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Women Tech Charge
Women Tech Charge is back!From fashion to finance, technology is revolutionising every area of our lives. Meet the extraordinary women who are leading the charge.Hosted by Dr. Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE, CEO of www.stemettes.org, Women Tech Charge is a series of candid, inspiring and often funny conver...
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37 EpisodenOvercooked Worms! How Debbie Bestwick became a gaming pioneer
Debbie Bestwick is the CEO of Team 17, the studio brought the world classic video games like Worms and innovative recent titles including the Overcook...
Tech and the City with Billie Quinlan, CEO of Ferly
Billie Quinlan is the co-founder and CEO of Ferly, a female-focussed sexual wellness app. She tells Anne-Marie how technology is helping women discove...
Imogen Heap: How technology is changing music
Imogen Heap is an artist, songwriter and technologist. She speaks to Anne-Marie about how tech is transforming how she makes music and interacts with...
Black Ballad and how data can tell the black community's story with Tobi Oredein
Tobi Oredein is a journalist and founder of the Black Ballad lifestyle platform that elevates the voices of black British women through content, commu...
How to be a Venture Capitalist, with Check Warner
Check Warner is a founding partner of Ada Ventures, a fund named after Ada Lovelace that aims to support diverse entrepreneurs. She talks to Anne-Mari...
Banishing 'maths phobia' with Dr Eugenia Cheng
Eugenia Cheng is a mathematician, concert pianist... and baker. She's dedicated her career to tackling the fear of maths that she thinks is preventing...
Motherhood and entrepreneurship with Tinto's Idia Elsmore Dodsworth
Idia Elsmore Dodsworth was a lawyer with an entrepreneurial streak.... and two children under the age of two. She tells Anne-Marie how an unruly day a...
How UNICEF uses tech to save lives, with its innovation fund manager Sunita Grote
How can a huge organisation, working at a global level, use technology to save the lives of children? Anne-Marie speaks to UNICEF's innovation fund ma...
Endometriosis and how AI can help, with Dr Noemie Elhadad
Endometriosis, where tissue similar to that from the womb grows in other places, affects around 6-10% of women around the world. Dr Noemie Elhadad, of...
NEW EPISODE! Explorer Kathy Sullivan: What's it like to go to space AND the deepest part of the ocean?
In this episode Anne-Marie takes us on a journey from the deepest depths of the ocean to outer space, with geologist, oceanographer and astronaut Kath...
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We’ve been nominated for a Webby!
Women Tech Charge is up for Best Technology Podcast at the 2020 Webby Awards. These are the biggest awards on...
We've been nominated for a Publisher's Podcast Award!
Thanks for listening to Women Tech Charge. It’s been nominated for a Publisher’s Podcast aware, and we’re really excited about it. If you like this sh...
Vinita Marwaha Madill, Space Engineer & Rocket Woman: Space suits, feminism (and aliens)
Vinita Marwaha Madill is one of the UK’s brightest space engineering stars, formally of the European Space Agency. She engineered a robotic arm which...
Rabia Chaudry, Undisclosed & Serial Podcast: how true crime podcasts are bringing real justice
When Rabia Chaudry approached a journalist to tell the story of her friend Adnan Syed, all she hoped for was to find new evidence to use in an appeal...
Seyi Akiwowo, Founder & Exec Director at Glitch UK: How can we can end online abuse forever
Seyi Akiwowo is a British women’s rights activist and campaigner, the Founder and Executive Director of Glitch, A not-for-profit organisation determin...
Lilian Rincon, Google: OK Google, how do you build an assistant for 2.5 billion people?
You probably know Google Assistant – the voice on the end of your phone or smart-speaker summoned when you say ‘OK Google’. This clever AI assistant c...
Charmaine Chan, LucasFilm: making Disney+ new Star Wars show The Mandalorian
If you’ve watched Star Wars VIII: The Last Jedi, Marvel’s Black Panther and Captain America Civil War, Jurassic World, or a whole host of other big-bu...
Alice Bentinck MBE, Entrepreneur First: from raising goats to incubating global start-ups
Alice Bentinck MBE has helped catalyse over 75 start-up companies around the world via her incubator 'Entrepreneur First'. With investment from illust...
Professor Maja Pantic, Imperial College: artificial intelligence, deepfakes and mind-reading
Professor Maja Pantic helps machines understand human emotion. She's a world leading expert in machine learning, deep learning and artificial intellig...
Susie Wolff, Venturi Formula E: Life in the fast lane
Susie Wolff was the first woman to take part in a Formula 1 race weekend for 22 years, when she drove for Williams in 2014 at the British and German G...
Emma Lawton, Parkinson's UK: discovering your superpower
Emma Lawton was working as a graphic designer when she was diagnosed with Parkinson's at the age of 29. The condition rendered her unable to draw unti...
Rachel Riley, Countdown: do maths, not war
Rachel Riley is known to millions as the co-host and resident mathematician of the cult TV show 'Countdown', and its off-shoot '8 out of 10 cats does...
We're back! Series 2 coming October 8th
Women Tech Charge is back, bigger and better. Launching on Ada Lovelace Day - the international celebration of women in tech - series 2 features a new...
Replay: Isabel Garvey, Abbey Road Studios
On the day the world celebrates 50 years since the Beatles' iconic 'Abbey Road' album, we revisit an episode from series 1 with Isabel Garvey, MD of A...
Roberta Lucca, Bossa Studios: building games, winning BAFTAs and taking action
Roberta Lucca founded Bossa Studios in the basement of a circus school with a few friends. Millions of downloads later, Bossa Studios is a multi-milli...
Savannah De Savary, BuiltID: bringing planning power to the people
As a young woman working in the construction industry, Savannah De Savary grew frustrated with the inefficiencies she perceived. Despite never intendi...
Venetia Archer, Ruuby: bringing beauty treatments to your door
Around the same time Uber were changing the way we get around, Venetia Archer spotted an opportunity to similarly disrupt the beauty industry. There w...
Helen Disney, Unblocked: Blockchain, Bitcoin... and horses?!
Helen Disney was writing for The Times when Bitcoin launched. She quickly realised that businesses, policy makers and the public didn't fully understa...
Isabel Garvey, Abbey Road Studios: how creative industries will thrive in a world of artificial intelligence
When services like Napster began to shake up the music industry, EMI called on Isabel Garvey to project how their business could prepare for the digit...
Priya Lakhani OBE, Century Tech: learning how every brain learns
Priya Lakhani is a living example of how to use business to do a little good in the world. Her first company, Masala Masala, sold fresh Indian cooking...
Manon Lagrève, Great British Bake-Off: a bakers' recipe for tech success
Fans of the Great British Bake-Off will know Manon Lagrève for her Matcha and White Chocolate biscuit selfie showstopper, and for reaching the quarter...
Jenny Griffiths MBE, SnapTech: where DID she get that dress?
Way back when the iPod Touch was (briefly) the cutting edge of mobile technology, Jenny Griffiths spotted an opportunity to use images to search the w...
Michelle Kennedy, Peanut: breaking stigma, making connections and failing forward
When Michelle Kennedy became a mother, she needed a safe place online to connect with other mums. She couldn't find it... so she built it. Her app Pea...
Louise Broni-Mensah, Shoobs.com: taking urban music global
Louise Broni-Mensah was the first black female founder accepted into Silicon Valley's Y-Combinator programme (which counts AirBnB, Dropbox and Reddit...
Rikke Roselund, Borrow My Doggy: 'pawprints of happiness'
Rikke Roselund founded BorrowMyDoggy.com which connects dog owners with those who would like to help look after their pup. She's using technology to b...
"Beth", GCHQ: spying, security and sausage rolls
"Beth" (not her real name because she's a bona-fide spy) equips secret service agents with the tech that keeps Britain safe. She talks to Anne-Marie a...
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