Diversity: a product manager's secret weapon

We are very excited to welcome a group of very talented speakers to our March event!

During the evening you will hear them talk about why diversity is important in their role and how you can use and introduce it to help shape future product design and development. There will also be the chance to network with other members, get practical advice and the opportunity to ask our speakers questions and enjoy some refreshments.

----MEET OUR TALENTED SPEAKERS

Gen Ashley - Director of Women Who Code London

Gen is the Founder of TECH(K)NOW Day - a conference focused on Women in Technology. She is also a Director of Women Who Code London and is a very active leader in the Tech community in London. Aside from her involvement with Women Who Code she is a Lead for Google Women Techmakers London, NASA Space Apps Challenge London, Twitter Developer Community London and Google Developer Groups London. She is also part of the leadership committee for Ada's List (a network for women in technology). She is co-organiser of COED:CODE, OpenTechSchool London and London Game Developers. She was the Head of Developer Outreach at Skills Matter and a former VP / Business Development Manager / Project Manager at Citigroup. Gen helped lead Anita Borg Institute London and was actively instrumental in delivering the very first 1-Day Grace Hopper Conference in Europe (GHC/1 which is now called HopperX1) which was held in London. She was recently awarded as MVP (Most Valuable Professional) by Microsoft.

Caz Brett - Senior Product Manager at BBC

At the BBC, Caz obsesses over a portfolio of over 50 beautiful enterprise websites. Her development team are both engineers and designers, crafting every part of the experience, from sleek interfaces to reusable code components. Bringing together modern design principles and software architecture, they build apps that improve the working lives of staff within the BBC. Caz currently sits on the steering committee for BBC Women in STEM, and recently delivered a week of events supporting and celebrating women in STEM roles across the BBC. She is also on the board for BBC Pride and the steering committee for IntermediaUK, an organisation supporting LGBT+ individuals across the media sector.

Sereena Abbassi - Head of Culture and Inclusion for the M&C Saatchi Group

In addition to Sereena's role at M&C Saatchi, she is also the Founder of All Here: an organisation that supports individuals, agencies and brands to create their future - by helping them to think more critically about the world and the work that they create. Sereena has helped organisations, such as Creative Equals, with their diversity and inclusion strategy, and she is also one of the few experts advising the UK Advertising & Media Industry’s Diversity Taskforce on its strategy.

Tammy Wallace - Senior Digital Product Manager at Ministry of Justice UK

Tammy is a digital product professional, with over 16 years’ experience in highly competitive environments, including B2C and B2B. Her experience spans both agency and client-side, working across various sectors including financial services (Aspen Insurance), telecommunications (EE, Orange, O2), entertainment (PlayStation) and government (Ministry of Justice). In her role as Senior Digital Product Manager, working for the Ministry of Justice, she specialises in strategy, planning and implementation of digital technology products supporting the Digital Justice agenda.