’s obviously loads to think about. Finn will be in his final year of A Levels, so he comes first. I’m already trying to work out how I could make it work by travelling backwards and forwards until he’s finished because I don’t want to disrupt such an important year for him.….. It’s just mad to think where I was a few months ago.….. Now I’ve got Paris next week, I’m organising a Remobi - Women in Tech event in Germany later this year, travelling around meeting incredible people, helping grow communities across Europe… and now I’m being asked if I’d relocate to Barcelona.… what is my life?! 🤣….. there’s never a dull moment that’s for sure!!! I’m excited, a little bit terrified, and very very qvery grateful….. Sometimes life really does throw opportunities at you when you least expect them. Anyway… I’m absolutely shattered, so I’m going to get home, give Finn & Blacky-Chan a cuddle and let all of this sink in. ❤️…….i hope you’ve all had a lovely week xxx

I'm just doing my pre-work for this evening's session of the Carruthers & Jackson CDO summer school, which a guy called Scott Taylor will be leading. It included watching a fun video of The Data Puppets, and who did I see in the credits but our very own @Susan Walsh! Susan, you're just *everywhere*! It's fun, worth a watch everyone!

Hi lovely Women in Tech, I'm posting from Malta where I've taken my daughter after her hard work all year for GCSEs. My beach/pool bag is freebie swag from the Women in Data conference earlier this year: it's just perfect and I'm thrilled with it. However my most enduring event freebies to date are still my TechUP Women hoody and multi-USB port, both have been used to death! 😍 Do you have any conference swag or employer merch that's made it to unlikely places with you?