Flagship Agenda: Women In Data Registration

Helena’s City career spans more than three decades, including 15 years as Chief Executive of Newton Investment Management. She now chairs Fidelis, a specialist insurance company listed on the NYSE, Altum Group, a female-led fund services company and sits on the board of McKinsey Investment Office.

Helena is well known for her work on inclusion and diversity. In 2010, she founded the 30% Club, a campaign for better gender-balanced boards. Since then, the representation of women on FTSE350 boards has risen from less than 10% to over 40% and there are twenty 30% Clubs globally. Helena now chairs the Diversity Project, aimed at improving diversity across all dimensions in the investment industry. She has spearheaded a new ‘Pathway’ programme to create more female fund managers, the first of its kind worldwide. Helena also works to create financial equality and writes a weekly column on money for the Telegraph.

Helena entered the House of Lords in September 2020 and was appointed a Dame in 2017. She was named the Financial Time’s ‘Person of the Year’ at its 2017 ‘Boldness in Business’ awards and named one of Fortune magazine’s ‘World’s 50 greatest leaders’. She has authored two books, ‘A Good Time to be a Girl’ and ‘Style and Substance’. Helena and her husband Richard have nine children and four grandchildren.

"Childcare costs leave rising number of parents in debt."

Women in Data® has partnered with Pregnant Then Screwed (PTS) to ensure that headlines like the this are incontrovertible and are generated from robust data led insights. As data professionals we know that in order to effect change, it is critical to combine our emotional response with hard facts and great storytelling.

Now in its second year, the PTS and Women in Data® State of the Nation research has been designed to understand the systematic shortcomings of current legislation and quantify the impact on families, businesses and society as a whole.
Collectively we want to close the gender gap and remove the challenges Women face to achieve equality of opportunities in the workplace and reduce burden of the unspoken ‘tax’ on mothers from additional unpaid labour as carers and in the home.

It’s time to do something about it… So join the conversation between Joeli Brearley (PTS) and Taisiya Merkulova (Women in Data®) on what triggered this annual research, what we have learnt along the way ,what impact truly robust data has made and most importantly, what the next steps are - not just for PTS but for all of us.

Women are not all the same and don’t want or need the same things from life and work. But most of the policies and processes that exist today are built for a male construct and apply a simple and easy to manage ‘one size fits all’ model.

The reality is very different. Women need different things at different ages and life stages. This is the constantly changing prioritisation that women manage from puberty to fertility to menopause. If we want to release the power of women as an economic force - and not just focus on the lack of equality visible and evident across society today - it’s going to need more evidence of impact.

The Female Lead will reveal a new and transformational approach that unlocks this new game changing opportunity and value. Just as Tesco doubled its market share and shareholder value through Clubcard, looking at women through a new lens with new data opens up a whole new dynamic and a big big prize.

Less than 1 in 5 women feel they have enough information on menstrual wellbeing and yet just 1% of all healthcare research and innovation is invested in female specific health conditions. Women in Data® are looking to redress the balance. This session will share what hundreds of individuals and clinicians across the country have told us they want solved, reveal the insights from our recent pilot, gain your input into the roadmap for change, and most importantly share how the WiD community can help us shift the dial for the next generation of women.

Women in Data® is thrilled to announce the Series 6 awardees of the Twenty in Data and Tech collection in collaboration with Snowflake. This collection of twenty phenomenal women encompasses every level of seniority and data & tech discipline, and continues to make role models visible in the industry.

We recognise that each individual is a role model, and we are proud to celebrate the breadth of female talent and their personal stories to help inspire the next generation.

Join us for the big reveal!

Data and AI are transforming the way healthcare is being delivered by the NHS and these impacts are already being seen by the adoption of leading edge technologies across the health ecosystem. We know that currently women have poorer health outcomes, so how do we ensure that the changes are being realised at the front-line and by patients themselves?

This expert panel will explore the opportunities, challenges, and lessons already learned from data-driven initiatives across the entire data and AI supply chain. We will hear how they manage budgets, data access for frontline workers, and fostering collaboration among stakeholders.

Join us as we spotlight the amazing women driving better healthcare provision in the UK as they discuss the pivotal role data and AI play in bridging the outcomes gap whilst safeguarding patient data privacy and security.

UK business is under increasing pressure to improve productivity and efficiency across the board. Economic headwinds, persistently volatile supply chains, and a stretched talent pool means businesses need to act fast.

We will spotlight a specific enterprise transformation, that has recognised, putting people at the heart of digital transformation, enables silo’s breakdown, reduction in inefficiencies and effective delivery. All highly important strategic objectives for business.

A cornerstone of this transformation is focussed on empowering employees, anywhere in the business, to use data to drive efficiency savings, enabling the delivery of programs on time and in full. All by the end of 2024.

Some of the most innovative, exciting and important digital transformations are happening in the areas of Defence, Energy and Financial services. Changes that will have a profound impact on us, our society and the future of our planet. But women are still hugely unrepresented in these areas. For every 4 men that join the tech world there is .68 of a woman and we know that 50% of women will leave the tech industry by the mid point in their career.

This esteemed panel of women leaders will talk about the innovation that is happening in their organisations and why now is the right time for women to be part of the change. They will address barriers to entry, both actual and perceived, from societal stereotypes to representation and support-Their conversation will range from growth, skills shortages and technical investment and why it is imperative to have better representation to deliver the promise that technology offers.

Hear how they have succeeded in male dominated worlds and how they are driving change in their organisations to attract and retain female talent. Their Inspiration, Wisdom and Point of View will help change perceptions and open us all to new ways of thinking.

We hear from some of Lloyds Banking Group’s brilliant data practitioners and inspirational women about how Lloyds Banking Group is embracing technology, nurturing female talent, and constantly innovating in ways that might surprise you, all with the aim of Helping Britain Prosper. This session will not only give you a flavour for the people that make up the organisation behind this household name, but also leave you feeling inspired about the positive changes and exciting work that happens when a bank, isn't just a bank.

Harassment, violence, crime - the sad reality for countless women.

Violence against women and girls is an endemic issue, with countless women able to illuminate dire statistics with personal stories. However, most incidents go unreported, creating a disturbing gap between reported and unreported gender-based violence.

Throughout September and October 2023 Women in Data® fielded a nationwide survey called ‘The Hidden Reality’ with over 3,000 women. We have leveraged the knowledge, passion and skill from within our data and AI community to drive an extensive research project analysing and combining, in several data hackathons, the survey results with sets of open-source data, past surveys, policing and crime data.

We will be sharing the very first look at the findings and new insights in a comprehensive measure of the current situation with our thoughts and recommendations for change. Women in Data® commit to taking findings from the survey and hackathons forward as appropriate to inform and drive change for women in the UK and will share our plans and to do so and how our community can drive this very important agenda forward.

WOMEN IN DATA® FLAGSHIP 2024 EMPOWERMENT STAGE AGENDA

WOMEN IN DATA® FLAGSHIP 2024

EMPOWERMENT STAGE AGENDA