The miX Factor: ensuring diversity when scaling your business

Managing a balanced workforce in a rapidly growing business can be tricky at the best of times but how can you ensure that diversity and gender representation does not get side lined in order to meet headcount? In a male dominated industry and with demand outstripping supply, tech firms need to ensure that they are making themselves attractive to a diverse talent pool.

This event addresses how businesses can actively target diverse talent pools to meet their head count requirements and place professionals from diverse talent pools into key technical roles.

Recruiting for diversity - Inge Woudstra, Director, W20 Consulting & Training

The current lack of talent in STEM areas is being made worse by recruiting practices benefitting certain groups more than others. Businesses need to be proactive in attracting more diverse talent pools which can bring real business benefits.

This interactive talk addresses how businesses can adapt their adverts, employee branding, recruitment channels, job roles and selection practices to attract a more diverse pool of candidates.

Connecting female talent for success - Katherine Codlin, Speechmatics &Cambridge Women in Technology

Cambridge Women in Technology has grown rapidly in less than 2 years to be a successful platform for local STEM women to debate key issues and implement change within their respective areas of interest. Katherine will use her own personal experience to talk about the challenges she faced and how it shaped the creation of Cambridge Women in Technology

Agenda

12.00pm - 12.30pm: Registration

12.30pm - 1.15pm: Speakers
Inge Woudstra, W20 Consulting & Training
Katherine Codlin, Speechmatics & Cambridge Women in Technology

1.15pm - 1.45pm: Lunch
Food and drink will be provided.

1.45pm - 2.30pm: Roundtable discussions and networking
Discussion forum around what can be done to change the perception of the tech industry and in particular the perceived 'male culture' of many companies which could be turning off many minority groups from applying to work there.

About our speakers

Inge Woudstra
Inge is sought-after expert in diversity and specifically gender difference. She designs and runs training and organisational change programmes helping organisations leverage their diverse and female talent. She is the author of ‘Be Gender Smart – The Key to Career Success for Women’.

Before starting her own business, Inge has held change management, consultancy and teaching roles in international business including Ashridge Business School, Chatham House, Shell and Siemens. She is a qualified MBTI facilitator, CIPD Associate and mentor at the Professional Women’s Network. 

Katherine Codlin
Katherine has a wealth of experience acquired in the tech sector across several commercial roles including Redgate Software and start-up Speechmatics where in her role as a Strategic Accounts Manager is responsible for the development and delivery of key partnership programs.
She is also the founder of Cambridge Women in Technology. The goal of Cambridge Women in Technology is to advance women in all STEM roles and provide a network for interested and proactive people to meet locally.
Through a variety of meetups, workshops, networking and mentoring opportunities for women at all levels of their careers, Cambridge WIT is helping to support and grow gender equality across the STEM space by thinking globally and acting locally.