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Are you looking to get into tech but finding there are barriers preventing you from progressing your career? Do you feel held back by your background, academic discipline or skillset? With 2020 posing new challenges and companies struggling in the current climate, we’ll discuss ways in which you can take action to eliminate these barriers and turn your career around.

Join us online on Wednesday 25th November at 12:00pm, where #YouEqualTech are teaming up with Atom Bank to discuss how to make tech more accessible for everyone. We’ll be joined by tech professionals, who will share their own experiences, challenges and ways in which you can get into tech and change the future.

With diversity and inclusion at the forefront of #YouEqualTech, our goal is to connect the technology and digital industry to the outside world, through learning, sharing initiatives and having the opportunity to hear and see role models from under-represented groups in tech.

Whether you’re working in tech already, or are thinking of making the leap, our events are about coming together to learn from others in this space - and meeting new people who can support and champion you in your career.

We'll be hearing from:

Karla Kirton, Solutions Architect at Atom Bank
Karla has been at Atom for almost four years and before joining Technology, held a role in the Finance and Analytics team as a Data and Insight Analyst. Karla is now a Solutions Architect and leads high value high pressure projects from an architecture perspective, alongside the rest of a small team. It is Karla’s responsibility to understand the business vision and design the technology stack to help bring that vision to life.

Kirsty Watt, Environment Site Reliability Engineer at Atom Bank
Kirsty joined Atom in 2017 as a Customer Support Team Leader. She then joined the Technology team on a secondment to support the building of the bank onto the cloud as a PMO Analyst, supporting the Environment Management and DevOps teams with documentation and project relationships. Kirsty then realised her passion for Technology as officially joined the tech team as Environment Site Reliability Engineer in December 2019.

Annette Joseph, Founder of Diverse & Equal (D&E)
Annette Joseph, is an award winning Agile Coach/Delivery Manager. As Chair of Co-op’s BAME colleague network, Annette was instrumental in affecting lasting change in the organisation.
In D&E, she marries her varied experiences - in tech and behaviour dynamics with equality, diversity and inclusion.

Clare Streets, Associate Director of B13 Technology
Clare is Associate Director of B13 Technology, Board Member at West Midlands Digital Skills Partnership and Non-exec Director of Birmingham Tech Week. She is Fuelled by driving Digital Inclusion, Accessibility, Diversity and Empowerment.

Please note The event will be held on Zoom. You can register to attend via this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DKtCxZtDSke6r-7oqwF09A

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