Olga Petrova is a Product Manager at Scaleway. Her tasks range from developing new product ideas to defining and maintaining product roadmaps. She’s also in charge of identifying customers’ needs and matching them with Scaleway’s business objectives. She regularly carries out AI (deep learning) projects and shares them with the machine learning community via blog posts, webinars etc. Thanks to her international experience and her Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, Olga has an excellent technical...

We have had the pleasure of speaking with CEO and Founder at Newfund, Patrick Malka. We explore Patrick's commitment to building a culture of inclusiveness, from his equal pay policy to his unbiased vision of his employees. As he points out, Patrick's career has been dotted with key encounters and he believes that his path has been made possible thanks to and with the support of women. This is quite uncommon in the ruthless world of finance!  Tune in to discover about his vision and how he...

> The reason and mission of the book Min 1 In the podcast, Claire tells us how she grew up into tech as her father was an engineer. "When I grew up I thought a computer had no gender," she said. But society bias and inequality later taught her otherwise: she felt a distance between technology and women and, as a journalist, she started looking into the hidden stories of women in tech to bring them back into the light. The more she was looking into these stories, the more she realized...

Hi, my name is Seb Butt and I work for a fast growing start-up called Craft, as their General Manager for Europe. In addition I am an investor and a non-executive director at boutique executive search firm Engage Infotech. I am an advocate of organisations of all forms, types and in all industries making systemic changes which can lead to opportunities for everyone. This interest led me to join Diversity VC back in 2016 as a volunteer and I still work with Diversity VC now and most recently,...

Share this episode on Twitter with only one click! Hi, I’m Check Warner, I’m the co-founder & CEO of Diversity VC. Diversity VC is non-profit set up to promote diversity and inclusion in venture capital in tech. We collect original data, we help young people to get into the industry from all kinds of background through our internship program, we help VCs turning more inclusive and we help entrepreneurs to access capital. And it’s our mission to make venture capital representative and...

Hey I'm Kim Walsh Global VP of HubSpot for Startups. (...) We partner with VCs, incubators, basically all startup organizations, and our mission is to help millions of startups grow better. So we started this, HubSpot for Startups, three years ago. The team is a global team now, we help over 10,000 startup customers. We love to empower all types of companies, and we think that's really important, but we really love to support our female founders as well. (...) What we see happen so often in...

Hello, I am Amy Lewin. I'm a journalist at Sifted which is a new media platform backed by the Financial Times. At Sifted, I write about startups and tech across the whole of Europe. Although, I have a particular interest in what I call “the people side of companies” (...) Today, I am talking about how to catch a journalist's attention. So, journalists get a whole lot of emails. I get dozens if not hundreds of pictures and press releases every single day. And it's rare that I even bother...

We recorded this special femtech episode in partnership with our pioneer partner, Axa. Hello, my name is Ariella Dreyfuss, I am originally from England. I moved to Israel around 14 years ago and I am a partner in the M&A department of Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co. law firm. I’ve been working as a lawyer in the high-tech space for over 10 years, during which time I have represented startups, mature tech companies, VC funds, corporate ventures and private equity funds. One of my soft spots...

Hi I’m Maren Bannon, I'm the co-founder of Jane VC. Jane is a new fund to invest in early stage female lead startups in Europe in the U.S. Before moving to Europe and starting Jane, I spent my career as an operator in San Francisco. I worked at large tech companies, startups, and I was also a founder. At university I studied engineering, and over and over again I was surrounded by rooms full of men. I got the idea of starting Jane from my experience as a woman in tech, and recognizing the...

Hi my name is Alison Murdock, and I am the Chief Marketing Officer at SocialChorus. We’re a work force communications platform that helps organizations connect and engage everyone in their work force and I am based in San Francisco, California. I've worked in Silicon Valley and here in Europe with many startups over the last 20 years, helping them find their super powers and winning. Having worked a long time in Silicon Valley, I often get asked about the “bro culture” and “How do you manage...

I am Jade LeMaitre, I am the CTO of Hease Robotics. Originally, I have a background in engineering before I completely fell in love with robotics. That's why three years ago I decided to team up with Max my co-founder, and start Hease. It is a robotics company, our mission is to have businesses to use air ride driven robotics Today I am here to share something important for me to the 50inTech community, and that is: “as engineers we have the unique ability to build the future you want so,...

I'm Ian McDonald, CTO of residents at Microsoft for startups in Western Europe. Today I want to talk about how we can help women, & how we can help introverts to really flourish in the startup ecosystem. So I want to talk about, you know why we are doing away with pitching and how there are practical steps to make you better.One thing that we’ve found here at Microsoft is that pitch deck don’t really work. A pitch deck is a short presentation outlining the business plan for a start up....

Hello ! My name is Dr. Vanessa Marcie, I'm the CEO and founder of “Leading With Humour”, a change management consultancy company. I have an MBA from Cambridge Judge Business School where I lead workshops and I  did a research on the impact of humour in leadership. That research has been picked up by the Financial Times and published in 2018. With the success of this research, people started to ask me to lead workshops in their company. So I've left my job for the City of London in order to...

I am Clementine Piazza, the CEO and solo founder of InMemori. I created InMemori 3 years ago to support one of the hardest moments in life: the loss of a loved one. So, we've all lost someone we love. It's the hardest time for families because they have to share the sad news with many people near and far and that takes so much effort.  And friends want to pay their respect but they are afraid to disturb, even to ask where to send flowers. That's why I created InMemori, an online space for...

I'm Claire Calmejane, I am the Chief Innovation Officer of Société Générale. But way before that, I graduated as an IT engineer in France. It's been an interesting journey always working in digital transformation. I've also published at MIT about how big organizations are evolving, I’ve led engineer teams, I’ve worked in a lot of strategic jobs. And all this diversity, as well as giving some of my time to transform the Fintech sector in the UK, but as well building the Fintech community...

My name is Joanna Kirk and I am an international Tech PR. I work in the Tech Ecosystem since a few years now mainly with International VC firms, startups, Ecosystem Builders.  What I would like to share with you today are a series of tips in PR.  For those of you whom are launching a startup or starting a company or thinking of doing so, the main advice that I give at first is that there’s a lot of the PR you can do on your own.  The first advice that I would give is don't hesitate to put...

My name is Emmanuelle Flahault-Franc, I amDirector of communications for Iris Capital, a European VC,  co-author of the book “Into the French Tech” and have been working in tech for over 12 years now.  I would like to talk with you about the lack of female VC and the fact that many women need to actually consider that job as probably a second-time career job or maybe a new job for the younger generation. What’s a VC or an investor?  VC is an acronym for venture capitalist, somebody who will...

Hello, my name is Dagne Lejina. I am from Latvia, from Riga. I call myself  “Oratora”.  And this is also the name, of the public speaking company I founded just last year.Why I did it ? I am a PR professional with 20 years of experience.  I am here because I am in particular interested in Tech and the startup world. 5 years ago, I founded the Digital Freedom Festival. One of the biggest Tech events in the Baltic Sea region. Gathering 2000 people every year in Riga.  This Festival, was an...

My name is Marie. I am the CEO and co-founder of Aiden.ai.  We are an AI startup. We started in 2017. I have one co-founder who is the CTO of the company,PJ, and he worked at Apple before he started Aiden. I worked in mobile app marketing for 8 years. We went from 2 people in 2017 and a low quality minimum viable product or MVP to a team of 12 people, 2 years later. We built a software called Aiden, that is used by mobile app marketing teams to get better results from their paid acquisition...

In this opening episode, Caroline Ramade, founder and CEO of 50inTech will explain: 1/ Why it was so urgent to launch 50intech.com 2/ How to give and take actionable advice on the 50inTech platform 3/ The reason why those first podcasts-to-go for women in tech have been created I have always been committed into gender equality.  Before launching 50inTech, I ran a gender lens incubator based in Paris - WILLA, which supported 500 women led-startup. And I saw all the barriers and obstacles...