Amplifying Voices in Tech

Join us during Glasgow Tech Week as we hear from a brilliant panel working in different areas of technology and how they got there. We have a wide range of expertise from vertical farming and digital transformation to beauty robotics and award winning Turing Testers!

In partnership with The Social Hub and Glasgow City Innovation District, this event will be an unmissable event in your Glasgow Tech Week agenda.

Don't miss your chance to be part of this event—reserve your spot now and join us for an evening of empowerment, innovation, and endless possibilities!

Agenda:

1. Welcome and Networking, experience The Social Hub atmosphere

2. Let's Get Talking - Panel Session

3. An open mic session where any attendee is free to speak their mind or ask for a piece of advice (60-seconds each) from the community and receive feedback.

4. A networking session in which attendees talk to each other freely over some drinks and delicious food. There's no Startup Grind event where you don't leave with new friends and exciting connections.

Guest Speakers:

Aisha Janki

Aisha is the CEO/founder of Janki Robotics, an beauty-tech startup in Edinburgh backed my Innovate UK, the National Robotarium, Scottish Edge, amongst others. She’s passionate about sharing her experiences with a view to inspire, motivate and educate and you can find her creating content on LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok where she has amassed a following of over 160,000. She’s a graduate of architecture from the university of Edinburgh and a recipient of the Mastercard Foundation scholarship. In recognition of her influential and transformative leadership whilst at university, she was awarded the Vice Chancellor’s Sir William Darling Memorial Prize and she was recognised as one of the top 3 black university students in Britain by Rare Recruitment.

Gayle Reid

A wife, mother, and Head of User Applications for IGS. Gayle has a extensive experience working with startups and has come up through the ranks as a C++ software engineer scrum master and project manager before settling at IGS as a team lead then department head. Gayle describes herself as a neurodivergent superhero, and champion for STEM careers for all.

Kathryn Nicolson

Before entering the word of technology Kathryn gained a degree in International Business with Modern Languages before falling into the world of tech on her graduate programme at Edrington, an international spirits company based in Glasgow. After quickly falling in love with the problem solving nature of working with technology and building solutions with marketers and engineering teams, Kathryn is now a Product owner in the digital technology team leading global projects. On top of her day job, Kathryn also recently completed a masters in Digital Transformation Leadership at Barcelona Technology School.

Clara O'Callaghan

Clara is a cyber-security undergrad student at Edinburgh Napier and Vice President on ENUSEC (the cyber-security society at their university). Having volunteered in various initiatives since high-school, Clara is passionate about computing science and the gender inequality present in all STEM subjects. They are keen to create spaces for women and gender minorities in tech. Outside of tech, Clara is a reader, taekwondo student and nature lover

Spaces will be limited to save your spot now, prepare your on-stage 'ask' and join us for our next event!

📅 When: Tuesday 14 May

🕒 Time: 18.00-20.30

📍 Where: The Social Hub, Glasgow