Kirsty is the Senior Education Officer for Technologies and Digital at Education Scotland. She leads a team of 6 Education Officers who support local authorities, schools and teachers across Scotland.  She has worked for Education Scotland for over 12 years & … Continue reading Kirsty McFaul

Anna Ashton-Scott is Head of Skills at The Data Lab Innovation Centre. Her work involves creating training & development opportunities for people from university students to CEOs to ensure they gain valuable skills for the future of work. Anna joined … Continue reading Anna Ashton Scott

Leaving school in the late 1990s I was torn between following a career in Music or Computing.  Following an undergraduate degree in Computing, one of only three female students in a class of 70+, my career in tech began as … Continue reading Heather Thomson

I grew up in the Netherlands and was into tennis as a child. I was among the top ten players in the national rankings for several years. After school, I decided to pursue a degree in Civil Engineering at Delft … Continue reading Kate Steenhauer

I am a software engineer working at NatWest within the Bank of API’s. My day job involves writing, testing and deploying code in the form of API’s which make it easier, quicker and better for our customers to access our … Continue reading Abbie Macrae

Ruth Cochrane is a Designer and Head of Future Skills at the Glasgow School of Art with over 15 years of academic experience and a background in commercial product design. She was head of product design at Linn Products then … Continue reading Ruth Cochrane 

I never expected to end up in academia. I heavily disliked secondary school, had to repeat two years and barely finished the Abitur (German A levels) with underwhelming grades. I never wanted to do anything similar again. I applied for … Continue reading Patrizia di Campli San Vito

Sara Somerville is a Senior Systems Development Manager in IT Services at the University of Glasgow. She currently manages a team of software developers who create the magic behind our systems such as the UofG Life student app and the … Continue reading Sara Somerville

Dawn McAra-Hunter is the Programme Manager at the Scottish AI Alliance, delivering Scotland’s national AI strategy & leading on the Alliance’s AI business support activities through the Scottish AI Playbook, as well as the flagship programme to support AI literacy, … Continue reading Dawn McAra-Hunter

Nuria Fraile-Diaz is a Learning Designer and Digital Accessibility Specialist, currently working as the Digital Learning and Development Manager at The Data Lab. She studied Philosophy and Classics a long time ago, but it was her master’s in Digital Education … Continue reading Nuria Fraile-Diaz

I am a principal teacher of BACS in Barrhead High School, and my subject is Computing Science. Starting my journey in Computing Science at Glasgow Caledonian University in 1997, after an open day visit which inspired me to join the … Continue reading Fiona Sabba

Cat is an award-winning marketing leader and the incoming Director of Strategy & Competitive Intelligence at VisitScotland. Having studied International Business & Languages at the University of Strathclyde, she started her career in a small family-run manufacturing company running their … Continue reading Cat Leaver

My journey has definitely not been straight forward to get to where I am today. In fact, if you had asked 18 year old Maria what she thought she would be doing with her life she would have said Marine … Continue reading Maria Bell

I am a Strategic Client Lead at an end-to-end digital consultancy called AND Digital. My job involves helping to grow, support and evolve AND’s clients. I’m very lucky to be working with a great client at the moment and get … Continue reading Laura Davis

Ketty delivers initiatives to help close Scotland’s digital technology skills gap, with a focus on supporting diversity and inclusion. She has devised and delivered key programmes to tackle the gender imbalance and to increase neurodiversity. Ketty brings industry, public agencies, … Continue reading Ketty Lawrence