ICT 4 Women launches speakers’ list

MICE News

Tuesday, 27 February 2018

Australia’s Vic ICT 4 Women, an organisation for women in IT, has launched The Click List – a national list of qualified and female tech speakers.

The  list is a free resource for event organisers to ensure gender equality at their events, according to  Vic ICT 4 Women Board member Rowena Murray (pictured), who said event organisers can no longer blame the limited pool of qualified women. 

“Australia has some of the most highly-qualified, dynamic and interesting female tech speakers – we’re so sick of hearing the excuse that there were no women available. It’s time to put an end to the ‘all white middle-aged man’ panel – event organisers can do better than that,” said Murray.

The Click List is launching with a number of women from a range of disciplines and will continue to expand over the coming months. Some of the speakers include doctor Caitlin Byrt, a research scientist and lecturer studying how to improve plants for future food security, Anna Leibel, the cio at Uni Super, doctor Sara Dods, a technologist and innovation business leader who has worked on high profile projects with Telstra Health and CSIRO and Dayle Stevens, divisional cio at AGL, Board member of Robogals and Girl Geek Academy Ambassador.