Networking Event: Women in Tech for Local Government
Calling all women in tech and data roles for local government organisations! Together, Southwark Council and Hitachi Solutions are launching a new community for knowledge sharing and networking with an inaugural event this September.
At a time of change in the industry, we’re reflecting on the importance of staying connected, collaborating, upskilling and uplifting each other.
If you’re a woman in tech for a Council or other public sector organisation, we welcome you to our event on the evening of Thursday the 12th of September at The Counting House, London. Network with peers, hear from industry experts, and enjoy some canapes and refreshments on us.
See the full agenda and register your interest below.
Agenda:
5:30 – 6:00pm – Arrival snacks and networking.
6:00 – 6:20pm – Session 1 // The state of data and digital maturity in local government today, delivered by the Director of Local Government for Hitachi Solutions, Sharna Quirke.
6:30 – 6:50pm – Session 2 // Learnings from the Southwark Council ‘One Council, One Platform’ data transformation story, delivered by their CTO, Dionne Lowndes.
7:00 – 7:20pm – Session 3 // Shaping the next generation of women in tech; skills, progression and leadership, delivered by UK&I Technology Director for Hays, Amanda Whicher.
7:20 – 8:30pm – Networking and close.
Refreshments and discussion between the sessions.
Sharna Quirke
Strategic Director for Local Government
Sharna has been designing digital solutions to address complex public needs for nearly 20 years. During this time, she has delivered multiple digital transformation projects, published academic articles on e-Democracy, advised the World Bank on digital inclusion in service delivery, and designed a benchmarking framework assessing how digitally evolved local services are across Europe.
Dionne Lowndes
Chief Technology Officer
Dionne is an influential technology leader specialising in sustainable digital transformation, leadership, skills and inclusion. She has experience of translating vision and strategy into delivery in complex, political and diverse organisations, providing advice to Boards and executive teams on strategy, leadership and digital transformation.
Amanda Whicher
UK&I Technology Director
Amanda leads a team at Hays delivering a range of consultative services to address Technology recruitment challenges, across projects and change, development, infrastructure, cyber security, architecture, cloud and leadership within higher education, charity and not for profit, NHS, local government and central government sectors.
Please complete the following form to register for the women in tech event
Details
- Date 12 September, 2024
- Time 5:30 - 8:30pm
Venue
- The Counting House, EC3, 50 Cornhill, London, EC3V 3PD