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Why women can be leaders when it comes to AI
Heather Barnhart, SANS Institute
Australia's CAIOs must harness AI‑native talent wave
Sharryn Napier, GitHub
Fintech must match tech progress with true inclusion
Georgia Hanias, Ecology Media
Women in tech: revealing diverse careers beyond code
Beth Harwood, Prismatic
Diverse perspectives driving innovation for the real world
Jade Tang, Tineco
Sustainability as soft power: How women are re-engineering the future through green education
Usha Iyer, The Green School Bangalore, Bengaluru
When bandwidth Is capped but ambition Isn't
Afrida Tabassum, Software@Scale
Building in public: Why women entrepreneurs need visibility as much as capital
Kavitha Ramaswamy, Mercurius Media Capital
Breaking in without a blueprint: Lessons learned from my nontraditional path to cybersecurity
Tammy Harper, Flare
Give to gain: What women in tech can achieve when they dare to fail
Shannon Bell Chief Information Officer and Chief Digital Officer and Michelle Berry Chief Human Resources Officer, OpenText
Breaking barriers to women's tech careers by rethinking pathways
Rima Das, RMIT Online
Balancing AI's gold rush with rest, humanity & pace
Jaime Miller Witherill, Legrand
Designing for reality: What my non-traditional path taught me about diversity in tech
Nina Sekiguchi, Everpure
Scaling the AI economy: Infrastructure at speed, talent at scale
Jennifer Reininger, CleanArc Data Centers
Beyond the glass ceiling: Behavioural intelligence is the power skill for women in tech
Preetie Boler, Empowered by Design and #1 Amazon Bestseller Shiftcode Leadership
Lessons from IIIT-B: Building an ecosystem where women thrive, not just survive
Meenakshi D'Souza, IIIT-Bangalore
International Women's Day: Why security operations centres need women
Vicki Beynon, Securitas UK
If AI can't quote you, do you exist? The new reality for communications
Deborah Pead, Pead
AI won't reduce construction disputes unless documentation improves
Gillian Laging, Scopey Onsite
From practicing lawyer to legal engineer: Why the safe bet isn't always the best bet
Divija Kothari, iManage
International Women's Day: The Australian entrepreneur proving you don't have to scale fast to succeed
Nakisah Williams, Craft Club
Beyond the 2%: Turning a gender problem into a founder-alignment problem
Leigh Sevin, Endear
How a strong professional network gifts its members the support they need to stretch and grow
Nicola Gerber, Fastly
From global engineer to data leader in Australia’s tech
Jessica Molina Calabrese, TechDay
Breaking barriers and building bridges in tech
Lisa Brady, LANTANA LED
Why cybersecurity needs better storytelling; and more women telling It
Hannah Perez, Suzu Labs
Building our own table: Lessons for women entering tech in the age of AI
Chrystal Taylor, SolarWinds
Debugging your operating system: Why gut health is the missing link in human performance
Dr Corin Storkey PhD., Seleno Health
The role of technology in rebalancing performance and wellbeing
Elle Brown, MHR
Customer success is not support, it is stewardship
Nidhi Suresh, IBS Software
Gender bias in AI - how to spot it, and how to prevent it
Ruth Bucknell, Merkle UK
Balancing tech, humanity & leadership in insurance
Liz Latter, Qlaims Limited
Trust, transformation and the women leading modern client partnerships
Laura Fox, APS Group
How to navigate a career change into tech. As a woman. In your 40s
Mandy Bath, Merkle UK
From photographer to full-stack dev: a bold career pivot
Livia Gu, Notitia
From atoms to organizations: A new way to think about leadership
Karen Cheng, Kyndryl Canada
Building trust & confidence in hybrid work for women
Alison Morris, Worldpay, now Global Payments
Women in transport tech: How diverse teams keep freight moving
Sarah Macdonald, MyTrucking
It's time to make a genuine effort to retain experienced and capable women
Emma Mani, GumGum
International Women's Day and the leadership gap shaping the future of data centers
Elena Winters, Elea Data Centers
Hiding in plain sight? The revenue advantage of female founders
Marisa Scullion, https://www.angelinvestmentnetwork.co.uk/
Why workplaces must adapt to unlock women’s leadership
Yasmine Amani, Banking Circle Australia
How audiobooks help rewire your brain in ten seconds
Venita Dimos, TechDay
Debiasing the digital future: Why AI needs healthy friction
Rachel Hughes, Assurity Consulting
From optics to outcomes: What real progress for women in tech looks like
Janthana Kaenprakhamroy, Tapoly
The courage to lead: Women, technology, and the work that remains
Sarah Franklin, Lattice
The outlier in the data: Leading in tech beyond the model minority
Fiona Rada Hernandez, 365 Data Centers
Why influence matters this International Women's Day
Jo Stewart-Rattray, ISACA
Progress in motion: Women, AI, and the future of inclusive innovation
Christine Meyers Callum, Liquibase
You have to give to gain: Why I view mentorship as a force multiplier
Lisa Marie Maxson, 10x People
How women can build influence in critical tech roles
Carlie Shooner, Sabey Data Centers
The visibility gap: Why women's expertise in technology must be seen
Denise Boswell-Buck, Boswell-Buck Creative Consulting
How can the tech industry sustain gender equality momentum?
Sandra Aldi, Datadobi
IWD 2026 - Creating a durable tech career in the age of AI
Yulia Kuchina, Software@Scale
Balancing the scales: Women's authority and risk-taking still judged differently in marketing and tech
Fabrizia Roberto, www.fabriziaroberto.com
The hidden support gaps holding women back at work
Kim Rowbottom, Pluxee UK
The next frontier for gender equity is digital power at the board table
Iyari Cevallos, Women in Technology
35 years of marketing in technology: A front-row seat to change
Jeannie Zaemes, Vanillasoft
Why gender diversity is imperative in shaping ethical AI
Tamsin Crossland, Icon Solutions
The data centre industry is cutting-edge. Its talent model must be its next innovation
Eva Sóley Guðbjörnsdóttir, atNorth
IWD 2026 - Give to Gain: A personal journey
Tereza Knoxova, Onetag
Women own the most underrated skill in tech: Translation
Lauren Malhoit, IP Fabric
Why fintech needs more women in the room where risk decisions are made
Kristina Nikipolska, xpate
International Women's Day 2026: Death by a thousand qualifications
Swati Deshpande, Paynt
The future of financial literacy for women
Monisha Sharma, Fig Financial
Why 'Give to Gain' needs to stop being a women's virtue and start being a business model
Lizi Sprague, Songue PR
Inspiring women: key lessons from my mentors
Aysha Thompson, Sabio
From listening to leading: Why the best customer strategies close the loop
Maureen Plowman, Litera
Don't rule yourself out of a career in STEM
Lauren Reid, Aquark Technologies
Cyber safety for women: Tackling stalking, deepfakes and online harassment
Uma Pendyala, SecurEyes
The skills that shaped my unusual route to tech
Barbara Schulz, GoTo
The next generation of women in tech doesn't need inspiration. They need infrastructure
Kristina Kaganer, Navigator
Agentic AI and the question of equitable intelligence
Marlene Wolfgruber, ABBYY
The transformation of leadership: Building what's next in construction
Amanda Amos, Rosendin Electric
What a stressed market taught me about marketing
Cynthia Gumbert, Litera
Giving trust to gain impact: What I've learned as a woman in tech
Corinne Ferrie, Adverity
How to design early tech careers women want to stay in
Mary Hartwell, Data Governance Syniti
AI at Goddiva, a woman's perspective
Amber Domenech, Goddiva
Balancing the scales for women’s leadership in tech
Paige Gordon, Nexxen
It's not a gender gap, it's a confidence gap: Rethinking women's participation in the AI era
Quinny Lei, StarHub
Building while balancing: What I've learned about performance, endurance and modern leadership
Merline McGregor, Pattern Australia
Women in STEM: Unlocking Canada's innovation potential
Cinzia Bazzo, Sage
Style, substance, and strategy: Drawing similarities between pageantry and PR
Aleesha Naxakis, SS COMMS
Why talent systems, not ambition, are holding women back in tech
Cia Kouparitsas, Greenbeam
Why women in tech are shaping the future of leadership
Elina Tsao, Plaud
What women actually want from the future of work (Hint: It's not ping-pong tables)
Emily Parker-Woodland, Ridepanda
Confidence counts: Why representation matters in energy infrastructure
Libby Owen, APR Energy
Designing a digital high street that truly fits us
Vicki Blenkinsop, Visualsoft
Safe AI needs all voices: Celebrating the women who help drive CSA's AI safety initiative
Illena Armstrong, Cloud Security Alliance
How the universal adoption of AI can help women in insurance balance the scales
Laura Drabik, Guidewire
This International Women's Day, let's stop hoarding power
Ingrid Curtis, Sparq
Why female voices are essential in shaping our tech
Kylie Mason, Samsung Electronics Australia
This International Women's Day, lean on proof (of skill, of impact and of potential)
Sarah Noe-Danzl, Skillable
Why women must be seen in AI's hidden enablement layer
Dolores Saiz, The Server Labs
Why legal literacy is the ultimate empowerment for women in tech
Renee Roumanos, Renee Roumanos Legal
Leadership, transformation, and designing what's next for women
Ramak Salamat, Staffbase
Celebrating the value of diverse perspectives on International Women's Day
Laura Laltrello, Applied Digital
The beautiful chaos of parenthood is SEO's secret sauce
Samantha Edwards, NP Digital
Invisible labour in a digital world
Simran Kaur, Pounce
Women in cybersecurity, what it really looks like, and where you can fit
Michaella Masters, Codific
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