Women in Tech – Brighton Web Development Meetup - January 2025
Following on from the success of our 2024 event, we are delighted to be hosting our Women in Tech 2025 event in association with MPB.com.
Tonight we will be having two presentations on Women in Tech issues from Hellen Ward and Kat Janikoun
Talk 1 – Hellen Ward
'Bias in our Products: The Case for Diversity in Tech'
Hellen will discuss the history of women in tech, the early pioneers, and how the industry changed the focus from female to male hiring for software engineering in the 1960s to where we are today. Hellen will also discuss how having a diverse team of software engineers has helped create better products and how companies can improve their attraction for better diversity hiring to create better teams and better software.
Talk 2 - Kat Janikoun
‘Building effective teams: How to get from a group of people to a team in a hybrid-working world’
Kat will discuss her experienced of building and recruiting diverse tech teams that have a productive and happy workforce. Kat will cover what makes an effective team & why it’s important, how to scale your model across multiple teams and the importance of being both resilient and flexible.
*** This event is open to people of every gender, not just women, so please feel free to sign up if you are interested in these topics. ***
Speaker Bios:
Hellen Ward:
Hellen is a Frontend Software Engineer at MPB, a global platform revolutionising how photographers and filmmakers buy and sell video and cinematography equipment. With a mission to make photographic and video products more accessible and sustainable, MPB operates from Brighton, UK, with additional bases in the US and Germany. A passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion in tech, Hellen previously served as an organiser for codebar Brighton, and continues to support underrepresented groups entering and succeeding in technology careers.
Kat Janikoun:
Kat Janikoun started out as a software engineer in the late 90s at the beginning of the dotcom era. Since moving to her first Engineering Manager role nearly 20 years ago, she has worked in start-up and corporate environments as a people leader and technology leader, growing & supporting teams to build high quality digital solutions. She has held posts as Engineering Director and Head of Engineering in several local organisations. She is passionate about supporting the career growth of people in technology.
MPB are kindly hosting the event at their offices and also are sponsoring the Women in Tech Event for drinks and food. Thanks to MPB.com
Due to the smaller size of the new venue, we are going to have to limit numbers to 35 people on the evening and are having to limit tickets number to ensure that we have correct numbers of attendees for the evening.
Please do not sign up if you cannot come as this will deny somebody else the opportunity of being able to attend. Many thanks
Doors to the event open around 6:30pm and the event starts around 7pm as usual.
Many thanks and we hope to see you there.
Thanks, Gavin
