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Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE

Anne-Marie was a child prodigy who simply ‘got’ maths and computing at first go and moved swiftly on to achieve her Masters from Oxford University, aged just 19, the youngest ever. Realising the potential for IT and young people, Anne-Marie founded Stemettes in 2013 and inspires thousands of young women to follow STEM careers

30 January 2018

Sir Anthony Cleaver

Sir Anthony Cleaver spent his career in IBM UK starting in 1962 and rising to chairman and chief executive until his retirement in 1994. He worked with Lloyds Bank to develop the world’s first variable amount cash dispenser installed in 1972. In the early 1980s he gained international experience with IBM’ Europe, Middle East and Africa operation, moving back to the UK in 1982 when he assured the successful launch in the UK of the IBM PC

4 August 2017

Mike Lynch OBE

Mike Lynch founded Autonomy in Cambridge which swiftly became Europe’s largest software company selling its expertise in analysing large data sets. Autonomy was later sold to Hewlett-Packard. In 2012 Lynch formed Invoke capital which believes that entrepreneurs should focus on the technology and not have to manage the sales force or the customer sales desk, which Invoke does for them.

4 August 2017

Elizabeth Sparrow

Elizabeth Sparrow is a former president of the British Computer Society (BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT) – 2009-2011. She is an author and consultant, specialising in outsourcing relationships and change management programmes.

4 August 2017

JP Rangaswami

Retired from full-time employment, concentrating on board/advisory roles and fulfilling long-standing personal dreams the former Chief Information Officer Deutsche Bank and self-confessed ragu expert talks about his career in information

4 August 2017

Sir Brian Jenkins

Sir Brian wrote the standard textbook on the subject of the use of computers in auditing: An Audit Approach to Computers published in 1978. It was used internationally and translate into several languages. He chaired the Woolwich Building Society starting in 1995 and was President of the BCS 1997-98.

3 August 2017

Sir Bryan Carsberg

Sir Bryan Carsberg started work as an accountant in accountancy partnerships and then moved to become professor of accounting at the London School of Economics. While there and subsequently at Manchester he started advising the government. He was the first choice to head Oftel, the telecommunications regulation organisation set to in the mid 1984 when BT was privatised to supervise it.

1 August 2017

Duane Jackson

The fascinating story of the successful entrepreneur of Kashflow and Patron of the Princes Trust, Duane speaks openly and frankly about how his life took some unexpected turns and he found himself in prison, teaching IT to fellow prisoners. Using a combination of skills Duane is director of the charity Code4000 which teaches inmates web development skills to help them find work on their release.

1 August 2017

Charlie Ross

Charles Ross co-founded the Real Time Club of pioneers in real time computing over 50 years ago. He spent his life as a serial entrepreneur in the IT sector. He helped to develop one of the first online systems and pioneered computer typesetting. He helped get the European Union interested in funding Quantum computing developments. He was also involved in getting IT more widely appreciated by helping to found publishing alliances

28 July 2017

Ken Barnes

Ken Barnes co-founded one of the first software companies in the UK: Systems Programming Limited (SPL) in 1963.

It started with three programmers and within two years was employing 150 people. It eventually became the largest software company in Europe.

In the early 1980s he was approached by the new Minister for Information Technology, Kenneth Baker, to run a year-long campaign promoting the uses of IT in the UK: IT82.

28 July 2017

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Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE

Sir Anthony Cleaver

Mike Lynch OBE

Elizabeth Sparrow

JP Rangaswami

Sir Brian Jenkins

Sir Bryan Carsberg

Duane Jackson

Charlie Ross

Ken Barnes