Debbie Bestwick is the CEO of Team 17, the studio brought the world classic video games like Worms and innovative recent titles including the Overcooked series. She tells Anne-Marie how she entered the industry before the age of 20 and became an award-winning producer. She also explains how to get a foothold in a competitive field, and encourages parents to let their children explore a job that's far more than just playing games. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 15, 2020•16 min•Season 3Ep. 3
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 discover their sexuality, and change the way people think about sex. They also talk about her journey from aspiring actress to head of her own start-up, including having to learn new skills. ADVISORY: This episode of Women Tech Charge contains adult themes, and references to sexual assault. If you're affected by any of the issues raised, you can get help ...
Dec 08, 2020•18 min•Season 3Ep. 9
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 audiences. She describes how she developed her MiMu smart gloves, which work as a wearable music instrument. And they talk about Mycelia, Heap's blockchain driven project to help musicians with their music distribution, rights and payment management. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 01, 2020•24 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Tobi Oredein is a journalist and founder of the Black Ballad lifestyle platform that elevates the voices of black British women through content, community and commerce. She talks to Anne-Marie about how her experiences as a black woman in journalism inspired her to create the site. They also discuss the importance of data in telling the stories of black communities, and how difficult it can sometimes be to find.. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Nov 24, 2020•24 min•Season 3Ep. 7
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-Marie about the role VCs can play in supporting start-ups, what the job actually is, and why female founders are considered "niche" in the industry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 17, 2020•22 min•Season 3Ep. 5
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 talented people from studying the subject. Eugenia tells Anne-Marie how her discovery that her students would pay more attention if lectures involved food led to her publishing a best-selling book combining baking with mathematics. And she describes how playing complex piano pieces connects with her love of numbers. They also discuss Eugenia's new...
Nov 10, 2020•22 min•Season 3Ep. 5
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 at the beach with her kids inspired her to co-found Tinto, an app that connects mothers. They discuss how parenting can be an "overwhelming" experience, especially for working mums, and how hard it can be to get honest advice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 03, 2020•22 min•Season 3Ep. 4
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 manager, Sunita Grote, who tells us why developments like blockchain are making it easier to provide humanitarian and developmental aid across the world. She also discusses how the organisation is embracing risk, with the possibility that some of the start-ups it partners with might not be able to deliver what they hope - but that the rewards when it...
Oct 26, 2020•25 min•Season 3Ep. 3
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 Columbia University, is one of those who was diagnosed with it while still a student. She's set up the Phendo app, which lets women catalogue their signs and symptoms, helping them manage the disease. She talks to Anne-Marie about the struggles she had getting treatment for a condition that's still not fully understood. They also talk about the fu...
Oct 20, 2020•28 min•Season 3Ep. 2
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 Kathy Sullivan. She was the first American woman to walk in space and also the first woman to go to the deepest depths of the ocean. She is the first person to have done both. Anne-Marie asks what did little Kathy want to be? We get to hear a story about the implications of being the first group of women NASA sends to space (spoiler: it involves period...
Oct 13, 2020•26 min•Season 3Ep. 1
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 the internet, so we’re absolutely delighted. And YOU can help us win! Vote online here: https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2020/podcasts/general-series/technology Voting is open until May 7th, so do get your vote in quickly. THANK YOU! And if you’re new to Women Tech Charge, thanks for joining us. There are two whole seasons for you to binge righ...
May 01, 2020•47 sec•Season 2Ep. 15
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 show we would love it if you popped over to the Evening Standard’s The Leader podcast. The Leader is released daily at 4pm and gives you the best of the Evening Standard’s news, analysis and commentary on the day’s big events from our journalists. https://podfollow.com/the-leader Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 27, 2020•1 min•Season 2Ep. 10
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 will be launched to the International Space Station to help build new parts of the ISS. She also designed the suits the astronauts wear inside it. Now she’s trying to inspire more women to get involved in out of this world careers through her Rocket Women initiative. Anne-Marie Imafidon asks what inspired Vinita to reach beyond the stars, what’s i...
Dec 10, 2019•25 min•Season 2Ep. 10
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 against his conviction for the murder of Hae Min Lee. What she got was Serial – the podcast that became an international phenomenon. This is the story of how that show was made, and how Rabia, an immigration lawyer, is using technology to fight injustices in the US legal system, including through her own blockbusting podcast series Undisclosed. She...
Dec 03, 2019•27 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Seyi Akiwowo is a British women’s rights activist and campaigner, the Founder and Executive Director of Glitch , A not-for-profit organisation determined to end online abuse. Seyi was also selected as the Amnesty International Human Rights Defender in 2018 and is a UK Digital Leader of the Year. Seyi has also been named as one of the Evening Standard’s “Progress 1000” most influential people in London 2019. In this episode, Seyi Akiwowo talks to Anne-Marie about being targeted by neo-nazis onlin...
Nov 26, 2019•24 min•Season 2Ep. 8
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 can perform more than a million actions (including, famously, making phone calls on users behalf) and is present on more than 2.5 billion Android devices around the world. Plus it plays a part in a range of tasks on desktop and in Google search. The guest for this episode of Women Tech Charge is Lilian Rincon – the incredible woman behind this remar...
Nov 19, 2019•24 min•Season 2Ep. 7
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-budget Hollywood movies in the past decade or so, you will have watched Charmaine Chan’s work. But if she’s good at her job – and she is – you probably won’t have even realised. Charmaine is a lead compositor for Industrial Light and Magic, the visual effects house owned by Lucasfilm (in turn owned by Disney) which has been responsible for bringin...
Nov 12, 2019•26 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Alice Bentinck MBE has helped catalyse over 75 start-up companies around the world via her incubator 'Entrepreneur First'. With investment from illustrious business leaders including Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn, who is now also a board member, Entrepreneur First focuses on funding ambitious individuals across Europe and Asia - and started from the so-called Silicon Roundabout in London's Old Street. Alice now also runs Code First: Girls, an organisation dedicated to helping female university studen...
Nov 05, 2019•24 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Professor Maja Pantic helps machines understand human emotion. She's a world leading expert in machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence. In her roles at Imperial College London and as head of Samsung AI lab she is developing diverse real-world applications for using machines to help humans understand the world. In this episode of Women Tech Charge she joins Anne Marie to discuss how intelligent robots can help autistic children emotionally interact with others, how 'deep-fake'...
Oct 29, 2019•26 min•Season 2Ep. 4
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 Grand Prix. She has a long and illustrious career in Formula 3 and Formula Renault, and after retiring from Formula 1 she became team principle for Venturi Formula E team. She also partnered with the Motorsport Association to launch ' Dare To Be Different ' - a charity aimed at empowering young women to take part in motorsport. In this episode of Wo...
Oct 22, 2019•24 min•Season 2Ep. 3
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 until she teamed up with Microsoft as part of a BBC documentary. Together they created a unit to wear on her wrist like a watch which balanced the tremors in her hand to enable her to draw again. Emma is now a digital strategist for Parkinson's UK, where she has been working to help create apps and devices which can help people with Parkinson's manage ...
Oct 15, 2019•24 min•Season 2Ep. 2
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 Countdown'. In 2013 she appeared on the hit BBC show 'Strictly Come Dancing'. Now she's taking on the online trolls with the Centre for Countering Digital Hate . In the first episode of Women Tech Charge series 2, Rachel Riley talks to Anne Marie Imafidon about being Britain's favourite TV mathematician, and why we should do maths, not war. Rachel ...
Oct 08, 2019•26 min•Season 2Ep. 1
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 set of incredible guests. In episode 1 Rachel Riley, co-host of the popular Channel 4 TV show 'Countdown' joins us to talk about battling online trolls. Future guests will include racing driver and Formula E team principal Susie Wolff, Head of Google Assistant, Lilian Rincon, and Charmaine Chan of Industrial Light and Magic on her role in the Marv...
Oct 03, 2019•1 min
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 Abbey Road Studios. This episode was first published on 22nd April 2019 -- 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 digital revolution. 15 years later Isabel continues to lead the music world's future focus as the MD of world-famous Abbey Road stu...
Aug 08, 2019•39 min•Season 1Ep. 13
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-million pound, BAFTA-winning business with hits to its name like Surgeon Simulator , I Am Bread and Worlds Adrift. In the final episode in Season One of Women Tech Charge Roberta talks to Anne Marie about what it takes to make a hit game, how she harnesses her teams' creativity through 'game jams', and why the games industry needs more women. Visit Boss...
May 20, 2019•39 min•Season 1Ep. 12
As a young woman working in the construction industry, Savannah De Savary grew frustrated with the inefficiencies she perceived. Despite never intending to start a company, the problems she saw inspired her to find solutions through tech. Inspired by her own experiences she founded BuiltID which democratises the planning and approvals process, bringing power to the people by methods as inclusive as possible. She's also championing diversity in a characteristically monoculture industry. Savannah ...
May 10, 2019•41 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Around the same time Uber were changing the way we get around, Venetia Archer spotted an opportunity to similarly disrupt the beauty industry. There was just one problem - she had no experience in tech. What she did have was a background in journalism and a passion for ideas which helped her research what she did not already know. Within a few short years she has built a thriving business with global ambition, has already begun acquiring other companies, and has been named on Forbes 30 under 30 ...
May 06, 2019•37 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Helen Disney was writing for The Times when Bitcoin launched. She quickly realised that businesses, policy makers and the public didn't fully understand the revolutionary implications of emerging blockchain technology. Now she runs the startup UnBlocked, making it her business to help leaders understand how blockchain can impact their field of work. In this podcast she discusses with Anne-Marie the implications of blockchain, demystifying the technology and sharing some of the best use examples ...
Apr 29, 2019•36 min•Season 1Ep. 9
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 digital revolution. 15 years later Isabel continues to lead the music world's future focus as the MD of world-famous Abbey Road studios, leading their incubator for digital music technologies, Abbey Road RED. In this episode Isabel and Anne-Marie discuss how digital technologies are shaping the future of music, and how developments like artificial intel...
Apr 22, 2019•39 min•Season 1Ep. 8
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 sauces via supermarkets like Waitrose, and used the proceeds to provide a meal for a homeless person in India for every jar sold. When she discovered the overburden of workload affecting teachers in schools, and the knock-on effect for the students they teach, Priya spotted an opportunity to solve a new problem. Her company Century Tech now uses A...
Apr 15, 2019•43 min•Season 1Ep. 7
