Pc Weekly is searching for nominations for its 2022 record of essentially the most influential girls in UK expertise.
Every year, in partnership with Spinks, Pc Weekly places collectively the highest 50 record to shine a light-weight on girls within the UK tech sector and to make them extra seen and accessible as function fashions within the area.
In 2012, Pc Weekly launched the primary record which comprised of solely 25 girls – now, in its eleventh iteration, the record has grown to showcase the highest 50 girls within the UK’s tech sector, and final yr’s longlist featured greater than 500 girls.
As soon as the nominations are acquired, a bunch of knowledgeable judges will select the highest 50 shortlist primarily based on standards together with achievements, potential, management expertise and the affect of every nominee.
Pc Weekly readers can then vote on the highest 50 through a web-based ballot to point who on the shortlist they consider needs to be named the 2022 Most Influential Girl in UK Expertise.
The winner of the title Most Influential Girl in UK Tech 2022, in addition to the order of the highest 50, will likely be introduced on the Pc Weekly/Spinks variety in tech occasion in London in October 2022, this yr being held in partnership with headline sponsor NatWest.
Final yr’s winner, Poppy Gustafsson, CEO of synthetic intelligence (AI) and cyber safety agency Darktrace, informed Pc Weekly on the time that the expertise sector is more and more in want of a mixture of skillsets, together with comfortable expertise, emphasising that the important thing to innovation is making use of one’s skillset in a artistic strategy to resolve an issue.
She stated: “Simply since you don’t perceive those and zeros doesn’t cease you serious about how you should utilize that expertise to resolve totally different issues.”
Please full the shape under to elucidate who you want to nominate – and why – together with some fundamental particulars about your self, and click on on the “Submit” button to ship your nomination to our judges.
Every year, Pc Weekly additionally recognises the expertise sector’s Rising Stars alongside the highest 50, in addition to including a number of nice girls in tech to its Corridor of Fame.
In honour of 2021 having being the tenth yr of the highest 50 record of the Most Influential Girls in UK Tech, final yr noticed 10 girls added to the Corridor of Fame, together with 10 girls named as Rising Stars who’re prone to seem on the highest 50 record within the close to future.
The deadline for submission of nominations for this yr’s record is 09:00 on 5 August 2022.
Judging panel
The judging panel that can resolve the shortlist and order of the highest 50 alongside the readers’ vote includes trade professionals and specialists, together with:
- Russ Shaw, founding father of Tech London Advocates and World Tech Advocates.
- Debbie Forster, CEO, Tech Expertise Constitution.
- Clare McDonald, enterprise editor at Pc Weekly.
- Bryan Glick, editor-in-chief of Pc Weekly.
- A consultant from Spinks.
- A consultant from NatWest.
Debbie Forster, CEO of not-for-profit Tech Expertise Constitution, and a earlier winner of the accolade, stated: “Whereas there are nonetheless so comparatively few girls within the IT sector, it’s elementary that we have fun and amplify those that are breaking the mould and doing superb work in shaping the way forward for the entire sector. It’s a private thrill for me to be taught extra about these unbelievable girls and to play a component in serving to to honour their achievements.”